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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19
NOT A GOOD LAW.

Michigan's Supreme Court Declares On.
constitutional the Indeterminate Son
tence Law. ..''-
LANSING, Mich, Nov. 1.-THE su-
preme court has declared the indeter-
inmate sentence law, fathered by the
state board of corrections and char
tiles, modelled from like law in other
states and passed by the Michigan legis-
lature of 1889, to be unconstitutional.
The act permits the courts to sentence a
criminal in q general way, leaving it to
the discretion of the board Of control of
the prison to which he is sent as to the
amount of time to be served The test
case was that of The People vs. Daniel
Cummins, convicted of larceny and
sentenced to not less than two years
nor more than four, in the discretion of
the board of control state house Of
correction
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THE EAST.

AT Bridgeport, Conn.,, John A.opp, a
m mber of the suicide club, took his
own life by hanging. Seventeen men,
bers of the club thus far have slain
themselves. But two remained to die.
MARINE underwriters in Philadei-
phia estimated the loss to shipping by
the September and October hurricanes
at over $50, 900, and ninety persons
were known to have perished.
NEAR Danville, N. Y, large de-
posit of rock salt was found at depth
of 200 feet.
THE noted piano inventor, Frederick
Mathuschek. died at his home in New
York, aged n years.
FIRE destroyed the Lippincott, John
son & Co. s wholesale cloth and woolen
house at Philadelphia, the loss being
$500, OO0
In Boston young mai entered the
office of J. c.. Davis, 4 money lender,
grabbed a roll of bills amounting to
81, 900, dashed into the street and
escaped capture.
THE first convention in Boston of the
Worlds Woman's Christian Temper
ance union elected Miss Frances E.
Willard, of Chicago, president. The
resolutions adopted favor the ontlaw-
ing of the traffic in alcoholic liquors,
opium, tobacco and impurity, the sup.
preston of gambling and Sunday desc
Grafton and the enfranchisement of the
women of all nations.
BY strict party vote the Pennsyl-
vania senate has decided that it has no
right to investigate the Irregularities
of the state treasurer and attorney
general.
In session at New York the National
Baseball league awarded the pennant
for 1891 to Boston.
In October SO, 79s immigrants passed
through the New York barge office.
AT the recent election the official
vote in Pennsylvania was as follows:
Auditor general, Gregg (rep.), al, ,54s;
Wright (dem.), s54, 1877; Hague (pro.) },
1870 State treasurer, Morrison
(rep), 400, 994; Tilden (dem.), 1856, 1877;
Drayton (pro.), 1s,07o. For constitu.
tional convention, 172,771; against, 49,
549.
The Crystal salt works at Warsaw,
N. Y, were burned. Loss, Sl25,00O.
THE police have captured the muir.
derers of John and William Kester. OF
Sybertsville, Pa, after hunt Of five
years.
AT Glens Falls, N. Y, Mrs. Hannah
Mosher celebrated her 102d birthday.
She has lived during the term of every
president of the United States.
The firm of F. H. Smith & Co., ship
brokers of New York, assigned with
liabilities of $500, 600. -
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19
INVESTIGATION

Will show in every case why the road
named below is popular among the
travelling public. 1t is operated through
Central Iowa, Central and Southern
Minnesota, extends from St. Paul and
Minneapolis to Watertown, S. D., and
forms direct line from Mankato to
Red Wing, Mimi, on all (which lines
are located the many prosperous cities
of Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota.
Its through train service couples
the Twin Cities of the Northwest with
Chicago, Peoria, St. Louis, Kansas
City; Denver, Pueblo, Colorado
Springs, Council Bluffs, Des Moins,
Cedar Rapids, &C., &c.
Pullmen Bullets Sleepers, Free Chair
Cars, Light and CHEEKY Day Coaches,
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CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.- ]. G.. Riheldaffer,
l. pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 80
O'Clock AN. and at o'clock P. n. Sab
bath school at IL O'Clock n.
METHODIST.-Rev F. A. Cone, Pastor,
AA1 Services every Sabbath, at 1880 O'Clock
A. n. and al IN. Sabbath school at IL Y.
THRISTIAN Preaching on every Lords
~ Day at 80 O'Clock Am. and p. NJ, by
J. g Harrison. Sunday School at N.
FPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The Holy Com
~ munion. Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday except the last Sunday In the
month, at 1J:3J A. N. and P N. sunday
school at LIN.
NATHOLIC.-Times of service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
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Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.


In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 9th was: Wheat,
80, OIL. 951 bushels; corn, 2,Sl1, ,031 bush.
els; oats, 4.3S4, 39s bushels
DURING the week ended November I
the issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints and treasury offices was
1856, $50, against $Sl7.47S during the
corresponding period of last year.
A DECISION has been reached by the
court of CLAIMS against the states OF
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois in the suit
to recover the 2 per cent. fund retained
by the national government from the
sale of the Cum berland Gap road. The
sum in dispute was 81, 5O0,00o
IT was stated by Gen. Batcheller,
United States minister to Portugal,
that that country was very much in
favor Of a reciprocity treaty with this
country.
In his annual report Capt Meredith,
superintendent of the bureau of en-
CRAVING and printing, says that during
the last year the delivery of United
States notes, treasury notes and gold
and silver certificates aggregated face
value of S30S, 965, $50, and the revenue
and customs stamps numbered 952, O0O,- :
900. The expenditures during the year
were S1.265, 263
DURING the ten months ended OctO-
Der 81, the total value of the shipments
of breadstuffs from the United States
was $3.50, 4Ss, 1853, against sl19,O37, 1856
for the ten months of the prior year.
The director of the mints in his re-
port to the secretary Of the treasury
shows that during the last fiscal year
the coinage at United States mints ag-
gregated 1l9, 547, ,s77 pieces, the largest
in the history of the country. The
mines of the United States yielded
during the year gold Of a commercial
value of $32. s45, 900 and silver of the
value of $57, 225, 900.
ATTORNEY GENERAL MILLER an
nounced in the United States supreme
court that it had been agreed to sub
NIT the controversy between the
United States and England as to the
Behring sea seal fisheries to arbitration.
STATISTICAL returns of the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington for
November make the corn crop one of
the largest in volume ever known, the
average yield being twenty-six bushels
per acre.
The Grand Army of the Republic
will hold it's next annual encampment
in W; s',ington September 20, 1899.
DURING October 32,94S pensions were
granted, the first payments on which
aggregated S4,S ,S,605.
The total value of the exports of
domestic breadstuffs during October
was S24, 463,3 ,334.
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In Favor of Peace.

TOLEDO, O.. Nov. - The knights
Of Labor convention spent Friday
morning discussing resolutions Of
fered by Mr.. A. W.. Wright to settle the
difficulties between the Knights of La
Dor and the American Federation OF
Labor. They were finally adopted by q
vote Of 95 yeas to nays The adoption
of these resolutions is the most import
ant work Of the assembly SO far. II
they are accepted by the federation II
means that over coo. 900 laboring men
will be unite d in organized labor assem-.
blies or unionA A proposition to admit
lawyers into the order was rejected.
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LATER.


CHICAGO. Nov. 14.-Nineteen men
were arrested tonight in Farmers sa-
loon, corner Clinton and Madison
streets. 1t is said they belong to an
organized gang of safe-blowers and
thieves that has beeen successfully op-
Grating in st. Louis and Chicago. Con-
siderable stolen property was recovered
by the police tonight.
For several months the police have
been given information of depredations
committed in various parts of the city,
which included. almost every form of
theft, from simple pocketpicking to
house-breaking and safe-blowing. Dis
patches were also received from many
Of the surrounding large cities of SINH
lar occurrences and indications point
ing to the existence of an organized
band, with this city as headquarters.
Capt. Mahoney detailed Detectives
Welbasky and Wessler to work on the
case, and tonight their efforts resulted
in the capture of the gang and the
securing Of positive evidence of their
guilt.
The raid tonight and the arrests
were the rest of clever scheme on the
part of the police. Welbasky received
a letter from Minneapolis giving in
formation without which it would have
been almoft impossible to proceed.
THE city of New York is severely
threatened with water famine. The
reserve supply has been exhausted. All
public drinking fountains and street
sprinkling has been stopped.
E. E. PRATT, president of the A. N.
Kellogg Newspaper Co., died in Chica-
60, on the night of the 14th. About a
year ago he had an attack of la grippe
from which he never fully recovered.
The big job printing establishment
of Short & Foreman, Cleveland, O., was
destroyed by fire on the night Of the
18th. Loss, $200,009.
WHILE Jack Glasscock, the we'll
known ball player, was excavating for
the foundation of a new residence at
Wheeling. w. Va, the 14th, he un-
earthed an old oyster can containing
$4,000 in gold and silver coin and moldy
greenbacks.
The biggest November snow storm
for years visited the Northwest ON the
18th. Nearly four inches fell in st.
Paul. All the available sleighs were
brought into use. ,.yf;% tEs@.
DOM PIArT, the great journalist was
buried at Macoche, O., the 18th.
MEMoRIALservices in honor Of Charles
Stewart Parnell, were held in New
York the 18th.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

THERE have been many centennial
celebrations, but one of the most novel
is to take place in Terryville, Conn, in
1898, to commemorate the beginning of
American clock making and honor the
memory of Eli Terry, its founder Mr..
Terry was the first man to make the
old-fashioned wooden clocks, SO ia
nous in tine last century and the early
part of the present one. He would
make the clocks and then travel about
the state and eastern New York selling
off his stock. From thu beginning has
grown one of the greatest industries of
the country, and Connecticut does well
to remembe him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

GOVERNMENT statistics show that
French smokers consumed in 1890
9,00o,oo francs worth of foreign cigars,
100000 francs worth of cigarettes,
20, 900, 900 worth of snuff and 81, 600, 900
worth of pipe tobacco There is an in.
crease OF 70O,O 900 francs in the expend-
iture for ladies' cigarettes. There is
one anti-tobacco society in France.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The prince of Wales celebrated his
fiftieth birthday in a quiet manner at
Sandringham. in Norfolkshire.
IT was reported that the Brazilian
province of Rio Grande had declared its
independence because of its opposition
to the acts of Gen. Fonseca.
CANADIAN government agents will
visit Kansas, Dakota, Nebraska, Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan to try
and induce farmers to locate in Manito-
ba and the northwest.
A WOMAN at Chelabink, Russia,
killed her three children and" then
hanged herself to prevent starvation.
LATER advices show that the cyclone
which swept over the Andaman islands
in the bay of Bengal caused loss of
over 200 lives.
AT Orangeville, Cal, z. P. Brandon
and wife died from arsenical poisoning.
The drug was used by mistake for bak-
ing powder in making biscuits.
AT Montague, Mich, George A.
Wizard died after sleeping since May 1.
He weighed fifty pounds at the time of
his death.
In Morocco the sultan sent a mum Der
of emissaries to Touat to endeavor to
gain support to his pretensions to SOW
ereignty. The natives confined the
emissaries and decapita ted five of them.
The death of Samuel Chipman oc-
CURED ut Cornwall, N. S., aged 1O1
years. He had been freemason since
1918.
OFF the coast of England and Ireland
heavy gale was the cause of many
wrecks and several lives were lost.
The new Chilian junta is composed
of Senior Silva, president of the senate,
Senor Luco, president of the chamber
of deputies, and President elect Montt.
As THE Canadian government would
do nothing toward caring for the colo
ny of Chinese lepers at Vancouver, B.
c., the city council set them free, and
it was said that many of them were
coming to the United States.
The storm which swept over England
for three days caused the loss of over
fifty lives and the destruction of prop
erty valued at $5OO,000.
In lumber district of London fire
destroyed property to the value of over
81, 200, 900, including the dwellings of
many poor people.
DAVID ALLEN, a hunter and trapper,
was found dead in bear trap near
Bracebridge, Ont. He left his home
about month ago, was caught in the
trap and died from starvation.
In Hancow, China, fire destroyed
/, 500 houses, and $4,000 persons were
made homeless.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19
Struclk BY q Train.

NATION, ILL.,. Nov. H. Peter Hus-
song, farmer, was struck by the New
Orleans limited train on the Illinois
Central at Humbolt Thursday evening
and instantly killed. His team became
unmanageable while he was attempt
ing to cross the track. A neighhor,
who was in the wagon, escaped with
slight injuries.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

ct al. w atch Tor an
nouncments of open
ing of the Sisseton
Reservation, South
Dakota, by the Gov
eminent. Land Office
located at Water
town, S. D. Ask
any railroad Agent
for information and
maps, which will be
cheerfully furnished,
or address
C. M. PRATT, Gen.
Ticket & Pass. Agt.,
Minneapolis, Mimi,
W. TRUESDALE
Receiver.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

THIS is to be a cold winter. The
hornets have built their nests high up
in the trees. When you see a colony
OF hornets building nest on the lower
links Of a tree it is sign of mild
winter. But it is not sign of mild hor-
nets. Keep away from them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

A VERMONT man went out hunting
on Sunday and hurt himself He held
an accident policy, but the company
contested a demand for indemnity
under the terms of the policy, and the
court decided that the man was not en-
titled to recover, as he was violating
the law of the state in hunting on
Sunday. Which means that person
to receive the protection of the law
must observe the law.
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The Grange IL Growing.

SPRINGFIELD, O., Nov. 14.-At the
meeting Of the National Grange Friday
Treasurer F. NJ. McDowell's annual re-
port showed receipts, s24,4ls.60. Ex-
penditures, $15,s76. ss. Balance, So,-
14l.72. Secretary Trimble's report
showed dispensations issued for 24s
new oranges. ~. 80 .,,.'e - WI
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

LOUIS KossUTH is entering upon his
ninetieth year. To middle-aged people
Of this generation he is unknown, or
known as something like myth. But
forty years ago he was recognized as
one of the greatest of human orators
even in the English language, which
he learned while a prisoner, with a
dictionary, an English Bible and
Shakespeare as his only studies.
Probab bly, he might return to his home
in Hungary at any time, but he has de-
termined to die in exile.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

"Samr OF Posen's" Wife Raises ol25, 200
for the Defense Of the Actor.
SAN Francisco, Nov. 14.-An agree
ment to sell was recorded Friday from
Marie A. Strelinger. better known as
the wife of M. . B. Curtis, the
actor, to Herbert A. Cheseboro, of
Los Angeles, by which she dis
poses of the Peralta Park hotel prop
erty at North Berkeley for 1925, 900.
The building is now occupied by Prof.
Homer o. Sprague for girls semi
nary. This money will be used by Mrs
Strelinger to save her husband from
the gallows. '
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

IT is estimated that, in addition to
their immense crops, the farmers and
farm land owners of Minnesota and
the Dakotas are about $500, 0OO, 600 rich
er than they were year ago on ac-
count of general increase in the value
of their holdings. 1t has been most
wonderful year for the great north
west
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

PRESIDENT DWIGHT, of Yale college.
while not favoring the admission of
women to study in the classes with
men, does wish Yale had a woman's s
annex, and the only objection he finds
to its establishment is that the univer-
sity hasn't the money to put into it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

THE editor of the Tim herman speaks
in high terms of Texas gentleman
with whom he ''companionated" for
some time. Doubtless the two Sun
dayed together occasionally and con-
versationed often.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

For nearly three hundred years straw
plating has been leading industry in
the hamlets of Bedfordshire, Eng, and
vicinity. Although the industry is
much less extensive than it was, there
are still over twenty thousand persons
engaged in it. They are chiefly old
men, women and children.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

PROF. EDWIN J. HoUsToN, who has
been investigating the methods of Rain
makers Melbourne and Dyrenforth, de-
clares it to be his deliberate opinion
that rain can never be made to fall by
artificial means unless certain rainy
conditions already exist in the atmos-
phere
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WHICH STATE IS " iN2


Novel Suit to Determine the Boundary
Line Between Illinois and Iowa.
CARTHAGE, Ill, Nov. l3.-An impor-
tant suit has been brought in the
United States supreme court by
agreement of Gov. Boies, of Iowa, and
Gov. Fifer, of Illinois. The suit is en-
titled ''the state Of Iowa VS.. the state
of Illinois," and its object is to ascer-
tain the proper jurisdiction over a strip
of territory up and down the Mississip-
pi river between the two states
This suit is brought by the state of
Iowa in the form of petition setting
up the facts that there is . conflict of
jurisdiction between the state of Illi-
nois and the state of Iowa over said
strip of territory. the state of Iowa
claiming that the boundary line of said
state is in the middle of the Mis-
sissippi river irrespective ,of its chan
mel, while the state of Illinois claims
jurisdiction to the middle Of the navi-
gable channel, making difference of
7l2 feet at point on the Mississippi
river where the keokuk and Hamilton
Bridge Company crosses the river.
The suit grows out of q long-stand-
ing legal war between Hancock county
and the Keokuk and Hamilton Bridge
Company in regard to payment of taxes.
The bridge company not only claims
that it is unjustly assessed, but that it
it compelled to pay taxes to Hancock
county, Illinois, on 712 feet of property
located In Iowa
1t is stated that Iowa's eastern boun-
Diary line is described and fixed by its
legislature as being lin the middle of
the river while the Illinois legisla-
ture fixed the western boundary line of
the state at ''the middle of the naviga-
BILE channel" Attorneys in Carthage
have suits pending in the courts in the
bridge case and were instrumental in
having the above suit brought.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

Mr.. LABoUCHERE, who was a men,
Der of the parliamentary committee
that inquired into Queen Victoria's
savings, asserts that her majesty's
fortune is surprisingly small.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

EUGENE WINCHET, of Dayton, O..
lets all working girls ride for half
price on his street railway, which
runs through the suburbs of the city.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

The city Of Baltimore, Md, has not
had bank failure for fifty-seven years.
This is remarkable record. The
cities of 200, ,0OO inhabitants and upward
should appoint committees to visit Bal
timore and see how it is done.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

MRS. MARY WASHINGTON FINCH, a
granddaughter of Gen. Washington,
has the nearest thing to the historic lit
tie hatchet-a silver one made frsan a
spoon once owned by the father of his
country ~
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

MoNTREAI,. Can.,, Nov. 14-Thurs-
day was Thanksgiving day throughout
Canada, and was celebrated generally
. holiday. Services were held in
most Of the Protestant churches. Rain
fell necessarily all day.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

THE coolest spot on the earth is at
Werkhojansk, in Siberia, where the
thermometer has registered eighty-one
degrees below zero. The soil there is
frozen to a depth of four hundred feet.
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Poisoned Herself and Son.

CHICAGO, Nov. 1.-the dead bodies
of Mrs Marguerite Lengenhager and
her 15-year-old son were found in the
saloon of the woman on South Clark
street Friday morning. Investigation
forces the conclusion that, worried by
her sons threat to leave her, Mrs
Lengenhager poisoned him and then
took her own life by the same means.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

Our in Dunlap, in southern Arizona,
a man put giant cap in his pipe along
finger half torn of by the explosion. 1t
was some little time before he could be
convinced that the camp had not been
attacked by the Apaches.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

ALMOST third of humanity-or, to
put it in round numbers, 400, 900, 900
people-speak the Chinese language.
English is spoken by about 100000, 600
DeOD1e
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Eleven Mon Loaa Their Liyes.

LONDON, Nov. 14.-A dispatch from
Essen says that an explosion occurred
in the Koenig Ludwig pit, near that
place, and that eleven men met death
through the accident,
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Must Not Sell Cixarettes,

Judge Ensign, of the Duluth district
court, fined Eve cigar dealers three dol
lars apiece for selling cigarettes to
minors. They had been indicted
through the exertions of Humane OFF,
Ger Haskins The judge read the Of
tenders severe lesson, saying that he
proposed tn have the law enforced and
that any more violations of it would be
more severely dealt with.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19
Burglars Make q Light Haul.

Safe blowers visited the bank of
North st. Paul, where they drilled a
hole in the outer door of the vault,
b ew it open and rolled the burglar
proof safe into an adjoining room,
where they hammered and drilled it
without avail. They took two or
three boxes out of the vault, in one of
which was jewelry owned by the book
keeper, the other containing about SIS
in coin.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-11-19

ROBERT BRowNING's admirers place a
wreath of flowers over his grave in
Westminster abbey every day.