Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-04-16

The cotton mills at ouglassville, Ga,
were burned. thcloss being $4,000
It was reported that two whites and
Is blacks were killed in riot at the
polls in Mallet. La.
Harrison, Townsend & Co., carpet
manufacturers at Norristown, Pa,
made an assignment in consequence Of
the general trade depression.
A non-political tariff convention will
be held in Detroit, Mich, May &c, to
discuss ways and means for taking the
| tariff question out of partisan politics
and making it a business question.
Hall e. Garrison, manufacturers of
picture frames in Philadelphia. failed
for S25O,OOO.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 10th aggregated
1926, 22O,255, against 51,976,7ss the
| previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
| 1895, was 6.2.
Capt. James Watts, a prominent cit
izen and veteran of the late war, was
| organizing a company at Lebanon, Ind.
to go to Cuba to assist the insurgents.
There were 200 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against $50 the week
| previous and 2O7 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
Crazed by financial difficulties, S. r.
| Minshall, prominent insurance man
at Pentwater, Mich, assassinated Will
| liam B. 0. Sands, wealthy lumber
| dealer; then went to his home and
killed his wife and three children, and
after that blew out his own brains.
The volume of business has not in
creased throughout the country nor
have prices appreciably advanced since
April l, when the range for all commodi-
ties was the lowest ever known in this
country.
Counterfeit quarters were in circula-
| ton in Elwood, Ind. in large quantities.
Arthur Schneider, 20 years of age,
was hanged in New Orleans for the MUIR
der of Herman Schroeder. his rival in
love.
Capt. John Faunce and his son, Percy,
Of Washington, were drowned with their
crew of seven colored men by the capsiz-
ing of boat near Cape Henry, Va
The schooner Otello, which sailed
from Boston February is for Savannah,
was given up for lost with its crew Of
seven men.
The Lexington & Carter Mining COM
pany, owning 10000 acres of land in
Carter county, KY, failed for 100000.
A terrific wind and snowstorm in the
Cripple Creek district of Colorado de-
strcyed property valued at 100000. In
the vicinity of Denver all railway trains
were blockaded by snow. A dozen
buildings were blown down at Gillett
and a number at Altman. Goldfield and
Victor. &c.,. -...
The Iowa legislature adjourned sine
die. Gov. Drake has called an extra ses-
sion to meet January 10, 1897, to COM
plete the revision of the code.
An explosion of giant powder in u
mine at Butte. Mont, killed six men.
At the African Methodist conference
in Richmond, Va, Bishop Gaines said
that he would ordain no man minister
who drank whisky, chewed tobacco or
smoked cigars. .....
Reddyecl Adams (colored) was
lynched by mob at Seal, Ala, for shoot
ing r. T. Kenfro.
John Hoefs and his wife were found
dead in their beds at Milwaukee. They
had been poisoned, but no cause was
known for the deed.
Over 1900 Italian immigrants, 600 OF
them being penniless, arrived at Ellis
Island, N. Y.
In few days Edison will give to the
physicians of the country combined
perpetual vacuum pump, X ray lamp
and operating table.
The report that the president had sent
communication to Madrid on the Cuban
question urging Spain to submit to MT
diation, and offering the good offices of
our government to aid in restoring
peace, was said to be false.
The Chadron (Neb.) Banking COM
pany closed it's doors. &c..
Oaki, Il Japanese cook, fatally wound
ed Miss Minnie Miller, by whom he was
employed in Denver, COL, and killed
her 12-year-old nephew, Willie Trues-
dell.
failed for $15O,0O0. $685. "'
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gen. Benjamin Harrison and his bride,
formerly Mrs. Dimmick, arrived at
their home in indianapolis from New
York. y..-..5 No.
In state convention at Salt Lake City
the Utah republicans elected delegates
to the St. Louis convention and adopted
platform confined almost entirely to
protection and bimetallism.
Rudolph Kleberg (dem.), of Cuero,