Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-11-05

There were 27O business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 30th ult., against 274 the
week previous and 27S in the CORE
spending period Of 1895.
b Julius Mannow, the self-confessed
murderer of Carey B. Birch, suffered the
death penalty on the gallows in the
Cook county Jail in Chicago.
The exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during the
week ended on the 30th ult. aggregated
$96s, 7s1 1858, against $1,044, 100000 the
previous week. The decrease compared
with the corresponding week in 1895
is 1913.
Rufus G. Clark, farmer living near
Cumberland, Wis, deliberately shot and
killed his wife as the result of quarrel.
The known dead in the recent cy-
clone in Lincoln and Payne counties, 0.
r., number seven, with three probably
fatally injured.
A tornado atAppleton, Wis, unroofed
several paper mills and destroyed u
brewery.
At Nashville, Tenn, John S. John
son made mile at the Coliseum on a
bicycle in 2:01 Is. This is the fastest
mile ever ridden on an indoor track.
Fire in San Francisco destroyed the
coffee and spice works owned by D.
Charardelli, the loss being 100000.
The twenty-fifth anniversary of the
women's auxiliary of the Episcopal
church in America was celebrated in
Cincinnati.
Commodore Matthews, chief of the
navy department bureau of yards and
docks, in his annual report to Secre-
tary Herbert reduces the estimate of
$6,996,620 to S2,245,043.
The Columbia cascade canal in Ore
gon, which has been under construc-
ton for IS years and upon which the
United States government has expend-
ed about $3,000,000, will be opened No.
vember S. -.<'
Rev. William H. Allworth, aged Is
years, Congregational minister of
prominence, dropped dead in prayer
meeting in Plymouth church at Ian
sing. Mich.
Albert Robinson, living in Sandstone,
Mich, turned kerosene oil from a jug
into a fire and Mrs. Robinson and her
eight-year-old daughter were burned
TO death, Robinson was injured fatally
and the house was consumed.
A terrific cyclone passed through the
eastern part of jefferson county, Ark,
doing great destruction to property
and injuring 20 persons, some fatally.
Six hundred thousand feet of Iunl-
Der at Green Bay, Wis, were swept from
a dock into the Fox river by flood.
Mrs. Frank Mayo, widow of the ia
nous actor, who passed away only
short time ago, died very suddenly at
Canton, Pa.
The greater part of the business por-
ton of the town of Manila, Ind, was
wiped out by fire. <
The United States treasury figures
show that the deficit for October is
$7,750,000, and for the fiscal year to date
$33,000,000. q .
One man was killed and ten persons
more or less injured in a fire which de-
stroyed the Carlino hotel in Buffalo,
N. Y.
Herman Bendix & Co., manufacture
ers of neckwear in New York, failed for
100000.
A man named Altenbach and his wife
and child were burned to death in Mil
waukee by an explosion of kerosene oil.
Ira Burnige, aged II, and Grace Say
Ter, aged 10, were drowned at Wheaton,
Kan. The young couple were the only
children of their respective families and
were engaged to be married.
Jerry Cardwell, town marshal of
Jackson, KY, and John G. Hargis
fought with pistols and both were fatal
ly injured.
Peter Shea, a prominent farmer and
trader, was shot and killed by Jim
Burke, desperate negro, near his home
at Lusby Mill, Ky.
An attempt was made to rob the cit
liens state bank owned by McElheny
Bros. at Goldfeld, Ia, but the burglars
were frightened away.
Seven hundred quarts of nitro-gly-
GERM exploded near Geneva. Ind, and
wrecked scores of houses.
Snow is reported from, ~ to IS inches
deep on the upper Missouri and Chey-
erne river ranges and ranchmen will
suffer heavy losses in cattle.
Dennis Scantlin was drowned in the
Winona canal at Warsaw, Ind. He was
native of Ireland and was 10 years OF
age. ...-.
In a political quarrel at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, John Luby and Andrew Drotski
were killed. .S4-.. st
Mrs. Minnie L. Cummings, the wealthy
widow and authoress, has given her
palatial residence at Elberon, N. j., to
an association founded by her for the
protection of homeless and unfortunate