Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-05-21

week ended on the 18th aggregated ST.
o19,oo9,27s, against $1,135,0s3,412 the
previous week. The decrease, COM
pared with the corresponding week in
1895, was 1913.
There were 224 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 23s the week
previous and 211 in the corresponding
period of 1895.
The poulation of Chicago, according
to the school census just completed, is
.,529, 900.
Bernard Koch, of Irwin, Pa, while in
sane drowned himself after poisoning
his brother-in-law, his wife and two
children. . --
Mrs. James Cadamire and her infant
child were burned to death at McDon-
aid, Pa, by an explosion of gasoline
and five other children were SO badly
burned that but little Nope was enter
tanned for their recovery.
Alfred G. Fields (colored) was hanged
in Chicago for the murder on February
20 of Mrs. Ellen Randolph, also colored.
Nightingale, the fast mare of C. ].
Hamlin, of Buffalo, N. Y, and valued at
$4,000, fell dead on the race track in
Louisville, KY. .. ..-.
More than 100 persons were killed by
q cyclone which swept over Sherman,
Tex, and vicinity. Sixty or more met
death in Sherman and 40 others were
killed south of there. The list of in
jured was equally large. Fifty houses
were wrecked and the western part OF
the town was completely swept away.
Eight persons were killed at Howe, ten
at Gribble Springs and two at Justin.
Gov. Altgeld spoke to large audience
at the Auditorium in Chicago in favor
of free coinage of silver.
Carl K]oppenburg, the cashier of the
Buffalo Qll.) bank, and Joseph Klop-
penburg, his brother, confessed that
they were guilty of the recent robbery
of the bank.
The Markham hotel and business
block were burned at Atlanta, Ca, the
loss being 100000.
The supreme council of the American
Protective association ended it's session
in Washington by electing J. w. Echols.
Of Atlanta, Ga, as president, and by re-
moving the blacklist against Mai. Nc
Kinley..
4 message around the world in so
minutes by telegraph was the feature
at the national electrical exposition in
New York. 1t was sent from New Yorl:
to Toxic and back, via Chicago, San
Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal and
Canso, distance of % 600 miles.
John Hornbuckle and Stone Steward.
fought with knives in a saloon in Leav-
enworth, Kan. and both were killed. &
Henry Bolln, the defaulting ex-city
treasurer of Omaha, Neb. was sentenced
to 10 years in the penitentiary and to
pay fine of $211, 900.
Nemaha, Marshall and Cloud counties
in Kansas were swept by cyclone and
dismantled buildings mark the path Of
the storm, IA persons were known to
have been killed, from 40 to 60 were
injured, several of whom would die,
and scores of families were homeless.
Nearly half the business portion Of
Blue Island. ILL.,, was destroyed by fire,
the total loss being about 100000.
The percentages of tho baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 18th were as follows:
Cleveland, .636; Boston, .625: Baltimore,
.625; Cincinnati, .625; Philadelphia,
600; Pittsburgh, .591; Chicago, 500;
Washington, .4s0: Brooklyn. .45s; st!
Louis, 800: New York, .304; Louisville, J,
200.
While fishing near Holden, Mo-,
Charles Brought and young man,
named Cook were killed by lightning.
The schooner Mary D. Aver collided
in Lake Michigan with the steamer
Onoko off Crosse Point and Capt. Will
liams and four of the crew of the
schooner were drowned.
The house of Anderson Jones was
wrecked by tornado at Elva, KY, and
he and his wife and three children were
killed. I'D
Jacob Hess, an aged farmer, and his
son, were killed by an unknown as
sassin at Lindsay, O.
Mrs. Anna Devaney, 63 years old, of
Fort Dodge, Ia, and her grandson, FL
mer Atherton, nine years old. were
killed by gas at Omaha, Neb. FL
The Rockford Qll.) Watch company,
H. w. Price, president, assigned, with
liabilities of $4,000. "- :
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The Missouri republicans in conven.
ton in St. Joseph elected Mckinley dele.
gates to the national convention and
adopted q platform declaring for Sound
money" and protection.
The Iowa prohibitionists in session