The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-24

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On the 10th Mrs. Ellen Pearson, aged
96 years, committed suicide in her cabin
in Wilcox County, Ala, where she had
lived for forty years. She had no living
relatives and left as an excuse for the
deed that she was tired of living on
charity.
DISPATCHES of the 10th say that Nor
ris Sullivan and his wife were mur-
dered in their home in Goreville, ILL.,, by
their son, aged 16 years, who gave as
reason for the crime that he was tired
of waiting for the old folks money.
. JOHN HAMLETT's house, near Valpa-
raiso, Ind, was burned on the 10th, and
his wife and four little children per-
ished in the flames. Hamlett was absent
from home.
The Democrats of Wisconsin will
meet in State convention at Milwaukee
on August ~. :
In a quarrel on the 10Th Henry Hall,
aged IS years, a teamster of Council
Bluffs, Ia, shot his wife and fatally
wounded himself.
In the Eighth district of Indiana
James A. Mount (Rep.) was nominated
for Congress on the 10th, and in the
Third district of Minnesota Darwin s.
Hall (Rep.) was renominated.
AN official list was prepared by the
mayor of Red Wing, Mimi, on the 18th
of the victims of the Lake Pepin dis
aster, by which it was shown that nine
ty-seven of the IT'S persons on the Sea
Wing lost their lives.
The death of Thomas Dozewell, the
oldest turfman in the United States,
occurred at Richmond, Va, on the 18th.
On the 18th Frank Villerman, secre-
tary of tho German and Centennial
Building and Loan association at Dem
YER, COL, was said to be short in his ac-
counts about $500
THREE little sons of Otto Golden, at
Monroeville, O., were struck by light
ming and killed on the 18th, and Ben
jamin Morton and his son Rufus met
like fate near Paris, Ill.
A VIRGINIA and Massachusetts syndi-
cate on the 18th purchased the Natural
Bridge property in Virginia for 5000, 600.
On the 18th Albert F. Allen was NOM
mated for Congress by the Farmers
Alliance of the Second district of Kan
SaS.
AT Indianapolis on the 18th Judge
Howland decided that German must be
taught in the public schools
THE National Woman's Relief Corps
dedicated home for soldiers wives and
mothers on the 18th at Madison. O.
Ar the State convention Of the Farm.
ers' Alliance and United Labor parties
of Minnesota in st. Paul on the 18th the
following nominations were made: For
Governor, S. NJ. Owen; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, J. o. Barrett; Secretary of State,
NJ. Wesenberg; Auditor, p. II. Rahilly:
Treasurer, Eric Mattson; Attorney-Gen-
eral, NJ. Burlingame; Clerk of the Su.
preme Court, F. w. Kohler.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ON the 14th the Universal Peace Con-
gress was opened at London with Mr.
David Dudley Field, of New York, in
the chair.
In fari, tire 1o1st er,,,; ;-e. o~,y Ut U,.~
fall of the Bastile was celebrated on the
18th.
AT Havana, Cuba, yellow fever in
violent form was raging on the 18th
CHOLERA had reappeared in thirty
one towns in Valencia and Alicante in
Spain on the 10th.
HENRY BATTEI. his 10-year-old daugh
ter and Herbert Mclean, aged 12 years,
we're killed by lightning on the 10th
near Moose Jaw, Man., while eating
supper.
NEAR Toronto, Can., William Gifin,
aged 50 years, and his grandson. years
old, were drowned in the Humber river
on the 18th.
In fire on the 18th at Quebec, Can,
Pierre Meranda, his wife and three chill.
dren and two sailors were burned tc
death.
AN entire family, consisting of father,
mother and six children. were suf.
focated on the 18th by charcoal fumes
in Paris.
On the 18th Count Conrad Stolberg,
heir to one of the richest landed es-
tates in Germany, was accidentally
shot and killed while duck shooting.
TUE parish church, the synagogue and
seventy houses at Rosenau, in Hungary,
were burned on the 18th.
LATER
A Kentu ky Feud.
LOUISVILLE, July 19.-Another out
break of the Smith -Messer feud is re-
ported to-day from Knox county. The
battle occurred at Hubbard's mill, on
Sinking creek, one of the most lawless
sections in this state. There was po-
litical gathering there, the candidates
for the various Offices being advertised
aS Snpa lorc Roth Smith on6 Moccor