Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-10-01
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC,


The Pawnee bank at Pawaee. Ill.,,
closed its doors with liabilities Of $751;.
900: assets. $4,000
Charles Pfeifer killed his wife and
child at Brightwood, Ind. while insane,
and then hanged himself.
The sovereign lodge, Independent Or
der of Odd Fellows, in session at Dallas.
Tex, elected Fred Carlton, of Austin,
Tex, grand sire.
Delegates from IS states were In at
tendance when the twenty-seventh an
nual national convention of insurance
commissioners began in Philadelphia.
Gen. Brooks, in command OF the Col
orado national guard, declared martial
law in Leadville because of information
that ut an opportune moment the strik-
ing miners intended to wipe out the en-
tire national guard and burn the town.
Frank 81. johnson, aged 4S, broker,
and one of the oldest and most popular
members of the Chicago board of trade,
committed suicide by shooting himself.
j. E. & G. H. Brown, proprietors of
the Mapleton bank at Mapleton, Mum,
made an assignment with assets of $l41,-
900 and liabilities of 100000.
James j. Corbett, the pugilist, was ar
rested in Asbury Park, N. j., on the
charge of agreeing to engage in Prize
fight, and liberated on 81 900 bail.
The weat crop in three northwestern
states is estimated at los, 100000 BUSH
els.
The assets of the Philadelphia &
Reading Railroad and Coal g. Iron COM
panies were sold in Philadelphia to C.
H. Coster. of New York, for SIC, SOC, 900.
Three members of the Cotton family,
living near Tiefaw, La, were murdered
by negro and another member of the
family was seriously wounded.
DR.. Lewis Swift, of the Mount Lowe
observatory at Pasadena, CAL, has dis
covered two new comets close together,
both being about one degree from the
sun.
The twenty-sixth reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Cumberland
was held at Rockford, III.
The Cascade Lumber company's mill,
office and lumber yard at Burlington
Ja., were destroyed by fire, the loss being
$685. 900. -,. ~"
All the prisoners in the Jail at Belle
fontaine, o., were released for want OF
money to pay the sheriff for their keep,
ing and the entire police force was dis.
charged for the same reason.
Elbridge &. Blunt, who was intimate.
~ associated with John Brown in con-
Quoting the underground railway in
Kansas, and who was also an active
scout in the civil war, died in Chicago.
aged IS years.
Owing to the high price of hard coal
great many people in Cherokee, Ia,
and vicinity will burn corn this winter.
DR.. John C. Sackville, aged 81 years,
once skilled and eminent physician,
was struck by train at Washington,
Pa, and instantly killed.
In New Mexica four murderers were
hanged, Dionicio Saldoval at Albu-
querque, Perfecto Podilla and Rosario
Ring at Tiorra Amarillo and Antonio
Gonzales at Roswell.
Jim Hawkins (colored) charged with
assault and battery on a little white boy,
was lynched by a mob at Gretna, La.
The Missouri military academy at
Mexico was burned to the ground, caus-
ing loss or SlOO.OOO.
In fit of jealousy Grace Clark, aged
1s years, shot and killed Harry NJ. Con-
way, her lover. and then took her own
life in Chicago.
The new clubhouse of the Marion
Cricket club at Haverford, suburb of
Philadelphia, was burned, the loss being
100000.
H. Dumois & Co., shipping and COM
mission merchants in New York, made
an assignment with liabilities of 1884,
800.
At the twenty-sixth annual reunion
in Rockford, ILL.,, of the Army Of the
Cumberland Gen. w. S. Rosecrans was
elected president.
The failure of the firm of Darlington,
Quick e. Boyden, commission men at the
stock yards in Chicago, caused Fred
erick Boyden, a member of the firm, to
commit suicide.
At the annual meeting n St. Louis
of the American Bankers association
Robert H. Lowry, of Atlanta, Ca, was
elected president.
A frebug destroyed the handsome
bathing pavilion at Narragansett Pier,
r. l., the loss being $25O,00O.
At Portland, Me-, John r. Gentry
paced the fastest mile ever made in har-
ness and placed the worlds record at
2:00A.
Burpee, Rumsey & Co., shoe manu-
facturers at Lynn, Mass, failed for
100000. I.
A monument on South mountain, a
few miles from Boonsboro, Nd, erected
to the memory of George Washington
in 1927, was struck by lightning and
badly damaged.