The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-29

OF the late President, was dangerously i'll at
| Williamstown, Mass, on the 2lst, of mala-
rial fever.
On the 22d the French frigate Magicienne.
the pioneer of the fleet detailed to take part
in the Yorktown Centennial, reached New
York.
A FEW days ago the wooden bridge Of the
Connecticut River Railroad, 800 feet long
and 80 feet above the water, near Green
field, Mass, was destroyed by an incen-
diary fire. The loss is $50 900, and its re.
placement will occupy six weeks.
COLUMBUS TYLER, late Of SomervilIe,
Mass, wiiled $15O,OOO or more to the First
Unitarian Society, giving his widow the
homestead, which is required to be at all
times free to children and nurses. Savings
bank accounts are to be opened for Sunday
school children.
West and South.
EARLY on the morning of the Goth the
Chinese quarter at Chico, CAL, comprising
about seventy houses, was swept away by
fire. Three Cinnamon were burned to
death.
THE Grand Jury Of Richmond, Va, has
! found indictments for forgery, larceny and
bigamy against Marvin, the bigamist.
A FEW days ago, ona farm ten miles north
Of Schuyler, Neb., Joseph Hivaletzky
choked his wife to death and split open with
an Az the head of his mother-i in law. He
burned his wife in wheat stack and his
other victim in some corn-stalks, and then
rode into Schuyler and surrendered him
self. A considerable sum of money which
he recently received was the origin of the
trouble. but he is believed to be insane.
THE procession of the Sovereign Lodge Of
Odd Fellows and the unwilling of their
cemetery monument in Spring Grove, Gin
| cnnati, were dispensed with on the Goth.
out of respect to the Nations dead.
Mrs. GARFIELD has been rendered by the
trustees of Lake View Cemetery, Cleveland,
the choice of ground for the burial place Of
the President. On her behalf Mr.. j. Stanley
Brown has accepted the offer.
| A SUBSCRIPTION for the benefit of Ser
geant Mason, who recently shot at the
assassin Guiteau, has been started in Dem
yer.
AFEw days ago w. F. Army, well-known
throughout the Southwest and recently
Acting Governor of New Mexico, died in
Kansas.
UP to the 10Th the Relief Committee at
Port Huron, Mich, had received over $780,
600 for the relief of the fire sufferers.
| RECENT forest fires in California have
burned over 16, 900 acres in Marin County
and 10000 acres on the summit of the West
ern Pacific Road.
A FEW evenings ago Robert Europe, an
influential colored man of Mobile, Boosting
of his capacity for liquor, drank pint Of
whisky which white man gave him for an
experiment., and next morning he was
found dead in his door-vard.
| On the 21st the Wisconsin Republicans
met in State Convention at Madison, and
nominated General j. NJ. Rusk for Cover
nor; s. S. Fifield, for Lieutenant Governor;
E. &, Timme, for Secretary of State; E. C.
McFetridge, for State Treasurer; L. F.
Frisby, for Attorney General; Robert
Graham, for Superintendent of Public In.
struction; - Haughen, for Railroad Com.
missioner, and P. L. Spooner, for Insurance
Commissioner. The platform asks for leg
islation looking to better regulation of the
Civil-Sefvice system, and calls Congressional
attention to the need Of the regulation of
corporations and inter State commerce; de-
mands more definite rules for determining
the result of Presidential elections, and the
enactment of specific law defining the con-
stitutional term Inability of the Presi-
dent,' etc.
On the afternoon Of the 21st the double
block between Walnut street and Clark ave-
nue. and Ninth and Tenth streets, in st.
Louis, was destroyed by fire, involving a
loss of $5O0,O0O. One man persisted III the
flames.
The Atlanta Rolling Mill, the only rolling
mill in Georgia, was burned on the after
noon of the 21st. Loss, $15O,00
On the 21st the negro laborers Of Savan-
nah, Ca, struck for higher wages, and fe-
fused to permit laborers from other places
who had come there to 60 to work.
A FEW dsvs ago Arthur Stern, of Chi.
cago, confessed to Police Captain O'Donnell
that he had murdered his wife at lonely
point on the prairie. 1t was looked upon as
the fancy of drunken man, but on the 21st
he pointed out the corpse to the officers.
The remains lay on the ground, half mile
northwest Of Lawndale, with q bullet-hole
10 the left temple. Stern stated that they
agreed to die together, but after seeing her
blood he had not the nerve to kill himself.
ON the evening Of the 2lst large process
sion marched through the streets of Dead
wood with an effigy of Guiteau, which was
hanged on q gibbet and then burned. A
similar demonstration was made in Chicago.
A FEW days ago a burglar entered the
house OF EIlery Prescott, Topeka (Kan. }
banker, which contained only two ladies'.
One was successfully chloroformed, but the
odor of the drug awoke Mrs. Prescott, who
reached under her pillow for revolver and
Inflicted mortal wound on the fellow as he
sprang through the window.
On the. 21st the Republican State Central
Committee of Ohio notified all its speakers
and committees that political meetings
would be commenced October /.
A SECOND appeal to the people of the
United States for help for the fire sufferers
| in Michigan has been issued by Governor
jerome, in which he says he had visited the
burnt district and traversed large portion
thereof-driving through the ruins and
that the knowledge thus obtained had satis-
fed him that the former estimate that
over two hundred persons persisted in the
| fires was correct, and that the further esti.
| mate that there were fifteen thousand of the
sufferers dependent upon the generosity Of
the public was not exaggerated. He con.
cludes by saying that "the necessity for con-
tinued assistance to enable the sufferers to
go through the coming winter and become
self-sustaining il in no wise abated. The
well-known generosity Of the American peo-
pie has never been invoked In more meri.
| torious cause"
| In Chattanooga on the ed Ut noon busi-
ness was entirely suspended, all the city
bells were tolled, and several thousands Of
both Union and Confederate soldiers
marched tn solemn procession through the
streets to hall where requiem services for
the dead President were held. An immense
nagstan was erected on the top Of hill
! near the city. The veterans formed around