Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-09-16
THE NEWS.
Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.

Compiled From Late Dispatches.
DOMESTIC.
Lutte A. Lyttle, a23-year-old negress,
was admitted to the bar at Memphis,
Tenn. She is theonly colored woman in
the United States that is a member of
the bar.
The steamer St. Louis made the trip
from Sandy Hook to Southampton in
6 days 10 hours and IA minutes, break
ing all previous ocean records.
Nine of the eleven men who will form
the monetary commission for the prep
gress have been named, George T.
Edmunds, of Vermont, heading the list.
The American Eagle Tobacco COM
pany failed in Detroit with liabilities of
$4,000.
The sixteenth national encampment
of the Sons of Veterans opened at In
dianapolis with an informal reception
at the Dcnison house.
Ballington Booths Volunteers, op-
position to the Salvation Army, dis
banded in st. Louis.
A yacht capsized in Lake St. Clair
and Thomas Newsome, Herman Ger
tiers, Jay Tansey, Thomas Fritz, Charles
Rice and Grant Murray, all of Detroit,
were drowned.
Gen. Frank Reeder, secretary of state.
sent his resignation to Gov. Hastings,
of Pennsylvania.
The frigate Constellation, lying at the
naval station at Newport, L. L., cele-
brated the one hundredth anniversary
of her launching, ,.,a..
The twenty-frst annual reunion of the
Army of West Virginia began at Column
bus, 0. '''"@ &-.'.>s -
James Quinn, wel1-known citizen of
Park City, Utah, killed his wife and
then shot himself. Strong drink is said
to have been the cause of the tragedy.
James Robinson, who on August 8
murdered his wife at their home in
Fieldsboro, N. j., died in the Jail at
Mount Holly of tuberculosis.
Ninety-six families at Carlinville, ILL.,,
the heads of which are striking miners,
are in dire distress, wholly without food
and in danger of starvation.
Later advices say that 10 known dead,
one missing probably incinerated) and
fourteen injured, two of whom will like
~ die, is the record of the terrible head
end collision on the Santa Fe road near
Emporia, Kan.
It was reported that in a collision
mile west of Newcastle, COL, be-
tween Denver & Rio Grande pas
senger train and a freight Is persons
were killed.
1t was said that the drought in Ne
braska would reduce the corn crop at
least 100000 bushels.
Millions of feet of timber have been
destroyed by a forest fire in the Big
Horn country in Wyoming.
The annual report of the auditor for
the interior department shows that the
amount paid for pensions during the
last year was $14O,477,637.
A claim is made that the city of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, is on Georgia soil, and
a resurvey OF, the boundary will proba-
bly, be made.
The will of the late Charles T. Wilder,
OF Wellesley, Mass, leaves over $780,
600 to charitable and educational in
situations. -
The Tulane Athletic club of New Or
leans has offered $4,000 for fight be-
tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons.
The exchanges at the leading. clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended ON the 10th aggregated
$1,1o4,680, $50, against 1925, 245,s46 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week Of 1896
was 1876.
There were 215r business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 10th, against 191 the week
previous and 315 in the corresponding
period of 1895. 1857.
The strike situation reached terri
bic crisis on the outskirts of Latimer,
Ia, when band of deputy sheriffs
fired into an Infatuated mob of miners,
killing IS or 20 and injuring many
others. Gov. Hastings called out the
Third brigade of the state militia to
prevent any further bloodshed.
Later adviccs from the railway COLI
sion near New Castle, COL, say that 30
persons were killed and 1876 others were
injured, some fatally :.
Reports reaching the Marine hospital
service in Washington from officials in
Louisiana and Mississippi leave no fur
Their doubt as to the fact that yellow
fever exists at several points in those
states. .y.. ,r.,~.-..