The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-08-13
A SEVERE hailstorn in the vicinity of
Howard, s. D., did great damage to the
wheat crop. 1t was estimated that
from 10000 to so, 900 bushels of wheat


wheat crop. It was estimated tha
from 10000 to 50, 900 bushels of whea
were destroyed
NELLIE BOISE, daughter Of the cir
cult judge of Salem, Ore, and William
Steel, son of Postmaster Steel, of Port
land, were drowned while bathing a.
Long Beach, Wash.
JOHN GRAYsoN, who died at Ii
Grange, Ark, confessed on his death
bed to having murdered three men dur
ing his lifetime-a detective, q farmer
and a book agent.
The wife of o. W. Cass, a merchant
of Aurora, Neb., in fit of temporary
insanity saturated her dress with kero
sene and then set fire to it and wa.
burned to death.
The peoples party in state conven
ton at Springfield, O., nominated Johr
Seitz, of Seneca county, for governor
The platform demands the abolition o1
national banks as banks of issue, gov
ernment control of railroads, liberal
pensions for soldiers and election oi
United States senators by popular vote.
THE president restored to citizenship
Levi Coins, a veteran of Robinson, Ill.
Coins had been wrongfully imprisoned
for fraudulently endeavoring to obtain
a pension. -.
The governor of Tennessee issued q
proclamation calling special session
of the legislature to take action in re-
gard to the revision of the convict labor
laws.
CAPT. JOHN PALMER, of Albany, N.
Y, was elected commander in chief al
the third and last days session of the
Grand Army of the Republic at Detroit.
The proposition to institute separate
camps for colored veterans was de-
feated.
FATHER QUAY, a Catholic priest Of
Snohomjsh, WASH, was tarred and
feathered by mob. He was accused
of immoral practices.
LIBERTY SHOCKS, a farmer living near
Humeston, Ia, was shot and killed by
Dick Gwinn, as the result of a family
quarrel.
THE death of William Green, aged
112 years and Q months, occurred al
Joliet, Ill. Deceased was born in Ire
land and up to the last retained his
mind. He had been blind several years.
Hon. T. S. HANCOCK died at his home
near Lynchburg, Va, aged Is years.
For number of years prior to the war
he was a member of congress. He was
also member of the confederate con.
gress and speaker of the house.
A TERRIFIC hailstorm passed Crooks.
ton, Mimi, laying waste and destroy
ing grain from Marin to Hixon, a strip
5 miles wide by IA in length. Every.
thing was destroyed and there would
be no harvesting in that belt of coun.
try this season.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE 335th anniversary of the death
of lgnatius Loyola, founder of the So
ciety of Jesus, was cele ebrated through.
out Spain.
AN epidemic of smallpox was report
ed at Acapulco, Mex.
THE architect of the great tower at
the French exposition, NJ. Eiffel, tele-
graphed to the board of managers OF
the Columbian exposition for permits
sion to erect a tower on the fair
grounds.
THE English parliament was pro-
rogued to October "a. Queen Victoria
in her speech congratulates the country
upon it's prosperity and says measures
taken have resulted in marked abate-
ment of agrarian offenses in ireland
and considerable advance in prosper
ity.
RECENT rains in the grain-pr oducing
state of Vera Cruz, Mex, have dam
aged the crops to such an extent that
it was said that not one-fourth of a crop
would be harvested.
A THOUSAND families were rendered
homeless and there was much sickness
and fever among them caused by the
overflow of the river Yarra at Mel
bourne, Australia The damage caused
by the food amounted to 50, 600, 900.
A MEMBER of the British parliament
gave notice that at the next session OF
that body he would introduce a resolu-
ton favoring a treaty of arbitration
with this country.
IT was said that Charles S. Parnell,
the Irish leader. had decided to visit
the United States late in the fall and
conduct campaign throughout the en-
tire country.