The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-12-10


was swept by prairie fire and many
haystacks, granaries and orchards
were destroyed. The loss would
amount to thousands of dollars.
FIRE destroyed the steamer Eastern
Oregon while on the dry docks at Oh
ympia, Wash; loss $3.50, 900.
--LATEST advices indicated that the six
men who robbed the Frisco express car
near ST. Louis secured in the neighbor-
hood of $4,000.
The safe Of the Hopkins county (Ky.)
bank at Madisonville was robbed by
burglars of $4,000
In his message to the Virginia legis-
lature Gov. Mckinney urged that the
railroads be forced to provide separate
coaches for negroes.
In Detroit George j. Reis, grocery
man, his ife and three sons were
smothered to death by the destruction
of their store and dwelling by fire.
In Chicago thirteen alleged an
archists were fined from $40 to $100
each by Justice Woodman.
In Kansas City, Kan, new band of
holiness has been organized which has
fixed the end IF the world to come off
Christmas day of this year.
In Minneapolis the first attempt in
the history of the country to afford re-
lief to the famine stricken peasantry
of Russia has originated The scheme
is to send shipload of flour to Russia
by the middle of next January, and
the 5000 merchant millers of America
are to be asked to help.
A SOLDIER named Frank Palmer, who
murdered Tremaine, an Indian scout,
near Fort Suliy, S. D., in 1878, was
captured in Bonham, Tex.
A TRAIN on the East Tennessee, Vir.
ginia g. Georgia road near Rome, Ga,
was held up by robbers who secured
81, 900 from the express car.
BY the upsetting of lamp Mrs
George Martin and her son, aged Il
years, were burned to death at Denver,
Col.
DURING the absence Of Mrs. Clement
Kits, of Lima, O., the house caught
fire and her two little children were
burned to death.
By the capsizing of a boat four ne
groes were drowned in the river at
Memphis, Tenn.
AT Creston, Ia, Jasper Mans, his
wife and their two children were fatal.
ly burned by gasoline explosion in
their house.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
BY the loss Of the American brig Ia
hiti in the Pacific ocean 800 Gilbert is
landers on board under contract for
work in Mexico were drowned.
AT Southampton, Eng, five boys
found a bomb, and not knowing what
it WAS Logan playing with it, when ii
exploded, '-;lling one boy and fatally
wounding the others.
AN explosion wrecked three stores at
Black burn, Eng, and twenty persons
were killed.
THE rebels killed 800 foreigners neal
Takou, China and destroyed their prop
erty.
| IT was said by an official holding a
high place in Santiago that the Chilian
government had no intention whatever
of offering an apology or indemnity
such as the United States government
demanded.
In Vienna Archduke Henry, of Aus.
! tria died from inflammation of the
lungs, closely following his wife, whose
death occurred the previous day.
OVER 80, 900, 900 human beings were
said to be literally dying of hunger in
Russia. In some of the provinces Dor.
dering on the Volga the people were
keeping themselves alive by eating the
! bark of trees.
In the interior of Mexico the suffer.
! ing owing to the scarcity Of provisions
was said to be intense and it was
feared that rioting would break out
among the famine-stricken populace.
In letter written tC a friend in Lon
! don from Mentone, Italy, Rev. Charles
II. Spurgeon says that his health gains
slowly
In China another rebellion ha.
broken out, two or three important
towns have been captured and hun
dreds of natives murdered, among then
many Christ; an converts.
FURTHER advices give the number o.
deaths by the recent japanese earth
quakes as 1860, and the injured at TO-,
l2O.