Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-05-17
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
THE UNUsUAL;-

THE UNUSUAL
Mrs. w J. Wilson of Tifin. O., badly
burned while smoking in bed.
Mrs. Edith Smith. of New York. won
$685. 600 in one week at Monte Carlo -.
. Chicago city employees detected tamper-
ING with water meters. disclosing frauds
of s2,oOO0OO.
r. L. Morse. of Cedar Rapids, Ia. aged
Is has left Nashville, Tenn, on horseback
for San Francisco
METHODIST CONFERENCE WORK.
Equal representation on laymen con
frmed. EE
Nine of the ten. articles of constitution
adopted ~ 81 f%S
Effective bishops to be continued in their
present rela ton.
A commission created ito report four
extension, freedman's aid and southern
education and home missionary and gener-
al feduca ton departments
IANsASSEMBLY:
Presbyterian general assembly meets at
New York Thursday f}fS
One thousand eminent sdiyines and lay
men are expected to BE present
Question of revision ofiWestminster con-
1esslon Will be most important matter con-
sidered zl:
Z Several presbyteries have asked specific
ally for appointment of committee to con-
slider whole question of creed revision
POLLlTlCAIG- aSfa fu4egFEgF aF'5 -.
Charles A. Towne expects Endorsement
OF many democratic state conventions. s<
Illinois gsocial democrats nominated
James Beattle. of Spring Valley, for gov
ernor. f..
Wisconsin democrats indorse suggestion
+ sn former United States Senator Mitchell
head demOcra tic state ticket b NH rr5
1t is said w. J. Bryan advised populists
to confer with democrats as to work of
Sioux Falls convention, but it was ignored.
DEATHS BY VIOLENCE:- ~ b.,
v j. II. Patten killed atsJoplin, MO-, by ne
gro highwayman. ~,
Three persons killed and two injured
by violent windstorm at ST. Paul. MINI.
Deputy Marshal Roberts, of Dunlap,
Kan, Killed while pursuing bank robbers.
Negro at Augusta. Ca, killed Alexander
Whitney, a society leader and was lynched.
May Mentally, aged 16. and Edna Wor-
den, aged 20, drowned in H2eosho river near
Joplin, Mo. - " = ss*
ABOUT People,
) Judge Horace Biddle died at Logansport,
Ind, aged 80. rs, :
Admiral Dewey will visit Grand Ranids,
Mich, June IL. --' .,..-&..,
Mrs. Rosalie Farley. '"rhe Cattle Queen"
I Of Nebraska, is dead S e Z FE.aTI IL
AT Edinburgh over 5000 people crowded
to hear Rev. It. De Witt 1Talmage. 80
Dr. Olaf OLSON, president of Augustana
college, Rock Island, ILL.,, is dead, aged SO,
Rev. George C., Lorimer, of fremont
Temple, Boston, may become president OF
Columbian university - ......z =,
VARIOUS TOPICs:- '-5~:,s*~ e
Progress furniture factory at Seymour,
, Ind, burned: loss, $4,000. ~
Farmers markethouse and 50 smaller
buildings at Camden. n. j., burned; loss,
sips, 600 ggE y Essss VI 8-I-G :.
Memorial day. plans in Chicago include
sprinkling of flowers on the water in mem
DRY OF the sailor dead. "a sEsGy! ~.
Swelling of capitalization of Chicago &
Alton by s60,O00,0O0 in one year attracts at
tention in financial circles. ,ts
Industrial strikes of country have caused
the 20 mills manufacturing all North Caro-
ma pine lumber consumed in America and
abroad to run but four days week.
GATHERED AT WASHINGTON:-
st. Louis will get 5000 900 appropriation
for exposition -.
kilongos and Maasin, island of Leyte,
nave been occupied by American troops
Appropriations by congress this year will
be $2OO, 600 less than two years ago
Hong-Kong reports Filipinos secure
money from Manila and arms from Ger.
many. at
Representatives of Lake Carriers asso.
citation are In Washington proposing to ap.
peal to secretary of war to check flow OF
water in Chicago drainage canal, claiming
1t is hurtful to navigation. -...,..