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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

The fire losses for the present year
are Of extraordinary magnitude, and
tho president of one of the largest in
surance companies in Massachusetts
says ne never knew anything like it.
The losses for the present year to date
foot up se7, 1863, 2oS, as compared with
Sal, 422, 297 for the same time last year.
The losses this year are: January, s12,-
o43, $40; February, $1O,264, O1O; March,
S1s,s69, lO3; April, S1l, ,642, ,e75; May, SAL
049,475. The great increase of losses
in May was partly occasioned by forest
fires in New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
Michigan and Wisconsin, but outside of
these they were over SIG, ,OOO, 900.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

THE Pittsburgh Times thinks "lt is
only a question of time as to whether
or not women will monopolize the work
of teaching in the public schools In
forty cities having population each of
10000 and above in states east and west,
north and south, they outnumber the
men in the schools by more than five to
one-s,779 to 655, according to a census
bulletin just issued. In smaller COM
munities and in the rural districts the
proportion is still greater, perhaps be-
cause the men who want to teach as a
profession or while preparing for pro-
fession, crowd into the cities, there the
salaries being highest"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

CANADA is in mourning. On the night
of the 9Th, Sir John Macdonald, who for
several successive terms was premier
and a prime and leading factor in the
political destlnies of the nation, died at
his home in Ottowa at 1915 p. m. The
funeral is likely to take place on Tues
day next and will be of a state charac-
ter. On that day the body will likely
be removed to the senate chamber and
lie in state for four or five hours. The
interment will subsequently take place
at Kingston, Ont, where the premier's
first wife and his father are buried.
The Alliance of Kansas has resolved
to try the sub-treasury scheme on a
local basis. They propose bank with
elevator and warehouse, which will
loan a farmer 80 per cent of the value
OF such produce as may be deposited.
The depositor is to pay a small per
centage for insurance, storage, etc.
DE WINNIE the editor of the malodo-
rous Sunday Sun of st. Paul, was on
the 9Th sentenced to 90 days in Jail at
Saltwater, Mimi, for ibeling Deputy
Warden Lemon.
THREE brothers named Vanderberp,
living in Atchison County, Kansas, died
OF hydrophobia during the past week.
A SLIGHT, but distinct shock of earth
quake was felt throughout New Jersey
on the 7th.
A COAL famine is threatened through
out Iowa on account of the striking
miners. 49,.
The British Legation building at Sam
|tiago de Chill, was destroyed by fire on
the 9th. ~
PEARLS have been discovered In the
Cedar River, near Austin, MINI.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
The News Briefly ChronIoIed.

The Winona wagon works were dam
aged by fire to the extent of $50, 600;
well insured.
NJ. s. Fawcett has been appointed
postmaster at Burchard, Lynn county,
vice w. H. Shafer, resigned.
J. McMurtrey, postmaster at Window,
has been authorized to change the To-
cation of the present post Office to H.
o. Mason's building.
The bodies of the two Russians
drowned between Port Yates and
Wenona were found among q lot of
driftwood.
Judge Shawl, of Minneapolis, has
been elected president of the state
board of law examiners, and E. H. Os-
man, of St. Paul, secretary.
The colored citizens of Minnesota
met at Minneapolis and organized the
Afro-American State league:
An unknown man threw himself un-
der train at Randall, on the Northern
Pacific, and had his body cut complete
ly in twain. He was about 80 years of
age and said to be from st. Louis.
Mr.. aud Mrs. Joseph Roach, of North
field, celebrated their silver wedding.
The death of Mrs. Julius Gernes oc-
Cured at Winona from quick consump.
ton. She was 25 years of age and had
been married but eight months.
Members of the Minneapolis railroad
Y. M. c. A. celebrated the sixth ami
versary of that organization.
Matthew N. Speltz has resigned as
postmaster at Oak Ridge, and Oscar L..
Mather has presented his resignation
as postmaster at La Prairie.
The barge Mayfower went down
near Duluth and Capt. Zeerbst, of
Houghton, was drowned.
Albert Cohen was convicted at Fer.
gus Falls of murder in the first degree
for the killing of his sweetheart, Roset.
ia Bray.
A case of leprosy has been discovered
in Rice county. Jens Osterboe, Nor
wegian, is already in an advanced stage
of the disease. He will return to Nor
way, where there is hospital for lep-
era
George w. Booth. who recently as
village marshal shot dead the Kane
brothers for trying to run the town,
met death in a shocking manner. He
tried to board train at Miller, but
missed his footing and rolled under the
cars and was cut to pieces.
Henry Troost died in Winona at the
advanced age of 90 years. He was one
of the oldest residents of the city. The
rem aims were sent to Chicago for inter
ment
An unknown man, 80 years old, said
to be from st. Louis, committed suicide
at Randall by throwing himself under
. Northern Pacific freight train. He
was cutin two by the wheels.
Cartons new telescope, the only one
of its kind in the United States, has ar
rived at Northfield, and preparations
were being made to put it in place.
Carlton will have one Of the best
squipped observatories in this country.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

THE BoYNToN UNICYCLE RAILROAD.
one rail, connection is made by means
of vertical rod and upper switch bar
with shifting section of the guide rail,
whereby, on the moving of the track
rail and the setting of the signal, the
guide rail will be simultaneously moved,
the adjustment being effected and both
being locked in position according to
the methods usual in ordinary railway
practice.
The cars, as will be seen, are each
two stories in height, each story being
divided lcngthwise into nine separate
compartments, each of which will com.
fortably seat four passengers, thus pro-
viding seats for seventy-two passengers
in each car. Each compartment has its
own sliding door, and all the doors on
the same floor of the car are connected
by rods at the top and bottom with a
lever in convenient reach Of the brake.
man, by whom the doors are all opened
and closed simultaneously. The COM
partments are each four feet wide and
five feet long, the seats facing each
other. Only one rail of the old single
track was used, as only one guide rail
had been erected, except at the ends OF
the route, for switching purposes, but
the width of the cars and motor was
such that it only required the erection
of another guide rail, for the utilizing
of the other track rail, to form a regu-
lar double track road of the Boynton
pattern.
The section road on which this sys-
tenn has been operated is only ~ miles
long, in which distance the curves are
considerable, but, although they are
mostly in one direction, the indication
of wear upon the traction wheels,
and upca the guide rail and trolley
wheels were hardly perceptible. Dur
ing portion of the season, when the
summer travel to Coney Island was at
it's height, trains were run on regular
schedule time, fifty-three car trains
daily each way, carrying from one to
three hundred passengers per trip. The
regular time taken for the run was
three minutes, but special trips were
made in two and three-quarters min.
utes each, including starting and stop
ping. The daily consumption Of coal
in performing this service was but half
ton. The great economy Of this
method of traction is also evidenced
by the smoothness with which the cars
run, and the entire absence of side mo-
ton and vibration, there being no strik-
ing and grinding of the wheel fanges
upon the rails, as is common on double.
track roads.-Scientific American.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
THE UNICYCLE RAILWAY.
A Single-Rail Track Road Designed loa
High Speed Tramc.


High Speed Traflic.
During several weeks last summer
there were in regular and continuous
operation, in railway passenger service,
the locomotive and cars shown in the
lower view herewith presented, the
service being between Gravesend aud
Coney Island, on an abandoned section
of an old standard gauge track of the
Sea Beach & Brighton railroad. The
locomotive weighs nine tons, and bas
two 10 by 12-inch cylinders, the piston /
rods of both being connected wseh
cranks on each side the single six-fnot
driving wheel, and the front of the To- :
comotive being also supported by two
38-inch pony wheels, one behind the
other. These wheels have double
fanges, to contact with either side of
the track rail, as also have similarly ar
ranged pairs of 3S-inch wheels arranged
under and housed in the floors near each
end of the cars. -. '-* =.
In the upper view is shown an inn
proved locomotive especially designed
for this method Of traction, and built
for use on street railway of western
city. It weighs 16 tons and has a
pair of five-foot drivers. The crank Is
only seven inches in length, and the en-
CINE is designed to readily make 600
revolutions minute, and maintain
speed of 100 miles an hour with full
train of passenger cars. The first Boyn-
ton locomotive, described III September,
1889, had an eight-foot driving wheel
and weighed % tons. 1t proved too
heavy for use on the old Coney Island
road, although it was undoubtedly cap
able of making very high speed and
easily drawing a heavy train of single
wheel cars on a properly arranged
track.
In true line with, and fifteen feet
directly above the face of the track
rail is the lower face of a guide rail,
supported from posts arranged along
the side of the track, and on the sides
of this guide rail run pairs Of rubber
faced trolley wheels attached to the
top of the locomotive and the cars. The
guide rail is simple stringer of yellow
pine, AXIS inches in section, and the
standards on which the trolley wheels
are journaled are placed far enough
apart to allow space of 6 inches be-
tween the contiguous faces of each pair
of wheels, thus affording ~ inches for
lateral play, or sidewise movement
toward or from the guard rail, it being
designed that the guide rail shall be
arranged in the exact line of the true
center of gravity of the cars and
locomotive The standards are bolted
to 6-inch wide strap iron attached tc
and extending across the top of the car.
The switching arrangement is re-
markably simple. In addition to an or
dinary track switch, in which, however,
the switch bar is made to throw only
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
THE Young Chinese emperor hs

THE young Chinese emperor has cell
ebrated the completion of his Goth
year by picking out new wife. Prece-
dent allows man of his rank seven of
these companions, and this acquisition
is only the second. His mother exam.
ined the many candidates for the honor,
and selected ten therefrom, out Of
which number Hwangti made the final
choice. The maiden is the daughter of
a mandarin of the yellow button, and
is said to have the smallest foot in
Pekin. To be an emperor's wife in
China is not considered a very enviable
lot, as after marriage she is never per-
mitted to see her old friends again.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
THE GUINEA PIG.

A Creature That, From One Point OF
View, Stands Absolutely Alone.
The secretary of the Selborne Society
of England, an association Of lovers OF
wild nature, has lately written an ac-
count of the guinea pig. This creature.
the writer says, stands absolutely alone,
from one point of view. Do what you
will, it is impossible to make friend
of him.
Titmice, robins, squirrels, wild ducks,
cuckoos, even rats and mice, have been
found amenable to kindness. Even Ro-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-D J. G. Rihelda6er,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10:5 30
O'Clock AN. and at 8 o'clock p. n. Sab.
bath school at II O'Clock n.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
AIl Services every Sabbath, at 1880 o clock
A. II. and at Pm. Sabbath school at HE.
THRISTIAN.- Preaching on every Lords
~ Day at 1880 O'Clock A. NJ. and p. NJ, By
J. G. Harrison. Sunday school at n.
EPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The Holy Com
~ munion. Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at lO:9 A. u. and s P n. sunday
school at I'm.
TATHOLIC.-Timeso Of service 70 b a.
~ nounccd hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

In Hayti forty revolutionists were
captured and shot.
A PARTY of Turkish brigands de-
rallied. the express train between Con-
stantinople and Adrianople and plum
dered the passengers Of all their val
uables. The brigands abducted num-
ber of the passengers, among whom
were several prominent Germans, and
carried them to their rendezvous in the
mountains. They demand ransom of
$40, 900 for the release of the captives.
The German government has instructed
its representative at Constantinople to
pay the amount asked for.
THE students of all the Russian uni
formed league for the object of pro-
noting a revolution.
THE census of Ireland shows a pop
ulation of 4, 706, 1862 males and 2,317, ,O76
females, being a decrease of 46s,674 in
the total since the last census.
1T was said that NJ. Verin, prom
inent broker in Paris, was a defaulter
to the amount of 1000, 900 francs.
A WILL made by the pope bequeathes
all his personal property to the holy
see.
In Vienna thunderstorm destroyed
thirty-six buildings. Lightning struck
and killed two children and many per-
SONS were badly injured.
In the Susa valley in Switzerland, the
wind blew a hurricane, and large
number of houses were blown over and
nine persons were killed and many in
jured.
CATHOLICS and Greeks had riot in
Jerusalem, and Turkish troops were
called out to quell the disorder and
killed and wounded many of the rioters.
AT L'Original, Ont. Narcisse Laroque
was hanged for the murder of two lit
tie girls, named McGonigle, October Z,
1890.
THE Itata, the Chilian insurgent
steamer which escaped from the Gus
tody of the United States marshal at
San Diego, Cal, surrendered to Ameri-
can men of war at Iquique.
In the Simbrisk and Samara districts
hundreds of Russian peasants have
died of hunger during the last few
weeks.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

A BULLETIN issued by the census bu-
reau regarding the production of blue
stone shows that in the census year
5,126,34o cubic feet were produced in
New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl-
vania, which were the only states pro-
ducing this particular variety of stone
in the United States, the value of which
was S1,6s9,607 The expenditures by
the systematically operated quarries in
the production of bluestone aggregated
&6os, $50, of which 1927, 6S4 was the
wages of the 1,793 persons to whom the
industry gave employment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

THE old method of the art preserva-
tive has been discovered by German in
genuity. The means by which the head
bands of Egyptian mummies was pre-
served is to be adapted to fabrics, and
they are expected to possess the prop
erty of never wearing out. The dress
makers need not be alarmed; the fash
ions will change twice year just the
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
Building a Seminary.

Archbishop Ireland, of st. Paul, is
building, out of the $500, 600 given him
by non-Catholic layman, a theologic-
al seminary for Roman Catholic stu
dents at Merriam Park, much on the
same plan as Archbishop Corrigan's
new seminary at Valentine Hill, Yonk-
ers, N. Y, the foundation stone of
which was laid the other day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

The fact has just come out that Ten
ny>on adds a pretty penny to his in
come by selling milk from the COWS
on his Isle of Wight estate. More than
this, he actually has the name of
Alfred Lord Tennyson painted on the
side of his milk carts. This will give
finical aristocratic admirers of Eng
lands laureate shock. Sensible folks
will be unable to see any harm in 1t.
Milk is good deal more necessary to
human existence than poetry.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

BY recent Colorado lay q man who
is caught carrying concealed weapons
anywhere in the state is liable to be
be fined $50 or ''jugged" for thirty days,
and what is more if an officer, when
notified, fails to search a person carry
ing such forbidden arms, the officer is
liable to be fined $3.50, one-half of
which shall go to the informant, and
One-half to the school fund of the dis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
Death Of John FouldR.

DANvILLE, Ill, June 6.-John Foulds,
formerly millionaire, was struck and
instantly killed by a freight train near
Hoopeston Friday morning. Foulds
came to Vermillion county from Scot
land and was the first extensive
coal operator in eastern Illinois.
For imagined grievances he sued
nearly all his neighbors and all the
prominent men Of the county atSpring-
field in the United States court. Henry
Olmstead, one Of the men whom he
prosecuted, shot him in the brain.
Foulds became partially insane and
lest his magnificent fortune.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
THE EAST.

GOLD exports during the week ended
on the 30th ult. amounted to 81, 703,-
O62. The imports amounted to SS5,-
500.
FLAMES among factory buildings in
New York caused loss Of 81, 900, 900.
SECRETARY OF STATE BLAINE and his
wife left New York for Bar Harbor,
Me-
The new license law in Pennsyl.
vania raised the price from $500 to
81, 900 in cities of the first and second
class.
On the I'd the largest number of i'm
migrants ever in port in one day in
New York passed through the barge
office. The total was $500.
AT Erie, Pa, William Benson, a we'll
known lawyer, died in his Office of
pneumonia. He was noted for his hat
red of physicians, and when he was
taken sick doctor who was summoned
refused to attend him.
THE friends of Gen. N. P. Banks are
getting up subscriptio on of $40, 900 for
him.
PARKER 4 YoUNG's sawmills and ad-
1acent dwellings, at LISBON, n. H., were
burned, causing a loss of 100000.
THE death of DIR. Benson j. Losing,
the historian, occurred at his home
near Poughkeepsie, N. Y, of paralysis
of the heart. He was 70 years old.
FUNERAL services over the remains OF
"Aunt" Rhoda Caldwell, aged over 1O6
years, were held in the chapel of the
colored hospital and home at New York.
She was born in slavery in South Caro-
lima.
On the 4th 4,136 Italian immigrants
arrived in New York.
The federal authorities at New York
returned twenty-three pauper immi-
grants to Europe.
AN inmate of the county hospital at
Reading, Mass, John You, deliberately
starved himself to death. He went
without food for twenty-seven days
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

THERE was confusing scene in a
justice court in Chicago caused through
the arrest of two John Smiths for the
same offense. BY some mistake the
wrong one was fined, but the court
fortunately rectified the mistake be-
fore mass meeting could be convened
for protest by the innocent owners of
that name,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
STICKING TO BRIGGS.

important Action of Union Seminary's
Dfrectors-They Refuse to Dismiss Him.
New YORK, Jrne 6.-Prof. Charles A.
Briggs, D. D.. is to be retained by the
Union Theological seminary. No. 700
Park avenue, as the professor of Bib
lical theology. Thus the directors de-
cided at q meeting Friday afternoon,
notwithstanding that the general as
sembly, convened at Detroit one week
ago, decided by a vote of 40 against
81 that the body did not countenance
the professors appointment Prof.
Briggs was retained by q vote Of 1P
in favor and opposed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

DEATHS of octogenarians and those
still older appear to multiply at this
season of the year. A New York paper
recently recorded the death of twenty
two people who varied from eighty to
ninety-nine years of age.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
His Whiskers Grew.

The body of E. M. Haskell, who has
been dead for over twenty years, was
removed from his grave at Northfield,
it being purposed to put the body in
another lot. When his body was ex-
posed it was found that he had beard
over 90 inches long. His wife said
that before he died he had been shaven,
and all his hair must have grown after
his burial.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
Murder in Self Defense.

At Aurora John and Knut Hanson
attacked Peter Zeiner. Zeiner defend
ed himself with hatchet, cutting off
Johns ear, breaking his skull and cut
ting long cash in his side so that he
could not live. knut was somew what
injured. Zeiner gave himself up to the
authorities, and he and Knut were
both in Jail awaiting hearing,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
Lived Together Sixty-Four Years.

Mrs. H. X. Terrell died at Lake City
the other morning aged 81 years. Mrs.
Terrell was an old pioneer. She came
there with her husband about thirty
years ago and had been a resident ever
since. Mrs. Terrell and her husband,
who survives her, had lived together
sixty-four wears.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

A CURIOUS fact noted in connection
with the epidemic of grip still preva-
lent in London is that it has almost
wholly spared members of the dramatic
and musical profession. Inasmuch as
such persons do not enjoy any advan-
tage over the rest of the community in
the matter of hygienic surroundings
the most likely explanation of their
exemption is that the constant use of
the vocal organs tends to fortify them
against the lodgment of the grip germs.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

THERE is no danger of the Japs over
sleeping themselves The reports show
that they have been shaken up by six
ty-four earthquakes during twenty-four
days in March. That is little less
than three earthquakes day, or one in
about every ten hours.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11
An Argument Closed with an Ak.

John Quist and Lars Berglund, two
substantial farmers living just outside
Glenwood, had fatal quarrel. Both
were elderly men and considered au-
thorities on farming. Quist was ap-
pealed to to settle a dispute over an irri-
CATION problem and Berglund gave a
different opinion. High words ensued,
and finally Quist seized a hatchet and
hurled it at Bcrglund's head, killing
him
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

WALTER HAYNES has lived upon
Haynes hill, Brimfield, Mass, since he
was eighteen months old. He is 1O1
years now, has wife of 90 ard sister
of s3, and the horse he yet drives about
confesses to 26 years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

NANCY HATCH. Yazoo Miss ne
gress, began to turn white seven years
ago and now she would almost pass for
a woman of Caucasian descent Al
most the only remnant Of her former
black skin is dark line about her
n.clz.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-11

TwENTY-oNE Italian immigrants who
arrived in New York on board the
steamer Massalia were debarred from
landing on the ground that they were
ex-conyictS.