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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
THE EIGHT-HOUR STRUGGLE.
Some Figures Showing the Popularity o.
the Short-Day Fight.

Some Figures Showing the Popularity OF
the Short-Day Fight.
New YORK, June 7.-Secretary p. J.
Mcclure, of the United Brotherhood
of Carpenters and Joiners, in speak
ing on the subject of the eight-hour
work day said that in al cities in
which strikes had occurred the men
were successful The mum ber of men in
volved was 54,s52. So popular has the
movement become that it has resulted
in the formation of forty-six new lodges,
aggregating 11,241 members. Men are
out still for eight hours in nine Cities
At Portland Ore, and Wheeling, w.
Va, the men are locked out. In six
cities compromise was effected ON q
nine-hour basis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
THE CHIEFS RETORT,
An Ojibway Sachem Who Was Not to /
Caught With ChaE.

An Ojibway Sachem Who Was Not to Be
Caught With ChaR.
The Indian has a keen appreciation
of humor, and is like a child in his
nirthfulness. No orator can see the
weak points in his adversary's armor or
silence foolish speaker more quickly.
Old Shah-bah-skong, the head chief
of Mile Lac, brought all his warriors
to sdefend Fort Ripley in 1862. The
Secretary of the Interior and the Gov
ernor and Legislature of Minnesota
promised these Indians that for this act
OF bravery they should have the special
care of the Government and never be
removed. A few years later a special
agent was sent from Washington to ask
the Ojibways to cede their lands and to
remove to a country north of Leech
Lake. The agent asked my help l
said: 81 know that country. have
campe1 on it. 1t is the most worthless
strip of land in Minnesota. The
Indians are not fools. Don't attempt
this folly. You will surely come to
grief" He called the Indians in coun-
Gil and said: MY red brothers, your
great father has heard how you have
been wronged. He said. I will send
them an honest man. He looked in the
North, the South, the East and the
West. When he saw me he said: This
is the honest man whom l will send to
my red children Brothers, look at me-!
The winds of fifty-five years have blown
over my head and silvered it over with
gray, and in all that time have never
done wrong to any man. As your friend
/ ask you to sign this treaty"
Old Shah-bab-skong sprang to his feet
and said: ''Mr friend, look at me! The
winds OF more than fifty winters have
blown over my head and silvered it over
with gray; but they have not blown my
brains away"
The council was ended. Amer
ican Review.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

Mrs. CLoE OuTEN, a colored woman
living near indianapolis, is probably
the oldest living woman in the world.
She does not know her exact age, but
from her story. and the fact that he,
daughter, who lives with her, is 90, it is
more than probable that she was born
in 1859 or ITO, making her now 12e
years of age. She was born IS slave
in North Carolina The daughter with
whom she lives is her fourth child.
Granny Outen," as she is called, re.
tains her faculties in a remarkable do.
gree. hears well and talks glibly. Until
within the past three years she has been
able to do considerable indoor work.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
LATER
An y, r. Train Held Up

MANDAN, N. D., June S.-The through
eastrbound passenger train due at mid
night arrived at one o'clock this morn
ing, the mail car presenting sorry ap-
pcarance. Two miles west of New
Salem and twenty-five miles west Of
here the engineer and fireman were
surprised by two masked men climbing
over the tender and ordering the train
stopped at the end of big revolvers.
The summons Was obeyed. Express
Messenger Angcvine, hearing shots
fired forward and suspecting something,
bid $500 in money from the safe, put
out the lights, and ran back to
New Salem. The mail car was first
tackled by the robbers. Only one mail
agent was in the car and he Immediate
ly obeyed orders by turning over the
mail matter. A number of registered
letters were rifled and then the two rob-,
bers turned their attentio to the ex-
press Car. Finding this car deserted
they were unable to secure anything
and then abandoned the train. The
passengers we're nottouched. One put
his head out of the window during the
delay, but was told to get his head
back,and bullet whizzed past his head
as reminder that orders had better be
obeyed. A possee of lncn with the
sheriff, mounted and armed, left on a
special train for tho scene of the daring
robbery.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

THOSE flippant and lively old persons
who boast that they are 100, 11O, or lis
years old, with teeth sound and eyes
undimmed, have been put to shame by
the editor who is responsible for cur
rent paragraph declaring that Count
Punourostra Count Fist-in-the-F Face), a
Spanish nobleman who got his title from
having struck Charles v. in the face,
has just died. To live 800 years or more
is getting into close communion with
Methuselah
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

TWENTY-EIGHT houses at st. JaqueS
de rAchigan, Can, were burned on the
I'd, rendering a corresponding number
of families homeless.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, of Germany, on
the I'd informed Prince Bismarck that IL
he did not stop his press utterings the
result would be serious.
AN old man named Campeau, at Lake
George, Can, on the I'd fatally poisoned
his daughter and her three children and
then poisoned himself. No cause was
known for the deed.
On the Sd the governments Of Ger.
many, France, Russia and Switzerland
had signed the treaty for the suppress.
sion of anarchy.
OK the 5th Sol White was elected
member of the Canadian Parliament
from the North Essex district by 300 ma
jority on the annexation to the United
States platform.
THE Brazilian Government has ap-
proved the action of the international
American congress in recommending
arbitration in all questions of difference
between the several governments Of
America.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

Mrs. HENRY WARD BEECHER has re-
turned from Florida, and is occasionally
seen on the streets in Brooklyn, a little
figure, slight, white-haired, and folded
in black shawl. Mrs. Beecher's rooms
are full of pictures of her husband. She
studies to interest herself in affairs
which she believes would interest her
husband if he were alive.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
HAD KILLED MANY.

A Number Of Crimes for Which a Mis-
souri, Murderer Is Thought to BE Re-
sponsible.
SEDALIA, Mo-, June 7.-Thomas Will
Jams, who was arrested recently for
numbering jefferson and Charles
Moore, father and son, confessed
the crime Friday. He is believed
to be responsible for several other
murders. In 1866 he worked for
Charles Koch on farm near
Peoria, Ill. Koch was found dead one
day in August of that year. Williams
was arrested for the crime, tried and
sentenced to be hanged. Governor
Oglesby commuted his sentence to
twenty years in the penitentiary. He
served seventeen years, and upon his
release removed to Missouri.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

THE death of Fletcher Harper, of the
firm of Harper & Brothers, leaves the
following living members of the famous
house: Philip j. A. Harper, the senior
partner. and his son, James Harper;
Joseph w. Harper, John w. Harper,
Joseph Henry, a nephew of Fletcher,
and John Harper, a son of J. A. Harper,
who recently retired.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

IT is said that the common cowcatch-
er attachment to locomotives is about
the only article of universal use that
has never been patented. Its inventor
was D. B. Davies, of Columbus, who
found his model in the plow. Red lights
on the rear of trains. it is further said,
were adopted at the suggestion of the
late Mrs. Swisshelm after railway &C
cident In which she had a narrow es-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

MARYsvILLE, Kan, June T. The
Bank of Oiesburg, twenty miles south
west of this city, has made an assign
ment to George R. Smith, of West
Moreland. The liabilities are $50, 600
It was a private bank, conducted by
Allen Bros, and did a very reckless
business. Many farmers are caught
and great indignation exists. Eastern
loan companies are in for considerable
amount. The bankers have fed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
FIVE MEN KILLED.

Train Ditched Near Rockford, III. - A
Party Of Section Men Working Along
the Track Buried Under the Ruins, and
Five Lives Are Lost-Serious Wrecks
Elsewhere.
ROCKFORD, ILL.,, June THE North
western passenger train from Freeport,
which reaches Chicago at 2 o'clock.
jumped the track two miles west of
here at IL O'Clock this morning on ac-
count of broken wheel. A gang Of
section men were working about two
hundred feet from the point where the
engine left the rails and before
they could get away the train had
run them down and toppled over on
and the engineer and four of the section
men were killed outright. The fireman,
two sectionmen and some of the passen-
gers were injured. The killed are: Ed
ward Blaisdell, of Freeport, who had
been engineer on this division for over
thirty-five years; August Johnson, of
Winnebago; Emil Anderson, of Winnie
bago; John Gustafson, of Pecatonica;
John Drehmer, of Pecatonica. The pas
SoAsOT CodCucS "CIo pICGCy "C1A uO-
molished
LOUISVILLE, KY, June THE Wag-
ner through sleeper from Louisville to
Boston via Cincinnati over the Louis
vile & Nashville railroad was wrecked
near English, KY, at o'clock Friday
afternoon. The town is fifty miles out
from Louisville, and the train sent to
the wreck has just returned with the
wounded. There was no telegraph serv.
ice at English. Eight persons were
seriously wounded, two of whom will
probably die.
The train passed English at about fif-
teen miles an hour and was going
twenty miles an hour just beyond where
it ran upon an embankment which had
just been repaired and had been soft
ened by the rains. The engine and one
coach passed safely, but the track spread
under the sleeper
DEs Mo1NEs Ia., June IA collision
and wreck occurred Friday morning on
the Des Moines Union railway track be-
tween Wabash and Chicago, st. Paul &
Kansas City passenger trains. The
Wabash engine was badly wrecked, and
the rear end of the Chicago, ST. Paul &
Kansas City coach demolished. The
passengers were badly shaken up, but
none of them injured. A Wabash brake
man had his hand badly hurt and the
tracks were blocked for several
hours. The loss will not be far from
100000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-D ]. G.. Riheldaffer,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 80
O'Clock AN. and at o'clock P. n. Sab
bath school at Il o'clock NJ.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
4tl Services every Sabbath, at 1880 O'Clock
A. N. and al PM Sabbath school at IL v.
THRISTIAN Preaching on every Lord g
J. G. Harrison. Sunday School at II NJ.
LNPISCOPAL.-Churc of The Holy Com
~ munion Rev S. d. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at lV:3J A. NJ. and = NJ. sunday
school at II NJ.
TATHOLIC.-Times of service to be an.
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

sPIRITUALIsTIC and slate writer ar.
rived in Atlanta recently. A person
who was convinced that she could not
do what she claimed paid her one dollar
for a seance in order to make case
against her for fraud. Judge Van Epps
has just decided that the claimant can
not recover the money because he knew
when he paid it that the woman's repre-
sentations were false.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

The Conference at Lake MOhonk Thinks
Education Is the Key to Its Solution
Resolutions Adopted.
LAKE MoHoNK, N. Y, June AT
the opening of yesterdays session of the
Lake Mohonh negro conference, Presi-
dent Gates, chairman of the ex-
ecutive committee, presented a
series of resolutions embodying
the results reached after the
various discussions of the conference.
The resolutions urge education as the
keynote of the Standardization
normal and dustrial-uplifting the
home and family and developing true
manhood and womanhood.
Another resolution was as follows:
'"To promote habits of thrift and productive
economy which must underiie the acquisition
of property and the ownership of land as well
as all advance in civilization we urge the es-
tablishment by the United States Government
OF postal savings system. We believe that
such banks would greatly increase the general
savings-bank business Of the country and
would benefit the poorer people of both races"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

FRENCH company is about to con-
struct a railroad from Jaffa to Jerusa-
lem, and the classic land of Palestine,
which has hitherto heard no note of
travel louder than a donkey's bray, will
soon resound to the shrill clamor of the
steam whistle
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
Came to No Decision.

The executive committee of the State
Farmers Alliance met at St. Paul the
other day for the purpose of deciding
whether or not to call convention to
place State ticket in the field; the
offer of loans made by an English syn
dicate at 81 per cent. interest," the
binding twine matter, etc. No decision
was arrived at in any of the matters
named.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
The News Briefly ChronicIed.

There are seven-one State banks do.
ing business with total resources of $27,-
159, 1872. %.
While two sons of Joseph Duval, who
lives near French lake, were playing in
a slough recently the oldest, aged 6
years, fell into the we'll and was
drowned
All lbian Peterson and Gust Carlson,
two young men living six miles north
of Center City, went down we'll the
other evening and were suffoca ted by
foul air.
Charles Warren, the oldest conductor
on the Madison division Of the North
western, running between Winona and
Harvard, died at his home in Winona
recently.
The opening of the Winona, the new
handsomely equipped hotel at Winona,
took place the other evening.
The bonded indebtedness of Mime
sofa ten years ago was -, 253, 900. Now
it is $4, s65, ZOO.
The loss on the recent St. Paul music
festival was so large that the guaran tors
refuse to make good the amount be-
cause the management did not fulfill its
promise.
At the State University in Minneapo-
lis 100 graduates received diplomas re-
Gently.
During rain storm at St. Paul the
other night an unknown intoxicated
man walked into the river at the foot of
Sibley street and was drowned.
August Pretzel, while standing near
his barn at Watertown during a recent
storm, was struck by lightning and pros
burned to the ground and horse killed.
A lantern exploded recently in the
cupola of the Minnesota and Dakota
elevator, the largest at Litchfield, and
the building and contents were de-
stroyed. Fifteen hundred bushels of
wheat burned. Loss, $4,000
Mrs. Mary McGindley, wife of Judge
McGindley, of Duluth, was admitted to
the bar the other day. She is the first
woman lawyer admitted to practice in
Minnesota.
A man named Moore was run in by
the police of Detrot the other night for
trying to pass as twenty-dollar gold
piece some composition stuff closely re-
sembling lawful coin.
A little baby which was being taken
to ST. Paul for medical treatment died
on the cars in its mothers arms recent
ly as the St Paul & Duluth train was
nearing that city. The mothers name
was McCabe and she lived at Moose
Lake.
A jury at Duluth in the case of Peter
Bohan vs.. the St Paul & Duluth rail-
road, brought in q verdict recently in
favor of the plaintiff for SO, 600 for the
loss of foot
State Auditor Braden the other day
held the sale of State lands for Morri-
son County in Little Falls. Seventeen
hundred acres were sold. varying from
$ to $1o.5o per acre.
As Mrs. Mary Casserly was walking
On Fourth street in St Paul the other
morning James Dongan, young man,
snatched her handbag containing $605
and darted into All alley. Ho was capt
ured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
THE EAST.

THE National Bank at Owego, N. Y,
which failed recently, resumed business
on the I'd.
A FIRE on the I'd destroyed the ship
yard of Tucker & Barry at Madison,
Conn. Loss, 800, 900.
THE Democrats in the Fourth district
of Maine on the Sd nominated Josiah
Crosby, of Dexter, for Congress.
In Pennsylvania William A. Stone
was on the Sd nominated for Congress
by the Republicans of the twenty-third
district. and in the twenty-second dis
trict Mr.. Dalzell (Rep.) was nominated.
MAINE Democrats in State convention
at Augusta on the 4th nominated F. w.
Hill, of Exeter, for Governor. In the
Third district Charles Baker was NOM
mated for Congress.
On the 4th large number of distin-
guished men from all parts Of the coun-
try met in conference at Mohonk, N. Y,
to consider the questions of Christian
izing and educating the colored people.
A society was formed with ex-President
Hayes as president
On the 5th Roll1n Beers, a lawyer At
Bridgeport, Conn.,, who swindled his
brother and sister and other persons out
of $50, 900, fed to Canada.
In Philadelphia the 134th annual COM
mencement Of the University of Penn
sylvania was held; in the Academy Of
Music on the 5th.
NEAR Philadelphia an oil tank on 4
steamer exploded on the 5th, killing one
man and badly injuring eleven others
The property loss was $155, 600.
NEAR Lockport, N. Y, great damage
was done on the 5th by wind and
rain storm and many cattle were
drowned.
THE Republicans of the First district
of Maine on the 5th renominated Thorn
IS B. Reed for Congress by acclamation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

Mrs. ELLA R. TENNENr, who edits
the Home Magazine, of Marietta, Ca,
says: Il can sit down and write poem,
then wash the Office towel afterwards :"
This is good news; the impression has
been that the office towel could not be
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

LA PORTE, Ind, June Mrs. Fred
Spooner was fatally burned yesterday
morning. She was engaged in building
q fire, and to expedite matters poured
gasoline on the Goals. The fire caught
her dress and she was soon enveloped
in one sheet of flames. Her agonizing
cres brought the neighbors to the
rescue. The flesh dropped from her
BODY in large pieces.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

A LAD of seventeen years died lately
at Pomona, Cal, from the excessive use
of tobacco. He was known to have
smoked in one day sixty cigarettes and
two or three strong Mexican cigars. The
doctors say he died of narcotic poison.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
Leased by a Syndicate.

The English syndicate controlling
the Pillsbury and w. D. Washburn
mills at Minneapolis have leased the
c. C. Washburn mills. A, b and c, thus
adding to their present capacity of
14,50O barrels per day over $500, max
ing over $4,000 barrels as total
capacity of the English syndicate per
diem.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
An s9-Year- Old Pedestrian.

CARLISLE, Pa, June t. Harrison
Wagner. the s9-year-old pedestrian,
who left his home in McConnellsburg,
O.. twenty-five days ago, reached
Hagerstown Thursday en- route for Bal
timore. The old man has trundled q
wheelbarrow 44S miles since he left
HcConnellsburg a~a=
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

A RUSSIAN ukase has just been issued
permitting the employment of women
on railroads. On the Trans Caspian
Line there are female station masters,
traffic managers, signal women, and
point women.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

The Indians of Northern British
Columbia threaten an outbreak be-
cause white hunters set fire to and
burned woods in which three hundred
bodies of their dead were suspended
from trees, that being their mode q
burial.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
a Highw.yman,s success.

~ UKIAH, Cal, June THE north
bound stage from Ukiah was robbed
Friday afternoon three miles out OF
town by . lone highwayman. It is re-
ported that the robber secured $1,000
from Wells, Fargo & Co.'S boz.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
An Insurance Fraud Detected.

c. II. Spencer, prominent insurance
agent of Minneapolis, and the reputed
president of the Manhattan Insurance
Company of Goshen, N. Y, was re-
Gently arrested in St. Paul on charge
of issuing fraudulent insurance poll
cies. The exposure grew out of an at
tempt of the Winona Mill Company, of
Winona, to collect policy on its re-
Gently burned mills There were in
dications that great fraud had been
perpetrated.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

LocUsTs are so numerous in some
parts Of South Australia that they cause
continual roar while flying, and the
country is being stripped of every thing
green by the scourge.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
Had Passed the Centurv Mark.

WEST POINT, Conn.,, June 7.-Huldah
Rockwell died of pneumonia here Fri
day, aged 100 years and Q months. Her
mother lived to the age of 1O3.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

CONGRESSMAN VAUX's name has been
variously pronounced "Voss," "Vaws,"
and "Vose." The correct pronunciation
is as though the name were spelled
"VawkS"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
GOre,l bV n I8ull.

Malbin Peters, young lad of IS
years, while visiting his uncle recently,
who lives,on farm about eight miles
from Fairbault, met with serious ac-
cident while strolling in pasture. He
was attacked by mad bull, and one of
his legs was broken in two places, and
he was also badly gored in his side. He
was in critical condition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

THE people of Tom bstone, A. T., have
become convinced that their name is a
"hoodoo" and are agitating for change
to that of Richmond.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12

w. H. ROBERTS, of Paulding. O., is
the first man returned under the new
extradition treaty with Canada.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
Holy Joe Adjudged Insane.

Joseph Rebel, familiarly known as
Holy Joe," who had for some years reg
ularly promenaded the streets OF st.
Paul at all seasons, bare-headed and
bare-footed, with upturned eyes and
prayerful lips, at times blocking busi-
ness by the crowds he attracted, was re-
Gently adiudged insane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-06-12
A Young Man Drowned.

F. sad case Of drowning occurred at
Faribault the other day. Charles II.
Smith, his brother, George Smith, and
young man named Potter, none of
whom could swim, went in bathing in
Cannon river at bend in the river near
where the st. Paul road crosses the NJ.
& St. L. railroad. Charles H., aged 20
years, ventured further than his COM
panions, and although the river is very
low he got into deep hole and was
drowned, despite the efforts of his
brother, who nearly lost his life in
trying to save him. The body was soon
recovered, but life was extinct.