Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-04-21

Six regiments Of cavalry, % regi-
ments Of infantry andst the sight bat
teries of five regiments OF artillery have
been ordered from their present posts
and will be modified at Tampa, Mobile,
New Orleans and Chickamauga.
The Massachusetts legislature has
passed an emergency appropriation Of
$5OO,00O to increase the efficiency of the
militia. >~S~
At Marion, O., Jacob Myers and wife
were fatally burned while burning
cornstalks. ~ .E -
Capt. Sigsbee, of the Inflated Maine,
will command the cruiser St. Paul.
The flying squadron has returned to
Hampton roads.
President Mckinley will, it is said, i'm
mediately sign any resolution passed
by congress and at once forward an ul-
timatum to Spain.
Thirty-two earthquake shocks of I'M
usual severity occurred at Greenwood,
CAL, and houses were twisted, chin
neys fell and crockery was broken.
The National league baseball season
opened on the 18th, the games result
ing as follows: At Cincinnati-Cincin-
natl, s.; Cleveland, 2. At Louisville
Louisville, 10; Pittsburgh, 3. At st.
Louis-Chicago. 2; St. Louis 1.
The president has decided to give
Consul GeneralLee the command OF the
Virginia volunteers in the event OF war.
The story told by Charles A. Crandall,
alias Emanuel Escadaro, that, acting
under the personal orders of Capt. Gen.
Weyler, he planted the mines and tor
pedoes in the harbor of Havana, is a
canard.
The Howard-Baker feud in Clay coun-
ty, Ky, has broken out again, and ten
men were killed and three injured.
The elevator at the Hoosac tunnel
docks in Boston, containing over $780, 900
bushels of wheat, was burned, causing
a loss of $50O,OO0.
Grant LIE Masters, an electrician, shot
his wife in Peoria, ILL.,, and then killed
himself Domestic trouble was the
cause.
A plug tobacco trust has been formed
in St. Louis with capital of $50 100000
American diplomats and consular
agents have been instructed to watch
for and report the movements of Span
ish war vessels in British waters.
The entire business portion of Hop
kinton, Ia, was swept away by fire.
The percentages of the baseball clubs
in the National league for the week
ended on the 10th were: Chicago,
1000; Boston, 1000; Baltimore, 1000;
Brooklyn. 1000; Pittsburgh, .667; Gin
cinnati, .667; Louisville, 1888; Cleveland,
1888; New York, 900; Washington, 900;
Philadelphia, 900; St. Louis, 900.
President Mckinley will ask congress
for authority to raise provisional
army of 100000.
The war department has mapped out
plan Of campaign for the expected
war in Cuba.
During bail game in St. Louis fire
destroyed the grand stand and fifteen
persons were burned and otherwise in
jured.
Freight trains collided on the Rock
Island road near Fairfield, Ia, and
Charles Dibble, engineer; Elmer Boss
er, fireman, and William Watterson,
brakeman, were killed..
The republican members of the ways
and means committee in congress have
decided to raise a war fund of $6OO,OOO.-
900.
Steps are being taken to prevent the
further shipment from the United
States of coal and other supplies to
Cuba and Puerto Rico.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Mrs. Henry Schmidt, of Brushy Prai-
RE, Ind, celebrated the one hundred
and third anniversary of her birth.
Henry W. King, a pioneer Chicago
merchant, died suddenly, aged 50 years.
Henry B. Pierce, secretary of the
commonwealth of Massachusetts for 1G
years, died in Arlington.
In convention at Astoria the Oregon
republicans nominated T. T. Geer for
governor, adopted a platform in favor
of the maintenance of the present gold
standard, and Endorsed the national ad-
ministration.
Charles Curtis (rep.) has been renom-
mated for congress in the First district
of Kansas. - .--
Robert Purvis, the last survivor of the
organizers Of the American Anti
Slavery society, died in Philadelphia,
aged SS years. 81 Is.
Charles w. Hackett, of Utica, N. Y,