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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
The News Briefly CnronIcled.


Miss Dentz, of Marshall, broke hel
arm the other day by being thrown out
of wagon in a runaway.
Christopher Persan, prominent farm.
er of Lucas township. Lyon County, fell
from load Of grain the other day, the
wagon wheels passing over him, break
ing his right leg. ." = ..~&:
In the 50, 600 stake trot of the Minnea.
sofa Driving Club the other day the
horse Dan Gaines dropped dead. He
was owned by Smith & Russell, of La
Crosse, Wis, and valued at $1,000.
The threatened walters strike at St.
Paul was averted by the concession oi
the demands of the men for a big ad.
vance.
Walter T. Burr, exjudge of the mu.
nicipal court and one of the most prom.
inent Republicans in ST. Paul, dropped
dead the other morning of heart dis
ease. g.
Articles incorporating the Vermillion
& Musaba Iron Land Company have
been filed at Lansing, Mich. The cap.
ital stock of the company is 81, 600, 00o
and is controlled entirely in Minneap
oils. The corporation was formed fol-
developing the rich mines in Northern
Minnesota and Michigan.
Burglars entered William Linnehans
saloon in Minneapolis the other night
picked the lock Of the safe, chiseled Oh
the door Of the cash box and got away
with $l23.
The prosecution Of c. 81. Spencer, Of
Minneapolis, president Of the Manhat.
tan Mutual Insurance Company of New
York, for violation of the State Insur
Rnce law, has been dismissed.
Peter Peterson, well-digger, was
snffocated by foul air the other day.
He WAS digging we'll on the Christian-
son farm, near Center City, the place
where two young men persisted in the
same way tive months aGos
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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
THE EAST,

AT Jersey City, N. j., four election Of
fcers were on the 7th sentenced to
eighteen months each in the State prison
for conspiracy.
AT Plattsburgh, N. Y, on the Sth,
several lives were lost and an immense
amount of damage was done in short
time by windstorm.
In New York on the Sth over 5000
starving, locked-out cloak-makers pa
raded the streets, and the spectacle of
so many pale, hungry, poorly-clad men
and boys was sight that would never
be forgotten.
A CYCLONE wrecked a portion of the
village of Winthrop, Me-, on the sth and
the wife of Chester H. Shaw was killed.
On the Sth storm broke over Mead
vile, Pa, and trees were blown down
in all directions and the roads were
blocked everywhere. The damage in
the country was great.
On the Sth the United States Book
Company, with capital of $500. 900,
was incorporated at Trenton. N. j.
AT New York on the Sth the ther.
mometer reached 100. the hottest for a
number of years. Many persons were
prostrated.
MRS. ELIZABETH WHITE died on the
9th at Newburyport, Mass, aged 1O1
years and months.
! A FIRE destroyed the little town of
Roseville, Pa, on the 9th.
NINE men were drowned during a
terrific storm on the 9Th at Balls Bluff,
N. Y.
THE death of General Clinton B.
Fisk occurred at his residence in New
York at 1890 a. m. on the 9th in the
62d year of his age. He was for years
identified with the Prohibition party
and was its nominee for President In
1888 d :; sR:lsf
AT Mount Washington N: j., the
mercury marked 27.degrees above zero
, on the 9th, and fee formed in all ex-.
posed places.
HENRY POWERS was nominated for
Congress on the 9th by the Republicans
Of the First Vermont district.
AT rail lway crossing near Owego, N.
Y, a carriage was struck by a train on
the 10th, and Mrs. Cleveland, widow OF
ex-Sherif Cleveland, of Tioga County,
Mrs. James Shay and Mrs. Avery Whit
| marsh were killed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
HUMOROUS.

-"Ye see Missus Stookey's dim on's
yit?'' "Yes; but b'lieves dey's paste"
"Waal, l shouldn't wondah. Her mans
a bill-poster, anyhow, ye know."-Itsr-
per's Bazar.
--He-"Were you ever in love?' She
~ thought l was once, but since
have read few of these modern So
ciety novels l have concluded that I
wasn't" t."-Terre Haute Express.
-Irate Wife-'Why. in the name of
sense, do you come home at two o'clock
in the morning?" High-rate Husband
"Well, fact is, it got so quiet down
street, came home for excitemcnt"-
Light.
-He-T notice you have piano,
Miss Clara?" She-'Oh, yes; but it is
my sister who plays on it-not me!''
He (rapturously)-'Clara, 1 love you!
Will you be my wife. ."-Exchange.
Ticket Collector Ito passenger in
first-class carriage with second-class
ticket)-"Your ticket is second-class.
sir. You must pay the difference" Pas
senger-''The second-class carriages
were full" Collector-"Yes, but there
was plenty of room third-class." Pas
senger-'Quite so. Pay me the differ
ence and I'll change"
dennis, Ihear that you have been
drinking again; if you can't do better 1
shall have to let you CO." ''Sure, sir,
it was against me will that got of this
time, SIR" Nonsense! no man can do
things against his will" Dennis grasp
ing at straw. Faitn I had brother
who wint to prison against his will
Jury.
First Artist-'T received magnifi-
cent tribute to my skill the other day
at the Exhibition" Second Artist-"In
deed. What was it?" First Artist
"You know my picture, "A Storm at
Sea2' Well, man and his wife were
viewing it and / overheard the fellow
say: Come away, my dear, that picture
makes me sick. '"--America.
Young Lady lat Bird Store)-Has
this parrot any sccomplishments2'
Proprietor-"He can speak little, but
he's too old to learn any thing new"
Young Lady (hesitatingly)-''Would he
initiate any sounds he might hear, such
as . sneeze, or q cough, or any thing Of
that kind?" P:oprietor-"No. The
girls were trying the other day to teach
him to initiate the sound Of kiss, but
he wouldn't do it." Young Lady-'I'l
take him. Chicago Tribune. *
Drummer lat Moonsbineville. Ky.)
Good morning, Mr.. Crossroads; how's
business?" Store-keeper( (disconsolately)
mighty poor, mighty poor. You see,
q new store started up in opposition to
me, and of course couldn't stand that,
so Jest give my frien's th' wink. an
they commenced KILN of his custom
ers; but he had more trade than kali
kerlated on, an wen his customers be-
gan to shoot back it made purity even
fight, and both sides killed each other
OF so fast that now there amt either Of
US got any customers. IN. Y. Weekly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

The new chief commissioner Of the
London police force is not only very
distinguished military officer, but also
one of the most celebrated sportsmen OF
the British army. His fame as hunter
extends throughout the length and
breadth. of India, and it was during one
of his jungle expeditions that his left
arm was bitten off by an infuriated
tigress which he had attacked It is a
curious coincidence that his predecessor
as chief of the London police should
likewise have been MANNED in an In.
dian sporting expedition, having had
his thigh bone broken by fall with
his horse during boar hunt
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
WANTS A BIG SLICE.
Frederick Prentice Claims Property
Duluth Worth $4,000, 900.

Frederick Prentice Claims Property ir
Duluth Worth &2.OOO,OOO.
Frederick Prentice is for the third
time endeavoring to establish his title
to a valuable portion of the city of Du.
luth. The property embraces a very
valuable tract OF . land. containing
about 2, roo lots fifty feet wide and 14C
feet long, which are covered with banks,
stores, hotels, schools. churches, manu-.
factories, dwelling-houses, ETC., valued
at nearly $2,oOo,OoO. Prentice claims
title to an undivided one-half of all this
real estate by virtue of deed undei
date of September IL, 1856, which con.
veyed certain tract of unplatted land.
The case was up the other day in the
United States Court, Justice Miller and
Judges Nelson and Thomas sitting to.
gether during the hearing.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

ONE of the marvels OF electricity. and
one of the most striking of the Edison
exhibits at the Paris exposition, was the
little instrument which enables the op
orator to sign check one hundred
miles distant. The writing to be trans
mitted is impressed on soft paper with
an ordinary stylus. This is mounted on
cylinder. which, as itrevolves, makes
and breaks the electric current BY
means of the varying indentations on
the paper. At the receiving end of the
wire similar cylinder receives the cur
rent on chemically prepared paper, OF
which it transcribes the signatures in
black letters on a white ground
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

The Photographic Society of Geneva
has been testing the theory that the
long companionship of man and wife
tends to make them look more and more
like each other Photographs of seven.
ty-eight old couples, and of an equal
number of adult brothers and sisters,
showed that the married couples were
more like each other than the brothers
and sisters of the same blood.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

AT ten years of age boy thinks his
father knows great deal; at fifteen he
knows as much as his father; at twenty
he knows twice as much; at thirty he is
willing to take his advice; at forty he
begins to think his father knows some
thing after ali; at fifty he begins to
seek his advice, and at sixty-after his
father is dead he thinks he was the
smartest man that ever lived.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
A MAGAZINE article which or

A MAGAZINE article which soberly dis.
cusses the theory that the sun is losing
its heat and the earth is growing
colder, with the result that the human
race shall finally be frozen out. is at.
tracting some attention just now. In
view Of the recent iceless winter and
the present elevated condition of the
mercury, it will be necessary to put the
theory in patent ice machine to pre-
vent it from spelling.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

ARKANSAS Republicans met IN State
convention at Little Rock on the 9th
and formally indorsed the Union Labor
ticket, headed by Rev. N. b. Fizer for
Governor.
A FIGHT with knives occurred at
johnson City, Tex, on the 9th between
District Attorney w. w. Morton and
ex-Sheriff Ruggles, and both men were
fatally wounded.
The family of Mr.. Watson. consist
ing of his wife, baby Is months old
and boy years. we're burned to death
on the 9th in their home at Harmony,
KY, by an incendiary fire.
In collision ON the Louisville &
Nashville road on the 9th near Birming-
ham, Ala, five men were killed and six
others were fatally injured. -
On the 9th John Stansberry was
hanged at Fort Smith, Ark, for killing
his wife last August
ALL the tobacco warehouses in Gin
cinnati and Louisville were on the 9th
purchased by an Eastern syndicate for
81, 100. 900.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were on
the 9th as follows: Iowa, Second dis
trict, Bruce 7. Seaman (Rep.); Third.
D. b. Henderson (Rep.), renominated.
Illinois, Eighth district, Lewis Stewart
Dem.).
THE Louisiana Senate on the 9th
adopted report of the judiciary COM
mittee which declared that the Cover
nor's veto of the lottery bill was with
out right or authority and returned it to
the House of Representatives.
FLAMES destroyed one of Brooks,
Waterfield & Co.'s tobacco warehouses
at Cincinnati on the 10th, causing a
loss of $685. 900. !
AT Calloa, Mo-, every business house
except one was destroyed by fire on the
10th.
THE Independents of South Dakota
in State convention at Huron on the
10th nominated a full State ticket
headed by H. L. Loucks for Governor.
! The Congressional nominees are F. c.
Zipp and A. A. Leavitt.
On the 10th George u. Perkins was
nominated for Congress by the Repub-
licans of the Eleventh Iowa district,
and Owen Scott (Dem.) was nominated
| in the Fourteenth district of Illinois.
Four negroes were killed and six
/ wounded, one fatally, in race riot at
Starts mill.pond in Fayette County,
Ga, on the 10th. Eight white men
were also shot one fatally.
| Mrs. WILLIAM C. GORDON, a wealthy
widow of Warsaw, Ind, and William C.
Evers, young man about the house,
were fatally burned on the 10th by an
explosion of a gasoline stove.
GEORGE w. SHAW, of Eau Claire,
Wis, was elected Supreme Chancellor
at meeting of the Supreme Lodge of
the Knights of Pythias in Milwaukee
on the 10th.
THE Republican State Committee of
Virginia on the 10th advised members
of its party to refrain from voting under
existing State election laws.
THE Louisiana House on the 10th
adopted the resolution of the Senate de-
claring that the Governor had no power
to veto the lottery bill by vote of 81
to 81, and the PRONUNCIATION of the bill
was intrusted to the Secretary of State.
The Legislature then adjourned st,se die,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

GEORGE WESTINGHOUSE does not put
on the air-brakes in the matter of ex-
penditures on his new cottage at Lenox,
Mass. The cottage is being built en-
tirely of marble, and already over
$780, have been expended on the
property. A large marble building is
now being erected ir which the electric
light plant will be housed. Eighty men
are kept constantly employed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

ABOUT four hundred and seventh
years ago two men in Hungary went to
law about a piece of land valued at
$4,000. But nobody was in any par
ticular hurry. and so the matter dragged
along until the other day. when the
court decided it. The decision, how
ever, is of little practical interest to
anybody, as the land in question has
been covered by lake for the last two
hundred wears,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
CHURCHES.
$3.50 per Year, in Ad

1RESBYTERIAN.-Dr. J. G. Riheldaffer,
l. pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 30
O'Clock AN. and at o'clock p. NJ. Sab.
bath school at Il O clock NJ.
METHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
ANl Services every Sabbath, at 1880 O'Clock
A. NJ. and al 8 PM Sabbath school at IL ".
THRISTIAN Preaching on every Lord g
~ Day at 1890 O'Clock A. NJ. and p. M, by
J. G. Harrison. Sunday School at II NJ.
ENPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The Holy Com
~ muniOn. Rev. :. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at i:3J A. NJ. and 5 P NJ. sunday
school at I'm.
TATHOLIC.-Times Of service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

QUEEN VICTORIA, having completed
the fiftg-third year of her reign, has
now reigned longer than any English
monarch, excepting Henry ILL.,; George
III. s sixty years on the throne being
left unconsidered, as it was so inter-
rupted with regencies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

AT Mount Hope, Ont, Joel Smith
hoisted the stars and stripes on the
Fourth over his house. Neighboring
farmers requested the flags removal,
and when refused, shot it into shreds
and divided the pieces among the crowd.
Smith floated second flag with similar
raSu1tS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
Hfs Career Closed.

OwENsBoRo, KY, July IL. Thomas
B. McCreery, ex-United States Senator,
died Thursday night in the 74th year Of
his age. He suffered stroke Of paraly-
sis in 1879. which was repeated on two
or three occasions, and for three years
past he had been perfectly helpless. His
death had been expected for several
lays. He leaves large estate.
Mr.. McCreery was first elected United
States Senator in February, 1853, to I'LL
out the unexpired term of James Guth.
rie. This term expired in 1871, and he
was subsequently elected for . full
term, from 1873 to 1879. At the elose
Of bis term he retired from pHblfe itfes
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

GENERAL MIDDLETON, the command
er of the Canadian militia who was
censureo by Parliament for question
able transaction involving the transfer
OF valuable furs belonging to citizen
of Manitoba during the Riel rebellion,
has resigned his post.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

JOHN H. LESTER, of the Henry County
(Ga.) poor-house, claims to be one hum
dred and twenty-three years of age;
also, that he was three times wounded
in the revolutionary war and fought
under Jackson in 1912. OF course he
knew Washington, and was personally
acquainted with Lafayette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

NEVER waste time telling people what
lot of good things you have done. In
the first place they won't believe you,
and in the second place they are waiting
for a chance to tell you what lot of
good things they have done themselves.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
Unbearablo.

Mrs. Uptown-I hate that Mrs Muir
rsyhill!
Mr.. Uptown-Why, my dear, ! thought
you were fond Of her.
Mrs. Uptown was until she said
her poodle couldn't associate with mine
on account Of its superior breeding. -
Aunseys Weekly. te4
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

A TERRIBLE famine prevails in the
Soudan. Food is so scarce that the ma
tives have revived their ancient prac-
tice of cannibalism. They are not only
eating the bodies of the dead but are
killing each other for food.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
Bank Books Found I'm a Grave.

at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis
the other day two men employed in
packing graves found, about fourteen
inches under the surface, tin box
which contained two bank deposi,
books, one on the Farmers Savings
Bank of that city and the other on the
St Paul Savings Bank, the two show.
ing deposits Of $3.50, made in 1877. The
books were taken to the banks and the
deposits found intact, with interest due
for thirteen years. No one could ex'
plain why the books were buried.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

The English crown is made up OF
diamonds, rubies, sapphires, pearls and
emeralds set in silver and gold bands
It weighs 80 ounces and pennyweights
troy. In it there are s, 452 diamonds
27s pearls, Q rubies. II sapphirss and II
emeralds.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
An Insane Mother Murders Two Of Her
Children and Cuts Her Own Throat.

Children and Cuts Her Own Throat.
Troy, N. Y, July 12-Mrs. James
Williams, who resides about two miles
east of Fair Haven, VT, murdered her
two children, girl II years old and q
boy of 6, set fire to the house and cut
her own throat The terrible tragedy
was enacted about 8 o'clock yesterday
morning. One other child, boy of Is
years who was sleeping upstairs, es-
capped with his life. She was undoubted-
ly insane. About two weeks ago her
husband was killed in his slate quarry
at Hydevilfe, by falling from consid-
cradle height.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

SPEAKING of brief names, there is a
family in France named B. one in Bel
gium named o, a river in Holland called
the Y and village in Sweden named A.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

REV. Mr. SPURGEoN inherited large
sum of money recently from an admirer
in an English town, but distributed the
entire amount among the testator's poor
relatiODS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

A KANSAS doctor recently reported to
mis- medical society case of lead poison
ing, which he attributed to the patients
habit of putting the end of his lead pen
Gil in his mouth
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

Friend Ito Dentist) How are you
coming on?' Dentist-"Not rs we'll as
/ expected. I've been married now
three weeks and not one Of my wife's
relatives has been to have . tooth
pulled. ."--Texss SiftinEa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17

A NEW electric brake, recently OK
perimented with in England, stopped a
car travelling at rate of thirty miles
an hour in two hundred feet.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
Brought Home for Burial.

The remains of Mrs. George G. Howe
arrived at Faribault recently fol-
burial One week ago Mr.. Howe and
family started for Waterville. Wash.
When near Drummond, Mont, they
met with an accident whereby Mrs.
Howe lost her life. Miss Benson, who
was travelling with Mrs. Howe, was
somewhat injured, but she was able tc
return to Faribault.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-17
To Make Binding Twine.

The State Board of Prison Managers
In session recently authorized the
warden to advertise for bids for ma.
ohinery to be used in manufacturing
binding twine from fax and hemp.
They also authorized the warden to ask
the farmers for bids for supplying the
flax and hemp. The machinery will
produce 2,00c pounds of twine in ten
hours
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-06
Merchants and Miners Transportation Comfy.
For Baltimore.

THE STEAMSHIPS of this company are APP
Il pointed to sail from Savannah for Balti-
more as follows-city time:
VIM. CRANE, Capt ENos FOSTER, TUESDAY.
Oct. z, 1880 p NJ.
BERKSHIRE, Capt. H. D. FOSTER, SATUR-
DAY, Oct. II, at 400 P. M.
WIN. CRANE. Capt ENos FOSTER, THURS
DAY, Oct. IL, atSA.M
D. H. MILLER, Capt. G. w. B1LLUPs, TUES
DAY. Oct. q, at I'm
And from Baltimore on above named days at
8 p. NJ.
Through bills of iadng given to all points
West, all the manufacturing towns Ia New
England, and to ports Of the United Kingdom
and the Continent.
w. f. GUERARD, Agent,
81 Bay street.