The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-03

well-to-do farmer named Shtpley. 40
companied by two other boys, names
unknown, were drowned ON the 25th by
the capsizing Of boat.
L. Il. RoOT's house at Medicine Lodge,
Kan, was burned on the 25th, and his
three children perished in the flames
ON the 26th the Lima (O.) Oil Com
pany was sold to the Standard concern,
the reported consideration being 81, 1885,
600.
GOVERNOR JACKSON, OF Maryland, was
informed on the Goth that State Treas
urer Archer had misappropriated the se-
curities in his possession.
A LARGE part of Pioneer, town Of
about 1000 inhabitants in Williams
County, O., was burned on the 26th.
The Maryland Legislature ON the 26th
passed the bill suppressing pool-rooms,
and it was signed by the Governor.
JACK" the old chestnut horse that
carried Brigadier-General Geddes
through several campaigns during the
war, died at Des Moines, Ia, on the Goth,
at the advanced age of SO years.
In Arkansas the low lands seemed to
be doomed on the 26th. Levees were
continually breaking and the floods
were practically beyond control. Work
on the crevasse at Arkansas City had
been suspended, which meant devasta-
tion for that section.
In Indiana on the 26th the young wife
of John Werlich, of Shipshewana, COM
mitted suicide on account of domes-
a.
committed suicide at La Grange be-
cause she had been deserted by her hus-
band.
In front of Skipwith, Miss, the levee
broke on the Goth and the crevasse was
more than 400 feet wide, the water
reaching to the caves of houses in Skip
with. A large section Of country was
flooded.
On the 26th Justice James w. Camp
bell, of the Michigan Supreme Court,
died suddenly at his home in Detroit
aged 81 years.
On Lake Superior navigation opened
on the 26th.
WILLIAM SHARP, aged 80 years, the
oldest veteran in Indiana, was found
dead in his bed on the 27th at La Porte
In a mill-dust explosion at the Chi.
cago sugar refinery eleven men were
killed and seventeen wounded on the
27th.
THROUGHOUT the entire Northwest
the worst blizzard Of the season pre-
vailed on the 9th.
On the 27th counterfeit ten-dolla1
bills on the Germania Bank of New
Orleans were in circulation in Cincin.
| natl, Louisville and ST. Louis.
A TORNADO swept over the western
portion of Louisville, KY, about s
o'clock on the evening of the 9th,
wrecking 200 or 800 houses, and killing
200 or more people and injuring many
others. The path Of the cyclone was
about square and half in width.
AT the Farmers convention at Colum-
bia, S. c., on the 18th B. B. Tilman was
nominated for Governor and C. Colt TO-,
Lieutenant-G Governor.
AT Jeffersonville, Ind, hundreds OF
houses were wrecked by a cyclone on
the 27th, and the loss of life was esti.
mated at from $50 to 200.
In Maumee bay, near Toledo, O., the
tug May French was wrecked on the
27th, and Captain Tom Cary. Engineer
George Reynolds and two deck hands
were drowned.
AT Birds Point, Mo-, tornado on the
27th blew down several houses.
On the 9th James Hubbartt, living
near Maple, Ind. was los years old.
He was in good health.
ADvICEs Of the 27th say that Metrop.
oils, a small village in Illinois, had been
destroyed by cyclone and that several
hundred people were killed and injured.
Many buildings at Olny and Nashville,
ILL.,, were also wrecked.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
On the oath ]. s. Murphy & Co., lum.
Der merchants at Quebec, Can, failed for
$3.50, 900
CHINA advices of the 25th say that in
q recent fire in Toxic 2,625 houses were
burned.
AT Townesville, Australia, a hurri.
cane on the Goth flooded the town and
caused much damage. Several persons