Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-06
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief. i:
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and PO-
itical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

OO"1S ~.
President Mckinley has approved the
bill prohibiting the killing of fur seals
in the waters of the North Pacific
ocean,"
Fire destroyed the plant of the F. G.
Austin Manufacturing company in Chi
cago, the loss being 100000, and Frank
Suffer persisted in the flames.
James Kirllley, treasurer of Benton
county, was murdered in his office at
Fowler, Ind, by unknown persons.
From reports on file in Washington
it is shown that 100000 Cubans are to-
day in the direst distress and that 60O,-
900 reconcentr ados have died since Jan
uary, 1897.
BY the will of Charles Contoit, filed
at New York, $1,500,OO0 is bequeathed
to religious organizations.
The output of gold in Colorado this
year is $22,o0o,ooo, against SIG 800, 900 in
the year 1896.
o. 81. Maybr, agent for the Southern
Express company at Brunswick, Ga.
is said to have decamped with $4,000
belonging to the company.
Fifteen persons were injured in two
EdllI Odd "1CChS III anu near CulCdSO.
The postal savings bank idea is not
popular one in New York banking
circles.
Gov. Taylor issued call for the as
sembling of the Tennessee legislature
in extra session January II. A United
States senator will be elected.
Abe Balm, farmer, was MORALLY
wounded by masked band of farmers
in Pleasant Ridge, Ia, because ne i'll
treated his father.
The Merchants and Traders bank of
Brunswick, Ga, closed it's doors.
Advices from Tacoma, WASH. say
that floods have caused damage esti-
mated at 81 100000 in the northwest and
several persons have been drowned.
The miners strike in Kentucky and
Tennessee, which began last May over
a reduction of wages, has been declared
off.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, in let
ter to Secretary Gage says the fedora
ton opposes the secretary's plan for
currency reform because it "provides
for the abdication of the sovereign
powers of the government to the banks"
Gov. Wolcott, of Massachusetts,, has
formally deposited the famous Brad
ford manuscripts in the state librarians
department..
The Farmers and Traders state bank
at Oskaloosa, Ia, has gone into volun-
tary liquidation.
The business portion of Muchakinocl,
Ia, d mining town, was almost totally
destroyed by fire.
No year since 1887 has shown so few
railroads confessing insolvency as that
of 1897. .-
The war ship Mohican is to become
training ship, going into commission
January 10.
Ten business houses were destroyed
by fire at Lebanon, Tenn.
DR.. Wiley Meyer, of New York, has
discovered a new anaesthetic, consist
ing of chloroform, sulphuric ether and
petrolic ether.
The Pennsylvania Building and Loan
association of Altoona went into the
hands of a receiver. -3 ~ *
Henry Behner and Joseph Browneller
were asphyxiated at the formers home
in Findlay, q.
President Mckinley has accepted the
invitation of the National Manufacture
crs' association to attend it's banquet
in New York on January ~. san
q Stephen V. White, who failed in the
financial panic of 1898, has been rein
stated to full membership in the New
York stock exchange.
\ Actor Stultz, of the Stultz Theater,
company at Manti, Utah, and his wife
we're fatally burned while preparing
fireworks to be used in their play.