The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-06
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Incidents and Accidents.

CU nhENI fAhAdHAKHS
Incidents and Accidents.
Three surveyors were killed by the
Indians near the Antelope Hills, Texas,
Peter Troy died of sunstroke while
ut work in wheat field near Urbana,
Ohio, the other day.
John A. Schiel, in West Union. Ohio,
had his brains dashed out the other day
against a hitching post by his runaway
team.
The body of Augustus Lavey, the
last missing victim of the Mill River
flood, was recovered at Leeds q few DAYS
ago.
The Mayor of Philadelphia has
offered $4,000 reward for the kidnap-
ers of Charley Ross and the return Of
the boy.
Another four-year-old child was kid
mapped at Philadelphia a day or two
since, by two men, one of whom was
Brady, who assumed command of
and saved the steamship Pennsylvania
some months since, has been awarded
g 1900 salvage.
Careful inquiry has revealed the fact
that thus far six persons-two men and
four children-have probably persisted
in the last great Chicago fire.
An inhahitant of Waterbury Centre,
vt, is trying to see how long he can ex.
ist without drinking any liquid. He had
reached his 275th day at last accounts.
Two sons of David Barnet, of Gen.
tralia, ILL.,, were out hunting day or two
since, when the younger boy was acct
dentally shot and killed by the older one.
"A New Haven gentleman had his face
badly burned the other day by the ex.
plosiOn of an india-rubber toy balloon
which came in contact with his lighted
cigar.
Frank Rehrer, of Avilla, Ind, went
to the bottom of we'll for some tools
which had been left there, and was over
come by foul gases. When drawn out
he was dead.
The house Of Augustus Lang, q,
Upper Melville, Long Island, was struck
by lightning the other morning, set IN
lire and totally destroyed, together with
nearly all the furniture of the family.
The miners IN the Lake Superior
Mich.) Iron Works, to the number of
about 600, recently struck for higher
wages, and became so riotous that the
Governor had to he called on for the
military.
Men digging a well at Rochester,
Mimi, found log of wood about one
foot in diameter fifty-five feet below the
surface. The bark was still on the log
and the wood was a species of dark.
colored pine.
AT Mills & Co.'S ship-yard in
Buffalo, N. Y, the other day, an ATTEMPT
was made to blow large log open with
which resulted in an ex-
plosion that killed six workmen and IA
tally injured another.
"A New Orleans boy fell from roof
and was picked up for dead. A physi-
clan connected strong battery with the
body just above the ribs, air was forced
down the mouth with a pair of bellows,
and the boy is at present acting as clerk
in grocery store.
Sam L. Thorpe, chief keeper of the
in the Auburn IN. " Peniten.
Larry, was attacked by a convict named
Mogan, the other day, stabbed with a
shoe knife and pounded over the head
with large stone, but the convict did
not escape as he had intended, and he
was immured in dark cell for his pains.
Personal and Literary.
Randolph Rogers, the sculptor, is re.
siding in New York.
Western Reserve College. cautions
md conservative, has opened it's doors to
MIR. Samuel Williston, the well-known
of Easthampton, Mass,
lied recently.
Secretary Robson has consented to
ieliver the opening address at the State
Fair at Waverly, N. j., Sept. II.
Esther Shaw, of Davenport, Iowa,
worked thirteen years in one family be-
ore asking for cent of pay. Needn't
write for her; she's dead.
Mr.. F. D. Allen, the Greek tutor in
Harvard College, recently elected Pro-
essor of Greek in the new Cincinnati
University, graduated at Oberlin in 1868.
Rev. E. c. Curtis, agent for the syria.
'use University, reports subscription
o the university of $4,000, made bv
Mrs: Sophronia Morehouse, of Liver
POOL.
MIR. w. w. Colburn has accepted the
of the High School at
springfield, Mass; salary, $4,000. There
we're more than twenty applicants for
he position.
Mr.. Henry Bergh, it is said, has been
1t Long Branch, making observations as
o the cruelties of horse-racing. and there
IS rumor that he will soon "begin a
against this popular amuse-
nent."
Nathaniel Ladd, of Groveland, Mass,
fifty years clerk of the Congregational
Orthodox Church, eighty-seven years old,
has just finished copying the parish
records since 1876.
Prof. s. H. Carpenter, of Madison,
Wis, has been elected Chancellor of the
University of Kansas. A graduate of
Hamilton College, New York, from which
he has received the degree of LII. D., he
has been prominent educate for manv
years.
"A Philadelphia, with queer ideas
about the best uses for money, has given
Worcester (Mass) Academy $1,000 to
Found scholarship for 1.-THE most court
eous Christian gentleman" who may hap
pen each year to be found among its
Students.
The will of John Carter Brown gives
Brown University, Providence, Il. l.,
$4,000 for the erection of fire-proof
library building, for which purpose he
had previously given fund now amount
ng to $2O, 900, and lot of land worth
635, 900. Mr.. Brown has also bequeathed
e25, 900 to the Rhode Island Hospital,
$4,000 to the Butler Hospital for the In
sane. and 81, 600 to the Redwood Library
It Newport.
Foreign Gossip.
Europe consumes about two-thirds
# the petroleum produced in the United
States.
The Russian nation is said to speak
he most languages, and to speak them
he best.
Prince Bismarck has received over
600 kilograms congratulating him upon
lis escape from assassination.
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