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

AT Salisbury, VT, Mrs Isaac VIM
.tte and her 12-year-old boy were car
ried into the river by a frightened
horse attached to their carriage and
drowned.
THE firm of S. V. White & Co., one of
the most widely known in Wall street.
n. Y, failed for So, 100000
In Boston trade schools are to be es-
tablished and opened evenings. All
regular indentured apprentices are to
be given instruction therein.
JOSEPH CRowELL died at his resi-
dence in Railway, N. j., aged "a years.
He published the first pictorial paper
in the United States, Crowells Pic
torial.
A BOMB burst at an Italian celebra-
ton in Newark, N. j., and four per-
sons were killed and eighteen injured.
AT McKim's siding, Pa, a freight
train ran into a work train, killing En-
gineer Houghton and eight Italian
workmen.
WILLIAM A., Daniel A. and Matthew
A. Grant, triplets, cele brated their 10th
birthday at Torrington, Conn. 1t was
sad to be the only case on record of
triplets living to such an advanced age.
In q sawmill near Tionesta. Pa, the
boiler exploded, killing J. Elva Berlin
James Conger and Charles b. Grove, all
well-known lum bermen.
The death of Rev. DR.. S. D. Burch-
ard, of New York, who figured con-
spicuously in the presidential campaign
of 1854, occurred at Saratoga after a
short illness, aged 70 years.
In Silver lake township, Susque-
hanna county, Pa, a paying vein of
gold was discovered on the farm of
Thomas HEAVIER, Jr
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
WEST AND SOUTH.

In Minneapolis, Wisconsin and South
Dakota forest fires were doing i'm
mense damage. In the first-named
state the village of Finlayson was
burned, and in Wiscvus,., the village
of Constock was nearly wiped out.
In Oklahoma the Sac and Fox and
Iowa reservations were thrown open
to settlement There were three home
seekers to every quarter section of
land, and two persons were killed in
the rush for the lands.
In Chicago Oscar Grundman shot and
killed his wife while she was sitting at
the breakfast table and then shot him
self through the temple. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
In Minnesota the heat has been al
most unbearable for seven days, the
thermometer ranging from 81 to 1OS in
the shade. In ST. Paul all the public
schools were closed until cooler wealth
er.
The Wisconsin league baseball pen
nant for 1891 was given to the Mar
quette club.
AT She boygan, Wis, James A. Mead,
heart disease while walking on Seventh
street.
WILLIAM LEWIS shot and killed Molly
Sells and John Moore in Chicago. They
were all colored.
PETER FOSTER, George Brocken and
Ernest Carlo, young boys, who were
stealing a ride on freight car loaded
with lumber, were crushed to death
in Chicago by lumber sliding upon
them.
THE death of DIR. B. G. Bruce, editor
of the Live Stock Record and an
eminent authority on live stock, oc-
CURED at Lexington, KY, at the age
of "a years.
HENRY WEHERKAMP in quarrel at
Carthage, Mo-, attempted to shoot his
brother but shot and killed his mother
instead
FLAMES swept away the entire busi-
ness portion of Bradley, S. D.
'HOKE" ADAMS, of Elizabeth. Nd, q
wealthy farmer, committed suicide by
taking poison because his wife insisted
on going to a circus.
OWING to ill health Albert P. Moore
house, aged 5s years, who was cover
nor of Missouri in 1887, committed sui
eide at his home in Marysville.
THOMAS JOHNSON and Daniel Sulli-
van and his brother perished in the
prairie fires at Hinckley. MINI.
The North Dakota wheat crop was
estimated at $4,000, 600 bushels.
AT Haldsburg, Cal, a very severe and
long-continued shock of earthqnake
was felt
The department of agriculture re-
port on the condition of the corn crop
OF Wisconsin. Iowa and Illinois indi-
Gates a very favorable condition.
OWING to jealousy Thomas Carr, a
farmer living near Quincy, KY. killed
his wife and sister-in-law with a corn
cutter, fatally wounded his mother-in.
law and then took his own life.
The Nebraska republicans in state
convention at Lincoln nominated A. NJ.
Post for associate justice of the su.
preme court and Charles MARBLE and H.
P. Shumway for regents of the state
university. The platform approves OF
President Harrison's administration, in.
dorses reciprocity, demands protection
of American industry, denounces trusts
and the free coinage of silver AMI ar.
raigns the democratic party as the
enemy Of labor. -.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
A Millionalre's Bank.

New YORK, Sept 2e.--The Plaza
bank, Plaza hotel, 5sth street and
Fifth avenue, will open for business
October Is. 1t will be as distinctly a
millionaires' bank as the Metropolitan
club is club of millionaires. l has on
its list of stock holders a greater num-
Der of millionaires than any other
similar institution in this country.
The combined wealth of the men back
ing the new bank is probably $500, ,oOO,-
600. The wealthiest of its stock-hold-
ers are William Rockefeller, the oil
king; C. p. Huntington, the railroad
magnate and John j. Astor.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
1,.~, -, o,:e%- NJ L.

A MAN in Lewiston, Me-, has large
field of tobacco which promises to
yield a fine crop The courageous
planter was laughed at by his neigh
bors when he started out to raise tho
native weed, being told that tobacco
would not grow in Maine But he
persevered, and the tobacco does grow
iuxuriantly, being of finer quality, so
the planter claims, than that produced
in the south.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

1T is reported that the cabs of Paris
are to be fitted with slot machines, en-.
abling the passenger who drops in ten
centimes to obtain an insurance policy
available for the time during which the
the cab has been hired. If the passen-
ger is killed his heirs get 5000 francs;
should he be absolutely incapacitated
by accident. 1.5OO francs; or if the in
jury is just sufficiently severe to keep
the rider from work for a month he re-
ceives 500 francs. There's millions in
it" for the genius who will so modify
this scheme that it will insure i'm
munity from extortionate charges or
the part of the cab driver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

A GIGANTIC tunnel, which is esti-
mated to cost $3.50, ZOO and require ten
years to finish, is being constructed in
the Leadville mining district for the
purpose of draining the mines. 1t will
be at least five miles long and will,
when completed, leave to easy access
millions of tons of good ore that can
not now be properly got at and prob
ably never can be handled without the
use of proper drainage.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich, Sept o.
Lewis B. Earl. of Marshal, Mich, an
aeronaut, agreed to take Frank Thayer,
Of this city, up with Kim Friday.
Thayer was to come down by means
Of the parachute, while Earl used
the balloon. Thayer clung to a
rope several feet below the bar on
which Earl sat when the balloon was
let go, but the two had not ascended
50 feet before one of the trapeze
ropes broke, precipitating both to the
ground. Earl's neck was broken and
rhayer's left arm and foot were frac-
ured --.. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

ct al. Watch for an
nouncments of open
ing of the Sisseton
Reservation, South
Dakota, by the Gov
ernment. Land Office
located at Water
town, S. D. Ask
any railroad Agent
for information and
maps, which will be
cheerfully furnished,
or address
c. NJ. PRATT, Gen.
Ticket & Pass. Agt.,
Minneapolis, Mimi,
VIII. .TRUESDALE
Receiver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

ROBERT H. HUMPHREY, of st. Louis
the man who made the rope with
which Guiteau was hanged, was
stricken down with paralysis of the
spinal cord and died in a few days.
Guiteau, before his death, cursed the
men responsible for his execution,
predicting that they would come to no
good end, and several of these men
have gone to untimely graves
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Tho News Briefly CnronicIei.

William H. Hemminghouse, of ST.
Paul, crazed by illness, hung himtelf.
Strong & Miller, owners of large
mills and elevators on the Hastings and
Dakota branch of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St Paul railway, will build in
Duluth this fall the largest -four mill in
the world. 1t will have capacity of
$4,000 barrels day.
George King met horrible death in
Minneapolis by being struck by an
electric car.
The jury in the case of T. o. Hall,
the Duluth banker, on trial for receiv-
ing deposits in an insolvent bank, failed
to reach a verdict and were discharged.
They stood five for conviction and seven
for acquittal.
E. J. Breed, general manager of the
Marion flint glass works Of Marion,
Ind, was in Duluth to establish plant
there for the manufacture Of glass.
The Dodge county agricultural fair
at Mantorville was the most success
full meeting of the society since its
formation twenty-one years ago.
The board of education has awarded
the contract to build the new Eau
Claire (Wis.) high school to Edward
Sskvon, of Minneapolis, for $34, 800.
Ellen Langsrow. of Duluth, appeared
before a judge and asked to be sent to
the insane asylum. Her request was
granted
Mrs. F. B. Snyder, of Minneapolis,
died very suddenly of Bright's disease
of the Kidneys. She was the daughter
of ex-Gov. Pillsbury, and occupied
prominent position in Minneapolis So
ciety.
Winona's high wagon bridge across
the Mississippi is now an assured thing.
At an adjourned meeting of the city
council, the contract with the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Company for doing all
the work and furnishing all the ma
terials for S94, 700 was adopted.
Fire broke out in the Acma Coopera-
tive Barrel Company's building at Min
neapolis and spread rapidly, the struc-
ture being destroyed. The loss was
$40, 900; covered by insurance.
In a quarrel at Pipestone between
Tom Allerton and John Anonsmith the
former was dangerously hurt.
William Colburn threshed 1880
bushels of oats at Osseo from twenty
acres A No. oats Isaac Trevis from
fifteen acres of wheat threshed $50
bushels of No. wheat. There were
many others who had threshed like
wise. Enormous crops Of potatoes were
reported
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

WILL HEARsTs new steam yacht
Vamoose has done what no other or aft
ever yet has done. She has passed the
speedy Hudson-river passenger steamer
Mary Powell, crowded to her best
though the latter was, and then the
little $4,000 marvel went around the
stern of the Powell and passed her
again. The Vamoose made over
twenty-six miles an hour to do it, and
still didn't do all her engines were
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
IN PRISON, BUT INNOCENT.
A Chester Convict Who Has Served Eight
Ye rs for the Crime Committed by An

A Chester Convict Who Has Served Eight
Ye rs for the Crime Committed by An.
other.
MINNEAPoLIs, Minn., Sept 26.-Con-
science has finally forced Jacob Brown
to confess dire deed that he did eight
long years ago. Since 1883 Brown has
been fleeing from his CRIME, but it
has pursued him the length and
breadth of the continent. At last, in
Minneapolis, he has confessed to Super
intendent of Police Henderson his
crime. There is one man who will re-
joice when he hears of the confession.
He is convict, Gray, a 'lifer," in
the penitentiary at Chester, Ill. Gray
has been thought the murderer instead
of Brown. He was convicted at Sa-
lem, Ill. Browns confession will set
him free, both from prison and from
disgrace. Browns story was so
strange q tale that the chief
at first set him down as q crank,
the man was so earnest, however,
that the chief ordered him locked up.
The story of the murder is strange
one. Brown. who was tramping, went
into box-car to sleep. He stumbled
over a man in the dark and q fight en-
sued. Brown hit his assailant death
blow with a couplingpin and fed Not
long after Gray, another tramp, came
along and went to sleep in the same
car, not knowing that he had dead
man for companion. The next morn
ing when he arose he found that his
arm had lain in pool of blood.
He tore off the bloody sleeve and fed.
That sleeve caused his arrest, convic-
ton and sentence.
CENTRALIA, ILL.,, Sept. 28.--Word has
been received here that one Jacob
Brown at Minneapolis had confessed to
being the perpetrator of the box
car murder in this city in the year
1888, for which one Gray is now
serving a life sentence in the Chester
penitentiary. Great interest attaches
to this murder, owing to the fact
that Gray voluntarily gave himself up
and confessed to the crime. On his
trial at the following term of the cir
cult court he offered to plead guilty on
condition that the judge fix the penalty
at death and allow him Gray to Sc
lect the method of execution. Many be-
lieved Gray insane and doubted his
guilt. Two years ago Gray wrote a
statement which carried conviction to
large portion of our community as to
his innocence. A petition was sent to
the governor asking for his pardon, but
it was refused
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

Mrs. HARRISON and the wives of all
the cabinet ministers signed q petition
for the pardon of Mrs. Maybrick, who
is serving life sentence in England
for poisoning her husband, and for
warded it to Minister Lincoln to pres.
ent to Queen Victoria.
THE president has issued a full par
don for Robert Sigel, son of Gen. Sigel,
convicted of forgery.
1T was shown by the annual report
of Commissioner Raum, of the pension
were 676, 100 pensioners upon the rolls,
an increase of 1926 over the previous
year. The total amount disbursed dur
ing the year was $11s,54s, ,959. n,
against $1O6. 49s, 500. 10 the preceding
year. During the last year 90, 5as en-
sioners were dropped from the rolls.
13, 229 by reason of death. There were
about 1,2O7, 2O3 soldiers of the union
now living.
THE business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 25th numbered 210, against 239
the preceding week and 219 for the cor
responding week last year.
SECRETARY RUsK says that it has
been found by experts that women are
better meat inspectors than men.
THE reports from the large centers OF
trade throughout the country show
business was constantly on the in
crease.
COMMISSIONER CARTER's report on the
operations of the general land office
during the fiscal year ended June 80,
1891, shows that the number of acres
of public lands disposed of during the
year was 1O.325,11 Total cash re-
ceipts during the year, IS, 429, 220. The
vacant public lands in the public land
states and territories was 579, ,664, ,6S3.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-Dr ]. G. Riheldaffer,
l. pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 30
O'Clock AN. and at o'clock P. N. Sab
bath school at l. o'clock N.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
ANl Services every Sabbath, at 1850 o clock
A. n. and al 8 Pm. Sabbath school at IL x.
fNHRISTIAN Preaching on every Lord 8
~ Day at 1850 O'Clock A. NJ. and P. NJ. by
J. G Harrison. Sunday School at II N.
EPISCOPAL.-Chur of The Holy Com
~ muniOn Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday except the last Sunday in the
mouth, at lv:3J A. NJ. and 5 p NJ. sunday
school at l2M
NATHOLIC.-Times of service to be an
~ nOunced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
The telephone does not often develop

The telephone does not often develop
such an interesting romance as that
which occurred in Chicago recently. It
is owing to that instrument that Miss
Wheeler has discovered brother whom
she had not seen for twenty-five years.
In telephone directory she CHANGED
upon the name of w. w. Wheeler Those
were the initials of her long-lost
brother. With spring to the phone
she rang him up," and an hour later
brother and sister were clasped in each
others arms. The telephone, as rule,
is very matter-of-fact instrument,
but it must be admitted that it brought
about decidedly romantic incident.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Rain Checks the Fires.

ASHLAND, Wis, Sept 26.-Specials
from ten different towns of northern
Wisconsin say that the rain Thursday
night checked the forest fires. Drum
mond had close shave and hundreds
of men were fighting the fire at one
time. Thursday night the weather
turned off cool and clear, and for the
first time in a week it was possible to
see across the bay. The damage will
not be as heavy as at first reported, as
most of the fires were confined to
districts burned over last spring. West
of Hayward there were several heavy
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Latest Granger Organization.

TOPEKA, Kan, Sept 26.-The Ma
tional Woman's Alliance is the latest
granger organization which expects to
figure in the peoples movement. Arti-
cles of incorporation were filed here
Wednesday. and the charter list
includes the names of the wives
of the Kansas congressional dele
CATION. Mrs Senator PETER heads
the list, and Mesdames Jerry Simp-
son, William Baker, John G. Otis and
Ben Clever are also charter members.
The object of the association is to es-
tablish bureau for the better educa-
ton of the women in economic, social
and political question.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

EDWARD B. GILES, of London, the
editor of the West End Gazette, as the
guest Of the banquet given by the as
sociation of Master Tailors and Custom
Cutters made some very sensible and
telling remarks on that occasion. One
was particularly pertinent. Fashion
should be based upon common sense
and adapted to the climate of the
country and the habits of it's people,
None but Americans should originate
garments suitable for Americans. :"
This fits Americans who return from
abroad in the universal mistt SUITS
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

CAPT. MARY MILLER, the woman
who managed steamboat on the Mis-
sissippi for seven years and then Sc
cured a government license as pilot,
has applied for the place of lighthouse
keeper on the gulf coast. She is an
intelligent and rather prepossessing
wo>.an. Her husband is still an active
navigator and running a steamboat in
the gulf
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

A MAN in Augusta, Me-, who is the
proprietor of hair tonic, is getting up
some testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public. One of his friends
who loves a joke sent him this very
sweeping Endorsement, which may be
printed on the outside of the book COW
er and may not: Dear Sir-A few
days ago l accidentally spilled some of
your hair hatcher on the straw mat
tress at my lodgings, and when l re-
turned home | found hair mattress >
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

WHAT an unconscious contrast is pre-
sented in the news dispatches; in one
place chronicling the bountiful harvests
of western America, which are fairly
bursting granary doors, and in another
telling, for example, how in the Rus
sian province of Volga women and
children wander exhausted about the
market places, crying for food. But
while with true Yankee susceptibility
to distress wherever encountered Amer
leans sympathize with stricken Europe
they cannot forget their own good
fortune, which will enable them not
only to be prosperous beyond expecta-
ton, but also to be generous
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
SHE WANTS SETTLERS.
NicarA qua Will Give Married Men 12O and
Single Men 60 Acres of Land.

Nicaragua Will Give Married Men 120 and
Single Men 60 Acres Of Land.
PANAMA, Sept. 26.-The republic of
Nicaragua is renewing its efforts to in
duce immigration into that country.
The government has reaffil med the
decree in 1855, giving each immigrant
family who propose to become natural
lied, 12O acres of unoccupied lana
Single men will receive sixty acres,
and immigrants will enjoy the rights
of the naturalized citizens and be ex-
empt from military service. Absolute
titles will be given after a residence Of
ten years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Minnesota Bonds Burned.

A small blaze at the capitol de-
stroyed nearly 100000 worth of
bonds. The fire was set by Gov.
Merriam, aided by State Treasurer
Bobleter and State Auditor Bierman,
for the cancellation of the old railroad
adjustment bonds issued in 1881. The
exact amount consumed was S1,991 900.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Duluth's Population.

The directory of Duluth for 1891 is
out, and it contains %, 14O names in
Duluth proper, against 20, 72O last year.
This would indicate population there,
using a multiplyer Of two and one-half,
of 55,35O. According to the United
States census last year Duluth's popu
lation was 81, $40.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

A FARMER in Tennessee undertook to
rid his premises Of fleas by pouring
gallon of kerosene down through
crack in his kitchen floor. Shortly
afterward he lit his pipe and dropped
the match through the same crack and
the Aeas all 5isanneared. Noinsnranee
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

THE most violent thunderstorms il
the world occur in French Guiana The
thunder there in an ordinary storm is
almost deafening, while peal follows
peal in quick succession.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

In the museum of the dead-letter Of
fee at Washington, D. c., there is a
piece of parchment upon which is
penned a copy of the Lords Prayer
written in fifty-four different Ian
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

NINE. PATTI, replying to an inter-
viewer, declared that alcoholic stimu-
lants of any kind tend to irritate the
throat and should be entirely abstained
from by those who wish to cultivate
Sinpinp
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

The growth of horse-raclng in the
last ten years is illustrated by the fact
that in 1880 the money added to prizes
by the racing associations amounted to
$3.50, ZOO. Now it reaches 81, 600, OOO
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is
said to be the oldest living congress
man. He was first elected in 1s49 at
the age of 81 years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Railroad Ties Burned.

A destructive prairie fire ragged west
and southwest of Willmar for several
days. Three miles of rail track miles
west of there were burned, the ties be-
ing consumed by the flames. Telegraph
poles and railroad fences were also de-
ytroyed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
Several Ruild,nps Rurned.

A fire at st. Peter destroyed the Ka
sofa eating house, the union depot and
the hotel of Mrs. H. f. Lauman, the
express office and other smaller build
ings. The loss was estimated at from
$40, 900 to $4,000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01

A MOUNTAIN of coal in Wild Horse
valley, Wyo., has been burning for
more than thirty years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-10-01
The Congregationalists.

At meeting in Duluth of the Min
nesota General Congregational society
the Woman's Home Missionary Union
elected the following officers:
President, Miss Catherine Nichols, of ST.
Paul; vice president, Mrs. A. II. Pierson, Of
Northfleld: secretary, Miss Gertrude Keith, OF
Minneapolis; treasurer, Mrs. M. w. Skinner,
Of Northfield; auditor. Mrs. Horace Goodhue,
Northfeld