The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-24

lions during his travels In the West Indies
Sandwich Islands and other foreign parts
and values it at $4,000.
John H. Eastburn, wealthy Boston
printer, recently deceased, left liberal be-
quests to many charitable institutions.
The Benevolent Fraternity of Churches
has $4,000, the Franklin Typographical
Society, the Home for Old Men, Old La
dies Home, Boston Asylum and Farm
School, Infant Asylum, Home for Orphans
and Destitute Children, 81, 600 each, and
the remainder of his fortune, after making
liberal provision for his widow, relatives,
ETC., is given to the Boston Provident So.
ciety, the income to be expended in sup.
plying food, clothing, fuel, and other nee
essarics to the poor of Boston. His print
ing office he gave to three workmcn who
had long been in his employ.
Religious and Educational.
The union of the Canadian Metho-
dists is about to be consummatcd.
The members of the Christian or Dis.
ciples Church in Indiana number 65,OOO,
Bishop Foster asserts that in no Amer
rican city have the interests of Method.
ism been so wisely administered as in
Chicago.
The Pope has sent a brief to Switzcr-
land, authorizing the Roman priests to
say mass in private houses, as in times of
persecution.
The 100000 required for the endow-
ment of Auburn IN. W Theological Sem.
mary has been subscribed.
Two summer courses of instruction
in science are to be given at Harvard Col
lege this year, one in botany and one in
chemistry.
The Philadelphia Methodist clergy
men have resolved that it is wrong to run
excursion trains to camp meetings or any.
where on Sunday.
Harvard and Yale no longer confer
the degree of Master of Arts upon three
year-old graduates, unless they can stand
a rigid examination.
-Shurtlef College, Alton, ILL.,, has pur-
chased the property formerly known as
Rural Park Seminary, for a ladies' depart
mcnt. Donations to the amount of 500.
600 were made for the purpose. -'tF
-Four young women have entered upon
the philosophical course at the University
OF Rome. They are skillful shorthand
writer's, an art that is absolutely necessary
at this university, as all lectures are re-
students. ..,, =.
DIR. Bellows is satisfied that the CO.
education of the sexes is not so fatal to
womanly grace and refinement as he has
hitherto maintained. And, at Vassar Col
lege, he says he was converted by the tes-
tlmony OF his senses to the knowledge
that womanly delicacy, girlish modesty,
and winning attractiveness could be &C
companied by the scholastic learning and
the solid scientific drill which colleges
gave to young men," ~ -...
Incidents and Accidents.
Two sons of Louis Blake, of Green
vile, Wis, took shelter under tree dur.
ing recent storm, and both were killed
by lightning. >
Mrs. La Grange, of Troy Center, Wis,
was enabled to drown herself in two and
half feet of water, by tying her hands to-
gcther and jumping into cistern.
John Carr, of Seymour, Wis, was
helping to load a cannon in the celcbra.
ton Of the Fourth, when it went off, blow
ing Oft one arm and severely injuring him
internally.
Amos Westcott, a Syracuse IN. W
dentist, committed suicide the other dav
by shooting himself. He had been for
two or three years suffering from hypo-
chondria.
Samuel Oliver, of Amo, Ind, at
tempted to kiss Mrs. Hampton against her
will, and succeeded in planting a smack
on the back of her neck. He was fined
$41.2O and got head put on him besides.
Two Tennessee lads, on independence
Day, purchased Derringer pistol, and
while on their way home one of them,
named Michael Shilburn, was accidentally
shot through the heart, killing him in.
stantly.
AT Jerseyville, ILL.,, on the Fourth, bv
the premature discharge of cannon, Ben
Allen had one arm blown off and the
other terribly mangled, and two other
men were badly burned.
AT Fort Wayne, Ind, the other day, a
drayman named David Philbaun was rid.
ing in freight car, with his head out of
the door, when he struck the corner of the
freight house, dashing out his brains and
killing him instantly.
Miss Lou Wcssner, of Terrc Haute.
Ind, had the measles some time ago SO
severely that she was rendered voicelcss.
On the Fourth, at a picnic, she was swing
ing so high that she screamed with fright.
and since then has been able to talk as
we'll as ever.
At Columbus Bridge, Allamakee
County, Iowa, the other night, Mrs.
Hort, while cleaning a dress with alco-
hol near hot stove, was burned to death
by accidentally splitting some of the fluid
ON thu nj, oil -
oped her in flames.
AT Greensburgh, Ind, the other day,
William A. Oderholder shot his brother
in-law, George Leisure, while hunting to-
gether. The murder was the result of a
family feud of many years standing.
William Dodds, Canadian, who had
been to logging-b with his brother-in-
law, Richard Forbes, murdered him while
they were returning home. The cause is
not given, but may, in all probability,
have grown out Of liquor.
Mr.. Henry Leonard, of La Sale,
Mich, died recently from the effects of
poisoning by potato-bugs. He had been
in the habit of killing them in the field
with his bare feet. A few days ago he
was doing so, when one of his feet, having
been cut or bruised, commenced swelling
rapidly, and produced death as above
stated. '|t'ses1 sss'E Il I =. ~.
"A few days ago, at Lawrencebure,
Ind, Deputy Sheriff Paul Trnett was
knocked down by desperate, Pete Mil
Ter, whom he had arrested. Truett then
shot Miller in the small of the, back. The
ball passed through and was taken out Of
his abdomen. tits thought Miller could
mt live. .Ho. had 3,,ot 1,oon liberated e,n,,,
the Jeffersonville Penitentiary. -. ea
AT Kansas City, the other day, q
young man named Jacob Roberts, while
carelessly handling Derringcr pistol in
his room at the State Line House, dis
charged 1t, the bali taking effect on the
person Of Della ShAfnmer, chamb ermaid,
who was in the room attending to her
duties, The wOund, was thought to be
fatal. Roberts gave himself up to the au-
thorities. N
"A Mr.. Kennedy "a prominent citizen
Of Beaver County, Pa, having fortified
himself with q life insurance nfsA6a n00-