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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
The News Briefly Cnrou,o,ed,

President Harrison has been invited
to attend the next State fair, and he
said that should he find that he could
do SO he would accept the invitation.
The Father Matthew Total Abstinence
Society Of Winona celebrated the eight
eenth anniversary of the organization
the other night at St. Thomas Hall.
During January there were 440 arrests
in Minneapolis, against 436 the same
period last year. The total receipts of
the municipal court were So, $685. SO;
So. 29621 from criminal business and
$367.65 from civil business. The re-
ceipts for January last year were 81, IT,
The free postal delivery system is
soon to be put in operation at Rochester.
A new post-ofice has been established
at Leo, Lyon County, with Ida M. Mill
ard as postmistress.
Minnesota stock breeders have de-
cided to issue herd book of their own.
An addition capable of accommodate
ing one hundred patients has been
built to the Rochester insane asylum.
Herbert Voos, of St. Paul, concealed
minutes recently and won bet of $50.
Ex-senator D. NJ. Sabin, was recently
elected President of the Burlington,
saltwater & st. Paul railroad.
The Attorney-General has appointed
G. N. Baxter. of ST. Paul, temporary as
sistant to the district attorney there, to
aid In the prosecution of the Govern
ment suits against the Minneapolis &
st. Paul and Northern Pacific railroads.
c. A. Colgrove, Of Minneapolis, was
arrested recently on the charge of break
ing into st. Paul mail boxes and robbing
them of their contents.
The citizens of Southeast Minneapo-
lis have organized vigilance commit
tee to deal out justice to man who had
been insulting ladies on the street, and
a coat of tar and feathers awaits him If
caught.
The Minnesota Grand Lodge of Masons
In session recently at st. Paul con-
demned Cerneauism by an almost unani-
nous vote. The Cerneauists belong to
a branch Of Masonry which does not be-
lieve in the existence of a Supreme
Being.
The General Grand Chapter of the
Royal Arch Masons of the United States
will hold their next session in Minne-
apolis, July %, 1891. About four hum
dred delegates will be present.
Edward Wilson, bartender in
Minneapolis, drew the house and lot
given away by clothing house in that
city, which was said to be worth $4,000.
Dr.. Il. B. Fay, Of Minneapolis, who
was compromised in the alleged Hollins
confession with completely in procuring
abortions, returned recently, and his
Of innocence wore positive
and frank. He would snvestigats the
origin Of the reporta
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

THE Car of Russia, Emperor William,
of Germany. and King Humbert, of
Italy, have each received a present Of
ten thousand fine cigars from Emperor
Francis Joseph, of Austria. 1t will be
rather hard task of the recipients to
examine each weed before lighting it
to see if it is loaded.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

IT is now possible to go around the
world in fifty days and the trip will be
made in less than forty days before the
century is closed. A few years hence
around the world will only be short
vacation. People who are anxious to
be famous should be planning for a trip
to the moon. Around the world is too
slow for modern times
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

RECENTLY at Brooklyn, N. Y, Under
taker Joseph Bryan was called to the
residence of DR.. w. C. Parks, a dentist,
to prepare the body of Mrs. Parks for
burial. When Bryan reached the house
he was astonished by the announcement
that his services would not be required,
as the supposed corpse had regained con-
sciousness. Mrs. Parks had simply been
in a trance
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
Blew Out Ills Brains.

Theo Hermes, a farmer of Belle
River, Douglas County, comjnitted sui
eide the other night by shooting him
self. He was 4s years old and leaves a
widow and one child. About five years
ago he had his leg amputated because it
was affected with fever sore. This
had never got we'll, hence his suicide.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

THE statue of Henry Ward Beecher
destined to be placed in Prospect Park,
Brooklyn, is now being cast in bronze.
1t will be of heroic proportions, nine
feet high, and will represent the great
preacher in the familiar soft felt hat
and cape. The cost will be $35, 900, and
the statue will be completed in eighteen
he
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

UNDER penalty of discharge employees
Of the New York Central road and the
Wagner Palace Car Company have been
ordered to keep thermometers that are
to be placed in the cars as near a tenn
perature of 70 degrees as possible.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

PROF. GOODWIN SMITH believes that
by secret ballot the people of Canada
would vote for political union with the
United States. The real sentiment of
the people, he thinks, is at present hid
den bereath the conventional sentiment
which the official class labors to maintain.
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Ambushed and Killed.

IxrT Rock. A. T., Feb. deputy
Sheriffs Ross and Snead were ambushed
and killed Tuesday afternoon in Qua
chita County, ten miles from Camden.
They had warrants for the arrest of two
negroes and had caught one and were
taking him to town when assasinsted
by his friends
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

CHINA advices of the 4th say that a
waterspout Lear Marking caused the
loss of one hundred lives
THE sum of $4,000 in specie and
bonds were stolen from the steamer La
Plata on her recent voyage from Buenos
Ayres to Antwerp.
OWNERS of docks, wharves ano ware
houses in London on the 4th formed a
union to combat the tyranny of the la
borers' unions.
On the 9Th Catherine Henry, aged 106
years, died in Kingston, Ont, of In.
fluenza.
BY an explosion in colliery at Mon
mouthshire, Eng, 800 miners were bur-
led on the 9th, and $50 of them lost their
lives.
On the evening of the 9Th General
Salamanca, Captain-General of Cuba,
died at Havana, and Minister of War
Chinchilla was on the 7th appointed his
successor.
ADv1cEs of the 7th say that 10
bodies had been taken from the coal
mine in Monmouthshire, Eng, in which
an explosion occurred recently, and it
was feared that there were twenty more
dead still in the pit.
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Governor Fleming Inaueurated.

CHARLESTON, w. Va, Feb. 7.-Gov-
ernor A. B. Fleming was inaugurated
Thursday at the main entrance of the
State House. In his inaugural address
the Governor defended his contest for
the Governorship. In the evening there
was brilliant reception in the State
Eo,tse, followed by ball.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

THE original post-ofiice box used in
the town of Pomfret, Conn.,, 100 years
ago is now owned in that town by Ben
jamin Grosvenor, one of whose ancestors,
Lemuel Grosvenor, was the first post
master appointed between Hartford and
Boston. He received his appointment
from President Washington, and held the
Office until the election of Martin Van
Buren, when the infirmities of age de-
manded his retirement The box itself is
~ feet in height and feet in length.
There are two apartments at the top
with five drawers underneath, making q
curious relic of the earliest postal days
and service in Connecticut.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
the island were present when he die
Nominated to Succeed Kelley.

PHILADELPHIA, Feb s.-The Demo
srats Of the Fourth Congressional dis
trict Friday night nominated w. M.
Ayers, Of the Thirty-second ward, q
prominent member of the Tariff Reform
League, for the Congressional vacancy
caused by the death of the late Com
gressman w. D. Kelley,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

Papers aft citing the title of consider
ably over 100000 worth of property
in Duluth were recorded the other day.
A detective power of attorney at the
original sale was the cause. The new
claimant is Frank H. Clark, of Chicago,
and the transaction dates back thirty
years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
THE EAST.

4. Cox & Co.'S stove works near Nor
ristown, Pa, were destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss, $1OO, 1000.
AT the Metropolitan Opera-House in
New York the centennial Of the forma-
ton of the United States Supreme Court
was celebrated with public meeting on
the 4th and banquet in the evening.
JOSEPH P. MURPHY, of Philadelphia,
manufacturer of cotton and woolen
goods, failed on the 4th for $780,
On the 4th window-glass manufact-
urers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and
ordered an advance in prices of per
cent
The Hudson river was open to naviga-
ton one hundred miles above New York
on the 5th.
The Republicans of the Fourth Penn
sylvania district on the 5th nominated
John E. Reyburn to succeed the late
Congressman William D. Kelley.
On the 5th the American Axe and
Edge Tool Company, comprising all the
edge tool concerns in the country, was
organized at Pittsburgh, Pa, the capital
stock being 81, 0OO,00
ANDREW CARNEGIE on the 9th offered
free library, to cost not less than ST.
600, 600, to the city of Pittsburgh, Pa
DEMOCRATS of the Fourth Congress
sional district of Pennsylvania on the
7th nominated w. M. Ayres for the Con-
gressional vacancy caused by the death
Of w. d. Kelley.
PAPER-covERED library publishers
formed trust in New York on the 7th
with capital of $4,000, 600.
A STORM in Pennsylvania on the 7th
did great damage in Fayette and
Westmoreland counties and the Con-
nellsville coke regions, unroofing and
blowing down houses and factories. At
Blairsville the glass-works were wrecked
and Charles E. Barr and Mr.. Berney
were killed. The loss in the coke
region would reach $500, 900.
On the 7th the schooner Minnehaha,
en- route from Philadelphia to Provi-
dence, r. l., was, with her crew of six
men, given up as lost
In the Connellsville (Pa.) region the
wages of the coke workers were on the
7th advanced from 10 to Is per cent
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

THE scarcity of gold IN the Argentine
Republic is worrying the Government,
which has decided to offer for sale one
hundred and forty million acres of pub
lie land, payment to be made for them
in gold
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
Fore I'd to Ou,t.

L. D. Kenyon, Public Examiner of
Minnesota, finds that it has cost the
American Building and Loan Associa-
tion of st. Paul over $500, 900 to do a
business of $1,000, 600 for two years, and
after thorough investigation lasting
three weeks has recommended to the
Attorney-General that the concern wind
up its affairs and quit business.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

I.SDIANAPoLIs, Ind, Feb. 7.-Edward
Aszman, Of Cincinnati, who murdered
Mrs. Bertha Elef of this city, in Au-
gust last, has been sentenced to be
hanged Friday, May %. The execution
takes place in the State prison, north.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
Yiss 81 ! Farrn.

Farmer Oatcake Tin summer) Come.
boys, get up! It's four o'clock. and
there's . big days work ahead Of ~.
Farmer oatcalke Tin winter) Como.
boys get upi It's four O'Clock, 1nd
there ain't dummed thing y - -
dAys-LitA IS .
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

The latest in shorthand and tyne
writing is the provision for these busi-
ness necessities on the limited trains
between New York and Chicago
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

In the death of Prudence Crandall
Philleo at Elk Grove, Kan, recently q
remarkable woman passed away. She
was Quakeress, and was one Of the
first victims to the mob spirit against
abohtionists In 1888, out of the kind
ness Of her heart she opened school
for colored children at Canterbury,
Conn. the mob destroyed her school
house and maltreated her also, and she
was finally thrust into Jail and kept
there for long time. For some years
she had lived in Kansas, and about four
years ago the Connecticut Legislature
voted her pension Of $4oo year as
partial reparation for the loss sustained
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
EIGHT HUNDRED FOR ONE.
The Last Of the Four silver Dollars Mint
cd in 1904 Finally Found.

The Last Of the Four silver Dollars Mint
cd in 1904 Finally Found.
Numismatists will be interested to
know that DR.. Edward Walther, q prom
inent physician of st. Paul, has in his
possession silver dollar Of the coinage
of 1904. In that year four such dollars
were minted. The whereabouts OF
three are known, but for years the
fourth had been missing. DR.. Walther
found it in the possession of an old Nor
wegian in the southern part of Mime
sofa, who brought it from the depth of
a stocking, and had kept it for many
years. The doctor gave $50 for the
coin, the listed value of which is $500.
Many spurious. ''fourth dollars" have
been palmed off on the unsuspecting,
but there is no noubt as to the genuine
ness of Walther's find. He announces
his intention Of keeping the coin in his
own collection. =. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

The Vale of Avocs has been bought
by an English company, and the woods
will be swept away in order to make
matches. There is great consternar
tion in the DISTRICT, where the memory
OF Tom Moore is cherished with fer
vancy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

died at Q o'clock
Thursday even
ing. From 4
o'clock in the
afternoon to the
hour of his death
he suffered from
. complete ces-
sation of the
functions of the
liver and kid
neys. All the
authorit e 8 Of
- ,I@- L. As~A
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
Death Of d. j. Knox.

Hon. D. J. Knox died at his farm on
Mile Lacs lake the other afternoon
after short illness. His remains were
Immediately taken to his home at
Aitken. He was a member of the lower
House of the Legislature during the
sessions of 1885 and 1887 from the Forty
sixth district, and would probably have
received the Republican nomination for
Senator from that district.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
Or all the aliens who took out letters
OF naturalization in England last year
only three we're Americans.

A POSTAL card sent from Reading,
Pa, to Stroudsburg, fifteen miles away,
one year ago, has just reached its des-
tina ton
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

HAVANA, Feb. 7.-General Salamanca,
Cantain General of the Island of Cuha
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

WLLlAM f. GLADSTONE has been
offered SIS, 600 a year by an American
publ .sher. for the exclusive use of his
lite rary output. -"
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LATER.
Exploded Gas Works,

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 9.-While the
bells were striking 6 last evening" the
sound of terrific explosion reverberat-
ed throughout the lower town. In an
instant the whole city was lighted by
the glare of a column of flame that shot
upward from the gas works at Fifth
and John streets. There had been an
explosion Of gas in the condensing and
retort house. The noise of the explo-
sion was deafening. The shock made
the earth tremble. Special Policeman
Hilger, standing at the corner of Sew
enth and Broadway, was lifted off his
feet by it, and windows were broken in
the Schurmeier wagon factory, four
blocks distant. The building in which
the explosion occurred was COM
Lpletely wrecked. The double
brick walls on the John street front
where the condenser was were hurled
upward and outward, falling in a mass
|of fragments on the surrounding
grounds as much as a hundred feet
away. The network of steel rafters
which supported the metal roof was
wrenched apart, and left hanging in
tangled meshes from the broken col
|umns. The two-foot wall which sepa-
rates the condenser from the retort
house in the same building, being the
strongest, did not give way, but the
fire was communicated to the retort
house, and the firemen, who were on
the spot five minutes after the explo-
sion, worked in great danger of Sec
ond explosion. The fire was soon ex-
ltinguished. The following were found
lin the debris: Killed. Daniel Desmond,
foreman; injured, Martin Curran, James
Salmon, Michael Mahoney, stokers
Property loss (estimated), $4,000. The
cause Of the explosion is unknown.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
FROM WASHINGTON,

THE Director of the Mint estimates
that on February l there was 81, 132,-
1856, ia worth of gold and silver coin and
bullion in the United States divided as
follows: Gold coin, 1924, 900, 4s3; gold
bullion, S66,OsO,9s7; silver coin, $780,
646,645; silver bullion, s11 1,557, ,759.
EDITOR MITCHELL, of Richmond, read
paper at the National convention of
colored men in Washington on the 5th
upon outrages upon colored people in
the South. He said. that 3s3 negroes
had been lynched in the South from
1887 to date, and that colored men had
been roasted in North Carolina. A per-
manent organization was formed to be
known as the American Citizens Equal
Rights Association of the United States
of America.
In Washington on the 9Th the colored
mems convention elected ex-senator
Pinchback president of the National
organization and issued an address to
the people of the United States asking
justice for the colored race, and declar-
South is suppressed by violence or
neutralized by fraud, and that
their children are not afforded the
school facilities to which they are en-
titled. The coiored voters are urged to
support in the future only such candi-
dates for public Office as are known to
be in favor of justice to the colored
American citizens. All we ask, says the
address in conclusion, is justice, equal
rights and fair play.
In the United States there were 259
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 7th, against 291 the pre-
vious seven days. The total of failures
in the United States January l to date
is 1,SS7, against 1,S71 in 1889.
SECRETARY TRACY, it was stated on
good authority on the 7th, would not
relinquish his official duties on account
of his recent terrible afliction.
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Ed COLLINS Of Lake City, Mimi, has
begun shipping 600 cars of ice to Du-
buaue, Ia, and st. Louis, Mo.
AT Marsh's Run, Pa, on the sth, q
passenger train ran into an open switch
and crashed into the rear end of q
freight train, demolishing the engine
and large number of cars. Arthur
Emerton, fireman was killed and sew
eral others were injured.
Four children Of Jacob R. Slate near
Kingston, N. Y, were skating ora lake
the 9th, when the ice gave way and all
were thrown into the water. Their
cries brought the father and mother to
the scene and in attempting to rescue
the little ones they were precipitated
isssBhe water. The whole family, six
"a ali wero drowned
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13

IN HamlltOn county, MO-, 0eSCructlOn
was on the 5th said to prevail owing to
the failure of crops, and aid was asked
for the suffering people.
THE town Of Burke, Idaho, was on the
5th nearly destroyed by avalanches.
Half the business houses were in ruins
and three men were killed.
MISSOURI Prohibitionists in State con-
vention on the 5th at Sedalia adopted o
platform denouncing the maintenance
Of the liquor traffic, the high license
laws of Missouri and the local option
law, State and National.
The river front and several streets in
Portland, Ore, were under water on the
9Th, caused by the swollen condition of
the Willamette, and merchants were
compelled to suspend business. Through
out the Willamette valley and in
Southern Oregon heavy losses were re-
ported, bridges, houses, fences, mills,
etc., having been swept away.
THE Virginia Legislature defeated a
bill on the 5th to revive the old whip
ping-post law.
LYON CITY, mining camp in Mon
tana, was completely buried by snow
slide on the 5th, and two miners were
killed and large amount of property
destroyed.
THE secretary OF the agricultural de-
partment of Kansas stated on the 9Th
that the value of crops in the State for
1889 was $1O4,572, 49s. The value of live
stock for the same year was $116, 1876, 1855.
A WRIT of error was granted by Chief
Justice Shope, of the Illinois Supreme
Court on the 9Th in the case of Felden
and Schwab, the imprisoned Chicago
Anarchists, in order that the question
of the right of the condemned men to be
personally present in court when the de-
cision of the State Supreme Court was
rendered may be determined.
AT Charlestown A. B. Fleming was on
the 9Th inaugurated Governor of West
Virginia.
OREGON advices of the 9th say that
the floods had washed away fifty houses
in Oregon City, fifteen buildings at
at other places. The waters were SUBJ
siding.
THE death of Joshua Sexton, founder
of the Urbana Citizen and the oldest
editor in Ohio, occurred at Urbana on
the 7th, aged 80 years. He had been in
the publishing business since 1921.
NEARLY fifty women, representing the
best families in Lathrop, NO., visited
two gam bling dens on the 7th and COM
pletely Quilted them. emptying out near
ly $1,000 worth of liquor into the street.
MURDERERs were hanged as follows
on the 7th: Sam Dill (colored) at Jack
sonville, Ala; Lige Moore at Green's
boro, N. c.; John Wilson in Yancy
County, N. c., and Malen Hankey in
Montgomery County, N. c.
FLAMES destroyed the courthouse at
Dallas, Tex, on Jne 7th, and most of
the records were destroyed. Loss, $780,
900.
ALL over the Northwest terrible
blizzard prevailed on the 7th. and the
storm was said to be the worst since
1882.
GEORGE LUMM1s, aged % years, of
Hamilton, O., on the 7th made an un-
successful effort to murder Effie Long
necker, aged 16 years, because she re-
iected his suit, and then killed himself.