The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-04


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President Grant and party arrived at Long
Branch from their New England trip on the
22d.
/ Three cars of an express train on the South
Side Railway, Long Island, jumped the track
on the 25th, and about fifty passengers, mostly
women and children, were iniurcd-none
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A woman eighty years of age, named Re-
becca Prentiss, was burned to death n The re-
cent fire at Belfast, Maine. A dispatch of the
25th places thc pecuniaFy loss by the fire at
about 100000; Insurance, Ss125,OOO. Relief
was being received for the sufferers. The
Mayor telegraphed in response to inquiries,
that the city would accept with gratitude what
ever pecuniary aid might he offered.
The West.
| Leading physicians have informed the Jour-.
nal that, with the exception of district Of
q lew blocks In the extreme southwestern por-
ton OF the city, there is no cholera in Chicago,
and that the cases that have occurred in the
district referred to were not Asiatic cholera,
but OF a sporadic character. It Is further as
serted that the general health of the City shows
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sons of the past few years.
1t is reported that in a small house near
La Cygne, Kan, during the night of the 18th,
two women and two children were consumed
and all are believed to have been murdered,
| and the house fired, by the husband Of one Of
the victims, named Kellar. - w.
]. Puffenberger, the engineer of the coal
| train which caused the recent terrible collision
on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, was under
arrest in Chicago on the 18th. Edward Beane,
the conductor Of the coal train, who resides
| in Joliet, had not yet been arrested, although
| efforts were being made to discover his where
abouts. Pufenbcrger seeks to throw all the
| blame for the collision on the conductor,
alleging that his (Puhenberger's) watch was
fifty minutes slow, and that he was not aware
of this fact. By the rules of the Company,
when the orders for the running of trains are
violated, the engineer is equally responsible
with the conductor of the train violating the
regulations. Beanc was said to have been at
his home the day after the accident, in half
crazed condition. 1t is said that after the acct
dent he was observed running up and down
the track, begging some one to shoot him.
At a meeting held at Beloit, Wis, on the
10Th, the Southern Wisconsin and Northern
Illinois Agricultural Association organized,
electing the Hon. H. N. Davis, President; s.
j. Goodwin, ESQ.,, Chief Marshal; Henry F.
Hobart, Secretary and Treasurer; eleven Vice.
Presidents, and eight Superintendents of De-
partments. The first fair of the Association
will be held Friday, September 5, upon the
grounds of the Beloit Driving Park Associa-
ton.
Mayor Medill, of Chicago, and family have
gone on trip to Europe. Alderman L. L.
Bond is acting Mayor Of the city in the absence
of Mr.. Medill.
The Coroner's Jury in the case of the recent
collision on the Chicago 4 st. Louis Railroad,
near Chicago, after patient investigation and
the examination of a large number of wit
nesses, have rendered decision that the VIC
TINS of the disaster came to their deaths from
extensive scalds and the inhaling of steam on
the occasion of the collision; land we the jury
find from the evidence that said collision was
caused by the criminal carelessness of Edward
Became, conductor, and Joshua Puffenberger,
engineer of said coal train No. g, in violation
of the rules and regulations of said railroad
company, governing the movement of trains
on said railroad" The company has offered a
reward of $1,000 for the apprehension of
Beane.
Kellar, the murderer of his wife and Mrs.
Boyd and the two children near Twin Springs,
Kansas, was arrested and locked up in Jail at
La Cygne. On the 10Th a party of four hun
dred to five hundred men assembled at the
Jail and demanded that the Sheriff should de-
liver the prisoner to them. The Sheriff refused
them admittance to the Jail, but was over
come, and it was discovered that the prisoner
was not in the building, as he had been pre-
viously removed to escape the mob The
Sheriff was threatened with death unless the
place of concealment was told. All authority
was put down, and the Sheriff told the place
where the prisoner had been taken to. Kellar
was then searched for and found eight miles
east of La Cygne, and was taken back to the
town. The crowd was appealed to in behalf
of law and order, and a committee
of twelve was appointed to de-
eide whether Kellar should be hung or held
for trial. The vote was seven for hanging,
and the crowd proceeded deliberately to exc
cute the verdict. Boyd, the husband and
father of the murdered family, put the moose
on kellar's neck, and the wagon on which the
prisoner stood was driven from under him,
and the wretched man was thus executed.
No doubt existed as to Kellar's guilt. All the
lynchers were undisguised citizens of the
neighborhood and county, some of them the
wealthiest and best residents.
A thirteeu.y ear-old girl in Petersburg, ILL.,,
was successful in an attempt to kindle fire,
few days ago, by the use of kerosene oil.
She died soon after. In st. Louis, on the
evening of the Goth, Hortense Elder used oil
for fuel in the stove. Her funeral took place
the following day. .,
On the evening of August Goth bold at
tempt was made to capture the pay-car of the
Hannibal st. Joseph Railroad, between
Cameron and Kansas City. The engineer,
when few miles out from Cameron, saw a
gang of men piling ties on the track Revers-
ing his engine at once, he put back into Cam
eron.. skg IE.E<. 4
An attempt was made on the evening of the
10th to capture or damage the train of the At
lantic e. Pacific Road north of Leavenworth.
There were several shots fred at the engineer,
and nearly every window in his cab was bro
ken by bullets.
The Ohio State Convention of colored men
met at Chillicothe on the 22d. John Booker,
of Columbus, was chosen President, and c. L.
Maxwell, of Xenia, Secretary. Several Vice.
Presidents were also elected. About one hum
dred delegates were present Resolutions were
adopted-protesting against "the unjust dis
elimination permitted toward US by the rep
resentatives of the party whom we aid in Sc
curing official position;'' declaring the colored
voters of Ohio do not consider themselves
under eternal obligations to party which
favors us as class only in proportion as it is
driven by its own necessities" and urging the
colored men Of the State to refrain from un-
conditionally pledging themselves to the NOM
inees Of their local conventions. and that they
use their best discrimination in determining
for themselves, in each locality, whom to vote
for, or whether to vote at all.
A Csehoic priest whom Bishop Foley had
deposed, tas brought suit In the Circuit Court
of Chicago, against the Bishop to recover
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