Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-06-11

There were 24o business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 5th, against $50 the week
previous and 1913 in the corresponding
period of51s95.
The exchanges At the leading clearing
houses in the United States during TIE
week ended on the 5th aggregated
$957,2ls,O7S, against $9l7,269,359 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1898
was 14.5. Z, rsg g3sas:
Joseph Windrath, one of the slayers
of Carey =. Birch, receiver of money
from conductors of the West Chicago
Street Railway company. was hanged
in Chicago.
| The wholesale clothing firm Of 1.$W.
Islaw s. Co.ffailed in st. Louis for $112,-
600.
The American liner St, Paul made the
trip from Southampton to New York
in days hours and Il minutes, break
ing all previous records.
/ Three hundred families converted to
Mormonism in the mountains of Vir-
ginia will emigrate to Mexico and form
colony on the Pacific coast and will
practice poIigamy.
| At the national convention in Terre
Haute. Ind, of the Travellers Protective
association John A. Lee, of St. LOUIS,
was reelected president. q" @."' ,''
The Henry Bill Publishing company
at Norwich, Conn.,, which published
James G. Blaine's ''Twenty Years in
Congress- failed for $4,000. 't,''' g. .'
| h., At Shelbyville, Ind, Lee, Edward anu
! Theodore Skotski, brothers and we'll
known young men, quarreled during Il
drunken spree and Lee killed his two
| brothers. ~. ..,.s...s.' s-,.a.s..
! The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 9th were as follows: Cleve-
land, $780, Baltimore, .634; Cincinnati.
.e19; Philadelphia, .619; Boston, .575;
Washington, .513; Brooklyn, 500; Chi
! cago, ass; Pittsburgh, .474; New York.
.439; St. Louis, .293; Louisville, .220.
| A terrific hailstorm destroyed thou
sands of acres of fine growing corn in
southern Kansas,
Thousands of COWS, mules, horses,
sheep and hogs were dying in northern
Louisiana from the bite Of a fly.
The house of George Cradens, a farm
er, living near Ramsey, Ind, was de
stroyed by fire and his wife and son,
aged 10, were cre1nated.
Steve Samaritan, aged IS; his son
Benjamin.. aged 10; and daughter,
Kueen, aged 80, were murdered i'll their
home near Fresno Cal.
Trees were uprooted in the southern
portion of Chicago, cellars flooded and
lawns, gardens and streets damaged by
terrific rain and windstorm.
NJ. J: Atkinson, Of Cleer Lake, Yer
non Gait, of Albert Lea, and Roy c..
Slosson, of Northwood, were drowned
at Nora Springs, Ia, while: bathing.
They were all members of the senior
class of the Nora Springs seminary.
Sidney J. Farver, a Unknown plant
er, and four mules, were struck by light
ming and instantly killed near Duscn,
La, and Adam Rofpauer and another
man were fatally injured.
a storm which swept over south
western Minnesota resulted in the kill
ing Of four persons, the drowning Of
many hundreds of sheep, cattle and
hogs, and did damage TO property to
the extent of over $SOO,0O0.
Cullen and Robert Wilson and Carl
Fry, all aged about IL, sons of prom
inent farmers, were drowned near
Marengo, Ia, by the caving in OF q
river bank. -.. r . ..'
Four boys were drowned at Leaven-
worth, Kan, during cloudburst. Two
were sons OF Michael Desmond, a con-
tractor, and the other two were sons
of Dennis Cummings.