Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-03-17

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the latter's son were fatally shot. The
duel was the outcome of an oldquarrel.
Adolf Kraus, Dudley Winston. and
Hempstead Washburne, indicted in Chi
cago for violating the civil service law,
were found not guilty. I'd.
Il The post office department. has com
menced to issue five-cent stamps CT
dark blue, instead of brown, which has
been the color of these stamps.
Senior Polo, the new Spanish minister,
said in Washington that he felt sure
that neither the United States nor Spain
wanted war, and that his government
would do everything honorable to avert
hostilities.
The will of the late Amos r. Emo, OF
Hartford, Conn.,, disposes of $2o,oo0,00o,
all of which goes to his children except
100000 left to colleges and charities.
At Monticello, KY, 81 bank, the court
house, post office and many other places
were destroyed by fire.
Every business house at Golden Pond,
Ky, was swept away by fire.
The war department has promulgated
it's order creating the departments of
the gulf and of the lakes and abolishing
the departments of the Missouri and of
Texas. Gen. Miles has matured plans
for the massing of all available troops,
both infantry and cavalry, at stations
along the Atlantic seaboard.
Eleven men lost their lives in a fire
which swept through the Bowery mis-
sion house in New York
Immense orders for heavy guns and
ammunition have been placed with Con-
necticut concerns by the government.
The Tennessee supreme court has de-
cided that the state law requiring rail-
road companies to provide separate
coaches for white and colored passen-
gers is constitutional.
j. Fifty tons of relief supplies have been
landed at Matanzas, Cuba, by the
United States government vessel Fern
and the New York steamer Bergen.
Counterfeit silver dollars, dated 1858,
and having a. small 20" under the eagle,
were discovered at the mint in Denver,
and it is estimated that there are fully
$4,000 900 worth of these spurious coins
in circulation in the country.
-Four men were drowned in the bay
at*Monterey, l., while trying to har-
pooh a shark. , "a ........ ,....,
b Isaias Thomas Ccoloredy was hanged
at<Sparta, Ga, for outraging negro
The Kansas Methodist conference in
Lawrence declared for lay representa-
t;o,, 1,v q vcfo ~ CO ~ %
Senator Proctor has returned to
Washington from his trip to.Cuba:: '->'
Domestic troubles. between Andrew
~Schuller, stock broker in San Fran
cisco, and his wife, ended in the fatal
shooting of the woman and his suicide.
Senior POLO ,Bernabe, the new Span
ISL minister, who succeeds Dupqy de
LONE as the representative of Spain,
was formally presented to President Nc
Kinley. "~
Thomas Robb, aged 10 years, shot and
killed Mrs. Rosa Read at Robbtown, Ky,
and then killed himself. No cause is
known for the crime. " %.
Members of the ca binet say that Spain
must promptly yield to whatever de-
mands may be made upon her by the
United States or the independence of
Cuba will be recognized. ~
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL. -
DR.. W. O. Rodgers, head physician of
Woodmen of the World, died in Omaha,
Neb.
The peoples. party Of the Second con-
~ ~ t.,
mated Rev. William J. Trout for con-
gress.
Jason 3. Brown, who was member
of the Fifty-frst: Fifty-second and Fiji
ty-third congresses, died at his home in
Seymour, Ind, aged SO years.
Gen. w. S. Rosecrans died at his home
near Redondo, CAL, Of senile exhaustion,
aged 70 years.
P. Fl. Bell, ex-governor of Texas, died
at Littleton, N. C. o....
William E. Spencer, journal clerk OF
the United States senate, died in Wash
ington.
Mrs. Gertrude Alderman celebrated
her one hundredth birthday at her
home in Kirkwood, III.
FOREIGN.
It is said that France, Great Britain,
Germany and Russia have advised Spain
to accept the inevitable and abandon
Cuba.
The Spanish government is said to
have changed it's policy toward Cuba
and proposes pushing the campaign
against the insurgents.
Nineteen steamers, carrying 1000
men, sailed from St. Johns, N. F., for
the ice field in quest of seals.
The court of inquiry at Havana took
ne new evidence but snent the usual