The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-10
LATEST NEWS,
Domestic.

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Domestic.
A FEW days ago Professor Swift, of
Rochester, N. Y, discovered . new comet in
the constellation Perscus, ri1ht ascension
two minutes thirty seconds, declinatton north,
fifty-eight degrees. 1t Is quite bright and has
q short tail. and Is moving east OF north at
the rate of about one degree per day.
THE Secret Service branch of the
Treasury Department has lately been informed
that new counterfeit fve-dollar legal-tender
note has been put in circulation in various
parts of the country. It purports to be of the
series of 1875, and bears the names of Allison,
Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. It is exc
uted on printed imitation 6ber, which is
lighter than the genuine. Experts pronounce
1t to be dangerous counterfeit.
ACCORDING to . Frankfort (Ky.)
dist atch of the c3d. band of unknown men
attacked the house of Samuel Faulkner, at
Sand Rifle, twelve miles distant, on the
night of the a1st, and severely wounded him
as he was escaping from the back door.
They then set fire to the house and it was
burned to the ground. The inmates. Henry
two daughters, aged twelve and three years,
respectively, persisted in the flames.
The First National Bank of Month
cello, Ind, failed on the oath.
On the afternoon of the 25th, at Ham,
burr, N. Y, special coach attached to the
Lake Shore 4 Michigan Southern express,
and containing . funeral party bound east,
was thrown from the track and overturned,
the heat having spread the rails. o. E. Britt,
prominent Milwaukee merchant, and Mrs.
Edwin Marshall, Of Medina, N. Y, were IA
tally, and five Others severely, injured.
On the morning of the 25th, at Kan
sas City, Mo-, &. L. Hart and wife died from
drinking tea made of stramonium, which Mrs.
Hart had prepared under the impression that
it was boneset.
The River Improvement Convention,
called to mcetin Quincy Ill.,, in July, has been
postponed until some time In the Fall. Con.
gress being in session, and many Senators and
Representatives being consequently unable to
be present, are the alleged reasons for the
postponement.
AT Pittsburg, Pa, on the 25th,
Ralph Woods, seven years old, undertook to
kindle fire in the kitchen stove by pouring
kerosene oil upon the hot embers. The inev.
liable explosion followed, and the burning
oil was scattered in all directions, fatally
burning Ralph, and slightly burning his in
FAINT brother.
A BOILER in an engine house at
tsched to a saw and planning mill on Front
street in Philadelphia exploded ON the morn
ing of the 9th, SCATTERING to pieces the
buildings adjacent. One house was razed to
the ground, SO that q stranger would hardly
conjecture its previous existence, and in the
ruins were buried whole family. The engi-
neer was instantly killed. A Mrs. McAvoy
and her three children, and Claude and STEELE
Long, children of one of the tenants, were
killed in the ruins of the house above mem
toned. In one house an end of the exploded
boiler shot through the brick wall and lodged
on the second floor, and SO demolished every.
thing that all evidence of habitatton except
the building itself was extinct
Ar New London, Conn.,, on the 9th,
the eight-oared race between crews from Har-
ward and Yale Colleges occurred, the former
proving an easy winner in twenty-five minutes
and fifteen seconds.
The boiler of the Government tug
Clyte exploded on the Miss River, few
miles below Nebraska City, Neb., on the 9th.
Four persons were killed or fatally injured,
and several others were badly scalded
DURING the year enueu Way oI, 1917,
the excess of exports of merchandise over i'm
ports amounted to $269. 100, SIC.
A STRIKE was in progress among the
spinners at Fall River, Mass. on the 2Sth ult.,
and slight disturbance occurred in one of
the mills on the afternoon of that day. Aid
was solicited throuy hout New England and
in New York in behalf of the strikers.
AT Wytheville, Va, on the 2Sth ult.,
as the east-bound mail train was passing q
bridge, the engine and three cars broke
through and plunged into the creek, eighty
feet below. The express messenger was
agents and several passengers were more or
less seriously hurt.
On the 28th ult., the steamer MAY
Queen exploded her boiler while backing
out from Rockwell's Island, in Lake Mime
tonka, MINI. The boat was utterly de-
etroyed. Captain Rockwell, the owner, and
Haines, the engineer, were fatally scalded
and bruised, and some half score of passen-
gers were more or less injured.
The City of Baltimore. Nd, was
visited. on the 2Sth ult, by terrible wind
and rain storm, which deluged the principal
streets and unroofed between forty and fifty
buildings near the Custom House and in the
vicinity of the Maryland Institute.
A sEvENTY-FIvE-hour walk between
Dan O'Leary, the Chicago pedestrian, and
Peter Grassland, the English champion, was
concluded at Chicago on the evening of the
2Sth ult, ULeary proving the winner. His
distance was $50 miles, and Croesland's 225
miles and three laps. The stake was $4,000
and the gate receipts.
On the SOth ult., the nitro-glycerine
factory at the mouth of the Hoosac Tunnel,
near North Adams, Mass, was destroyed BY
an explosion. The building and two work.
men were blown to atoms.
Personal and Political.
A CALL for State Convention of the
Greenbackers of Wisconsin has been issued.
The place is WATERFOWL, the time July Is,
and the object, the nomination Of . State
ticket.
AT Beloit, Wis, on the 9th, Miss
Martha Peet. in 1876 Chairman of the Wis
consin Women's Centennial Committee, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
REV. HENRY G. REILLY was conse.
Grated Episcopal Bishop of Mexico, at Pitts
burgh, Pa. on the oath.
A CONVENTION of the Nationals who
withdrew from the Columbus Convention was
held at Toledo, Ohio, on the oath. The Con-
vention refused to nominate Q State ticket,
but adopted . platform declaring that the
United States should exercise its most vital
function, the coinage OF money, without the
interference Of any foreign power; that the
Government should supply the entire cur
rency medium; that al bank issues should
be suppressed; that the so-called speeie-re-
sumption IL q fraud and swindle; that the
locking no Of the peoples money in the