Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-09-03
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.
The dry house at the Mama powder
works near Xenia, O., blew up, killing
Frank Eich, powder boss, and Silas Fig
gins, engineer.
The Tin-plate Manufacturers asso-
citation, composed of all the tin-plate
manufacturers in the country, has dis
solved.
8. Mass & Co., importers of hosiery
and underwear in~New YORK, failed for
100000.
The fire that swept the village of Onto
nagon, Mich, out Of existence caused q
loss of 81, ooo, ooo aud made 1900 persons
homeless.
George W. Anderson. who cut his
lanta. Ga, on the 27th of May last. was
hanged at Macon.
j. w. Brown & Co., wholesale groce-s
In Philadelphia, made an assignment
with liabilities OF 100000.
The dry goods firm of Hilton.
Hughes & Co. (on"e A. T. Stewart i
Co.. made On assignment in New York
with liabilities of over 100000.
The Elgin Sewing Machine and B;cy-
Gle company IN Chicago made an as
signment with assets e< timated at $780,
900 and liabilities at $500, GOO.
Henry Dlluu, Gust Anderson and a.
F. Anderson lost their lives in fire that
destroyed a saloon in Minneapolis.
The little mouse used as Headquarters
by Gen. Robert E. Lee during the battle
Of Gettysburg was totally destroyed by
fire.
Irvine Clement, a leading wool grower
o; Van Vert county, o., and his daugh-
ter Mary, aged IL, were killed by the
cars at Toledo.
The thirtieth annual meeting of the
Universal Peace Union of America was
held at Mystic, Conn. The feature was
the dedication of the new peace temple,
the only institution Of its kind in
America.
The Avenue savings bank in Chicago
closed its doors with liabilities Of
$4,000.
The supreme lodge of the Knights of
Pythias in session at Cleveland elected
Phillip p. Colgrove, of Hastings, Mich,
supreme chancellor.
The warship Brooklyn, on her official
trial trip at Boston, averaged 81 80 knots
an hour, earning bonus of $3.50, 900 for
her builders.
Fire at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, de-
stroyed the 500 national bank block.
the Prenzlauer block, Chippewa house,
Cleveland house, Metzger block, Perry
hotel, post Office and United States Gus
tom Offices. the total loss being $500. 900.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 2sth aggregated
$74s,0s4,7 48, against 1912, 957 1866 the pre-
vious week. The decrease compared
with che corresponding week in 1895
is 1876.
Calvin and George Diehl, brothers,
aged 16 and IS years, were drowned in
the canal near Middletown, Pa.
There were 800 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended On the 2sth, against $50 the week
previous and 100 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The firm of F. G. & I. N. Vanvliet,
malsters and dealers in grain III New
York, failed for 100000.
Over 1000 men, women and children
were said to be starving in burned On
tonagon, Mich.
Light frosts were reported in different
sections of Nebraska.
For the first time in many years all
the collieries under the Lehigh Valley
Coal company's system have been or
dered to work six days week until
further notice.
Mrs. George w. Hibbard, an aeronaut,
met instant death at Clayton, Mo-, by
falling from her balloon, a distance of
$500 feet.
In their annual report C. A. King &
Co., Of Toledo, o., say that clover seed
will be about two-thirds of crop and
that the wheat crop left in the states
named will be unfit for milling, owing
10 damage by rains.
Domestic troubles caused William r.
Dederick, postmaster at Marion, Pa, to
take his own life.
While temporarily insane Mrs. C. w.
Green, of Kansas City, Mo-, murdered
her three sleeping children, aged 10, 9
and 6 years. and then took her own life.
ii Hung Chang, viceroy Of China, an
bassador extraordinary 10 Russia ard
world diplomat, arrived in
New York and became the guest Of the
nation. y.