Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-04-26
DOMESTIC.

The president has appointed Frank
w. Hackett, of New Hampshire, to be
assistant secretary of the navy.
Mrs. Eliza Chrisman left by will
$25O,000 for the founding of univer-
sity at Topeka, Kan.
DR.. E. Benjamin Andrews, superin-
tendent of Chicago schools, has ac-
cepted the CHARACTERISTIC of the Uni
versity of Nebraska.
A company of the Seventh United
States infantry, stationed at Column
bus, O., has been ordered to Alaska to
protect miners.
George R. Angel, president of the
City savings bank and of the Michigan
Bankers association, died suddenly at
his breakfast table in Detroit.
The first boat of the season, the
Jesse spalding, passed through the
Straits of Mackinaw. ....-.. ..... .
During the fiscal year just ended co.
900 Italians have landed in this coun-
try.
Rain and snowstorms in the grazing
regions in Colorado caused the loss of
10000 sheep.
Rev. Faye Walker, D. D., for II years
president of Oxford CO., college, has
resigned.
The Illinois Central and the Yazoo
and Mississippi valley railway systems
south of Vicksburg are completely tied
up by the floods.
President Patton, of Princeton uni
versity, says if the Presbyterian creed
is changed or revised it will be the
doom of the church.
The late Philetus Sawyer, of Osh-
kosh, Wis, leaves an estate of So, OO0,-
GOO. Relatives get it all, except $4,000
for charity.
The United States has completed ar
rangements to substitute American cur
rency for Porto Rican money.
The National league and American
baseball season opened throughout
the country.
The flood situation in Wisconsin
threatens vast damage to bridges and
vessel interests.
A mob lynched Henry McAfee (col-
ored) near Brownsville, Miss, for an
attempted assault on white woman.
The Cuban census shows population
of 1:572,797, of whom 443,426 can read
and write; So per cent. are native
whites and 80 per cent. negroes. Ha-
vana's population is 235,981.
Engineer George Crane and Fireman
Frank Reynolds were killed in rail-
way wreck near Aurora, Ind.
The exchanges at the leading clear
ing houses in the United States dur
ing the elk ended on the Goth aggre-
gated 1,725,s67,5 1886, against $685.
425,605 the previous week. The de-
crease compared with the correspond
ing week of 1899 was 1875.
There were 1874 business failures in
the United States in the seven days
ended on the Goth, against 1913 the
week previous and 1874 in the CORE
spending period of 1899.
Riley Powell (colored) was hanged
at Cairo, ILL.,, for the murder of Elmo
Erie in October, 1899.
Fire destroyed ten buildings in the
business portion of Lewiston, Me. :
Elmer Harris, II years old, fell
dead in Hamilton, O., at the end Of q
boxing bout.
Homer Crawford, a negro, was
hanged in Hawkinsville, Ca, for the
murder of Johnson Pate (colored).
Three men were blown to atoms by
the explosion of dynamite plant at
Kawkawlin, Mich.
J. H. RAYMOND resigned as Dresi-
dent of University of West Virginia
because of politics.
The big cement plant near La Sale,
ILL.,, was burned; loss, $250,00O.
The agricultural Department. is to es-
tablish an experiment station in Porto
Rico, with the view of improving farm
ing methods.
The Ohio supreme court says the
law permitting collection of damages
by heirs of lynched personsis constitu-
tional.