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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-08-28
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
FIGHT LIKE PRiMA DoNNAs.

Rival Minstrel Companies Publishing
Their Enmity on Bill Boards and Cir
culars.
J. A war of the most virulent type was
raging between the minstrel companies
that were announced to appear in Min
neapolis-one, tho Primrose & Vests
Imperial Minstrels at the Grand, and
the other, the Cleveland c. G. Co., at
the Harris. but it sea1ls both parties
have published and distributed hand
bills which appear most undignified.
The trouble started in Kansas City,
where young Mr.. Cleveland distributed
bills on which was printed sensational
attacks on his rivals. The Primrose &
West agent recently had printed bill
warming people to keep away from the
'disgusting entertainment" he claimed,
the c. e. c. Company give, and urging
that wives, daughters and sisters be
kept away. Primrose's agent started to
distribute them, but Manager Conklin,
who controlled both houses, swore
he wouldn't, and there the matter
ended,
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CIVIC SOCIETIES.

MASONIC. - REDWOOD FALLS COMMAND.
1I ERY, No. Is, X. T.-Stated conclaves first
Monday OF each month, at p. NJ. W. f.
Dickinson, E. Z. E. D. French. Rec.
ANTIQUITY LODGE, No.9l, A. F. & A. NJ
Regular meetings on the lst and Sd Wednes-
day in each month, at 7:30 o'clock P. N. o.
l.. Dornberg, w. N. o. w. Mcmillan, Sec.
REDWOOD CHAPTER No "a, X. A. M.-Stated
ConvOcatiOns the I'd and 4th Fridays of each
month. y. l.. Dornberg, H. P. W. F. Dickin-
son, Sec.
90. F.-REDwOOD LODGE, No. SO, meets
IL every Saturday night, at 1880 O'Clock.
Brothers from distance are cordially invited
TO attend. F. F. Hammer. N. G. 2. McPher-
son, K. s.
ENTERPRISE ENCAMPMENT, No 35. Regular
meetings lSt and Sd Tuesday evenings Of
each month at 7:30 o'clock at I.O.O.F hall.
CRYSTAL LODGE, No. 25, D. of R.-Regular
meetings I'd and 4th Wednesday evenings of
each month at 7:3O pm. Mrs. c. T Goodrich,
N.G. Mrs Nelen Tradewell X. s.
A o. u. W.-REDwOOD FALLS LODGE, No.
~ 6S, meets on Monday evening of each
week. Visiting brethren made welcome. c.
ID. Thompson, NJ. w. S. o. Mason, Einancier.
II OF P-REDwoOD FALLS LODGE, No. A.
IN. meets every Tuesday evening in Ack-
mann's Hall. Visiting brothers are cordially
invited q. r. Pease. c. G. c. c. Peck. X. X. s.
- A. R.-JoHN s. MARSH POST, No. IS.
W Regular meetings third Thursday of
each month. at their hall. A. L. Gale, Com.
N H Jones.
REDWOOD FALLS CAMP No. 4, D. Of v
Meets every second and fourth Saturday of
each month in G. A. r. Hall. Anna SALISBURY,
Capt. Elvina Theiring, .. s.
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Tho Nows briefly CnronloIed.

Tho Nows Br'eny ChronlcIed.
A butter and cheese factory is talked
of at Ellsworth.
A young son of Mat Poison, living
near Alexandria, had his leg cut off by a
binder recently.
In the thunderstorm the other nighi
at Fergus Falls, Henry Zimmerman
was killed by lightning. A. E. Soliah's
largo barn was also burned.
The Farmers Alliance of Lincoln
County have commenced the erection OF
their elevator at Lake Benton.
A five-foot vein of native silver, at a
depth of forty-two feet, has been dis
covered in the ancient Taltee work.
ings above Duluth. It is fabulously
rich.
Articles of incorporation were filed
recently with the Secretary of State,
by the South Superior Gold and Sill
yer Mining and Milling Company;
capital stock $3.50, 200; incorporators.
Sampson Parker, E. E. Blum, M. N
Price, j. L. Parker and E. D. Westby,
all Of Minneapolis, which will be the
headquarters Of the company.
Mrs. H. A. Hobart, State president,
has issued the call for the 14th an
nual convention Of the State w. C. T.
o., to be held at Minneapolis, Septem.
Der 16. II, 1S and 10.
The State prison inspectors have de.
cided to purchase machinery for the
manufacture of binding twine and will
put in a plant at saltwater peniten.
tiary.
Secretary H. II. Hart has received the
plans for the new Jail OF Benton County.
A steel plant at Newport KY, will
move to Duluth. Twenty acres OF site
were to be given it, Of which eight aeres
viii be under root.
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WEST AND SOUTH,

THE population of the State of Wash
ington was announced on the Goth at
$3.50 Ten years ago it was Is, 1l6.
WISCONSIN Republicans in State con-
vention on the goth at Milwaukee, nom-
mated full ticket, with w. D. Hoard
at its head for Governor.
The Harlan family held a reunion on
the Goth at Richmond, Ind. represent
atives from about a dozen different
States being in attendance, including
Justice Harlan, of the United States
Supreme Court. The association num-
bers about 1000 persons.
CHILDREN playing in a barn near
Akron, O.. on the Goth, reported to q
farmland that skunk was under q
.haystack. He thrust a pitchfork into
the hay and impaled negro with fatal
effects. He was identified as John
Williams, an escaped convict from the
Ohio penitentiary.
A VERDICT Of murder In the first de-
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

-Emin Pasha has had, it is said. ten
offers from German publishers for .
book.
The biography of Philip Henry
Gosse, the famous English naturalist, is
to be written by his son, Edmund Gosse.
Paul Deroulede, the poet in the last
Boulangist movement, publishes his
first novel, taken straight from the
fountain head of French inspiration.
He calls it "Histoire d'Armour."
Olive Logan, the pioneer of newspa-
per women, has the honor of being
elected a member of the incorporated
Society of Authors, of which Lord Ten
nyson is president and Walter Besant
the secretary.
The Duke of Fife has dozen suits
Of clothes in constant use. and gossipy
chronicler says that he keeps his vari-
GUS pairs of trousers on shelves labeled
Monday" Tuesday" and so on to the
end Of the week. --ssss4ssr=sssz-s&-s
Mr. Chauncey NJ. Depew sent copy
of his Orations and er-Dinner
Speeches to the Prince of Wales, and
in due course of time received from his
Royal Highness a very complimentary
autograph letter.
In connection with the death Of
General Fremont, it is interesting to
recall that only one man besides him,
General Logan, rose from civil life to
the command of an army without hav-
ing obtained West Point education.
-"The collecting of rare books"
says Lord Roseberry, the owner of
Mentmore and the Durdans and Dali
meny, with collection of rare books
in each, lis virtue very nearly akin
to vice. 1t is a virtue on which the
closest watch must be kept lest it lapse
into moral disease.
Robert Louis Stevenson will prob
ably return to London in October.
About that time he will completely
wind up his affairs in Scotland He
intends to sell off his house furniture.
carry his books with him, and fix his
home permanently in Samoa. His
island estate is said to be very lovely,
with no less than six waterfalls on it.
Miss Elizabeth Nixon, q grand
daughter of Robert Morris, has pre-
sented to the Pennsylvania Historical
Society many valuable relics Of the
Morris family. Among these is
brooch containing hair ofs George and
Martha Washington, and presented by
them to Miss Nixon's mother. A Dres-
den tea set, sent by the French Minis
ter, M. de la Luzerne, to Mrs. Morris, is ;,
another of these relics.
MIR. George Vanderbilt, the oung-
est of the four grandsons of ''the old
Commodore" cares neither for stocks,
nor railroads, nor for fashionable life.
He is almost unknown in New York,
except to booksellers, dealers in bric-a-
brac and picture dealers He is a great
collector, and possesses, among other
treasures, bust of Rembrandt carved
in ivory by Fritz Kaldenberg, which is
considered the finest ivory carving ever
done in America, and which is valued at
SO, 500
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ALUM IN BAKING POWDERS,
Adulterated Goods Offered for Sale II
Minnesota Must Be Branded,

Adulteratod Goods Offered for Sale In
Minnesota Must Be Branded.
A most important decision was handed
down in the Supreme Court the other
day in the baking-powder case of Jo-
seph A. Stolz, appellant vs.. Ebenezer
Thompson, respondent. In this deci-
sion the law of 1889 relating to the
adulteration of food is held constitu.
tional. The question before the court
was whether sections and of chapter
Of the general laws of 1889, embracing
prohibition of the sale of baking pow.
der containing alum, unless the condi.
tion therein prescribed shall be com.
piled with, is a constitutional exercise
of legislative power. The court in the
opinion sets forth that the statute does
not prohibit the manufacture or sale OF
baking powder containing alum, but re.
quires the fact when alum is a constit.
uent of it, to be disclosed in the man.
ner specified.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Queens Theater at Manchester
Eng, and Hollands mill, near that city,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th, the
loss at the latter conflagration being
$780, 900.
DAVIS DALTON, an American, COM
pleted his task of swimming the En-
glish Channel, from Griznez to Folk
stone on the 18th, his time being
twenty-three and half hours.
The Government of Guatemala issued
a proclamation on the 18th that all men
who are not ready for military duty will
be shot.
Ir was said in Paris on the 18th that
a French aeronaut and an astronomer
proposed to make a balloon expedition
to the North Pole, starting from Spitz-
bergen.
The Mount Athos Monastery at Bel
grade was partially destroyed by fire on
the 18th, twelve monks perishing in the
flames.
THE war between San Salvador and
Guatemala was said on the 10th to have
come to an end. A peace on terms hon.
orable to Salvador had been arranged.
A SENSATION was caused in London
on the 18th by the discovery that man
recently from Calcutta was afflicted
with Asiatic cholera.
IT was reported on the 10th that the
revenue cutter Corwin had received or.
ders to proceed to Behring sea and
seize all the poaching vessels and take
their skins and papers.
IT was said on the goth that Druex,
France, had been swept by cyclone
and at least 500 houses were destroyed
The loss was estimated at 1000, 900
francs.
A TERRIFIC cyclone swept through
the canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on the
Goth, doing an immense amountof dam
age. The villages of Lavallee and
Ioux were devastated, and whole forests
were DESTROYED.
THE steamer Gregory was destroyed
by fire on the Volga river, Russia, on
the 10th. Many of the steamers pas
sengers lost their lives, some being
burned to death and others drowned
EIGHT persons were drowned by the
swamping of a boat in the river at Con-
way, Wales, on the 21st.
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EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FIFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.


MONDAY, Aug. l8.-After disposing
OF routine business in the Senate the
general deficiency bill was taken up
for discussion and passed. The tariff
bill was further considered. In the
House the Mississippi contested elec-
tlon case OF Chalmers against Morgan
was reported in favor of Mr.. Morgan
(Dem.), the sitting member. Bills were
passed authorizing the construction of a
foot and carriage or railroad bridge
across the Mississippi river at St Paul,
Mimi; authorizing the construction of
tunnel under the Detroit river at De-
troit, Mich; amending tho act consti-
tuting Lincoln, Neb., port of delivery.
TUESDAY, Aug. 19.-ln the Senate,
after disposing of unimportant busi-
ness the bill granting right of way
through certain lands of the United
States in Utah and the bill to authorize
the Secretary Of the Interior to procure
and submit to Congress proposals for
the sale to the United States of the
western part of the Crow Reservation
in Montana were taken up, amended
and passed. The tariff bill was further
discussed. In the House a motion to
lay on the table the motion made some
days ago to reconsider the motion by
which the Mat Mckay relief bill was
passed was agreed to. The bill to
amend the alien land law was discussed,
but no action was taken. The Agricult-
ural College bill was then taken up for
discussion and passed.
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 2O.-No action was
taken by the Senate on the resolution
providing for an adjournment after the
passage of the tariff bill. The House
amendment to the agricultural college
bill and the meat inspection bill were
concurred in. The tariff bill was further
discussed. In the House the bill to ex-
cmpt mining land from the alien-land
law was laid on the table. The bill for
the adjustment of accounts of work.
men and mechanics under the
eight-hour law was then taken
up, no action being taken, The
resolution calling for information
as to Russia's prescription of Jews was
reported and adopted. The House then
discussed the Senate meat-inspection
bill
THURSDAY. Aug. 21.-In the Senate
bill was introduced by request of
the Farmers Alliance to provide for
banks of deposit. A telegram was pre-
sented from the members of the Grant
Monument Association in New York
protesting against the proposed removal
of General Grants remains to Washing
ton. The House amendment to the
Senate bill to authorize the construc-
tion OF bridge across the Missis-
sippi river at some point between
the mouth Of the Illinois and the mouth
OF the Missouri was concurred in. The
tariff bill was further discussed. In the
House bill was passed to change the
time of the sessions of the circuit and
district courts for the Western district
of Missouri; also one amending the act
authorizing the construction of bridge
across the Red River of the North. The
lard refining bill was further discussed,
no action being taken.
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gree was rendered at Parkersburg, w.
Va. on the Goth against Mrs. Mary
Morgan for the murder of her husband,
and she was sentenced to be hanged
UPON being repriman by her father
on the 21st Carrie Walker, aged II, liv-
ing in st. Louis, went into her room
and swallowed dose of arsenic, dying
an hour afterwards,
A FREIGHT train on the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railroad telescoped pas
senger train at Paola, Mo-, on the 21st,
killing the Pullman conductor and se-
riously injuring the engineer.
IDAHO Republicans in State conven-
tion at Boise City on the 21st placed a
full ticket in the field, headed by
George L. Shoup for Governor.
JANE and Michael Lesser, an aged
couple OF 70 years, living at Dubuque,
Ia, were remarked on the 21st for
the third time. They quarreled
and separated twice. Both appeared to
be pleased to be again united.
The Thousand Island Park Hotel and
twenty cottages at Thousand Island
Park, on the St Lawrence river, were
destroyed by fire ON the 21st Loss,
$15O, 900.
NOMINATIONS for Congress were made
on the 21st as follows: West Virginia,
Third district, Theophilus Gaines
Rep.). Iowa, Third district, Carlton
f. Couch (Dem.); Eleventh district, v.
G. Farnham (Pro.). Illinois, Nineteenth
district, G. w. Pillow (Rep.); Eleventh
district, S. L. Shelton (Pro.). Indiana,
First district, w. f. Parrett (Dem.) re-
nominated. Ohio, Sixth district, John
H. Brigham (Rep.). Missouri, Twelfth
district, w. B. Lewis (Rep.). Kansas,
Fifth district, John Davis Peoples
party); First district, L. C. Clark (Far-
mers' Alliance).
AN explosion of powder at tho Stand
ard Cartridge Company's works near
Blue Island, ILL.,, on the 21st resulted in
the killing of one man and the injury
of twenty men, boys and girls.
CALIFORNIA Democrats in State con-
vention at San Jose on the 21st, nomi-
mated E. R. Pond, mayor of San Fran
cisco, for Governor.
Cooks & Co., clothing merchants of
Nashville, Tenn, made an assignment
on the 21st. Liabilities, $500, 900; as
Sc is, $4,000.
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THE latest invention in door locks Is
one which can not be opened from the out
side If it is locked from the inside, and
for this reason is especially valuable for
hotel rooms and inside doors of build
ings generally. 1t has double bolts,
one above the other. The lower one is
used to lock the door from the outside.
Its key-hole does not go clear through
the lock, neither does the key-hole Of
the bolt that locks the door from
the inside. When the door is locked
on the inside there is no means of
reaching the key or the key-hole of
the inner bolt from the outside of the
door
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THE EAST

CONSOLIDATION of the three largest
firms in this country engaged in the
manufacture of undertakers' supplies
was effected at New York on the 18th,
with capital stock of $3, ,OOO,O ,OOO
THE statue of Lafayette which France
has presented to the United States ar
rived at New York on the 18TH
A TERRIFIC cyclone visited Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the afternoon of the 10Th,
killing scores of people and destroying
hundreds of homes At Sugar Notch
fifteen persons were killed, and at Par
sons and Mills Creek ten were added
to the death list. Hundreds of thou
sands of dollars worth of property was
destroyed.
A PASSENGER train on the Old Colony
railroad jumped the track on the 10th
near Quincy, Mass, and over twenty
people were killed by being crushed or
scalded by escaping steam from the en- :
gine, and twenty-five others were in
jured.
A. l.. T1LDEN was nominated at the
Dem ocratic convention of Erie and
Crawford counties at Cam bridge, Pa.
AAE' ShAAu WV ~ CCAuCHI VI WIG NcW
York Central railroad declared on the
10th that his company was ready to
spend 81, 600, 900 to defeat the present
strike. 1t was thought that the de-
termination of the Central company to
defeat the strikers would result in the
extension of the strike to all the Van
derbilt lines.
THE number Of people killed by the
recent cyclone at Wilkes barre, Pa, was
said on the 20th to be fourteen, and ten
were fatally injured. The number of
buildings destroyed was estimated at
about 400, and the loss of property
would exceed 81, OOO. 600.
PENNSYLVANIA Prohibitionists, in
State convention at Harrisburg on the
2lst, nominated Charles w. Miller for
Governor and Charles C. Hyatt for Lieu
tenant-Governor.
BY the blowing down of street railway
car-sheds at Philadelphia on the 2lst
four persons were killed outright and
several others were fatally injured.
FIVE members of pleasure party
were drowned by the upsetting of q
row boat of Whitestown. L. l., on the
21st.
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A WESTERN papers definition of the
electrical term volt: THE volt gives
one blow of specific force. As volts
are added together the force of the blow
is increased until the endurance limits
reached. 1t takes about twenty-five
volts to make a perceptible tingling SEN
sation in the human body. When fifty
volts pass through the body the ting
ling sensation becomes unmistakable,
but not strong, while one hundred volts
feels lively, two hundred volts strong,
three hundred volts powerful, four
hundred volts Titanic and five
hundred volts will knock Q man
fiat"
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FROM WASHINGTON.

THE Interstate commerce comn1is-
sion statistican made his second annual
report on the 18th, covering the oper-
ations Of 1885 miles of road. The
net income from operations was $500,
1o9, 4ss, and after deducting the fixed
charges the net income of all the roads
in the United States was SOL. 1888, 1856,
or 1851 per mile of road. The total
amount of stock is 81, 251, 100, 719; of
bonds, $4, 267, 5a7. S59.
The President celebrated his b7th
birthday on the Goth with his family at
Cape May, n. ].
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The bicycle is getting into the army
in England, and it is understood to be
regarded with so much favor that it will
be permanent fixture. The first use of
the wheel in that way in this country is
reported in the National Guard of New
York. One company has been equipped
and is being drilled on the bicycle. The
theory il that it will do duty for the
horse in cavalry or mounted infantry
and oe great saving in expense. Ar
rangement is made for carryingthe gun
and knapsack. 1t is claimed that about
all the requirements of the cav
airy service can be met with the
wheel
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SOME statistics from summer resorts
show that the New England coast re-
ceives the greatest number of city visit
ors in the summer, $50 prominent per-
sons visiting it, while 3Os 60 to the in
terror; the same number go to Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Delaware, 24O
to the south shore of Long Island, 2s2
to the north shore of the sound, 2O4 to
the Hudson river, 11S to the Jersey
coast and 6S to the north shore of Long
TSl,
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Capture Of . Kentucky De.peradc.

LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 2a-Captain
Gather, of the company which is pro-
tecting Judge Lilly's court at Hazard,
Perry County, reports that Joe David
son, a leader of the French faction in
the French Eversole feud, had been
captured. He says Davidson is the
worst desperate Of all, and his capture
has struck terror into the lawless bands.
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CHURCHES.

pREsBYTERIAN.-Dr. J. G. Riheldaner,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10:3 30
o'clock AN. and at o'clock p. N. Sab
bath school at II O'Clock n.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
Au Services every Sabbath, at 1880 O. oclock
A. n. and at N. Sabbath school at 12E.
Preaching on every Lords
~ Day at 1880 O'Clock A. NJ. and 8 r. NJ. by
J. G. Harrison. Sunday School at ~.
ENPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The holy Com
~ munion. Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday, except the last Sunday in the
month, at lO:3J A. NJ. and P M. sunday
school at I'm.
n NATHOLIC.-Timeso Of service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
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PROF. MAYO says the power of the
Mormon is broken in Salt Lake CITY
and vicinity. They are now in the
minority and have hardly hand in the
government of the city in which they
were once supreme. The entire munich
pal government and the schools have
passed into the hands of. the Gentilcs.
The social customs which distinguished
the Mormons are fast disappearing.
There is even a society of young Nor
mon women who pledge themselves not
to marry polygamist.
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CRYSTAL MILL BURNED,
A Big Minneapolis Fire Destroys valua
bic Proporty.

Big Minneapolis Fire Destroys valua.
bic Property.
The Crystal mill at Shingle creek, Min
neapolis. was destroyed by fire the other
morning. No one knows as yet how the
fire started. The flames were first discov
cred about 1:3o in the morning. The
mill is so far out that no fire apparatus
could be sent out in time, and the fire
had gained such headway that all at.
tempts at saving it would have been
futile. The mill was a three-story
structure and had capacity of 200 bar.
rels Of flour per day. 1t was owned by
Henry Oswald. The loss Will not be
far from 5000 Several small build.
ings close to the mill were also de.
stroyed.
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WOMEN doctors say, and many women
prove it in practice, that by going up
stairs slowly, with the foot-heel and
toe alike-put firmly on each stair, one
may arrive at the top of four flights of
stairs really rested, instead of gasping
for breath as when one runs upstairs.
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Accidentally shot.

Alfred Mason, of St. Paul, received q
painful wound in the knee while loading
a pistol, at Four Lakes. He was taken
to cottage near, and two physicians
from the city were sent for, who probed
the wound and removed some small
pieces of cloth from it which had been
carried in before the ball. He was
driven back to his home, on Wabashs
street, near Tenth. and was doing as
we'll as could be expected.