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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
Epitome of the Week.
FROM WASHINGTON.

In the United States the visible sup.
ply of grain on the 3Oth ult. was:
Wheat, 90, 745, ,269 bushels; corn, 2,SSs,-
O42 bushels; oats, 2, sos, ,92l bushels,
EX-CoNGREssMAN CARTER, of Mon
tana, has been appointed land commits
sioner by the president, vice Lewis A.
Croft, resigned.
IN the United States and Canada the
total number of business failures for
the first quarter of the current year, as
reported to BradStreet's, was 3,4O1,
against 1896 for the first quarter OF
$780,
The Italian minister to this country,
Baron Fava, has been recalled by the
Italian government The recall grew
out of the New Orleans lynching and
indicated open hostilities
LOWER rates of duty on sugar have
gone into effect, and the price to con-
sumers will be considerably reduced.
THE statement of the public debt is
sued on the 1st showed the total debt to
be 81, 544, Al, ,2s7: cash in the treasury,
S694, AL 1856; debt less cash in the treas
ury, $3.50, ,O29, 92O. Increase during
March, $40, 255. Decrease since June
80, 1890, S55, ,1O7,911.
SECRETARY BLAINE in his reply to the
note of Fava, the Italian minister, an
nouncing his withdrawal from Wash
ington by order of his government said
this government was proceeding with
an investigation of the New Orleans af-
fair, and that it's action in the matter
could not be hurried by the course in
dicated by Italy.
THE following telegram was sent to
Secretary Blaine from Fort Scott: "a
hundred thousand Kansas cowboys
would like to spend the summer in
Rome. Can you furnish Transports
tion?"
THE mints in the United States dur
ing March coined 1926, 1922 pieces of
money, valued at S7,11S,17O. The total
Of gold coined was $3,9O3. 900 and of sill
yer $3,1O7,526, the balance being in
nickels and cents.
GEN. ALBERT PIKE, aged y years,
grand commander of the Scottish Rite
of Free Masonry and chief of the Royal
Order of Scotland for this country,
lied at his home in Washington.
FIGURES from the treasury depart
ment show that there was net in
crease of S11,614,415 in the circulation
during the month of March, principally
in silver certificates.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
The News Briefly Chronicied.
Wheat seeding has begun in southern

Wheat seeding has begun in southern
Minnesota.
Peter Thompson, carpenter living
at Elbow Lake, had his hip broken by
being thrown from a sleigh while the
team was running away.
The new council at Pipestone have
fixed tn saloon license for the ensu.
ing year at $1,000.
The resid ence of Prof F. B. Pearson
at Manchester college in ST. Paul was
burned causing loss of $1,000.
Gov. Merriam has appointed Rev.
L. G. Powers, of Minneapolis, labor
commissioner, vice John P. McGaughey
resigned.
The fourth annual fair of the Pipe
stone County Agricultural society will
oe held in Pipestone on September %,
23 and "a
In Faribault there is man by the
name of Patrick Reede, who is 1O6 years
old
Clifton Holden, Minnesota murder.
er sentenced to be hanged April 8, was
reprieved by the governor.
window at Alexandria when it fell
on her hand, breaking all the bones.
At Alexandria DR.. Boyd successfully
removed a cancer from William Miller's
young daughter.
Albert Goheen, suspected of the muir
der of Rosa Wood, the woman who was
found in a snow bank with two bullet
ho1n ~, hor tod OF 4;
home in Fergus Falls and lodged in
Jail. He had eluded the officers for a
week.
George Smith, of Princeton, was sen.
fenced by Judge Nelson to one year
and one month in the penitentiary and
to pay fine of 500 for forging pen
sion certificate.
Mrs. j. j. Goodchild called a notary
public at Albert Lea to draft her will,
and two minutes after signing suddenly
expired. She had been suffering for
some time with bright's disease.
John Swangaard has sued the Mime
apolis street railway company for ST.
500 damages for being put off a~-street
car after having paid his fare.
CO. White and NJ. b. Lloyd, of Min
neapolis, have invented machine for
weaving wire mattresses. A factory
for it's manufacture will probably be
established.
A party of twenty Faribault people
have secured a tract of land at French
laxe and have formed a club called the
French lake club. They will have the
land fenced, erect q club house, stables,
boat houses, etc. The lake is well
stocked with fish.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
WEST AND SOUTH.

In West Virginia the foreman of a
gang of Italian railroad laborers was
killed by the men for saying the citi-
zens of New Orleans did right to lynch
the Malta.
GEORGE ELLIOTT fiogged his wife at
Sumpter, S. c., and his mother in law
coming on the scene drove the blade
of hatchet into Elliott's skull.
On the 30th ult., a seven-days' sleep
fasting contest began in Detroit with
six contestants
LETTER has beeen written by Father
Craft, the missionary at Pine Ridge
agency, in which he stated that unless
The Indians were placed under control
of the war department there would be
another uprising.
JOHN ANKNEY's house near Sycamore,
O., was blown up by dynamite, and the
members of his family were more or
less severely injured.
AT st. Charles, Mo-, a pontoon bridge
was swept away and five men were
drowned. They were John Coleman,
Fritz Weeks, Louis Robinson, James
Spark and John Enoch.
1T was said that Philip Slattery, a
farmer living near Peoria, ILL.,, had dis
covered rich lead of silver ore.
In an audience attending school ex-
hibition in Liberty, Miss, fourteen per-
sons were wounded by an unknown
assassin firing into the crowd.
IN Chicago the total number Of
deaths for March was 3,249, one-third
being caused by the grip.
In Detroit township, ILL.,, Harvey Peo.
pies, aged ri, shot Miss Nellie Dyke,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

The Rothschilds are believed to have
$50, 900, 600 invested in American securi-
ties Only the Rothschilds themselves
know what they are worth, and they
never tell family secrets One of their
notices is: Gold never repeats what
it sees,' and another: "a man will not
tell what he has not heard:" but some
idea of their riches can be had from the
fact that since 1915 they have raised for
Great Britain alone more than 81 1,OOO,-
0Oo, 900; for Austria, $3.50, ,OOO. 900; fo,
Prussia, $500, 900, 600; for France, $780,
600, 900; for Italy, nearly $500, 600, 600; for
Russia, 1925, 900, 600: for Brazil, $40, ,OOO,-
600; for smaller states, $500, 600, 600 more
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

1T is currently asserted that the rela.
tive heights of men and women in Eng
land are undergoing change. Oh,
servation extending over series OF
years has shown, it is declared. that the
women are apparently growing taller
and the men shorter. The cause was
long considered a mystery, but at re.
cent London dinner it was unanimously
agreed that the men only were chang
ing, the apparent elongation of women
being the result of comparison. And il
was further settled that tobacco did it.
Englishmen are incessant smokers, and
begin the practice at so early an age
that their growth is much retarded
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
LATER
The American Hog.

BERLIN, April 4.-Negotiations have
been resumed between William Walter
Phelps, the United States minister, and
Chancellor Won Caprivi, on the question
of the withdrawal of the prohibition
against American pork products, and
there are more hopeful prospects of an
early and successful issue than recent
reports have led the public to believe.
Under present laws the President can
by proclamation put duty upon Ger
man sugar that would practically drive
it out of American markets. AS this
country imports large quantities of
beet sugar from Germany the latter
country is inclined to be less prohibi-
tory of American pork.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-Dr. J. G.. Riheldaner,
i pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 30
o clock An. and at s o'clock P. n. Sab
bath school at II o clockN.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
Au Services every Sabbath, at 1880 o clock
A. II. and at Pm Sabbath school at l2k.
THRISTIAN.- Preaching on every Lords
~ Day at 10: 80 o'clock A. N. and P. NJ, by
J. G. Harrison. Sunday School at N.
LNPISCOPAL.-Churc of The Holy Com
~ munion Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at 1u:3O A. n. and P n. sunday
school at I'm.
NATHOLIC.-Timeso Of service to b IN
~ nounced hereafter
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

EVA BRANNOCK, a faith curist and in
cidentally teacher of music in the
Bethany home at Pittsburgh, is said to
have finished a successful forty days
fast. Her fast differed from all others
in that she attended to her regular
duties as teacher and keeper of rooms
in the home
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

THE people of St. Petersburg seem to
get good deal of fun out of the long,
cold winters. At recent aristocratic
balls ice statues of celebrities have been
the fashionable decorations. Famous
sculptors did not disdain to try their
skill in this line, and the figures were
most effective when placed among
shrubs and plants and lighted up by
many colOred lamps.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

IN a Chinese smuggling case at Utica,
n. Y. it was argued that Cinnamon
may come from Canada to this country
in rowboats, such crafts not being
vessels within the meaning of the
statute. United States District Judge
Cox held that the law was broad
enough to cover coming to this country
by whatever MEANS" but promised to
give the question further considera-
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

A SINGULAR incident is related of two
Georgia brothers who were devotedlv
attached to each other and who had
often expressed the desire that they
might die together. At Gainesville,
Ga, Walter Wood, in attempting to
cross the Tombigbee river in skiff,
was drowned by his boat capsizing. On
the same day and about the same time
his brother, Julian Wood, who was
working in a glass factory at Birming-
ham, Ala, was overcome by gas and
died in few minutes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

THE new queen of the Sandwich
Islands is Lila kamakaeha Lilinoka-
lani, a sister of the late king. She is
50 years DID, was educated in a mis-
siOnary school and is married to an
American. Mr.. John O. Dominis, who
has held many important positions in
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

PRESIDENT DEPEw, of the New York
Central railroad. gets salary of S75, 900;
President McCurdy, of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company, $4,000; President
Hyde, Of the Equitable, 100000; Presi-
dent Beers, of the New York life, S6O,-
900; President Olcott, of the Central
Trust Company. $4,000; President
Stewart. of the United States Trust
Company, S5O,OoO: President King, of
the Union Trust Company, S5O,OOO.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

RABBI SOLOMON SCHNEIDER of Bos-
ton, has taken strong ground against
the proposition to colonize Palestine
with Hebrews. He says that the coun-
try cannot support more than three
million people, and the Russian exiles
alone, numbering five million, would
largely overpopulate it.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
THE EAST,

AT New Haven, Conn.,, Gen. Charles
A. johnson, retired army officer, who
served in the Mexican and civil wars,
committed suicide.
STRIKING miners attacked Tricks
molishing several coke ovens and de-
stroying other property.
In New York the grand jury found
indictments against the directors of the
New York, New H aven & Hartford rail-
road for causing the death of the six
trainmen in the recent tunnel disaster
in that city.
In Rochester, n. Y, the locked-out
clothing cutters passed resolutions re-
pudiating the Knights of Labor, and the
lockout was declared at an end.
AT Media, Pa, Mrs. Caroline Schmidt,
on trial for the murder of her sister, has
been acquitted.
In March 1924 Italian immigrants
landed at New York, nearly double the
number that landed in February.
ROBBERS entered the jewelry store of
Adolph Walter at Jersey City, N. j.,
and secured diamonds and other iewelrv
valued at $4,000.
The death of Mrs. Phoebe Campbell,
who was 1O2 years old October last, oc-
Cured at Baxter, Me-
THE eminent tragedian. Edwin Booth,
announces his retirement from the
stage after this season.
SEVENTY labor leaders ard strikers
were arrested in the Pennsylvania coke
no ~
RHODE ISLAND republicans carried a
sufficient number of towns at the state
election to give them the necess sary IS
votes on joint ballot to elect state Off
GERS. The total vote for governor was:
Burton (nationalist), 1884; Davis (dem. J,
22.249; Ladd (rep.) }, q, 1895; Larry (pro. },
1929. The next general assembly
stands: Senate, 21 republicans, 9 dem
ocrats, 6 to be chosen; house, "a repub-
licans, % democrats, 10 to be chosen.
AT Somerset, Pa, Joe and Dave
Nicely (brothers) were executed for
the murder of Farmer Umberger Feb
ruary 81, 1889.
FREIGH HIT trains collided near Hornells-
vile, N. Y, and Fireman Morris and
Brakemen Moon and Conroy were
killed.
A FIRE destroyed Whiteman & Keith's
shoe factory at Brockton, Mass, caus-
ing loss of 100000.
A MOB of 500 riotous strikers attacked
the Morewood coke works of Fricke 4
Co. at Mount Pleasant, Pa, and nine
were killed by deputy sheriffs and from
thirty to forty others were wounded,
some Of them fatally. Only few dep
uties were hurt.
NEAR Ashland, Pa, fourteen coal
mines operated by the Reading COM
pany were closed for an indefinite
period
FLAMES destroyed the Waverly oil re-
finery at Pittsburgh, Pa, the loss being
$115, 1000.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

ONE Of the electrical appliances which
will presently come into as general re-
QUESTION as that now enjoyed by the
electric motor is the electrical heater.
1t dispenses with all dirt in the house,
and can be turned off and on just when
it is wanted A large percentage of
the heat from stove goes up the chin
ney and is wasted, but as the electrical
heater is light and handy, and can be
moved from place with ease. the full
advantage of its heat can always be
secured.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
HORROR IN A MINE.
Ten Men Killed by an Explosion in
English Colliery.

Ten Men Killed by an Explosion in an
English Colliery.
LONDON, April "A disastrous explo-
sion in a coal mine took place at Ape
dale. Staffordshire. Ten persons were
killed outright and several others were
severely injured. The bodies of the dead
miners have been extracted from the
portion of the mine where the explo-
sion took place. The cause Of the dis
aster is supposed to be the presence OF
air-damp in the mines, and the fool
hardness of one Of the miners after the
presence of the dangerous gas was drss
discovered.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

JAMES GAULT, stock dealer of West
Middlesex, Pa, received an order some
time ago for a carload of savage bulls
for the New York market. He was
somewhat surprised TO learn since that
they were intended for shipment to
Spain to be used in bull fights.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

THE round-top building between
Canajoharie and Spraker's Basin, N.
Y, recently destroyed by fire, was an
old colonial structure, probably the
oldest in the Mohawk valley, and is
said to have been built in 1882.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

HELEN P. CLARK, an Indian girl and
a teacher in the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian
school, has been appointed special
allotment agent by the United States
government and has gone to Montana
to assume the duties of her office.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

"A NEW departure in cremation is re-
ported. A patent has been taken out in
France for an electric furnace for the
rapid incarceration of human remains
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
Some Interesting Statistics from the Sec.
retary of States Report.

some interesting STATISTICS from the Sec
retary of States Report.
The assistant secretary of state will
show in his report that the total num-
Der of marriages in the state in 1890
was 1O,35s, of which 1,435 were in
Ramsey and 1924 in Hennepin. The
total number of divorces was 53S, Ram
sey claiming 66 and Hennepin 17S.
The total number of naturalizations,
including those taken out in the su-
preme court, was 1885. OF these
6,O45 were Scandinavians, $3.50 were
Germons, Poles, Bohemians and Rus
slams, 2S5 Irish and 9l9 English. and
Scotch. There were 1,346 from other
nationalities. The total number of
marriages in the state for the last nine
years is s5,362; total number of di-
vorces, 4,049; total mum ber of naturali-
cations, 9,6S7.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

INFANT mortality in England and
Wales during the year 1890 was notice
ably large. The deaths We're regis
tered of over 13O, 900 children under -
mOntha of aUe
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

AN official survey shows that Rhode
Islands nearest approach to noun
tain is an eminence in Glocester, which
rises sos feet above sea level, and to
which the name Durfee hill has been
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
Could Not Face His Accuser.

Gustave Hopping, until a few days
ago member of the st. Paul police
force, shot and killed himself at his
home in that city. An order for Hop
pings arrest had been issued on the
charge that he and an accomplice stole
from the esta blishment of Frederick
Stattman, furrier, over 50, 600 worth of
sealskins and other fine furs. 1t was
alleged that Hopping and his friend
made Stattman drunk and made off
with the valuables. A few days later
the store was found saturated with
kerosene on fire. The theft drove
Stattman into bankruptcy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
Doing JOhnstOne's Tricks.

Some Of the students of Carleton col
lege at Northfeld are successfully per-
forming the feats of Mind Reader ohm
stone. One is young lady, who is ex-
ceedingly clever in doing the work. A
young gentleman named Pray was the
first to try his hand, and astonished
both himself and his audience by his
success. Every one of Johnstone's
feats was performed with the exception
CT the hack ride and the safe opening,
about which it has been always con,
tended there was some fraud
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

THE African continent has been
crossed sixteen times, twice before
1850, six times between that time and
1880, and eight times since 1880.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
STATE FINANCES.

The Report of Treasurer Bobleter for tho
Month of March.
State Treasurer Bobleter makes the
following report for the month Of
March showing the balances in treas
urY at the close of business:
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES,

A Young Man Kills His Mother and Him.
self at Bloomington, Ind.-Awful Deed
of an Anderson Qnd.) Telegraph OPP
orator.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind, April 4.-W ard
Demaree, % years of age, living with
his father and mother and two sisSers
and two brothers on Sixth street in his
city, on Friday afternoon cut the tn, oat
of his aged mother, who lay sick in bed
with the grip, and then cut his wn
throat from ear to ear, each dying in
stantly. At the moment when the
young man sent his mothers and his
own soul into eternity there was in an
adjoining room Miss Green, board
ing student of the State university, and
the S-year-old sister of the matricide
and suicide, but they didn't hear a
sound of the shocking deed going
on SO near them. Upon going into
the sickroom they were Mortified
to see Mrs. Demaree with her head
nearly severed from her body lying
dead in a pool of blood and Ward De.
maree in like condition on the floor.
Demaree had been a college student
for some time and had been studying
languages preparatory to attending
Princeton college. At the time of the
tragedy an older daughter was abb
sent at school and the mother
lay upon the bed sick. Two smaller
children were about the house. The
mother, seeing that her son had a
razor in his hand as he approached her
bedside, motioned the children from the
room. Ward approached his mothers
bedside and with one slash of the razor
nearly severed her head from her body.
The son, after looking at his fiendish
work minute or more, knelt on the
floor and with the same bloody weapon
cut his own throat. The bed and floor
presented a ghastly spectacle to the ex-
cited people who soon crowded into the
room. The tragedy was enacted in the
heart of the city. All parties are
highly connected. The family knew
of the sons alteration of mind, but
had kept the matter profound secret.
ANDERSON, Ind, April 4.-Friday at
noon Ed Alexander, telegraph oper-
ator, beat his aged mother into insensibil-
ity, and, under the impression that he
had killed her, swallowed a lot of poison
and then shot himself inflicting a slight
wound. He died at o clock from the
effects of the poison. He was to have
been married next Wednesday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
CALIFORNIA; POPULATION.

The Result of q Special Count by Races
Made Public.
WASHINGTON, April 4.-Superintend-
ent Porter has made public the result
Of special count by races of the state
Of California as follows: White, ILL.,
$50; colored, l1,4s7; Chinese, 1851;
Japanese, 1,o99; Indians, 1885; total,
1,20S, l30. The statement further shows
that while the Chinese population of
the state as a whole has decrease by
3,+51 since 1880, there has been an in
crease in the Chinese population of the
county of San Francisco since that
time of a. 125
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09

IL THOUGHT her heart was broken when
her husband died1" $50 it was. Perhaps
that accounts for her since tying it with u
knot Times.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-04-09
A Broken Levee.

GREENv1LLE, Miss, April 4.-The
large levee two miles below Longwood,
on the Mississippi side, about 80 miles
south of Greenville, broke about -
o'clock last night. The crevasse was
200 feet wide at noon to-day. Efforts
! to tie the ends will be made at once.
Most of the lowlands of Issaquena
county, a portion of Sharkey and sew
eral fine plantations in South Washing
ton counties will be flooded.
A MuDERoUs fight, the result of long
standing feud between two italian
women, Mrs. Gallo and Mrs. Vallone,
occurred in a State street tenement
in Chicago, on the night of the 5th.
Mrs. Gallo invited Mrs. Vallone to her
room to make peace. AS soon as she
arrived Mrs. Gallo locked the door,
drew large butcher knife and assault
ed Mrs. Vallone, and only quit from ex-
haustion. Fourteen times was the
knife plunged into the body of Mrs.
Vallone. The woman cannot recover.
AN old citizen of Goshen, Ind, was
found dead in his bed on the 5th. Two
tramps were arrested charged with the
murder.
OVER 1900 emigrants, mostly of the
farming class, left Ireland for America
during the week ending the 4th.
The detectives of New York on the
5th arrested woman and four men
charged with conspiracy to gain pos
session OF the estate of the late million
aire, Loring Robertson.
Snow fell all over the northern mart
OF Alabama on the 5th. The fall was
slight, but it was the first April snow
IN that vicinity for forty years. ..
IT is announced that Baron Faya. the
Italian Minister win sail for home on
the f2th inst: