Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1916-08-02

Seventy-two thousand cats and 5000
dogs have been put to death in New
York by the S. P. C. A. since July in
the fight against infantile paralysis.
Unable to stand criticism which he
felt the public directed at him because
proceedings against Attorney J. II.
Thompson on an alleged tax title
fraud, Henry M. Gardner, probate
Judge Of Ingham county, Michigan,
threw himself into Grand river and
was drowned
Junk men in the United States col
lccted $114, 100000 worth of scrap iron
and other metals last year, the geo.
logical survey at Washington an
nounces.
AS result of a quarrel over the
race for the Democratic nomination for
sheriff, Jim Smith shot and instantly
killed Robert Majors in crowded Main
street at Ringing, Okla.
Net earnings Of the Steel corporation
In the June quarter were at the rate Of
II per cent per annum on the $5O8, 812,-
800 common stOck-after allowing for
interest charges, sinking fund require
ments and the regular disbursements
on the preferred stock. An extra
dividend of one per cent was declared
on the junior issue.
80 --.-
The st. Louis 0lobe-Democrat has
announced an increase in the price of
it's daily edition in &. Louis from one
cent to two cents, effective August l.
Forty persons, including a number
Of soldiers and women, were killed
during severe lightning and rain
storm in the suburbs of Mexico City.
Most of the deaths occurred at San
Gregorio, Atlapulco and near KOCH,
ntlco.
Miss Lizzie Lyndon, Miss True
Eshelman and Arthur Larson are dead
as result Of an accident when their
automobile turned turtle four miles
east Of Kewaunee, III. Frank Van
Hecker, the fourth occupant of the car,
is in hospital with his legs broken.
The First National bank of Alpha.
Mich, small town in Iron county
about IS miles from Iron NIountain
Mich, was robbed of $4,000 by TIVE
highwaymen. The cashier was IL.
only one in the bank at the tl::e.
Seventeen additional deaths have
brought the southeastern flood toll to
81, but all rivers are falling and some
thing like normal conditions obtain in
many sections.
Frank O'Connor, thirty one, promi-
nent business man of Mount Pleasant,
Ia, killed himself at his residence by
shooting himself in the head with
rifle. A widow. and child survive
him.
Two boys, Ralph Hatch and George
Anthony, were killed when a train
struck an automobile in which they
We're riding at Woodstock Qll.) grade
crossing.
When Charles Richards, aged twelve,
became exhausted and sank in the riv-
er at Des Moines, Ia, his brother Will
liams, aged seven, went to his rescue,
and the two were drowned.
Maj. G. NJ Butler of the Sixth United
States cavalry and Mrs. 81. j. SPANIEL,
with whom he was out riding in an au-
tomobiie at Alpine, Tex, We're shot and
killed by II. j. SPANIEL, husband of
the woman.
Floods which have already drowned
200 persons in the district about
Queretaro, Mex, are becoming worse
hourly, according to official dispatches.
Thousands of families have been driven
from their homes.
Six persons are dead and three
wounded as the result of pitched
battle between $50 policemen and a
negro maniac and his wife, barricaded
in a house on Irving avenue, chicago.
The battle was ended only when the
police dynamited the flat building in
which the negroes were quartered,
after hundreds of shots had been fired.
Two hundred and eighty-one women
IN Kansas are running for Office. Ten
want state or district offices. Two hum
dred and seventyone are out for coun-
ty Offices. Ninety-two Of these are
candidates for reelection.
The Cedar river at Muscatine, H.,
has claimed three more victims. John
Donderly, tWenty-nine, an official Of
the First National bank; Miss Myrtle
Foster, twenty-five, nurse and f1ancee
Of Wonderly, and Miss Marguerite
Guathard, thirty. were drowned while