Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-11-19
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
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DOMESTIC.
The annual report of Capt. N. NJ.
Brooks, superintendent of foreign
mails, shows that the sum of SIS, 294, 1856
was received by this country for mail
exchanged with other countries. Only
1,516 errors were reported in the distri-
button of 11,51S.373 letters and postal
cards.
DR.. James S. Wintermute was MUIR
dered at Tacoma, Wash, by Samuel
Tucker, patient. who afterwards took
his own life.
j. H. Moran, ~ years old. was frozen
to death near Goodland, Kan, in q
hlizzard.
George b. Morrison. treasurer Of
Rensselaer, county, pleaded guilty at
Troy, N. Y, to the defalcation Of nearly
$24O, 1000 and was sentenced to ten years
and five months in prison.
The Iowa savings bank at Sioux City
closed its doors with liabilities of near
ly 100000.
Great Britain and the United States
have reached an agreement concerning
the Venezuela dispute, the British yield
ing everything the United States asked
for. Not only is the controversy to be
submitted to arbitration, but all of the
territory in dispute comes within the
: jurisdiction of the tribunal of five ar
bitrators.
The First national bank of DEBORAH,
Ia. closed it's doors.
Nnrfhoru pooifo <uo: ~
was wrecked at Paradise Bluffs, Mont,
and the engineer, George Fairchild, was
killed and six other persons were badly
injured.
Jack Francis and Roderick Baker
were killed and nine others injured,
three of them seriously, by boiler ex-
plosion in a sawmill near Lexington,
Ky.
The twentieth annual general assem-
bly, of the Knights of Labor began in
Washington.
In his annual report to the secretary
of war Maj. Gen. Miles. commanding the
army, renews his former recommends
tons for an increase of the army and
for increased coast defense.
William p. Hazen, chief of the secret
service, treasury department, in his an
nual report says the total number of
arrests made during the last year was
$780,, The amount of altered or counter
felt notes captured was $757.531
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire and Ed Newberry,
porter in the Front Street hotel, was
burned to death.
Samuel Welch shot and killed his wife
at Unionville, Mich, and then killed
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause. F..
Frank Hamilton, for 20 years men,
Der of the banking firm of Raymond &
Co., committed suicide in Austin, Tex.
Dependency over fnalcial losses was
the cause.
The Alabama legislature met at Mont
gomery.
Boutele w. Frazier, aged AZ, proprie-
tor of the Wellington hotel in Washing
ton. committed suicide by shooting
himself. Illness was the cause.
Thomas Williamson, Fred G. Bulma-
han and John Williamson were killed
by an explosion of gas in Worcester,
Mass. ...-a...
Clapp & Co., doing brokerage BUSH
ness in New York. failed for $150,0OO.
Capt. Albert $. Merriam. wealthy
lumberman, shot himself dead in Min
neapolis. No cause is known for the
deed.
The National Association of Mer-
chants and Travellers. which has for its
purpose the education Of the business
men of the country, met in annual ses-
sion in Chicago.
Elizabeth, wife of Rev. Samuel Book.
of the Darwin Dunkard church. fell
dead in Kokomo. Ind, aged 90 years.
Thieves blew open the safe in the Star
brewery at Cleveland, O.. and secured
$4,000. "@ b..
At the Farmers National congress in
session at Indianapolis resolutions were
offered favoring woman suffrage, re-
stricting immigration, denouncing class
legislation and discouraging sectional
ism, and favoring the unlimited coinage
of gold and silver as equally money Of
ultimate redemption with the concur
renee of other nations.
A fight occurred in saloon at Lead
vile, Col.,. in which five men were
STABBED, two fatally.
Ice closed the Missouri river at Cham
berlain, s. D. This is the earliest the
river has closed there for 20 years.