Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-11-19

Every world bicycle record, from the
two-mile to the ten-mile, inclusive, was
lowered by Jimmie Michael, the Welsh.
man, at New Orleans. The ten miles
were made in 1898 Is.
The estimates for the entire Indian
service for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1898. call for an appropriation If ST.
5000. This is 100000 more than the
appropriations for the current fiscal
year.
The Cincinnati sawmiN and the Salz-
burg brewery in West Bay City, Mich,
were destroyed by fire. the total loss
being $4,000.
The output of the gold and silver
mines in Alaska this year b estimated
at $4,5oO,oo0, an increase 81 $1,5o0.0o0
over the previous year.
James Fagin, who threw lighted
cigar into the face of Secretary of the
Treasury Carlisle at political meet
ing in Covington. KY, has been fined
500.
Ex-President Harrison addressed the
Farmers National congress at Indian
apolis. A memorial to congress was
adopted requesting that body 70 see
to it that no trusts are organized tina:
can extort exorbitant prices for farm
products and favoring protective
tariff.
A large number of lumber camps are
being started in the upper peninsula
in Michigan with an increase OF so per
cent more men than were employed
last year.
The annual report of Gen. C. G. Saw
tell, quartermaster general of the army
shows that $1O3.541 was expended for
the movement of troops during the past
fiscal year. 49,,
At meeting in Chicago Of the board
Of directors of the Western Baseball
league President johnson was reelected.
The championship season will begin
April % and will consist of 40 games.
Admiral Ramsey, chief of the bureau
of navigation, in his annual report says
that more than ~ per cent. of the en-
listed men Of our navy are now Amer
! lean citizens, and more than 80 per
cent. of the apprentice boys are Amer
can born.
Richard V. D. Wood, for many years
assistant cashier of the Metropolitan
national bank in New, York, is said to
| have embezzled 100000.
Mrs. Abner. Cox shot her husband
fatally at Elsberry, Mo-, and then COM
mitted suicide. She was partially de-
mented.
The committee on appropriations Of
the house will meet in Washington No
vember 30 to begin the preparation Of
the appropriation bills for the coming
session.
John A. Bolin, at one time repre-
sentative in. the state legislature, was
swindled out of $1,000 at Duquoin. Ill.,.
| by the go ID brick scheme.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
| week ended on the 18th aggrega ted
$l,191, 117,147, against 1901, 552,065 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is IL.
There were 25S business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against $50 the week
previous and 283 in the corresponding
period of 1895. .
| A train on the Louisville & Nashville
road was wrecked near Montgomery,
| Ala, by train robbers and three persons
were badly injured and the damage to
the train was, $4,000. The wreckers
secured nothing.
The twenty-third annual convention
of the National Women's Christian
Temperance union opened in St. Louis
with the greatest attendance of any
one yet held. Miss Frances Willard pre-
sided.
The battle ship Iowa made 1921 knots
an hour on her builders trial trip off
Philadelphia. Her guaranteed speed
was 16 knots an hour.
A train struck wagon at crossing
near Golden. N. Y, and killed man
named Wingate and his daughter.
Henry Dawson (colored) was hanged
Mt Tuskegee. Ala, for wife murder.
Free thinkers from all overthe United
States and from England were present
in Chicago at the opening of the annual
congress of the American Secular Union
and Free Thought Federation.
The steamer Wallula. ore laden from
Ashland, Wis, to Conneaut, O., and
valued at $9O.O Oj, went ashore while try
ing to make the latter port. Two sail
ors were drowned. ..
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The official returns show that the ma
jority for John +. Shafroth in the First
| conUreSsiOnal district Of Colorado ia