The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-11-20
Eritome of the Week.
FROM WASHINGTON.

! INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
| In the United States the visi BILE sup
ply of grain in store on the 10th was:
Wheat, % 500, TAT bushels; corn, 1885, :
)63 bushels; oats, 3, 1856, ,231 bushels.
THE cotton report OF the Government
shows probable total production of
1908, $50, 600 pounds. or nearly 5000, 900
bales, which exceeds last years crop by
over 5000 bales. when it was the
largest ever raised in this country.
ACTING ADJTTTANT-GENERAL MCKEE
YER in ibis annual report says that the
average number of pupils over IS years
of age attending military schools dur
ing the year was 11,64O, of which 6,0O5
received military instruction.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided that the sales of intoxi-
eating liquors by the glass could be ab-
solutelv prohi bited.
In his annual report Chief Signal Of
6cer Greedy says there has been de-
cided improvement in the condition
and efficiency of the army as regards
signal practice. At the end of the year
1887 miles of military telegraph lines
and 62l miles of seacoast lines were in
operation. There were only fourteen
| severe cold waves were not predicted
9S per cent. of all the important cold
waves being noted in advance. In
| speaking OF tornadoes General Greedy
said that they were not so destructive to
life as thunder-storms.
AN opinion given by Attorney-Gen-
eral Miller says that the anti-lottery
law does not prohibit the "guessing con-
| tests now much in vogue among news
papers as means of advertising.
| GENERAL GEORGE CROOKS remains
were taken from Oakland, Md, on the
18th and inferred in the National Gene.
terry at Arlington with military honors.
In the United States Treasury the
amount of gold coin and bullion on the
| 18th was $l57, 55O,331.
THE EAST.
| OlN Philadelphia four cases of leprosy
| were reported.
HIGGINS & O'MALLEY'S barns at Gen
eva, N. Y, were burned, and Henry
Hall, who had charge of the barns and
slept there, and fourteen horses lost
their lives.
In the Metropolitan Opera-House at
New York Messrs Dillon, O'Brien and
party were present at meeting and
made addresses, and $4,000 was sub
cribed to relieve suffering in Ireland.
| In Wall street. New York, the panic
| in stocks caused the failures of the fol.
| lowing brokers': Decker, Howell & Co..
for $40, 900, 900; C. NJ Whitney & Co., for
$500, 600, and Daniel Richmond for S3Oo,.
| 600
On the 18th Mrs. Wachter, the White
hall (Pa) faster, had gone 221 days
without tasting food.
THE firm of John T. Walker, Son &
Co. of New York, silk Importers failed
for 5000, 900.
On the evening of the 11th Henry M.
Stanley, the African explorer, was
greeted by an immense audience at the
Metropolitan Opera-House in New
York. it being his first lecture in this
country.
A TRAIN on the Reading road jumped
the track near Annville, Pa, was thrown
down an embankment. and seven per.
sons we're badly injured.
TIE Knickerbocker Fire Insurance
Company of New York announced its
intention Of going into voluntary liz uid-
alton. 1t was founded in 1857 and had
just completed the 1O3d year of its exist.
ence.
IT was decided by the board of man
ayers of the Adams Express Company
at a meeting in New York to boycott
| lotteries
In Wall street, New York, the finan
cial crisis came to an end on the 18th
the prompt action of the clearing house
in assisting the banks restoring conf
dence.
THE Pennsylvania Congressional dole
cation will stand eighteen Republicans
and ten Democrats
AT Hartford, Conn.,, Mary and Ann
Meyers, two old maids, were found
dead. Neglect and old age were the prob.
able cause of their deaths
FIRE DESTROYED a meat market at Mid.
dleport, N. Y, and Joseph Spalding,
who lived on an upper floor, perished in
the flames.
The death of Daniel S. Appleton
head of the publishing firm of d. Apple
ton & Co., occurred at his home in New
York. aged &C years.
S. BENSON and James B. McSloy were
killed by an engine at Erie, Pa, and
Henry Sutter, on learning of the death
OF McSloy, who had been warm friend
shot himself fatally
OFFICIAL returns show that Pattisor
(Dem.) was elected Governor of Penn
sylvania by 1854 plurality. The Re-
publicans elected the remainder of the
State ticket by pluralities ranging from
%, 365 to 25, 4e1.
ROBERT KERR, aged IS years, Of
Orange, N. j., shot and fatally wounded
Mrs. Knoble, aged 80, because she re-
fused to marry him, and then blew out
his own brains.
On the 18th Henry NJ. Stanley LEFT
New York for his lecture tour through
out the country, which will end on April
6, 1891.
JOHN LANAHAN's little child at Yves
leyville, Pa, was burned to death, and
the mother was so severely burned as to
De crippled Tor life.
WEST AND SOUTH.
In the Jail at jackson, Miss, Joe
Jackson, oneof the Rube Burrows gang
of train robbers, committed suicide
rather than stand trial
EXPRESS cars on two night trains OF
the Georgia railroad, one leaving At
lanta for Augusta and the other leav.
ing Augusta for Atlanta, were robbed