Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-03-21
The News Of the Week.
FROM WASHINGTON.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL

EXPORTS of merchandise during Feb.
ruary were $50, 3Os $40; imports during
same period, s5s, 1926, $50. For the eight
months ended February 20 the excess
Of exports over imports was $91, 967, 932.
GOLD expectations during February
amounted to 81, 565.1s4, and the impor.
tations to $500, 1877. For the eight
months ended February 20 the exporta-
tions of gold amounted to $5s, 1914 1877,
and the imports to SIC, O25, 1928.
DURING February the number of i'm.
9,eos, against 1902 during February,
1894. For the last eight months the
total was 136, 129, against 199, 129 during
the same period last year.
AT his home in Washington Capt. I.
G. Shepard, chief of the revenue cut
ter service, died of pneumonia.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 18th aggregated
$s9s, 639, PIT, against $1,000, 1852, 773 the
previous week. The increase, com.
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was ST.
In the United States there were 26e
business failures in the seven DAYS
ended on the 18th, against 234 the week
previous and 264 in the corresponding
time in 1894.
FEW favorable trade features
throughout the country were reported
and continued small business and quiet
demand were predicted.
The secretary of state notified the
Spanish government that immediate
apology must be made for firing on an
American ship. A promise not to dc
so again will also be required.
THE EAST.
On the Lehigh Valley road an ex-
press train was wrecked near Hazel.
ton, Pa, two cars were turned com
pletely over and each of the fifty
passengers sustained injuries more OF
less severe.
THE whipping post bill was defeated
in the New York assembly by vote OF
So to 81.
AT Alfred, Me-, Leroy Fernald, await
ing trial for numbering his mother
at East Lebanon, starved himself to
death.
Mrs. KoL1NsK1 and her daughter
were murdered by unknown persons
uear Greensburg, Pa. The victims
were returning to Hungary.
RHODE ISLAND republicans and demo.
Gratis each held their state convention
at Providence. The democrats named
r. s%%1oG11l - Do,
for governor, while the republicans
placed Charles Warren Lippitt, of Prov.
idence, at the head of their ticket.
The prohibitionists and other reform.
ers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and took
preliminary steps toward the formation
of a national party.
The legislature of Connecticut has
repealed the last Of the blue laws Of
that state.
FLAMES in building at Hartford
Conn.,, occupied by Charles R. Hart &
Co., dealers in house furnishings, did
500, 900 damage.
PAT NUGENT, a rag dealer, while re.
sisting arrest at Batavia, N. Y, shot
and instantly killed Sheriff Harvey
johnson and afterwards shot himself
WHILE crossing the tracks in buggy
at Milburn, Pa, Charles Heasley, a
school-teacher, and Mary Boyd, aged
"a, were instantly killed by an express
train.
The New York fnancier, Erastus
Wiman, convicted of forgery and sen.
fenced to the penitentiary, has been
granted a new trial.
CUsHMAN BROS. & Co., manufacturers
of window shades at Boston, went into
insolvency with liabilities of s25O.00O.
AFTER fasting for twenty-eight days
Joseph Millett died at Holbrook, Mass
The marriage Of Walter I. Chaplin
aged 70, and Mary A. Chaplin, aged 7s
lovers who were separated in youth,
took place at Wilkesbarre, Pa.