Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-04-08


Floods still prevailsin the south and
the misery and restitution Of the people
is beyond description. u, !.
Fred C.Squires, .of Michigan, has been
appointed private secretary to Score
tary Of WarAlger.
President Mckinley has signed the
commissions of John Hay, ambassador
to the court Of St. James; Horace Por-
ter, ambassador to France, and Henry
White, first secretary Of embassy at
London. ~
Martha Bull shot and killed Thomas
McCrae and then shot herself in Han
cock county, Tenn. III. ...+'.
Thomas B. Spencer, one of the best
known men in Saginaw, Mich, shot him.
self because of business misfortunes. >
Sixteen apprentice boys deserted from
the United States gunboat Adams in
San Diego, CAL, because of severe train
ing tactics.
President Mckinley has signed the
joint resolution passed by congress au-
thorizing the secretary of war to furnish
tents to the sufferers of the Missis-
sippi river floods.
The Chicago, Burlington &, Quincy
road has withdrawn from every traffic
association of which it has been amen
Der.
The Illinois river at Chill;cothe, ILL.,,
was four miles wide and many persons
had been driven from their homes.
James Wolfe, John Hevelow and
Peter Mustard, co]ored shad fishermen,
were drowned near Lewes, Del, by the
upsetting of their boat.
The worst of the flood in Arkansas
and Tennessee was said to be over.
The residence of Jacob AIDE, IS miles
from Nashville, Tenn, was burned, and
the bodies of Jacob AIDE, Mrs. AIDE,
Henry AIDE, aged -; Lizzie AIDE, aged
20, their daughter. and Rosa Moirer,
aged ten years, who was visiting the
family, were found in the ruins. 1t was
thought that murder preceded the fire.
The doors of the De Kalb county bank
at Maysville, Mo-, were closed.
In diplomatic circles in Washington
it was considered that Spain had prac-
tically abandoned the effort to crush
the Cuban insurrectionists.
The house of Frank Penrod at Ladds-
vile, a., was burned while he and his
wife were away and their three girls
and two boys persisted in the flames.
Andrew Lipielski drank. ten glasses of
whisky in a saloon at Peru, ILL.,, to win
wager and died three hours after
ward.
John McAllen and his wife arrived
in Newark, N. j., from Omaha, Neb.,
having walked the entire distance of
1929 miles. They started January %
last.
Frank Nielann, of Oakland, Pa, shot
and fatally wounded his sister-in-law
and then shot himself through the
heart. Family trouble was the cause.
A bill prohibiting kaleidoscope exhi-
billions of prize fights passed the Maine
legislature without argument or a dis
senting voice.
It was discovered that James M.
Gordy, in Jail at Georgetown. Del.
charged with the murder of his wife.
Mrs. Mary Lewis Gordy, of New York,
has nine wives now living.
Inc entire business pOrtlOn OIL beaver.
Pa, was destroyed by fire.
John L. Sullivan has challenged Rob-
ert Fitzsimmons for a fight to finish
with gloves for $4,000 side and the
championship of the world.
Mrs. Emma Moss Booth Tucker, wife
of Frederick Booth Tucker, of the Sal
walton Army, took out her first nat
uralization papers in New York.
The Order of Equity, benefit associa-
ton with 200 councils in Indiana, ILL.,
nois and Iowa, made an assignment at
indianapolis.
The New York legislature has ap-
proved the charter for the consolida-
ton Of New York, Brooklyn and Long
Island City.