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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

THE net profits for the last five
years of the principal firm engaged in
manufacturing chewing gum are said
to be 1855, 1859. These figures do not
exactly speak for themselves, but they
are uncommonly suggestive. Think OF
the number of human jaws that the
stuff which produced this large sum
has set in profitless motion, ofttimes,
too. to the annoyance of unwilling wit.
nesses. The chewing-gum habit is far
from being a survival of the fittest.
Some physicians claim therapeutic
value for chewing gum, but, like the
application of blister, its use ought
to be entirely private.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

THIS is the latest opinion promul-
gated by COL Ingersoll: There will
never be really great civilization un-
til women enjoy the same rights as do
the men. The highest ambition of any
man is to win the love of some noble
girl, and the highest ambition of any
good girl must be to win the love of
some good man."
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-D ]. G.. Riheldaifer,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 30
O'Clock AN. and At o'clock p. II. Sab
bath school at II o'clock n.
METHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
A. n. and at Pm Sabbath school at 12k.
NHRISTIAN.-Pr on every Lord's
~ Day at 1880 O'Clock A. N. and p. NJ. BY
]. g. Harrison. Sunday School at u n.
EPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The Holy Com
~ muuion. Rev. s. d. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at lu:3J A. u. and SP N. sunday
school at I'm.
NATHOLIC.-Timeso Of service to b an
~ nounccd hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

The young emperor of Germany now
has no less than three thrones. One
is the old-fashioned affair of the DAYS
of the king of Prussia, another was fur
nished for the occasion of the Princess
Victoria's wedding, and now he has a
third to be used only when his majesty
appears as supreme head of the United
German empire. This last one is erect
cd in the White hall of the German
schloss and its canopy is of yellow silk
and gold brocade, into which the i'm
perial eagle is beautifully woven. 1t
is not stated which of the three has the
Softest seat.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

The grand lodge OF odd fellows, OF
Indiana, in session at Indianapolis,
adopted resolutions to forever exclude
from the order anyone engaged in any
manner with the manufacture or sale
of Intoxicating liquors.
The Logansport Qnd.) Street Car
Company's stables were burned to the
ground with nearly all of the contents
OF forty three mules only fifteen were
saved.
FIVE men were struck by lightning
while working in a tobacco patch at
Centerville, KY.
The failure of the Hills Shot Com
pany of Memphis, Tenn, with liabil-
bilities of 5000, 900 and assets $500, 600,
was announced.
In the vicinity of Emporia, Kan, cat
tlemen are alarmed over the appearance
of an unknown and fatal disease among
their herds.
The mayor of Cincinnati has notified
the managers of the baseball park that
games advertised for Sunday will be
prevented by the arrest of the players
if necessary.
FIVE blocks OF lumber yards, six
blocks of residences and ST. Patrick's
church at Houston, Tex, were burned,
causing total loss of $500, 1000.
BETWEEN thirty and forty people
were killed by the cyclone that swep
over some parts of Missouri. The prop
erty loss was about $500, 1000.
FLAMES destroyed the lumber stock
of j. w. Day & Co., at Minneapolis, con.
sisting of 1s, 600, 900 feet. Loss, s22s, 900.
NEIL JONES, of Wabash, Ind, while
drunk bit off the entire upper lip OF
David Boblett, friend.
GREAT damage was done by storm
in Clermont, Adams and Brown coun-
ties, o.
BY a wreck on the Southern Pacific
road near Columb bus, Tex, one soldier
was killed and four others were fatally
injured.
A wINDsToRM passed over a section
of country 25 miles north of Arkansas
City, Kan, wrecking houses and barns
and devastating fruit orchards.
A WIND and hailstorm passed over
Muncie, Ind. doing thousands of dol
lars worth of damage.
WALTER JOHNSON was hanged al
Petersburg, Va, for assault on Eliza.
beth Majors; Albert Havenstine was
hanged at Broken Bow, Neb., for the
murder of William Ashley and Hiram
Rotten, and Hiram Sheridan (colored)
who killed DIR. Felix Varnado in 1888,
was executed at Magnolia, Miss.
In fight at Ojo LIE, N. NJ, three
sheep herders were killed.
A MOB lynched Tennis Hampton (col-
ored), charged with the murder of E.
H. Webber in 1889 at Beardsley, La
AN explosion of gas at the Pratt
mines in Alabama killed ten negro con-
victs and one free miner.
THERE has been discovered in Pick.
ems county, Ala, vein of galena ore
containing silver in very large quan.
titles.
FIVE persons lost their lives in a
storm at St. Mary's, o. A party was
out boating on the reservoir when their
boat capSized
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

THE New York Tribune says that the
forest fires raging in different parts OF
the country carry stern warning cf
what may happen if we continue to
neglect measures for their prevention.
The destruction is enormous. In the
census year of 1880 more than 10, 900, OOO
acres were burned over in the United
States and over 25,OOO,OOO worth of
property was consumed. With proper
precautions nearly all this might have
rCen saved
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

TIE disembodied spirit does not al
ways appear in darkness and through a
medium. The account comes that in a
photograph taken of an old homestead
at Webster, Mass, recently appeared
something not provided for by the
photographer. When the negative was
developed there was revealed the face
Of ell aged woman looking out of a
window. There was no explanation of
this startling appearance, but the face
was recognized as that of the mother of
the owner of the house, dead for some
time The window from which the face
appears looking was one by which the
old lady sat great deal when alive
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

A DENTIST of Moscow is reported to
have discovered method of supplying
the human mouth with false teeth
which will grow into the gums as firm
ly as natural ones. DIR. Znamensky
has performed several successful opera
tions on dogs as we'll as human beings.
The teeth are made of gutta percha,
porcelain or metal. Holes are made at
the root of the false tooth and also up
ward into the jaw. The tooth is then
placed into the cavity. In short time
soft, granulated growth finds its way
from the patients jaw into the holes
in the tooth; this growth gradually
hardens and holds the tooth in position.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

How Malt Thieves Detect Money Letters.
''Do you know, " said q man who sends
and receives q great many letters
through the post Office, that sending
paper money through the mails unreg-
istered is q very foolish thing? Why,
Of course, it is, as can prove to you in
an instant. Here's this fve-dollar bill.
I'll put It in an envelope. Now srnell
It. There you have it. There is moth
ing ON earth that smells like paper
money, and an expert thief with good
olfactory nerves can tell the presence
Of money in an envelope at any stage Of
the game. Albany Express.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
The Treasury All Right.

WARRINGTON, May y23.-Secretary Fos-
ter said that he anticipated no difficulty
in meeting the pension payments, ag-
gregating $40, ,OOO, 600, which fall due
June 4. The available cash bal
ance is now nearly s16, ,ooo, 600, and will
60 beyond 500, ,0OO, 900 by the early part
of June by the continued excess of re-
ceipts over expenditures. The secre-
tary said there would be no necessity
so far as he could see for calling in any
government deposits held by national
banks to meet pension obligations.
This bank fund now amounts to $24,
500, 600, exclusive of money deposited to
the credit of disbursing officers.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Rudini's Advice.

ROME, May % italian emigrants tc
America are returning home in such
numbers as to alarm the government
in view of the fact that nearly every
one of those who arrive is entirely des
titute. Prime Minister Rudini has in
structed the Italian consuls to per
suade their country people who wish
to return home that it would be
better for them to 60 elsewhere
in America than to come back
in destitute condition, as they will
find their former places filed ant
the labor market frightfully over
stocked -.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

PROF. JOSEPH LEIDY, of Philadelphia,
and his brother, Dr. Philip Leidy, be-
Queathed their brains to the Anthropo-
metric society, of which the professor
was founder. ''The brains of the
:wo brothers," Philadelphia news
paper tells us, "were of the same
weight to fraction of grain. Both
were noticeably below the normal size.
confirming the deduction of anatomists
that quality of tissues rather'than guam
tity distinguishes the valuable brain
from the ignorant
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

THE boat that bore the body of John
Wilkes Booth away from Washington,
down the Potomac, has been sold for
$4,000, and will be converted into a
Philadelphia coal barge. The boat is
the monitor Saugus, and she has lain
for seventeen years at the Washington
navy yard. She bears several huge
dents imprinted in her stalwart sides
through the force of cannon balls. Her
t'lrret also shows several huge dents,
as well as the pilot house.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
THEIR DEMANDS.

Legislation Favored by the Trans-Nfissls-
sippi Congress in Session at Denver.
DENVER, Col, May 23.-The report of
the committee on resolutions of the
trans Mississippi congress was adopted
Friday. A synopsis is as follows:
1t recommends that congress pass the Bur
rows bill appropriatng S10 600 0CO for the build
ing and maintenance Of levees on the Missis-
sippi river; demands wise governmental super.
vision of railroads. recommends the grant
ing OF liberal charters and subsidies to
steamship lines under the American flag
favors the admission Of New Mexico and
Arizona into the union; asks congress to pass
the Torrey bankruptcy law; to cede to the diff
fcrent states all the arid lands except mineral
lands to enact such legislation as will foster
our mining interests; recommends more strin-
gent naturalization laws favors the immediate
construction Of the Hennepin canal and the i'm
mediate completion Of the jetties at Galveston,
Upon the silver question it asks that the con-
gress of the United States be petitioned to re-
peal all laws which in their effect work dis
honor upon or in the least challenge the sov-
ereignty of the silver dollar as an absolute
measure Of values, and to restore to silver the
place given 1t as perfect money by the trainers
Of our government. The congress also asks
the president and congress to attempt
to bring around ON international recog-
milton and adjustment of silver as money,
or asks that q limited agreement be
sought withothe nations Of the Latin union
whereby the mints Of those nations may again
be opened for the coinage Of silver. It also
favors negotiations with the Spanish Ameri-
can nations for q common currency. for this
continent south Of Canada. A minority report
on the silver clause simply demands the free
and unlimited coinage Of silver"
The regular order of business was
taken up with resolution deploring
the enacting of law by the Forty
ninth congress prohibiting foreign cap
ital from investing in real estate and
mines. Adopted.
The hand of the Louisiana lottery
combination was manifested in the de-
feat of resolutions calling for consti-
tutional amendment by which lotteries
could be legalized in any state. The
vote stood 95 to go
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
LATER.
Iowa White CAPS.

WINTERsET, Iowa, May 2s.-Eight
masked men called George Acklcson, a
sixteen-year-old boy who worked for
Porter Tomlinson, a prominent farmer
who lives eight miles south of here, to
the door Wednesday night, thrust a
revolver in his face, bound and gagged
him, dragged him across the lot to a
tree below the barn and strung him up.
He was let down and told that unless
he confessed to have cut to pieces a
saddle belonging to Clarence Morton, a
cripple, that he would be hung. Ackle-
son refused to confess and was drawn
up twice more and nearly choked to
death. He was then taken to the
house, thrust through the door and left
lying on the floor in a half-conscious
condition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

A MAN in Arkansas has, after two
years of litigation, been acquitted Of
the charge of killing his neighbours pig.
1t has cost the state $5, 900, the accused
$4,000 and the time of over 100 wit
nesses. The pig was valued at So. SO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
They Pleaded Guilty.

The grand jury in the United States
district court at Duluth has been dis
charged after having brought in six
indictm ents, one for murder and five
for selling whisky to the Indians All
but one of the alleged whisky sellers
pleaded guilty and were sentenced to
four months imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $40 each.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

REV. JAMES MCMAHON, of New York
city, who recently gave 100000 worth
of real estate to the Roman Catholic
university at Washington, is perhaps
the richest priest in this country, his
wealth being the result of judicious in
vestments in real estate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
A Terrible Colliery Accident.

CARDIFF, May ss.-A terrible acci-
dent has takeu place at the Pont-Y
Pridd colliery, near Lautwit, in this
(Glamorgan) county. The accident was
caused by bungle in firing a ''shot"
in the mine, which brought down por-
ton of the roof, crushing ten men ia
tally and injuring a number of others.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

ONE of the beautiful souvenirs the
President and Mrs. Harrison brought
home from California was their invi-
tation to the banquet of the Union
League club of San Francisco. 1t is
engraved on a gold plate four and
1hree-quarters inches wide, seven and
one-quarter long and one-eighth of an
iuch thick. The plate bears the seal
Of the state and the American flag treat.
cd in colored enamel. The plate is in
a handsome case.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
thrown I'm Front Of q Train.

NEW ORLEANS, May GA story Of
an atrocious crime comes in from Bos.
sier parish. A colored woman, Jane
Ware, aged 1s, was murdered near
vanceville by two negroes, William
and John Anderson, brothers, who held
the girl across the track of the Shreve.
port & Arkansas railway until the train
was within q few feet and her escape
from death was impossible.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Killed by Lightning.

OTTAWA, Ill, May 2s.-Joseph Thomp-
SON, aged 16 years, while plowing on
his fathers farm miles north Of
here was instantly killed by light
ming. The horse which he was driving
was also killed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Dra1ged to Death.

Barney Falkaner, young man who
had been engaged at Merriam park,
near St. Paul, in herding cows, was
killed by being run away with by the
pony which he rode. He was thrown
from the animals back, and being un-
able to loosen his foot from the stirrup
was dragged nearly a mile and was
horribly mangled and crushed when
picked up.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

THE post Office department at Wash
ington is receiving favorable reports
from the experimental delivery service
csta ablished in small towns.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

Hon. HORACE CLINTON, successor to
Senator Reagan, resigned. will be the
first native Texan to sit in the United
States senate.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Paced o Fast Mile.

PHILADELPHIA. May 2s.-The PAGER
Silver Tail made mile in 2:0sH Fri.
dsy at the southeastern circuit meet,
i,w at the Point Breeze track.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

BY subscription about fifty citizens
of Winona have raised a $40, 600 bonus for
Schroth & Ahrens, whose planning
null, sash, door and blind factory and
lumber yards were destroyed by fire.
The bonus is on condition that the firm
rebuild in Winona, and it is most prob
able that they will.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

ROBERT SHAW, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
owns the old gun with which Israel
Putnam shot the wolf.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is due in New
York July 1. returning from his second
trip around the world.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28

In twenty years there has been nc
eounterfeiting of Uncle Sans postage
stamps.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
The Now. sr,eny Cnronlc,ed.

The News briefly ChronIcisd.
Lyon county has voted for court.
house at Marshall by over 200 majority.
Frank Weisel, prominent citizen OF
Wadena, died the other morning. He
has brother living in Minneapolis.
J. N. Hoyde, an old resident of Fair
mont, was adjudged insane and sent tc
the asylum.
R. F. McDougall and his little son
were drowned at Verndale Sunday
while boating.
Jennie Bradshaw, Is years old, OF
Eau Claire, Wis, was kidnapped by q
notorious woman named May Temple
ton and taken to Minneapolis. She was
found and sent home.
Jim Simons, farm hand near Pipe
stone, was thrown from q wagon and
instantly killed, his neck being broken.
He was unmarried.
> Gil s. Hanson, formerly of Minneap-
oils, a well-known lumber man. died
from injuries received by falling from q
railroad platform in Montana
Three persons died in Minneapolis
from injuries received by being run over
or struck by street cars.
Fire destroyed the building at Wade
ma formerly used by the John Clayton
Plow Company. It was unoccupied.
Mr.. Clayton resides at Minneapolis.
President Harrison has commuted
the sentence Of Conrad c. Miller, of
Minnesota, convicted of violating the
postal laws, to one years imprison-
ment.
. The Northwestern Live Stock Insur-
ance Company of Des Moines, Ia, has
been authorized to do business in ST.
Paul under the law enacted last win
ter, which requires a capital stock of
500, 900.
Joseph B. French, 81 years Of age,
the SON OF q well-to-do merchant ct
Mortified, has mysteriously disap-
peared. The young man was of regu-
lar habits and his disappearance caused
his friends much alarm.
Theodore M. Finch, boy who ran
away from his home in st. Paul last
August, was arrested at Cairo, ILL.,, and
taken to st. Paul.
An association known as the Ohm
sted County Breeders association was
organized at Rochester with B. w.
Eaton as president. ~
A new state bank is about to be Or
ganized in Kenyon with . capital Of
800, 900.
At the session Of the convention of
the grand lodge Of the Order Of the
Eastern Star at Duluth, Mrs. George
9. Jacoby, Of Minneapolis, was rs.
eleetesl grand matron. ..-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
The Itata.


CITY OF MEXICO, May 24.-Advices
from Central America say that on We'd
nesday last a steamer resembling the
Itata was seen by coasting schooner.
The coaster attempted to approach the
steamer, when the latter, which was
running south, sheered off from her
course. This was about thirty miles
off shore.
WILLIAM and John Anderson, colored,
who held the girl Jane Ware on the rail-
road track in Bossier parish, La, until
the train ran over and killed her, were
pursued by posse of negroes, captured
and hanged. They offered no explana-
tion for their deed. The Andersons
were bad characters.
THERE were 3O49 immigrants landed
at the barge Office in New York on the
Gath. Twelve hundred and forty-eight
Italians arrived on the Marsalla, and
ten of them were detained, as they had
served time in prisons in Italy for va
rious offenses.
On the night of the Gath fire was dis
covered in three places in the transfer
yards of the Northwestern railroad at
Chicago. The origin of the fires was
incendiary.
AN Austrian Baron and a Southerner
fought duel in jackson Park Chicago,
on the oath, over an opera singer. The
Austrian was wounded.
AFTER being chased for fully two
weeks the Dalton Bros. and gang who
robbed the Santa Fc passenger train at
Whorten, Kas.. were captured on the
Indian reservation near Oklahama on
the oath.
THREE young men Of Washington,
Ia, were arrested for running a bogus
detective agency.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
A Free Passage to Europe.

J. NJ. Church, travelling salesman for
the Pruce-Tatsch Co. at Winona,
has been awarded the prize of a six
weeks trip to Europe by the James G.
Butler Tobacco Company for selling the
largest amount of their tobacco in
Minnesota or the Dakotas, from Oc.
tober to May 1. Some twenty sales
men from all over the United States
will take the trip, sailing from New
York on June 10, and in return leaving
Antwerp on July II.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
When the Schools VIII Close.

The closing of the schools at Fari-
bault will take place as follows: Deaf
and dumb, Tuesday, June ?; blind,
Tuesday, June Q; Shattuck, Thursday,
June 1s; st. Mary's hall, Tuesday,
June IS; public schools on Friday, May
70, and Bethlehem Academy the last
week in June.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Took His Own Life.

Charles H. Champlain, superintendent
of the North Star woolen mills at Min.
neapolis, shot himself through the head
the other morning. Champlain had
been confined in bed for two weeks
with rheumatism, and it was thought
his distress overbalanced his mind.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Lost In Gambling.

Judgment was entered by default at
Duluth in the case of Nettleton VS.. E.
C. Howard, the defendant making no
defense whatever. The complaint
stated sums lost as follows: In Duluth,
January IA, 1890, $500; st. Paul, May
25, 1890, 81, $50. Is; March IL, 1887, S.
900; December 70, 1887, s45O.2O Sep
tember "a, 1887, $1,000, or $s,s57.s5 in
all. To this is added 500 for interest.
The money was lost in gamb bling. How
ards father is one of the richest men
in Duluth.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Examiners Of Law.

The supreme court has appointed tho
following persons members of the state
board of examiners in law, under the
act of 1891: E. H. Ozmun, of the
Fourth congressional district, and
John M. Shaw, of the Fifth congress
sional district, for the term of three
years; A. H. Snow, of the First con-
gressional district and Knute Nelson.
Of the Seventh congressional district,
for the term of two years, and +. J..
Knox, of the Second congressional dis
trict, and Eli Southworth, of the
Third congressional district, and John
G. Williams, of the Sixth congressional
district.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-28
Sugar Beet Experiments.

D. NJ. Harper and NJ. w. Hays relate
their experiments with sugar beets in
a department of agriculture document.
Their report includes tabu1ated rec
ord of analysis Of fifty-five samples of
different varieties of sugar beets grown
in 1900 at different places in Minnesota,
and q compiled account Of the methods
of cultivation of sugar beets and the
processes of the manufacture of beet
sugar. In the samples analyzed at the
station the per cent of sugar ranged
from 5.24 to 1892, being over 10 per
cent. in forty out of the fifty-five sam
pies examined.