The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-01-23
THERE were 1885, 6l7 stamps, valued

at $3o, ooO, l29. IL, IN tne vaults OF the IN
ternal revenue Office on the 14th.
On the 14th the Smith Middlings
Purifier Company, organized about three
weeks ago at Jackson, Mich, failed for
$4S4, 900.
THROUGHOUT the Northwest severe
weather prevailed on the 14th and in
portions of Minnesota the snow-drifts
were twenty feet high.
The Legislature of West Virginia
convened at Charleston on the 18th.
FLAMES on the 18th wiped out the
business district Of Flora, Miss, but one
small store being left intact
In the Joliet penitentiary the Cronin
murderers were set at work on the 18th,
Burke being assigned to ,Se cooper
shop, Coughlin to the stone-cutting de-
partment and O'Sullivan to the shoe
shop.
On the 18th colored men representing
nearly every State and Territory in the
Union met in Chicago for the purpose
of organizing an fro-American league
for the advancement and protection OF
the race.
In the Iowa House Of Representatives
the deadlock remained unchanged on
the 18th, the vote still standing so to so
on third ballot for temporary secretary.
On the 18th the first bill passed by
the Legislature of South Dakota-to
provide for refunding the Indebtedness
of the State-was signed by the Gov
ernor, both Houses adjourning for five
minutes to celebrate the event.
THOMAS LENNox's stations, Adjuster
and Eugene, valued at So, 900 each, were
destroyed in their stables at Newark,
O., On the 18th by an incendiary fire.
AT Carmi, ILL.,, three hundred persons
were on the 18th compelled to leave
their homes by sudden rise in the Lit
tie Wabash river.
A SLIGHT earthquake shock was felt
generally throughout Colum bia, S. c.,
on the 18th.
A JOINT Republican caucus was held
at Des Moines on the 10th to nominate
candidate for United States Senator,
and Senator Allison received every Re-
publican vote in the House and Senate
-seventy-eight in all.
w. A. PLEDGER, of Georgia, was
elected president at the meeting of the
Afro-American League in Chicago on
the 10th.
THE wife of James Mcneil, Jr., liv-
ing near Cannon Lake, Mimi, while in
sane on the 10Th from continued illness
shot three of her children fatally, COM
pelled fourth to drink carbolic acid and
then drank some of the drug herself. All
would die.
AT Fort Smith, Ark, six Indian MUIR
derers were hanged on the 10Th.
On the 10th the West Virginia Legis-
lature met and went into joint session tc
hear the report from the committee on
the Gubernatorial contest. The majority
report gave Fleming (Dem.) 2s7 majority
for Governor, and the minority report
gave Golf (Rep.) 1877 majority.
AT San Francisco Lucius D. Stone,
dealer in saddlery, failed on the 10th for
$2O5, 900.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
JOHN MCDONALD, Mrs. Wilson and
three children perished in recent
storm near Rosebud, N. w. T.
On the 14th Henry M. Stanley and his
party arrived in Cairo, Egypt.
Rio JANEIRo advices of the 14th say
that in fight between soldiers who
were loyal to the monarchy and de-
tachment of artillery sent to arrest
them one hundred of the monarchists
were killed.
SEVERAL counterfeiters were arrested
on the 14th at Tehuacan, Mex, and
over 5000, 900 in counterfeit money was
seized.
In Donegal bay in Ireland on the 18th
nine fishermen were drowned by the up
setting of their boats.
On the 18th Artalo Brothers, European
bankers, with headquarters in London,
failed for 81, 900, 900.
On the 10th the Canadian Parliament
convened at Ottawa.
News was received at Cairo on the
10Th of terrible mortality among the
natives in the Soudan due to famine re-
sulting from lack of rain during the
autumn.
TRADE and navigation returns on the
10th showed that Canada's trade with
the United States was 1914, 900, 600 last
year, against $50, 600, 900 with Great
Britain.