Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-01-27

at the observatory in San Jose, Cal.
New York labor unions lave declared
war on Chinese laundries and asked the
public to boycott them.
A disastrous windstorm visited Gal
latin county, ILL.,. unroofng housesa
blowing down fences and drowning
stock.
Remarkable activity is reported in all
commercial lines throughout the coun
try.
Jefferson Knight, of Pensacola, Fla,
was hanged a Mobile, Ala, for the MUIR
der of Frank Dantzler. s~'. ".'@.~
One hundred fishermen's huts on the
ice in Lake Erie, off Putin bay, were
swept away in a gale.
There were 374 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 21st, against $40 the week
previous and 400 in the corresponding
period of 1897.
The exchanges ait the leading clearing
houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 21st aggregated
$1,416,7S1, 1923, against 81, 443, O02, 1879 the
previous week. The increase compared
with the corresponding week of 1897
was 365.
The Masonic Mutual Benefit Society
of Indiana, with headquarters in In
dianapolis, made an assignment with
liabilities of $150,000.
John MCGOWAN, a young school teach
er at Alexandria, Ill.,, was killed by two
of his pupils that he had punished.
ri, cd Of
Port Townsend, WASH, after living II
days with broken neck.
Ericl Nopson, aged "a, and Mrs. Fin
gerson, his mother-in-law, aged "a.
were killed in runaway near St. Paul,
MINI.
Charles Tuckner, waiter 81 years of
age, shot his wife fatally in Chicago
and then killed himself.> Jealousy was
the cause.
Willis G. Neff, aged 70, postmaster at
Greercastle, Ind, was found dead in
cistern in the rear of his office.
Richard j. Halloran, police officer in
St. Louis, was fatally shot by Miss Nell
lie Mangan, who then put bullet
in her brain. The murder and suicide
was the result of disappointed love.
A heavy fall of snow with high winds
swept over northern and central Illi-
nois, Indiana, Iowa, lower Michigan,
southern Wisconsin and much of Kan
sas and Nebraska.
A houseboat occupied by George At
kins and his two young daughters just
above Evansville, Ind, was swamped
during a storm and all three were
drowned.
A hundred thousand bushels of coal
were sunk in the Ohio in the western
part of Cincinnati by waves rolled up
by the wind.
J. NJ. Wilkinson's private bank at
Mich, closed it's doors.
At the joint convention in Chicago of
coal miners and mine owners it was de-
cided that eight hours should constitute
n days work in all the bituminous coal
fields of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Penn
sylvania and West Virginia on and
after June 1 next.
The building in Milwaukee occupied
by the +. A. Walsh company, manufac-
turers of timers machinery, was
burned, the loss being 100000.
Mrs. Seth Coffman, living near New
Albany, Ind, poisoned her baby and
then killed herself. No cause was
known for the deed.
Rev. Il. w. 3. Dawson, an aged Bap-
fist minister, was burned to death in his
cottage near Troy, Ill.
The steamer Oregon sailed from Port
land, Ore, for Alaska with $50 passen-
gers and 1850 tons of merchandise and
baggage.
In the trial in Chicago of Adolph Luet-
CERT for the murder of his wife the de-
PENDANT took the stand aud denied the
charge.
President and Mrs. Sanford B. Dole,
Of Hawaii. arrived in Chicago and were
received BY the mayor and government
officials.
The celebra ton of the fiftieth ami
of the discovery of gold in Cali
fornia began in San Francisco and will
continue one week.
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