The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-01
George Foster; secAetary. A. B. Brown

wife for dollar.
AFTER sustaining from food for forty
three days, Terrence Connolly, Of Newton,
n. j., q consumptive patient, has com.
menced to take nourishment. When he
began his abstinence he was unable to leave
his bed, but of late has walked across the
room and seated himself in a rocking chair.
He ceased to eat because his stomach would
not retain food.
On the oath at Hartford, Conn.,, the pa
cling horse Little Brown jug lowered her
pacing record to 2:11A, beating by half a
second Sleepy Tom . record Of 2:l2A, and
also accomplished the three fastest consecu-
tive mile heats ever paced or trotted--viz:
2:11%, 2:11s{, 2:1215.
A STATE Convention of Greenbackers was
held at Elmira, N. Y, on the oath, at which
resolutions were adopted reaffirming the
resolutions adopted at the Chicago Conven.
ton in 1880. 1t was also resolved that all
money paid to railroad companies for trans
porting persons or property in excess OF
wilma: is required to pay the legitimate ex-
penses of operating such roads and fair re-
turn on their actual cost is in violation OF
the fundamental law Of public use which al.
lows railroads to be built. and should inn
mediatelv be prohibited by legislative
enactment; that railroad companies should
be prohibited by law from charging
more for transporting property during
the season when water navigation is
closed than they charge for like services
during the season of open water navigation,
and that 1--WE work for the lawful suppress
sion Of any traffic or custom that encourages
| oil 0AA ,tod
sympathyzing with the President, denounc-
ing the act of the assassin, and declaring the
deed as the result of the spoils system. Nom.
nations were made as follows: For Secre-
tary of State, Epictus Howe; Comptroller,
John Hooper; Attorney General, Dennis c.
Fealey; Treasurer, Allen G.. Woods; Sur
geon. General, j. H. Gould; Associate
Judge of the Court of Appeals, L. c. Nc
Parlan.
Two YOUNG ladies and their brother, OF
Gloversville, n. Y, were recently drowned
while boating on Canada Lake, in Fulton
County, in that State.
WHILE exercising on the Hartford track
the other day, Maud S. sprained her ankle,
and was compelled to postpone ner trot
against time.
A VASE to cost 81 900 is to be presented by
"a New York gentleman to the best-drilled
battalion participating in the celebration at
Yorktown.
A FEW days ago three deaths from diph-
liberia at a summer hotel at Andover, n. H.,
scattered the guests in all directions.
COLONEL j. G. BENTON, commandant at
the Springfield (Mass.) Arsenal, died re-
Gently.
RECENT estimates of well.known specu-
lators place the corn crop in the United
States below the average by from 500, OO0, 600
to 400, COZ, 200 bushels.
AJEwELRY STORE at Atlantic City, n.
j., was recently robbed of goods valued at
$40, 900, while the proprietor was absent for
dinner.
THE insanity which led a physician to
commit suicide at Pttst0n, Pa, a few days
ago is said to have been caused by excessive
smoking. The suicide was in the habit of
sitting for hours putting at a meerschaum
supplied with the strongest ''plug'' tobacco.
1T is said the corn crop will be total
failure inmany parts Of New England, on
account of unreasonable cold weather.
| THE Lagonia Iron Company, at Portland,
Me-. recently closed its rolling mills and has
gone into liquidation.
| West and South.
THE drought in the vicinity Of Cincinnati
has dried up some of the streams in that
section, and many mills worked by water
power are lying idle. 1t is said that the
water in the Ohio River has not been so low
for twenty five years.
A FEW evenings ago the Gaze stove-works
| in St. Louis were destroyed by fire, involv-
ing an estimated loss Of $100,0O0
A FEW days ago the Apaches made an at
tack ON the miners near Mutt Station, in
New Mexico, and killed George Daily, the
General Manager.
THE house of William Cole at CARROTS
burg. NO., caught fire few days since.
Great efforts were made to quench the
| flames and to save the goods, and the fact
| that his children were in danger was for a
| time overlooked. Mrs. Cole hastily ran
up stairs through the fire and carried two
| Of the little ones out, but in her efforts to
reach her infant she was overcome by the
flames and burned to death.
THE wheat now being thrashed in Central
Iowa is yielding from five to nine bushels
per acre.
BY recent boiler explosion at West Bay
City, Mich, James Kealy and William
| Abrams were instantly killed, and another
man was severely scalded. They were en-
gagged with portable machine in saving
paving blocks. Kealy's head was almost
severed from his body, and Abrams was torn
completely in two.
GENERAL LESLIE COOMBs died recently
at Lexington, Ky. He was born in Novem-
Der, 1898, and was consequently nearly
Lightweight years Of age. He served as a
| Captain in the war of 1872, and also did good
| service in the Mexican war. He was several
times member of the Kentucky Legisla-
ture, and was defeated for Congress in 1851
by John C. Breckenridge. He was a strong
personal and political friend Of Henry Clay.
| During the late war he took sides with the
Union party in his State, and aided in keep
| ing the State in the Union. Several years
ago he lost large fortune in building rail-
roads, and two years since he was left almost
destitute by the burning Of his home.
A BURSTING water-spout recently SO bad
ly damaged the railroad between Canon
City and Silver City, COL, that several weeks
| will be required to repair it. One train was
| wrecked.
INFORMATION was received by the Ma.
tional Board of Health on the 23d of the de.
vclopment of case Of yellow fever at Key
West.
THE drought and consequent scarcity of
water induced the Mayor Of Richmond, Va,
on the oath to order the water from the
canal to be turned into the water-works
dam, and the officers of the Richmond 4
Allegheny Rood had their gates shut for the
second time. When they were once more
opened, warrants were sworn out for the
arrest of the city authorities.
NINE wholesale establishments at Evans
Vile, Ind, were burned on the oath, involv.
ing loss of $500, 900. At Harrisburg,
Texas, the shops Of the Galveston, Harris
burg & San Antonio Railroad were burned;
loss, 100000. Dangerfeld, Texas, was also
nearly entirely destroyed by fire on the same
day; loss, Sc, 900.
FOUR saloon-keepers, members of the
| City Council of Omaha, were recently ar
rested for violation of the State Hivh.T H.