The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-08-13
WEST AND SOUTH.

WHILE OldSLlng rOckS at Eagle POlnC,
Ia, Matthias Wolfe tried to escape a
falling bowlder and fell 80 feet, break
ing his leg in eight places and crushing
his skull to jelly.
In an alteration which took place at
Lock, Morse & Co.'S steam road at
Lake Charles, La, six men were killed
and many severely injured. The fight
was the result of an old feud.
IT was said that diphtheria in malig-
nant form had made its appearance in
the hospital for the insane at Yankton,
s. D., and many deaths had occurred.
The grand parade of the twenty fifth
or 'silver" encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic took place at De-
troit, Mich, on the 4th. Forty thou
sand veterans were in line, and the pa
rade was six hours in passing a given
point.
CoMMANDER-1NCHIEF VEAzEY was
presented with G. A. R. diamond
badge at Detroit, Mich, valued at
$1,000, the presentation speech being
made by ex-President Hayes.
AT Sioux City, Ia, the Law and
Order league celebrated the fifth an
niversary of the murder of Rev. George
c. Haddock, who was killed on account
of his efforts to enforce the prohibitory
law of tAat state.
AT Beatrice, Neb., a sensation was
created by an announcement made by
William Wymore, an old citizen of that
county, that he saw in southwestern
Kansas John Cameron, for whose mur-
der jackson Marion was hanged over
four years ago.
THIEVES who broke into the safety
deposit vault in the bank at Kinsman,
O., carried away sixty private deposit
boxes, IS, 600 in silver plate and large
amount of other property.
THE death was announced of George
K. Anderson, register of the United
State land Office at Folsom, Col. He
was once a wealthy operator in oil in
Pennsylvania.
SToCKMEN in the Indian te rritory, on
the Cheyenne and Arapahoe noun
tains, were fined one dollar per head
for all cattle now within the lines. The
trespassing cattle number between 2O0,-
600 and 800, 900.
J. &. HOWELL, a prominent politician
of Oakland, Cal, killed r. J. Colvin, a
young stenographer who was an aspi-
rant for the hand of his daughter.
IT was said that nine men were killed
and sixteen wounded in q battle be-
tween cattlemen and outlaws near
West Lake, La.
MAIL CARRIER HENRY E. BARLOW
was arrested in Chicago after robbing
the mails for over a year, during which
his stealings must have amounted to
several thousand dollars.
SAMUEL FREEMAN, q merchant at
Lawrence, Kan, killed his wife and l.
year-old child, and then fired bullet
with fatal effect into his own brain
Domestic trouble was supposed to have
been the cause.
COMMANDER IN CHEF VEAzEY in his
annual address at the second days ses-
sion of the Grand Amy of the Republic
encampment at Detroit, recommended
the establishment of separate depart
ments for colored camps Washington
was decided upon as the place for hold
ing the next annual meeting.
r. Fl. MURRAY, who was recently re-
leased from the Jeffersonville Ind.)
penitentiary, was arrested at Louis
vile, KY, charged with the murder of
sister of charity who had nursed him
during an illness, and who refused to
marry him.
LATE election returns from Ken
lucky indicate that the Farmers Al
lance party had elected majority Of
the members to the legislature. - .
JOHN WITT and his son, John Witt
Jr., were fatally injured near Worth
ington, Mimi. by being thrown under
reaper by runaway team.