Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-12-09
THE WEEK news
Happenings Of the Past Seven
.....y Days in Brief. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
ROUND ABOUT THE y, WORLD 9 4.
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
tftical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS

INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
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DOMESTIC.
The government receipts during No.
vember were $43,363,605 and the ex-
pcnditures were $37,81O,S38.' d."
Fire in the +. o. Sawyer & Co. paper
factory in St. Louis caused loss of
100000. ..-.,,
Justice Fields retirement from the
supreme court, of which he gave official
notice last October. has taken place.
:. At the annual convention, in New
York of the American Society of Me-
.,chanical Engineers Charles w. Hunt, of
New York, was elected president.
s The gold output of the Cripple Greek
a{Col) district in Novemberfwas 81 1885,
600, the largest for one month in the
history of the camp.
BY order of Assistant Postmaster
General Heath it has been made an Of
tense punishable by dismissal from the
service for letter carrier to work more
than eight hours a day a,,a.:s,t'7,,srfssa'
Mrs. Christine Behrens. who MUIR
aaered her husband, Claus Behrens, last
July, by giving him raris green, was
sentenced in Davenport, Ia. to life i'm
prisonment.
The deposits in state banks of North
Dakota have nearly doubled in 60
days.
Charles W. spalding, late president
of the defunct Globe savings bank in
Chicago and former treasurer of the
state university, was given an indeter-
inmate sentence to the penitentiary.
The executive board of the knights
of Labor reports the order largely in
creased in membership during the last
year.
The Moosehead Pulp & Paper COM
pany at Scion, Me-, failed for 100000.
Nearly 1000 men in the limestone and
iron trades at Youngstown, O., have
bad their wages advanced from ten to
twenty per cent.
A suburban population of fully 10000
will be added to Kansas City, Mo-, as a
result of special election.
By the explosion of an engine on a
street car line near East Titusville, Pa,
fcur men were injured, two fatally.
Mt several points in Kansas. but no dam
age was reported.
Seth Lowe, William Phillips and John
Howard, farmers living near Huntsville.
Ark, fought for the hand of Miss Irene
Pruitt and all three were fatally
wounded.
Anna Nigel, young married wom-
En-, murdered her two younger chill
dren in Philadelphia and attempted sui
eide. No cause was known for the
deed.
Bill Scott (colored) killed John Sing
aey, wealthy farmer, and his wife and
child at Warrens, Ala. and stole $500
land escaped. -. - r~..~
Albert Kruger, butcher. shot and
killed his wife and then committed sui
eide in Milwaukee. A quarrel was the
cause. < -
The president has appointed Blanche
X. Bruce (colored), of Mississippi, to be
register of the treasury.
The annual reports of Indian schools
show progress at Carlisle, Pa, and
Hampton, Va, the principal institu-
tions, where 900 students are enrolled.
The Piedmont state bank at Morgan
town, N. c., closed its doors. .:-.. !.
Nine Cinnamon captured near Ma
lone, N. Y. will be sent back to China.
The imports Of dutiable sugar dur
ing October last amounted to 1872 $685.
s45 pounds, valued at $3,643,613, which
lis an increase over the September inn
ports of nearly 100000 pounds.
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bank at Milford, Ind, but secured no
booty. . .:'' : 'r.s% .,.
Giuseppe Fuda, convicted Of the mur-
der Of his wife in East Norwalk, Conn,
February II last, was hanged at the
state prison at Wethersfield. .ssl! d.
Two orphan children Of George Cope
land were fatally burned in the house
of their grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Cope
land, at Sullivan. Ind. 2s~-@
The;exchanges at the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the Sd aggregated
S1,323,s61, 465, against $1,05s,4s2, 20s the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1896
was 81. . ;ag. ffsy 1Ss 1. 4, IL
There were 800 business failures in
Che United States in the seven days
ended on the Sd, against 236 the week
previous and 737e.in the corresponding
period, of 1896. .,,5.%. .sz.s. Ia !:
A sharp earthquake shock occurred at
.Galena, I'LL, and houses shook iole1tly.
Fire destroyed the old Brick = Pom
eroy block and the Mcmillan Opera
House block at La Crosse, Wis, the loss
h being 100000. .,5.. 3. N. u