Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-07-11
The News Of the Week.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.
FROM WASHINGTON,

In the United States the visible
supply of grain on the I'd was:
Wheat, "a, 561, 900 bushels; corn, $685.
600 bushels; oats, 7,O1s,OOo bushels;
rye, 100000 bushels; barley, $4,000
bushels.
The president removed Prof. Mark
w. Harrington, chief of the weather
bureau, owing to disagreement with
Secretary Morton.
FIGURES compiled at the post Office
department show the total number OF
stamps Of all kinds issued to post
Offices during the fiscal year just closed
was 2,823, 900, 900, valued at sos, 1854
The amount is an increase in valuation
of 81, 900, 900 over last year. The total
value Of envelopes issued to post offices
was $12,036,O19 and of postal cards
~, 96S, 161.
THE Fourth Of July was celebrated
all over the United States.
The president appointed Prof. Willis
L. Moore, of Chicago, chief Of the
weather bureau to succeed Prof. Har-
rington, removed.
REPORTS show that 6s2 steam and
sail vessels of 1879 gross tonnage
were built and documented in the
United States during the last fiscal year.
EXCHANGES at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 5th aggre gated
S975, 1894, 944, against $1,01O, 4s2 ,O41 the
previous week. The increase, com.
pared with the corresponding week in
1894. was 14.9.
In the United States there were 6, 651
commercial failures in the first half Of
1895, with liabilities of $ss, s39, 944
against 1000 in the first half of 1894,
with liabilities of SOL, 739, 305. Manu-
featuring failures were 1854, against
1901 last year, and liabilities $40, 3O1,.
$40 against $4l 1916, 1O2 last year. Bank
lug failures were So, with liabilities Of
SIG, 1858, 276, against 63 last year with
| liza bilities of $13, 1874, 461.
RECORDS of the United States steam
boat inspection service show that dur
ing the last fiscal year 36s lives were
lost on steam vessels.
THE EAST.
JUDGE MCCoMAs imposed sentence
of eight years with hard labor in the
Albany penitentiary upon Capt. Henry
w. Howgate, charged with forgery
and Justification of accounts while dis
bursting clerk of the signal service
! bureau.
AT Poplar Valley, N. Y, Isaac Brew
j er, an eccentric farmer, and his wife
separated for the forty-second time.
The upsetting of boat on Lake
| Chautauqua at Jamestown, N. Y.
drowned John Swanstrom and two girl.
| named Hedwicl1 Lawson and Christine
Hegelen.
AT Camden, Me-, Joseph B. Stearns
inventor of the duplex system of teleg
| raphy, died at the age of IS years.
AT Shenandoah, Pa, Martin Rat
| tigan. just released from prison
fatally wounded his wife, her sister
and himself.
The trial of Bob Fitzsimmons, the
pugilist, at Syracuse, N. Y, on the
charge of being responsible for the
death of his late sparring partner, Cor
Riordan, resulted in his acquital.
A PORTION of the grand stand at the
bicycle races in Buffalo, N. Y, fell. in.
Jurlng nineteen persons, three fatally.
WHILE bathing at the beach at Har-
wick, Mass, John w. Carter, a we'll.
known ink manufacturer of Boston,
was drowned.
FRANK BEvANs, John Anderson and
Miss Marembeck, all residents of Phil
adelpbia, were drowned in the Della
wuru river at beverly, N. J- by the
capsizing of boat.
FLAMES in Oswego, N. Y, destroyed
business and residence property of the
value of 100000.