Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-10-06

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militiamen. An armed body Of strikers
held up aStrain at Tower Hill and com
PEELED the negroes who We're en- route
to Pana from w Arlington Ind, to work
in the mines to return to Indiana.
Charles Pittelkow, doing a real estate,
loan and insurance business in Milwau-
kee, failed for $13s, 900.
DR.. Frederick A. Todd, aged 33, as
sistant superintendent Of the Ohio state
hospital for the insane at Toledo, died
of by drophobia in Chicago hospital.
r., Jehu Baker, the veteran Illinois poll
tician, has become blind as the result OF
serious illness four years ago
All diplomatic and consular officers
Of the United States We're instructed to
hoist the flag at half-mast over their
buildings and keep it SO for ten days in
memory of the late Thomas Francis
Bayard.
The Wisconsin battleship commission
has chosen Miss Elizabeth Stephenson.
of Marinette. to christen the new war
vessel which is to bear the name OF
Wisconsin. .,aG
Reports show that the volume of bust,
ness doing the country over is heavy
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The exchanges at the leading clear
ING houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 30th ult. aggre-
gated $1,240, s77,751, against $1,225,S9O,-
915 the previous week. The increase
compared with the corresponding
week in 1897 was 1.8. ,r'G
There were 1875 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 3Oth ult, against 173 the
week previous and 1914 in the CORE
spending period of 1897.
In Washington Col. John Hay was
sworn into office as secretary of state.
Forest fires, both in Wisconsin,
South Dakota and Colorado, continue
to spread and threaten many towns
with destruction. sr.&
The business portion of Ipswich, S.
D., except one block, was destroyed by
fire.
The percentages of the baseball
clubs in the National league for the
week ended on the I'd were: Boston,
$40; Baltimore, .G55; Cincinnati, COB;
Cleveland, $50; Chicago, $40; New
York, .514; Philadelphia. SOY; Pitts
burgh, .4s6; Louisville, .464; Brooklyn,
1916; Washington, .343; St. Louis, 1884.
Snow and rain have checked the prog
ress of the forest fires in Colorado.
The public debt statement issued on
the 1st shows that the debt increased
$54,6OS, 4SS during the month of Septem-
Der. The cash balance in the treas
ury was $94O,105,524. The total debt,
less the cash balance in the treasury,
amounts to $1,06 7.479,205.
Robert Lesh shot and killed his wife
at Indianapolis, Ind, and then killed
himself. Domestic troubles were the
cause. .1 ..s s. *e-a
Despondent over the death of her
father, Bertha Beilstein killed her
mother in Pittsburgh, Pa, and then
took her own life. t@a ~. -,
The statement of the government re-
ceipts and expenditures for September
shows the receipts to have, been $780,
T7S.070 and the expenditures $54, 223, 921.
A fire in the Midvale mine at Wilkes
barre, Pa, caused the death of five
men.
Mrs. S. L. Williams, insane over reli-
gion, poisoned her two children and
cut her own throat at Detroit, Mich.
Eight blocks of the best portion of
Colorado Springs, Col, were de-
stroyed by fire, including the Antlers
hotel. The loss is $1,OoO,000.
Lawrence Greenwood, president of
the Gainesville (Pa.) National bank,
was robbed of $4,000 worth of bonds
in Philadelphia.
N. A. & J. Sawyer, wooden manufac-
turers in Manchester, N. H., assigned
with liabilities of $1O00,O00.
John Hollingsworth, murderer,
and some of his friends, killed five men
near Murfreesboro, Tenn.
More than 100 persons are missing
in the burned-over sections in the
northern part of Wisconsin and many
bodies of others have been found, but
all so badly burned that Identification
is in most cases impossible.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The New York democrats in conven-
ton at Syracuse nominated Augustus
Van Wyck, of New York, for governor.
The funeral services. over Fanny
Davenport were held in Trinity
church, Boston, and interment was in
Forest Hill cemetery
At a meeting of the Chicago plat
form democrats in New York Henry
George, son of the single tax advocate.
was nominated for governor Ia. head
an independent democratic ticket.