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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
The News Of the Week.
FROM WASHINGTON.
BY TELEGRAPH AND MAIL.

FROM WAsHINGToN.
In his annual report d. N. Morgan,
the treasurer of the United States, says
the net ordinary revenues of the gov
eminent for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1895, were $313, 39O,O75, an increase
OF $15,6ss,O55 as compared with the year
before; net ordinary expenditures,
1856, 195,29S, decrease of $1I, 32s, 9s1.
Including the public debt, the total
receipts on all accounts were 1920, 51G,-
625 and the expenditures $71O,472, 1877.
Exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on thea22d aggregated 81
126.226, 63S, against $1,170, $50, 164 the
| previous week. The increase. com
pared with the corresponding week in
1894, was 1O.1.
The postmaster general in his annual
report says the receipts of the post
office department for the year ended
June 30,-1s95. were SIG, III 900 and the
expenditures $50, 79O,172. He estimates
the revenue for the year ending June
80, 1897, at $s9,793, 100 and the expend-
itures at $94,s17,9OO.,
James White, superintendent of the
railway mail service, shows in his an
nual report that during the past year
497 accidents occurred to railway post
offices, in which seven clerks were killed
and 17S injured, an increase over 1894
of 1877 accidents and q clerks killed
and injured. OF the 10, 377, S75 900 pieces
distributed and redistributed, but l.
166,6S2 errors occurred.
In his annual report the director of
the mint says the value Of the gold de-
posts in the minis and assay Offices
during the fiscal year was $s7,4S2, OS2;
value of silver, $15,714,3 $685. During the
year the gold product was valued at
$39,5O0,0O0; silver, $31, 422 900. The
coinage by the minis during the year
was: Gold, $43,933,475; silver dollars,
$3,956,o11; subsidiary silver coins,
$5,113,4 400; minor coins, $712,594, a total
coinage of $50, 1859.
In it's report on the income and ex-
penditures of railways in the United
States for the year ending June 30, 1895,
the Interstate commerce commission
includes the returns from $50 roads, or
90 Per cent. of the mileage of the United
States. The gross earnings were ST.
0O3,022,S53 and the operating expenses
were $677,677, 635, leaving net earnings
of $325,355,21S, against $500, ,67O for
the same roads in 1894. Dividends paid
were $53, 49,, 545, leaving q deficit from
the operations of the year of $31 ,O75, 900.
Fred Banker killed Miss Cora Har-
rison at Amsterdam, N. Y, and then
took his. own life. Jealousy was the
cause.
AT the outset of winter inyestiga-
ton among the miners in central Penn
sylvania shows starvation. The trouble
q is that there are two men for every job.
In his annual report Commissioner
Stump, Of the immigration bureau,
recommends that congress enact rad
ical legislation for the suppression Of
the padrone system.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

DIR. NIELs E.J. GKoN, a Danish scholar,
who has. recently made Old extended
tour of Norway, gave an explanation
of Norwegian politics at dinner Of the
Twentieth Century club in Boston. DR..
Gron asserts that there is marked
growth. of sentiment in favor of a re-
public, and predicts that before many
years Norway will be independent Of
Sweden. This change in sentiment has
been wrought by the influence of the
United States. He says: "Many thou
sand Norwegians in this country are
constantly sending letters home, and
they are epistles of democratic doc
trine."
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

THE Keely Motor is said to be again
getting on it's feet, several men of means
having contributed to the exhausted ex-
chequer. Nearly quarter of century
has elapsed since Keely first announced
his great discovery" but the thing
hasn't been developed yet. Some re-
mote descendant of keely may yet make
the machine work, -. ~
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

AT q reception given to Mr.. Peary in
New York by the American Geographic
cal society the explorer pointed out
that Arctic exploration must, like
everything else, he made business and
carried on from year to year, ,proiiting
from each added item Of experience
He said that his experience in the last
two years had accumulated his previous
belief in small parties for Arctic work.
Thrown upon the resources OF the coun-
try. the members OF lai ge parties would
only starye. This dangerous work IN
the direction OF the pole can never cease
10 lie interesting 50 long as business
methods go land in hand with heroism.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

SOME of the finest mica mines in the
world are in Idaho and not worked.
North Carolina has a mica output of
100000 pounds year. New Hamp-
shire produces about $4,000 pounds,
South Dakota $4,000 pounds, and New
Mexico 1000 pounds. The increasing
demand for mica in electrical working
will make mica mines valuable in the
near future, &
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

MOB law is carried to extremes when
lynching party stops six times to be
photographed, as was the case in Texas
when Henry billiard. the negro fiend,
was being taken to his place of execu-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

TIE Philadelphia common council
has been debating the question of en-
ploying a chaplain to open the meet
ings with prayer. One of tie members,
Thomas Mehau, the well-known gar
dener and writer, said: II am opposed
to the resolution, because think that
every member should pray for himself,
and not shuttle the awful esponsibility
off on some other man, praying at the
public expense. Let us take five min
utes at the opening of each session and
!, every fellow pray for himself"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

A MEDICAL commission examined not
long ago into the cause of the alarming
increase of insanity in Ireland, and
came to the conclusion that tea drink
ing was most potent factor in in
ducing the prevalent type of melan-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

The bite of the mosquito has recently
been shown to be extremely poisonous.
1t is stronger and more direct IN it's ac-
tion than strychnine, morphine or
ntropine. 1t is stronger, even. and
more powerful than prussic acid.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

RETURNS to the government indicate
that during the last fiscal year the beer
consumption in the United States ag-
gregated 33,469,6 barrels, all increase
of 1911 900 barrels over the total for the
previous year. This is at the rate Of
more than IS gallons for each man,
woman and child in the country. AS a
large proportion do not drink beer, it
follows that some of the people must
have been victims of remarkable
thirst. No attempt is made to account
for the large increase. -
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

FooLscAP paper takes its name from
the watermarks introduced by the pa
per makers during the English COM
monwealth. Previous to that time this
size of paper had borne as water
mark a crown, but after the overthrow
and execution of Charles L., the parlia-
nent, in contempt and derision, or
dered the crown to be removed and a
fools cap and bells to be substituted.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
LATER NEWS,

SSSs esA SSSvSe
VIM. P. Boyce, arraigned at Sioux
City, To-, tho 25th, for the murder OF
Constant Rousch, entered a plea of in
sanity on account of cigarette habit.
The eighth annual convention of the
trans Mississippi Commercial congress
convened at Omaha, Neb,, the s5th.
An earthquake shock, lasting Is sec.
onds, was felt at Greeley. Colo, the
25th.
The gold reserve in the United States
treasury the 25th was $s2,073,7s2.
Street car traffic had to be. abandoned
at Madison, Wis, the night of the 25th
on account of blizzard.
A negro tramp was caught trying to
wreck train near Calvert City, KY,
the 25th. Hes was pursued into the
woods, where he was overtaken, rid.
died with bullets and hanged to'a tree.
At the fair grounds at Macarthur, O.,
the night of the 25th, c. II. Bogers was
ridden on rail and afterward tarred
and fbathered. Rogers offense was
speaking unexpectedly of lady
school teacher.
A leper, in whom the disease was
we'll advanced, was found in New. York.
The Pcnnlists ofsIndiana talk ofrnn.
ming E. V. Debs for governor.
Tin view of the statement from the
deputy collector of customs at Lewis,
Del, to the effect that q Through search
had failed to discover arms, ammnni:
|tiOn or men on BOARD the Joseph wv
Foster, the secretary 81 the treasury
the 25th ordered the vessels release, /:
The police raided the houses of the
[Socialistic members of the, German
|reichstag and other leaders Of the So
|cialistic party the 25th. IA thorough
search was made Of their domfci1es;;
land all their letters and :papers were
|impounded and taken to the Office ! of
the chief Of police. u ! ~ "
It has been decided to remove the
body of Maj Gen. Winfield S. Hancock
TO Arlington cemetery from Norris
town, Pa, where it has rested since
|f926 .-z.,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

THE Pennsylvania. of the Hamburg
American steamship line, which will go
into commission next June, is the long
est vessel in the world. She has 10000
tons displacement, which beats the Luz
cania Is per cent. Her length is $50
feet, beam 62 feet and depth AZ feet.
She has four pole masts and but one
funnel, and while carrying 10000 tons
dead weight, has accommodations for
coo cabin and $500 steerage passen-
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
Director Preston Presents His Report o,
the Years Coinage.

Director Preston Presents His Report ON
the Years Coinage.
Washington, Nov. 25.-The director of the
mint has submitted his report to the secre-
tary of the treasury, covering the opera
| tons Of the minis and assay offices of the
Uniteds States during the fiscal year 1895
together with the statistics of foreign
countries relative to the production and
coinage of gold and silver and the monetary
condition of each county,.
The value q the gold and silver estima tel
to have been used in the, industrial arts
imately, 81. 81 ,652. Of which $1O.658 6O4 was
gold and S1o6ss.ois wasSsilyer. The esti-
mated metallic stock IN the United States
ss25. $3.50; totai ~ q. zs2.0s4.74 . { 9 -
The estimated product of gold and sill
yer In the United States during the cal
endar year. 1894, was gold. l,9lOS13 fine
ounces, Of the value Of $39 500, 600: silver,
49.5O.0W fine ounces. of the commercial
valua of $31 .422OOO. and of the coinage
value Of $64.OOO,0OO The estimated produc-
ton ofithe world for the calendar year was,
gold, 8,7H. 7SS fine ounces, Of the value OF
$1404e 400; silver. l67,752,565 fine ounces of
I theseoining value Of SIG. 1872. 200-commer-
ciaI value. $1O6. 522. 800
He reviews in his report the monetary
legislation and monetary system of the
United States. commencing with the Coin
age scheme, submitted to congress by
Robert Morris, superintendent of finance,
January Is. 1882, making an analysis Of
the report of Alexander Hamilton, secre-
tary Of the treasury, upon the esta blish-.
ment Of mint. submitted to the house of
representatives in 1891, and upon which
the act of April 2. 1892. establishing a mint
and coinage system was based. Mr.. Pres
ton states that the real demonstration
of silver look place in 1853. when the weight
Of the divisional coins was reduced about
seven per cent This was not an accident
or oversight. 1t was 'expressly declared in
the house of representatives that the in-
tentioh was ito MAXI gold the sole stand
ard Of value in largesaransactiohs. and
silver subservient to it,; for small ones
The act of 1873 was only nominal, and con-
formed the law to the actual l. monetary
conditiohxsA efaaeat 1enaEtallic d&rrelcy.
of tho Uitfe0sst4tes 81 % 2conceraSd. that
had ekisfzd = 0nsItsrsof Gems
fury.
-ie states that the currency laws Of the
United States since 1873 are not only incon--
s sistent, but contradictory, obstructive OF
eaAk others operation and mutually de-
lfENctive. He says that on January l, 1879.
Aexdate of the resumptfon of specie pay
mentS the only currency, except coin GER
tificates required to be redeemed in gold
then outstanding, which the then secretary
of the treasury was Of the opinion that a
gold reserve OF 500, 900 900 would be sufti-
Gent 60 4 m nall ~ tcng IS var 20
able on Presentation has been increased to
81 ut SILVER. 81 n@ej kassn kh nds
pct OF July Il. 1890 OF these hotes th ere
aakiis fhe tot ~ FsFsnsss deliksfi6ns;
rs m6nE $4S7, 9fSsz96 redeemable On pre-
ffAeco n-aAe7
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
49, y ~ - 8 fs''- - 2 2 Z
ROwg0te Taken to Prison,

{ Washington Nov. % Warden Leon--
ard, Of the district jail, left Friday with
Capt. Henry y, HoWgate, for Albany,
N. Y, to deliver him to the prison au-
thoritie Capt. Howgate was the for
mer disbursing officer Of the signal sery-
rs, who q 80 Ell hceS4 ad
u s9nsationM escape, was .rearrest{d "a
New 3. l x9sa 81 Co., j q b,a} ~ 3
Columbia and sentenced to eight years.
Imprisonment forf forgery and embezzle.
|mept.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

A STORY of horrible cruelty is told in
divorce complaint filed recently in
San Jose, Cal. A month after mar
riage the male monster threw his wife's
b. st mince pies out of the window.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

A FRENCnwoMAN confesscs to having
attended 722 balls to catch husband.
AID only to have caught instead bron-
chitis fourteen times, pleurisy thrice
and 100 colds in the head
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

On the journey across the Atlantic
the passengers of one of the great liners
consume, it is said. 5000 pounds of M ut
ton, $4,000 pounds of beef, 10000 to 2O,-
600 eggs and IL tons of potatoes.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
FRUIT from Washington. Oregon and
California is now more easily marketed
in Europe than it could have been
transferred so miles so years ago.

The British dukes, barons' and enrls'
attention is called to the fact that a
Philadelphia girl has just inherited $15,-
100000 from an Australian relative.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28

from the Jail ali Woodstock. ILL. after d
confinement ofsix menths.
| Fire, destroyed ten business houses
ano one dwelling at Geneva, Ind, and
Oliver Martin was in Jail charged with
having caused the fire.
| Florence English and Amanda Cody
were hanged at Warrenton, Ca, for the
! murder OF the Cody woman's husband.
1 Florence is Il man.
Flames in the Exchange building in
4 Chicago caused loss Of over $500, 900
and Patrick j. O'Donnell, Martin Sher-
rick, John Downs and John Prender-
CAST, all Gremen, sand Kitty Landgraf
Wer burned to deaths
In Chicago Eugene Webs was given
q reception upon his arrival from the
Woodstock Jail and spokeat to large
audience IN Battery D, his subject being
Liberty. " rs IA.
The firmvof Winebrenner Brothers,
oyster packers in Baltimore, made an
assignment with Liabilities of over
| 100000.
| "A, new census of Wisconsin shows
the total percentage Of foreign-born
population Of the state to be. 27.04.
! In cabin at Stony Point, KY, Nancy
and Fannie Armstrong and Mollie Whit:
ney (all colored) were burned todcath.
In the United States court.in Chicago
a jury awarded $50, 900 damages IN favor
of Wilbur f. Davidson against the lii.
nois Central railroad. Davidson was
injured for life by freight train
In a fire which destroyed their bran.
| dy distillery near Danbury, N. e., Thorn.
J as Mabe, and his two sons were burned
fatally. -
+ AT his home in Lexington, KY,
George Harris, the original of ''UncIe
! Tom" in Mrs. Stoves novel, is in desti-
tute circumstances. He will soon be
81 years old. sas aqs
The smallest woman in Ohio, Miss
Ella Tickle, was buried at Miamisburg.
She was 33 years old, 80 inches high, and
weighed only 81 pounds.
In Chicago Rev. J ohm Henry. Barrows,
D. D., pastor of the First Presbyterian
church for the past IA years, resigned
to become a lecturer on Christianity
in India.
Hans Allen, wealthy Norwegian
farmer near McGregor, Ia, killed Viii.
liam Cross, seriously shot a girl and
then committed suicide in fit of jeal.
ousy. $50
David Callum, Thomas Davis and
Mis- Nora Work were drowned while
crossing the Cumberland river near
Nashville, Tenn.
Burglars entered the State bank at
Alpha, ILL.,, and secured $4,000.
At Alley, Ca, Prof. Perdue, a white
school teacher, 60 years old, charged
with assaulting Miss Willie Grady, was
! lynched by mob. J.
Thomas Watts and John Richards,
negroes who robbed, murdered and
then burned the body of Miss Bagwell,
near Greenwood, S. c., were hanged by
mob. " LII + tii
At Richmond, Va, the Cartwright
Benton company, furniture dealers, as
signed, with liabilities Of $4,000.
The firm of Buyer & Reich, wholesale
dealers in fancy goods in San Francis
co, failed for S12O.OOO Gifif5s5
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
1ssdrtux,u,,se. sIIIini.ter pieS

n 4, 81 sqrtugneses sAinfsterf Dies 4
4 Washington, Nov Senior Aug
,vat de Sequesira ,rhedin, Portuguese
Aikisfef to tho United States died st
his residence in this city at ten o'clock
Thursday morning after : brief u.
ness,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
THE EAST.

Burglars broke into the post office al
Summit, N. j., blew open the safe ant
secured over $4,000 worth of stamps
and $500 in cash.
The Silk Association of America at a
meeting IN New York advanced the
price of twisted silk five per cent.
David j. Hill, president of the Uni.
versity of Rochester, N. Y, resigned to
take effect at the close of the present
college year.
The Edna M. Champion, schooner
which sailed from Philadelphia October
12 for Port Tampa, Fla, was given up
as lost with her crew of nine men.
At Auburn, N. Y, Mrs. Mary T. Nc
MILAN was found guilty of making
counterfeit two-cent postage stamps
and was sentenced to the Erie county
penitentiary for IS months.
At the National Hardware associa-
tons convention in Pittsburgh resoiu-
tons were adopted asking the repub-
lican and democratic national commit
tees to make the presidential campaign
one of three instead of six months.
AT Troy, N. T., the Morning Tele-
gram, established in 1853 as the Troy
Morning Wing, has suspended publica.
ton. %
One hundred Armenians employed at
the Whiting machine works at Whitins.
Vile, Mass, refused to work because
the firm would not discharge four
Turks.
In Philadelphia Christ church cele.
brated it's 2OOth anniversary, distin-
guished prelates from all over the coun-
try being present.
At Charlestown, Mass, Mrs. Phoebe
Woodward celebrated her 1920 birthday
anniversary.
In session at Pittsburgh, Pa, the Ma
tional Hardware association elected w.
w. supplee. of Philadelphia, as presi-
dent.
A new comet was discovered by Prof.
Brooks, director of Smiths observatory
ut Geneva, N. Y. This is the Goth comet
discovered by Prof. Brooks. So
AT Crystal Springs, Mass, Jack Yar-
borough, convicted of the murder OF
Josie Davis and sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for life, was taken from officers
by mob and hanged.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The insurgents defeated the Spanish
troops in battle near Santa Clara, 500
of the latter being killed and wounded.
The insurgents loss was small.
The Chinese papers are bitter in their
attacks on the Japanese authorities in
Corea, whom they blame for the MUIR
der of the queen. They say that there
were Is women OF title in the court, the
queen, her mother and 100 ladies in
waiting and they were all soaked in oil
and burned. -==---=zs=-=
In Canada Thanksgiving day was OBJ
served on the 21st. s -
the age of 70 years Sir Henry Pom
sonby,- formerly private secretary to
Queen Victoria and keeper of the prisy
purse, died at Cowes.
Cornelius VA Vandyck, the trans
lator of the Bible into Arabic, and per-
haps the foremost Arabic scholar in
the world, died suddenly in Beyruth,
Syria, aged 81 years. He was native
of Undertook, N. Y.
Dispatches from Turkey say that the
Kurds destroyed q 90 vi llagessin the
northwestern portion of the district
of Aleppo, and the 10000 Inhabitants
were mastered. A ~
The we,-known ladies' tailor, John
Redfern, whose reputation is world
wide, died in London.
a sharp shock Of earthquake oc-
Cured in the City of Mexico, and water
pipes were broken and a few houses
were destroyed.
Dead bodies of five men, twocof whom
were Americans, were discovered in a
wild section OF the Sierre Madre noun
tains near Mazatlan, Mexico. It was
supposed they died Of starvation.
The Cuban insurgents captured a
Spanish fort at Santa Clara.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1895-11-28
WEST AND SOUTH.

Dangerous countefeit two-dollar bills
were int Circulation in Indianapolis
They are tritie larger than the gen
uine. and in the portrait OF Window
the eyes are larger than in the original.
AfDallas, Tex. the Texas Paper COM
pany and the Deering Harvester COM
pany lost their plants by tire. the total
loss being $125.OoJ.
new goid-bearing region was said
to have been found in Archuleta cOun-
ty, Col, which would eclipse anything
known in the world.
In Baltimore Alcaens Hooper, the
first republican mayor in 80 years, was
inaugurated. ssas
The marriage of Congressman j. p,
Doili,er and Miss Louise Pearsons took
place in the First Presbyterian. church
at Fort Dodge, 10. r
South of Ashland, Wis, 120 settlers
are, by decision from the general
land office. made homeless.
OF st. Martins Key the schooner
Shamrock Of Key West, Fla, foundeTcd
and six OF the crew, all colored, were
lost.
At La Grange. Tex, the First nation-
al bank, which suspended payment DC
tober 2Oi last, was permitted to resume
business.
= at Columbia. s.rC.,the constitutional
convention made provision for the es-
Establishment OF an industrial, mechAn-
ical and normal school for negroes.
Near Bryan, Tex, negro accused 81
riding horse over little girl, infiict.
ing serious injuries, was lynched by 9
mob, but later developments showed
that the mob got hold OF the wrong
negro.
ii was announced that John Tod, Oi
Cleveland, had been appointed receiver
OF the New York, Pennsylvania Y Ohio
llsailrcad company.
At Cripple Creek, COL. the monthly
output of the mines was said to be 81, :
100000.
Flames that started In the Excelsios
building in Chicago, owned by Warren
Springer, destroyed property valued q
$500, 900.
a mob hanged Charles Hnrd, a neg;,n
who killed Joseph D. Kelley at iVart-
burg, Tenn.