Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-12-15

tue DdEN u AutlOcusaAA., Win Oyna-
mite and robbed it Of S., 100 and some
valuable papers and escaped. T.
Maj. Gen. Wheeler has decided to re-
sign his seatin congress and retain his
commission in the army.
f. While hunting Edward Herbrand,, of
Waukesha, Wis, and Nicholas Pitts, of
Mineral Point, same state, were killed
by the accidental discharge of their
guns.
George Howard and Frank Howard,
miners, wandered off the road in the
noun tains near Ironton, COL, and froze
to death. asf 49, 80 ,s
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 9th aggregated
81 ,631 ,6S2,131, against $1;535, S07, $40 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week in 1897
was 2O.6.
There were 24s business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 9th, against 2s1 the week
previous and 312 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
A fire in the works of the Stand
ard Oil company at Los Angeles. Cal,
caused a loss Of 1926. 900. r~. ~ s~>sf
f. Three men were killed and eight in
jured, three fatally, by an explosion in
the Dupont powder, works at Whining
ton, Del. -
T.. Karl Decker. known all over the couE
try as the prince of forgers. was SEN
fenced to seven years in prison at San
Quentin, CAL. for defraudingra bank
Increased activity is reported in bust
ness circles throughout the country.
John Andersen. the murderer of Mate
Saunders, of the schooner Olive Pecker
was executed in the Jail at Norfolk Va
Jordan Webb (colored), who commit
ted a criminal assault upon Mrs. Lucy
Bowden, an aged lady, was hanged a:
CORTLAND, Va.
Three persons were killed aud three
wounded in wrecks on the Clarion River
railroad near Portland Mills, Pa.
Rather than. take whipping from his
father Percie Ponder, the 16-year-old
son of E. E. Ponder. committed suicide
in Louisville. Ga. - Z
A blizzard prevailing in FL Paso, Tex.
and vicinity was the worst since 1891
and would result in great damage to
cattle and other interests.
Charles w. Miller. of Chicago, won
the six-day bicycle race in New York,
making 2,O07 miles. On the last day
Miller was. married in the rink to Miss
Genevieve Hanson. 4 .,. a. - 3
By the bursting of q water pipe in
Brooklyn. N. Y, property was. dam
aged to the extent of 81 100000. Z,
Mrs. Lulu Johnston, of Pond Greek,
O.. T., lis in Jail and will be tried on, the
charge of poisoning her sixth husband
at Lawrence Kan. r. IL ~ ~ A. : - r.
~ The agricultural department figures
place the 1898 crop of corn and oats as
worth $4,000, 900 more than the crops
of 1897. ~@.@
President Mckinley, it is said. con-
templates trip to Cuba and Porto
Rico at~an early date. X Mrs. Mckinley
and several members of the cabinet.
with their wives, will probably accom-
pany the president.
Rev. Theodore n. Morrison, pastor of
the Epiphany Episcopal church in Chi
cago, has accepted the office Of bishop
of Iowa.
In fit CT insanity William Hutchings
killed John Hunt and wife and Thomas
Haywood at Free Soil, Mich, and then
took his own life.
. In a fire in a flat building in Brook
Ign, n. Y, Joseph Noblett and his wife
and her mother and Thomas Whine
were burned to death.
Kansas negroes are pushing a move
ment for the deportation of 100000
negroes to Cuba. Porto Rico, Hawaii
and Africa.
The annual report of James X. Tay-
lor, supervising architect of the treas
ury, shows that during the last fiscal
year ten public buildings have been
put under contract and Is have been
completed and occupied.