The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01


Per1ey and Comstock. in Wisconsin.
+ WHEN J. K. Cumberland was arrest
ed in St. Joseph, Mo-, he confessed
that he murdered James Robertson and
his son Jasper at Harlan, Ia, two years
ago.
+ A NATIONAL Womens Alliance was
organized at Topeka, Kan. The object
OF the association is to establish a bu-
reau for the better education of tho
women in economic, social and polit-
ical questions.
The forest and prairie fires in Min
nesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas
were burning more fercely than ever,
and several towns seemed to be doomed
to destruction Loss of life was reported
from several places. Many farmers
had lost their all.
In the town of Chandler, just plated
in the land opened in Oklahoma terri
tory, twolots were offered for sale for
ham sandwich, but no buyers were
found.
GREAT suffering was reported among
the settlers in the newly-opened Okla
homa lands owing to the lack of the
necessaries of life. Water was twenty
five cents glass, bread fifty cents a
loaf, lemons twenty-five cents each,
ham and bacon one dollar pound and
other things in proportion.
FLAMES destroyed railroad elevator
and other buildings at Minneapolis,
causing loss of 100000. Nine fire.
men were injured, some probably IA
tally.
AT Topeka, Kan, Elijah Watt shot
Miss Kate Halloran because she re-
fused to marry him and then killed
himself.
ROBBERS cleaned out every store and
the post office in San Antonio, Mo.
FLAMES destroyed S. Guckenheimer
& Sons wholesale grocery and liquor
building at Savannah, Ca, causing a
loss of $780,
ALLERroN started at Independence,
Ia. to beat the stallion record to wagon
of 2:2O, and beat all records by going
without skip in 2:l5. 1t was the first
time the king of stations was ever
hitched to a wagon and the perform
ance was almost phenomenal.
In Minneapolis Jacob Brown con-
fessed to committing a murder in Cen
tralia, ILL.,, eight years ago, for which
Thomas Gray is serving life sentence
in the Chester penitentiary.
In quarrel with negro named
Rankin Fred Tyler was killed near
Asheville, N. c. Friends of Tyler
soon after hanged the colored man to
tree.
AT Charleston, S. c., ten negroes
were sentenced to be hanged October
90 for the murder of another negro.
IT is claimed by Peter johnson, of
Dassel, Mimi, that he has rediscovercd
the lost art of temperlng copper.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
IN England the valley of the Dee was
inundated so that only the hedge tops
were visible.
NATIVES attacked French mission
station in Portuguese Guinea and'killed
ten Portuguese.
On the Russian frontier passenger
trains co.lided between Golacsoury and
Wolbrom and the cars were shattered
to splinters and ten persons were killed
and many injured.
In the townships of Tadousac, Berg
eronnes and Escoumins, in Canada, four
rich mica mines were found.
THROUGHOUT Turkey Asiatic cholera
was spreading and hundreds were dy-
ing daily.
The whole population of villages in
the government of Astrakahn, Russia,
was dying of want, and the parents
were said to be eating their dead chill
dren.
In Spain an express train running
between Burgos and San Sebastian col
'ided with a mixed passenger train and
twenty-four persons were killed and
many others were injured. Several
entire families perished, including the
| Judge of Victoria and his wife and
daughter.
On the coast of Cape Breton the ship
Camelia was lost and Capt Harvey,
his wife and child and nine sailors were
lost
PERU advices report the murder of
four American explorers on the river
Marathon. They were Californians pros
pecting for gold.
In Russian Poland twenty-eight
farms with all the cattle and stores
were destroyed by an incendiary fire.