Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-05-05
Happenings Of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
Itical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
CONGRESSIONAL.

The senate was in session but an hour and
a half on the 9th, during which time no
important business was transacted. In
the house the three days debate on the war
revenue measure was begun, Mr.. Dlngley
(Me) opening the discussion.
Senator Butler IN. d. introduced a res
outon in the senate on the 18th providing
that the United States bonded indebtedness
should not be increa sed, but the cost of
the war be betrayed by taxing incomes.
The debate on the war revenue bill was the
feature of the day in the house, though an
emergency war measure was passed by
unanimous consent to repeal the Hmlta-
tons upon the purchase of quartermasters'
supplies during the existing war with
Spain.
The report of the conferees on the naval
appropriation bill was agreed to in the sem
ate on the goth. The measure as perfected
carries little more than 600. Adj
journed to May 2....1n the house the war
revenue bill was passed after sharp par
tisan debate by vote of ISL to 1Sl Inc
democrats attacked the bond feature of the
- l. IL
The senate was not In session on the
30th ult. In the house the time was de-
voted chiefly to consideration Of the con-
ference report upon the naval appropria-
tion bill. The report was rejected after
three hours of debate and further confer
ence will follow.
DOMESTIC.
Two batteries have been ordered from
Chickamauga to Tampa, Fla, and it is
believed they are to proceed at once to
Cuba to cooperate with insurgents.
Ida Houston, while defending her Sis
ter in Pittsburgh, Pa, was fatally shot
by her brother-in-law, Andrew E.
Slrander, who in turn was fatally shot
by the woman.
Thirty thousand rifles and 100000
cartridges have been shipped from
United States arsenals to the Cuban in
surgents.
In Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Ohio, Mis-
souri,, Wisconsin and Michigan there
are now under arms 37,712 militiamen,
and careful estimates show that 465, 900
men stand ready to volunteer, many be-
ing already enrolled.
Andrew Nelson and his wife were
robbed and murdered in their home at
Black Earth, Wis. He was 70 years of
age and his wife 60.
The steamer St. Paul, commanded by
Capt. Sigsbee, has been ordered to sea
al once.
The monitor Terror sent to Key West
hersecond war prize, the Spanish steam
ship Guido, valued at 100000.
BY an explosion in the Atlantic Pow
der company's works near Dover, N. j.,
six worllmen were killed and four
others were injured, some fatally.
j. R. B. Van Cleve has resigned the DO
sition of inspector general of the Illi-
nois national guard.
An army of 10000 men, under Gen,
Shafter, is expected to soon invade
Cuba. Troops are on the way from
Chickamauga, Mobile and Tampa, and
will be transported to Matanzas.
Boston and New England towns are
alarmed lest Spanish warship s surprise
and lombard them.
The championship season of the West
ern Baseball association has opened.
There were 2O2 business failures in
the United States in the seven DAYS
ended on the goth, against 2O4 the week
previous and 237 in the corresponding
period of 1897
The big boats of the flying squadron
were caught in a terrific storm which
swept down Hampton Roads, but no
damage was done.
The several allotments made by the
president from day to day out of the
$5o,0Oo,o0c defense appropriation now
aggregate $41, 222,116.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the goth aggregated
$1,093,471 ,146, against 81, 3,094, 7s6 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 1871.