Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-04-12

The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the week ended on the 9Th aggre-
gated $1,941 ,43s,265, against SLIPS, $780,
S79 the previous week. The decrease
compared with the corresponding week
of 1899 was 81.
The Kentucky court of appeals rem
Beckham is governor. The republic
ans will carry the case to the United
States supreme court.
Three large wholesale firms in Chica-
go and the Burlington Railroad com
pany have forbidden employees to smoke
cigarettes.
The Sans Souci Opera House block
and the Schaffer building at Ballston
Spa, n. Y, were burned, the loss being
$150,000.
The house of a negro at Claremont,
Va, was destroyed by fire, and five of
his seven children persisted in the
flames. .s .....
Fire destroyed one-half of the town
of Robinson, Ill. s...
The great dam across the Colorado
river at Austin, Tex, was swept away
by flood, causing damage of So, 100000
to property in Austin and vicinity and
the loss of over so lives.
A treasury department statement
shows that there is more money in cir
culation now than at any previous time
in the history of the country, the
amount being $2,O21, 274,526.
Charlotte (Mich.) Methodists re-
sented their pastors bitter attack on
the church and drove him from the
pulpit, accepting his resignation on
the spot.
For the second time in three wears
the department. store of Joseph Horne
the loss being nearly $2,OOO0OO
& Co. was burned at Pittsburgh, Pa,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Ohio republicans have renominated
James H. Southland for congress in the
Ninth district and J. j. Gill in the Six
teenth.
John Bidwell, prohibition candidate
for presidency in 1892, died at Chico,
Cal.
William Gregory (rep.) was elected
governor of Rhode Island by 10000
plurality, and the legislature is large
ly republican.
E. Fl. Moore, aged IS, died in Attn
ems, o. He was former congressman
from the Fifteenth district.
The state populist convention at
Grand Forks, N. d., split on the ques-
ton of indorsing Bryan.
The Pennsylvania democratic con-
vention at Harrisburg instructed it's
delegates to Kansas City to vote for
Bryan.
Admiral Dewey announces his plat
form as ''the flag and free trade" He
says he is a democrat.
Washington republicans in conven-
ton at Ellersburg elected delegates 20
the national convention instructed to
vote for Mckinley.
Wyoming republicans will hold their
convention at Cheyenne May 16.
Republicans have renominated James
ty-ffth New York district and j. D.
Bowersocl in the Second Kansas dis
trict. The democrats have nominated
James Cooney in the Seventh Mis-
souri, district.
The peoples party in Illinois will
hold it's state convention in Spring.
field on the gath inst.
C. @. Hildebrand has been nomi-
mated for congress by the republicans
of the Sixth Ohio district.
James Seely, well-known maker
of perfumes, died at his home in Roch-
ester, N. Y.
Shoughnassee, the famous chief of
the Pottawatomies, died at Nadeau,
Kan, at the age of 80 years.
John Wright Dean, the Quaker evan
gelist and coworker with the late
Dwight L. Moody, died suddenly in
Pawtucl1et, R. l., aged 70 years.
The republicans have nominated
David Ross for congress in the Seven
teenth Illinois district, w. NJ. Horton in
the Twelfth Missouri, and renominated
H. C. Van VOORHEES, in the Fifteenth
Ohio district.
Frederic E. Church, one of the most
renowned American landscape paint
ers, died in New York, aged "a years.
FOREIGN.
The Boer army was laying siege to
Bloemfontein, where the greater part
of the British forces in South Africa
is now massed, according to the latest
advices from that city. The dis
patches say that the burghers were
closing in on all sides, with the in
tention of surrounding the town.
A Manila dispatch says that
scheme of municipal government pre-
pared by mixed board, of which
Senior Arellano is president, has re-
ceived the approval of Gen. Otis.
Queen Victoria arrived in Dublin to
pay Ireland visit after lapse of SO
years.
Russian influence is supreme in Bull
garia, and Ferdinand has placed the
government under a regency.
The Mafeking garrison made sortie
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