The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-10

lllOWS, Odl.S uNl AoSS W. WAN o~>So~~
of $50, 900; partly insured.
BANDITS robbed railroad train at
Del Rio, Tex, of several thousand dol
lars.
The Worlds Columbian directory's
executive committee unanimously COM
municated to the commission an ex-
preston that the government be asked
to loan $1,000, 900 to the fair on the Sc
curity of the first gate receipts.
MRS. s. G. Cook, who has been act
ing as secretary of the lady managers
of the worlds fair since the removal of
Miss Couzins. was formally elected to
fill that position.
PETER RENFRow was sentenced at
Springfield, Mo-, to hang Friday, Octo-
Der 9. He murdered Deputy Sheriff
Doris in Texas county July 1s, 1888.
AT The Dalles, Ore, fire destroyed
property worth $300.Oo0
The remains of Alexander Breller-
work, who was buried at Dubuque, Ia,
nineteen years ago, was exhumed for
removal and found to be perfectly pre-
served, although not petrified. Even
the grave clothes showed no signs Of
decay.
ARGUMENTS by the American Sunday
school union in favor of closing the
worlds fair on Sundays were made
before the national commission and
the board of lady managers. No
action was taken.
WILLIAM ALLEN, the negro who shot
and fatally wounded Marshal Myers,
before being lynched by a Georgia mob
prayed that God would destroy the
world and blot out humanity.
The dynamite factory of F. H. Rey-
nolds & Co., at White Pigeon, Mich.
containing twenty tons of dynamite
exploded, and sixteen workmen were
killed.
MONUMENTS erected by the state of
Illinois on the battlefield of Gettysburg
to the Eighth and Twelfth Illinois
cavalry were formally dedicated with
solemn services
IT was said that heavy frosts killed
corn and all other vegetation in some
sections of Iowa on the night of the Sd.
TEN THOUSAND people from all prom
inent points celebrated watermelon
day." the festival of the Arkansas val
ley, at Rocky Ford, Col.
The stables of DR.. N. P. Valerius &
Co., at Watertown, Wis, were burned,
together with thirty-two head of regis
tered stations.
The Georgia legislature passed q
bill disqualifying physicians addicted
TO 1rir l. tho ,roofioo of thai.
fession.
NEAR Magnolia, Ark, four persons
were killed by lightning during a
storm which struck the house of John
Couch.
WADE and John Fielder were sem
fenced to be hanged Friday, October 9,
at Rush, Tex. for the murder of
Younce Thompson, the father-in-law of
John Fielder.
The total valuation of real estate of
Indiana was placed at $1,O96, 900, 900,
against $500, 100000 last year.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In colliery explosion near Bed
minister, Eng, ten miners were killed.
FoRNEAU's expedition to explore the
valley of Sancha Rayen, central Sou
dan, and the French Congo was at
tackled by natives and sixteen were
killed and thirty-one wounded
The British steamer Dunsmurry was
struck by a tornado off the coast Of
Halifax, N. S., sinking the vessel and
drowning eight of the crew.
THE marriage of Miss Mary Lincoln,
daughter of United States Minister
Robert T. Lincoln, to Charles B. Isham,
of Chicago, took place in London.
A SCHOONER was wrecked on the
reefs near the Hawaiian islands and
twelve persons were drowned.
IT was announced that the prince of
Wales and Emperor William of Ger
many would attend the worlds fair at
Chicago.
FIRE destroyed the Streele stables at
Ayr, Scotland, and nine valuable race
horses perished in the flames.
THE twenty-frst anniversary of the
battle of Sedan was celebrated through
out Germany.
ALL the women removed their cor
sets and burned them at Free Metho-
dist meeting in Kingston. Ont, saying
that they would die as God made
them