Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-05-07

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The body of ex-Secretary Of State
Gresham was taken from Chicago to
Washington, whereiit Will find resting
place in Arlington. the national Gene
terry. .i.st1t.
0 OK. WILDER, for ten years the efficient
western passenger agent of the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway,
has recently been promoted to the posi-
ton of assistant general passenger
agent of the same road, with headquar-
tiers in Chicago.
Official treasury figures make the gov
eminent deficit for the ten months Of
the fiscal year $23, 455,, 100.
The national bank note circulation
outstanding is $22, 1O1 ,345, an increase
during April OF $685. $40.
Coinage executed at United States
mints during April aggregated $3,471,-
go, of which gold amounted to 81 $780,
600 and silver to 1881, 900.
The J. L. Hudson company, clothiers
in Detroit, made an assignment with
liabilities of $50O,OoO.
The business portion of the town of
Indianola. Miss. was destroyed by fire.
The public debt statement issued OH
the LIST showed that the debt inc1 eased
$5,545,417 during the month of April.
The cash balance in the treasury was
$S6S, 799,556. The total debt. less the
cash balance in the treasury, amounts
to $94s, 2s7,67O.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
" eek ended on the list aggregated $685.,
1851, against $1,012 1854, 800 the pre-
vious week. The decrease, compared
with the corresponding week in 1895,
was 1912. " .,..-
Bob Ward shot and fatally wounded
his wife, Ella Ward, and killed himself
in sawmill camp near'Henshaw,K Ky.
There were 23S business failures in
the United Staes in the seven days
ended on the 1st, against 23s the week
previous and 231 in the corresponding
period of 1895. 40 "
''The Pines,'' the summer residence
near Ellsworth, Me-, of United States
Senator Hale, with all its contents, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $50, 900.
Spontaneous combustion in the pants
factory of w. A. Fuller & Co. in San
Francisco started fire which caused
a loss of $500,00O.
j. C. Sommers, a banker at Keokuk,
Ia, said to he worth 81, 100000, was run
down by n train in Burlington and
lilled.
A cloudburst near GAINESVILLE. Va.
washed away many farm buildings and
hundreds of cattle were drowned.
Judge Horton decided in Chicago that
the bucket-shops were as legitimate as
the board of trade.
The new fremont temple, the most
beautifully furnished and costly free
church in America, was dedicated in
Boston with services of an unusually
elaborate character. .... NM ~
William Bendy, who killed three per-
sons and wounded four others at Beau
mont, Tex, was hanged by mob.
A treasury statement gives all the
kinds of money in circulation in the
United States at $1,54O,oo7 ,0s2, or $780,
100000 less than May /, 1895.
A difficulty near Austin, Tex, be-
tween two brothers-in-law, Dempsey
Brown and Jim Nixon, resulted in the
death of the former and the fatal
wounding of the latter.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the Sd were as follows:
Pittsburgh, .s1s; Philadelphia, .667;
Boston, .667; Chicago, .615; Washing
ton, .5s3; Cincinnati, 1888; Brooklyn,
500; Cleveland, 500; St. Louis, 1862;
Baltimore. AIT; New York, JOY; Louis
vile, OF.
The Moulton Leather company. hay
ing factories at Lynn, Mass, failed for
$4,000.
Two trays of diamond rings, valued
at $1,000, were stolen from the store of
NJ. G. Cohen in Pittsburgh, Pa.
After three years litigation over the
estate of the late Senator Stanford, Mrs.
Stanford has Eeen enabled to pay the
Request of $2,5O0,OOO which the senator
left to Leland Stanford university, San
Francisco.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
At Montpelier, VT. the republican
state convention adopted a resolution
expressing a preference for Maj. Nc
Kinley as a presidential candidate. The
platform opposes silver agitation and
favors protection and reciprocity.
Georgia republicans met at Atlanta
and adopted q platform reafhrming the
principles of the republican party and
elected delegates to the national con-
vention who favor Mckinley. ,,s &
Michigan democrats in convention at
Detroit elected delegates to the nation
al convention and adopted q platform