Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-05-28
DOMESTIC.

Edward Kelton & Co., lumber dealers
at Columbus, O., made an assignment
with liabilities Of 100000.
A Detroit bird broke the worlds BOO
mile homing-pigeon record, making the
distance in ( hours and 81 minutes.
At the Methodist conference in Kan
sas City, Kan, a resolution was adopted
forbidding members, either lay or
otherwise, to use tobacco or alcoholic
liquors.
The United States supreme court ur-
held the law Of Georgia prohibiting the
running of freight cars in the state on
Sunday.
A fire among wholesale iobbing
houses in Washington destroyed prop
erty valued at $3.50, 1000 and caused the
death of two fremen.
Thomas j. Little, owner of the Penn
Knitting mills in Philadelphia, failed
for 100000.
Forest fires in Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts did immense damage.
During windstorm in Washington
trees and shrubbery were uprooted on
the white house grounds and in many
other portions of the city.
Forty persons were killed on the
Pawnee reservation in Nebraska by a
cyclone.
A tornado near Poseyville, Ind,
wrecked many houses and barns and
damaged crops.
High water was doing great damage
in portions of Illinois and Missouri.
Lightning struck the house of August
Zercher, near Peck, Kan, and killed his
two children, aged nine and four years.
Engineer Williford, of Carlton, Ca.
and two negro train hands were killed
and IA cars burned in freight wreck
near Chaplin, S. C.
The Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers began it's 21st
annual session in Detroit.
The weekly report as to the condi-
ton of the crops throughout the coun-
try was encouraging.
Latest news of the tornado which
swept throughout northeastern Kansas
anG portion of southeastern Nebraska
J: places the death list at is and 36 persons
were injured. In southwestern Nebras-
ha 40 persons were killed.
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Shumway, ILL.,, and six children were
reported to have been killed.
Wallen Wagner, aged 30 years, cut
his wife's throat with a razor and then
killed himself at Parkersville, Ind. No
cause known.
James Dazzele (colored) was taken
from the Jail in St. Bernard, La, by &
mob and lynched for attempting to
assault white woman.
At the Methodist general conference
in Cleveland DIR. C. C. McCabe, of New
York, and Earl Cranston, of Cincinnati,
were elected bishops.
Frank Harms, of Washington, Ca,
was killed and six other men were in
jured by IN accident to Lake Shore
freight train in Toledo,O
Women white caps destroyed an illicit
still near Prestonburg, Ky, owned by
Moses Maygord.
The Citizens bank at Edwardsburg,
Mich, closed it's doors.
The house of B. F. Houx at Chillicothe,
o., was struck by lightning and his two
daughters were killed.
A shortage of $425, 900 was found in
the city attorneys office in Pittsburgh,
Pa.
John ID. Jones, who stamped to death
in a fit of anger Mrs. Mendenhall at the
Anna fair last August, was hanged at
Murphysboro, Ill.
John Rutherford and his son, Brody
Rutherford, and Joe Goodson, were exc
.cuted at Bronham, Tex, for the murder
of Thomas Dwyer on January 20.
Charles NJ. England, a young attor-
iney in East Los Angeles, CAL, killed
his wife and then committed suicide.
No cause was known.