Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1899-03-23
THB WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Po-
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
The committee appointed by the Gu
ban military assembly at Havana to
60 to Washington to secure recogni-
ton will not be recognized in any Off
cial capacity. :: 49, =. ...
About 60 senators and representa-
tives have accepted invitations from
the Panama Canal company for a trip
to inspect the routes of the proposed
Nicaragua and Panama canals.
At Bleton, Tex, Ed Bean drove his
wife from their home through the prin-
ecipal street of the town, shot her down
and then killed himself.
By the vote of "a to ~ the Missouri
house killed bill reducing passenger
rates on railroads from three to two
cents mile. - ee ~ -.
Nine negroes charged with arson
were shot by mob at Palmetto, Ga.
Makers of bicycles, headed by A.. G.
Spaulding, of Chicago, are said to have
involve capital to the amount of $780,
100000.
is The fire losses in the United States
and Canada in February aggregated
SIS, 900, against $12,O0o,000 during
that month last year.
Six Cuban generals in command of
troops held a meeting in Havana and
adopted resolutions against the as
sembly and in favor of Gomez.
A tornado at Avondale, Ala, de-
stroyed % houses, three churches, three
machine shops and thousands of yards
of fencing and many persons were in
jured. ..: 4 ,:E%$.... F: -~:
An electric car jumped off a bridge
over a river at Millbury, Mass, and
Conductor White and Motormen Shea
and Walsh were drowned. ::~:.,>. :.
A resolution was adopted in the
Pennsylvania legisla ture requesting
Gov. Stone to name Monday, May l.
1899, as Dewey day" and designate the
same as legal holiday:
Ex-Secretary John Sherman. who is
suffering with pneumonia atSt Pierre,
Martinique, will be brought to the
United States on the cruiser Chicago.
Burglars entered Charles H. May &
Co.'s bank at Clio, Mich, blew the bank
vault and safe open and stole $1,000.
Andrew Hapeny, angered because
his wife had secured DIVORCE shot her
fatally in Peoria, Ill.,, and then killed
himself.
In a political fight at Hot Springs,
Ark, Thomas Toler, chief of police;
J. E. Hart, city detective; Thomas T.
Goslee, police sergeant, and John Will
H. L
The board of inquiry appointed to
look into the charges that the beef is
sued during the late war was of an in
ferior quality spent da in Omaha
and then went to Kansas City, Mo.
In fight over political candidates in
St. Louis bud" Price, a negro, and Ed
ward Osterhide were shot and killed by
ex-Detective Jack Williams.
John Ferriter, serving a life. sen
tence in the Michigan City penitentiary
for the murder of Policeman Charles
Ware, of indianapolis, Ind, made his
escape. 81. ..... 80 .r, .
The steamer Meade, with the Sc, OOO,-
600 in cash on board which is to be paid
to the Cuban soldiers, arrived in Ha-
vana.
Before adjourning the North Caro-
lima legislature took every appoint
ment away from the governor except
that Of the directors of the insane
asylum. &
Six men, representing 80 per cent.
of the stove founders of the United
States, ataconference in Chicago raised
the wages of $4,000 stove molders. r..
There were 1S9 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 1872 the week
previous and 20s in the corresponding
period of 1898. ..--.. -.
It is reported that Whitelaw Reid,
of New York, is to be offered the post
of minister to Spain. | Z.
The historic and fashionable Wind
sor hotel, Fifth avenue and Forty six til
street, New York. was destroyed by
fire, and 16 persons lost their lives, 43
were missing and AZ were injured.
Among those who were killed was Mrs.
Warren Leland, wife of the proprietor
of the hotel, and her daughter, and Mrs.
James S. Kirk, wealthy Chicago
widow. Mr.. Leland has become insane.
The property loss is estimated at ST.
100000. -.
Gov. Gambler, Of Georgia. is very Bit
ter in his denuncia ton of the Palmetto
affair, in which nine negroes'were shot,
and says the perpetrators will be pun
ished.