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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

The stage running between Chihua-
hua and Penos Altos, Mexico, was held
up on the night of the 31st, by masked
robbers and $4,000 in silver bullion
taken. The highwaymen escaped, but
officers are in pursuit.
A COLLISION occurred on the Utah
Northern railroad between a mixed ar
passenger train, on the 1st, near Dill
Ion, Mont. The engineer and fireman
OF the passenger train were both
killed.
On the afternoon of the 1st, an oil
we'll shooter was Oh his way to a we'll
near st. Mary's, O., with load of nitro
glycerine, it exploded, and blew the
horses, wagon and driver to atoms.
The only evidence of the disaster was a
huge hole.
The Touring mill of Everitt, Aughcn-
baugh & Co., at Waseca, Minn,, was
burned on the afternoon of the list.
Loss $4,000, insurance $75, 900.
DURING the early hours of the 1st,
four men entered the saloon of Nose
kerker, Kansas City, Mo-. and covered
the bartender, night waiter and "a Gus
toner with revolvers. One of the men
then pried open the cash drawer, secur-
ing $3.50. The robbers then searched
the three men and secured $40 in money
three watches and some jewelry, after
which they made their escape.
GEN. H. A. MORROW, of the U. s. In
fantry died at Hot Springs, Ark, on
the 1st.
In Chicago, on the 1st jury returned
a verdict against F. Ehret, sentencing
him to prison for years for stealing a
SIC, 900 package from the U. 8. Express
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE Jamaica worlds fair opened at
Kingston on the 2Sth, the Governor-Gen.
eral officiating.
Wolves, maddened by hunger, at
tackled bands of Indians near Lake
Winnipeg and many of the red men
were killed and devoured.
In Greece an avalanche destroyed
eighty houses in the town of Atha-
mana, and twenty-five persons were
killed outright and many injured.
By the burning of the steamer Shan
ghai on the river Yangtse, in China, 800
Chinese lost their lives.
In Australia two large new gold fields
were discovered on the Turner river.
A TERRIFIC storm caused enormous
damage on the island of Massowah, in
the Red sea, and over 100 persons were
drowned.
On the 3Oth ult. Charles Bradlaugh,
member of Parliament for Northampton
and one of the most unique personali-
ties in English political life, died in
London, aged SO years.
ADvICEs from Java report serious
earthquakes in Batavia. The town Of
Joava was in ruins and many Chinese
were killed.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
NEST AND SQuIH.

AT Springfield, O., fourteen Masons
contributed pieces of their skin from
their arms to cover a sore on a brother
Mason's leg.
THE Kansas Legislature on the 2sth
in joint session elected w. A. PETER to
succeed United States Senator Ingalls,.
The vote was: PETER Farmers Alli-
ance), 101; Ingalls,, So; scattering, 6.
IT was decided at the session of the
National Farmers Alliance in Omaha
to nominate candidates for President
and Vice-Pesident of the United States
in 1892.
THE death of Mrs. Eunice Beers oc-
CURED at Omaha, Neb., aged 1O1 years.
In the early history of the Territory of
Nebraska she was influential in pre-
venting number of Indian massacres
WHILE insane Surgeon William D.
Deitz. of the Fifth Artillery, stationed
at Alcatraz island, Cal, shot and killed
his wife and then killed himself.
In fire at the Louisville (Ky.) iron
works Joe Hume, Joe Weaver and Bud
Adams (firemen) were fatally injured
by falling walls.
In the Reed & Henry saw-mill at
Overton, Tex, the boiler exploded, kill
ing Gill Henry, Dan Tucke and John
Austin.
In Chicago the body Of Benjamin H.
Campbell, millionaire, who had been
missing since November 20, was DIS
covered floating in the river.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

AT Atchison, Kan, the State National
Bank went into voluntary liquidation.
1t was organized III January, 1887, with
a capital of $250,Oo0.
In joint session on the 2sth the Wis
consin Legislature formally declared
William F. Villas elected United States
Senator from March 4, 1891.
SPURIOUS nickels were in circulation
at Brownsburg, Ind, supposed to have
been made in the town.
FLAMES destroyed the six-story build
ing of the Western Refrigerating Com
pany in Chicago, causing a loss of $780,
600.
Ten Italian laborers were fatally in
jured in collision on the Utah North
ern road near Honeyville, u. T.
In the office of the State Treasurer OF
Arkansas shortage of $94, 500 was dis
covered.
The Nevada Legislature on the 29th
elected John P. Jones (Rep.) United
States Senator for the fourth time.
In Kansas City, Mo-, Charles Goble
mortally wounded Anna Luther and
then killed himself. The young lady
TRAMPs attempted to take possession
of passenger train at Tippecanoe, O.,
but the train crew finally drove the
tramps out of the car after shooting
three of them, two mortally.
AT Kalkaska, Mich, three counter
feiters were arrested and quantity of
dies, casts and spurious nickels were
found in their possession.
The celebrated Jones County Qa.)
calf case after twenty years of itiga-
ton was brought to a close. The
calves over which the litigation ensued
were originally worth s45, and the to-
tai cost of the case was over SIS, ,000
The plaintiff won the victory.
The National Farmers Alliance in
session at Omaha reelected John H.
Powers, of Nebraska, as president.
The dry-goods firm of James R.
Boyce, Jr., & Co., Butte, Mont, made an
assignment with assets of $3.50 and
liabilities of 100000.
A CoLoRED man named Logan McAfee
while walking along street in Indian
apolis with his wife shot and killed her
and then blew his brains out. Jealousy
was the cause.
FLAMES destroyed nearly all the busi-
ness portion of Cygnet, O., and two men
and 3-year-old girl were burned to a
crisp.
Two CHILDREN Of William Reinert-a
boy of 3 years and girl of months
were burned to death while alone in the
house at Drexel, Wis
IN Mason City, Ia, Lieutenant Fred
eric; Schwatka, the Arctic explorer,
fell downstairs at a hotel and was
probably ia tally injured.
The Wisconsin Board of Health re-
ceived notice of a case of leprosy in
Buffalo County. The patient is Nor
wegian woman.
SEBASTIAN PETERS, of Lima, O., while
crazed with drink murdered his wife by
hacking her nearly to pieces with q
large knife.
In Montana John Niles and three
other horse-thieves were fatally shot
while resisting arrest.
In Chicago man aged go years, name
unknown, was robbed Of 81, 600 in the
Washington-street tunnel on an Ogden
avenue car.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
ENDED AT LAST.
After Twenty Yeirs of Litigation the
Celebrated Jones County Na.) Calf Case
Is Brought to a Close.

Celebrated Jones County Na.) Calf Case
Is Brought to Close.
DEs MONIES, Ia, Jan. 30.-The Iowa
Supreme Court has finally affirmed the
decision of the lower court in the cele-
brated case of johnson VS.. Miller, ct
al, better known as the "Jones County
calf case" The verdict of the lower
court was for the plaintiff in the
sum of $1,000. The last jury re.
turned a general verdict and
also answered number of spe-
cial interrogations, and the case
went to the Supreme Court on the
ground that the answers to the special
interrogations did not warrant the YER
dict. The case has been in the courts
for about twenty years, has been tried
several times in the lower courts, and
has taken number of trips to the Su.
preme Court. It has ban!1rupted every.
body connected with it except the at
torneys. The calves over which the
litigation has ensued were originally
worth S45, and the total cost of the
case has grown to between $500 and
$4,000 in addition to the verdict OF
81 600.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

Mrs. ANNA c. FALL of Boston, is now
q lawyer, and has been admitted to the
Suffolk bar, at which she will practice.
Her husband is also a lawyer, prac-
tlclng in the same court, but if he hap
pens to be retained on one side of case
while his wife holds brief on the
other, he'll have to handle his witnesses
very tenderly and treat his learned
brother" with considerable respect or
he Will get himself into trouble when
the court isn't around to protect him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
Disaster at a Michigan Mine.

IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich, Jan. 3d.
About 6 o'clock Thursday evening o
part of the Chaplin mine, one of the
largest and most productive in Mich
igan, caught fire at the sixth level, and
the flames spread to an alarming ex
tent. The shafts were quickly closed.
but eight men are underground with
out possibility of escape. How the
fire started is not known. At a late
hour the workers had not succeeded 10
subduinp the flames
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

GEORGE BANCRoFT's library is re-
puted to be one of the best private col
lections of books in the country. 1t
contains about twelve thousand VOL
umes, among which are many works in
foreign languages, and every book in
the collection has value apart from
its selling price. The books were close
ly packed in the four rooms that COM
prised Mr.. Bancroft's literary work
shop. and there never was any attempt
made to display them.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

THE japanese author does not write
books. He paints them. AS soon as he
reaches the indispensable minimum of
ideas he shuts himself in his study,
frightened slightly by a soft light from
a four-cornered white paper lantern.
lie has before him a polished table on
which lie his idyllic writing materials.
The paper is of an agreeable yellow,
and is marked with perpendicular and
horizontal blue lines. His ink is held
in rich ebony plate, elaborately
carved, and with depression in which
the black tablets are rubbed to nothing.
The plate carries also five bamboo
brushes which serve as pens.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05


The proposed annexation Of suburbs
of Duluth will give that city an area Of
sixty-thrce square miles.
Ira c. Aldrich, OF Faribault, has been
appointed by Commander in Chief
Veasey of the g. A. R. an aidc-de-camp
on his staff.
At special school meeting at Prince.
ton bonds in the sum of S15,C0o were
voted for the purpose of building a new
school-house at that place.
George w. Magce, proprietor Of the
Metropolitan II tel at st. Paul failed,
owing Sl5,COD. The assignee would run
the hostelry for the present.
A meeting of tj,o State fair directors
in St. Paul resulted in the selection of
September 7, as the opening day, the
fair to continue through the week.
A store building at Pleasant Grove
owned by Ross H. Russell was de-
stroyed by fire The building was oc-
cupied by Dr. Baker with drug
store.
Charles Kemmie, of Minneapolis, has
challenged any 14o-pound fighter in the
world to match for a purse of $1,000
and a side bet of from $1,000 to $2,5 o.
NJ. B. Harrison has secured three new
manufacturing concerns for Duluth--a
woolen mill, furniture factory and
planning mill.
The body of an unknown man, whose
skull was fractured, was found floating
in the canal at Duluth.
A body of hematite ore has been dis
covered near Ely. The find lies near
the famous Chandler mine.
Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, has
teen retained by the Duluth prop rty
holders to present their ca es for quiet
ing title aga nst the Prentice claim
before the Tn ted States Supreme
Court.
Laurence Schmidt, Salvation Army
private in St. Paul, was captured by a
policeman recently, charged with
forgery. 1t is said that he purchas ed
twenty-five cents worth of sugar at a
grocery store, handing out forged
check for seven dollars and getting six
dollars and seventy-five cents in return.
A dustless coal and grain chute has
been invented by T. w. Emery, a Min
neapolis man.
At the speed contest of the Stenog-
raphers' Business Association in st.
Paul Stephen c. Vasaly wrote 500
words correctly on typewriter in FIVE,
minutes.
Mrs. Thomas Dixon, Of Minneapolis,
was run over and killed by switch en-
CINE.
John Mills and William McMahon
were sentenced at Winona by Judge
Start to six years each in the State
prison for holding up Richard Hague
and relieving him Of a.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

A MAN who has been annoyed for
years by the fact that one side of his
mustache grows about twice as fast as
the other side claims to have found an
explanation in the circumstance that he
sits all day at his desk with one side of
his face turned to window, the light
from which stimulates the growth of
the hair on that side.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

BRUSSELS, Jan. 30.-The funeral Of
the dead Prince Baudouin took place
here and was the occasion of great
outpouring of the people. business
was suspended and there was a granc
military display. So great was the
crush in front of the cathedral where
the scr-ices took place that many per
sons were injured and were removed il
an unconscious condition.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
CHURCHES.

DRESBYTERIAN.-Dr. J. Riheldaifer,
i pastor. Services every Sabbath at ~: 30
O'Clock AN. aud at 8 o'clock P II. Sab
bath school at Il o'clock
IETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
4tl Services every Sabbath, at lO:D o'cluck
4. II. and al 8 Pm. Sabbath school at IL x.
THRISTIAN.- N.-PreachinR on every Lords
" Day at lU::O O'Clock A. N. and p. NJ, by
J. @ Harrison. Sunday School ut Y N.
E>PISCOPAL.-Church of The Holy Com
~ muuiOn kev. =. B. Purves. Ser vice
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at 81 A. ~ and oP II. sunday
school at I'm.
NATrOLIC.-Timeso Of service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

WHILE we are having just an enjoya-
BILE winter, Europe is experiencing the
toughest kind Of weather. The bliz-
zard, supposed to be an exclusive pos
session of our own wild West, is raging
about Austria and Germany with Sc
verify rarely surpassed in the region of
the Rockies.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

A KANAKA legend exists that when
red fish enters Honolulu harbor the
relgning sovereign must soon die. Such
a fish appeared on the 10th of Novem-
Der, fifteen days before the late King
kalakaua sailed for San Francisco. It
was intimated, however, that urtain
persons had something to do with the
appearance of the ominous member of
the fnny tribe
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

New YORK has passed law to stop
the docking of horses tails, but the
fashionable people, incapable of believ-
ing that such law could apply to them,
have persisted in the practice. The So
ciety for the Prevention of Cruelty is
now collecting evidence with a view to
the prosecution of the Offenders.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

Miss MAMIE SMITH, a beautiful young
girl Of twenty-five years, was arrested
at Denver three months ago for at
tempting to pass forged check upon
one of the local banks. She was SUBJ
sequently released on bail, and re-
mained there pending trial The other
night, after brief illness, she died of
pneumonia, when it was learned that
she was not compelled to commit the
crime from necessity, but was mono
maniac on the subject Of passing forged
paper She had an estate in Louisville,
Ky, valued at 5000, from which she
received a monthly income of $500. Her
remains were sent East for interment.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

THE Presbyterian church of New
Bedford, Pa, has declared itself in favor
Of matrimony. 1t demanded that
newly-elected deacon resign because he
did not come up to the rule requiring
that a deacon shall be the husband of
one wife and have his children in SUBJ
iectiOn.'
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

By her contract for tour of America
Sara Bernhard is to get $500 day for
hotel expenses, 5000 for each perform
ance, and one-third of the gross receipts.
Sara may have dcteriorated in her act
ing, but she has lost none of her nerve.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

THE late Harvey b. Dodsworth. the
well-known New York bandmaster,
furnished the music at Presidential in
augurations for the last thirty years.
During the war, free of charge for his
own services, he furnished the armies
of the North no less than fifty band
masters and five hundred musicians
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

THE death of King Kalakaua removes
a picturesque character who for seven
teen years ruled the little Kingdom of
Hawaii. The most that could be said
of his Majesty was that he was harm
less. The affairs of State never rested
heavily on him. The fifty thousand
persons on the Sandwich islands are not
difficult population to govern, being
more intent on raising sugar cane and
rice than on disturbances of any kind, and
the result was that Kalakaua' sreign was
characterized by only one revolution.
Personally Kalakaua was a good fell
low, who enjoyed a frst-class dinner.
and death was fastened by high living.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

COMMODORE" Tyson. of theater-tick-
ct fame, conceived and carried out the
idea Of running news-stands in the lead
ing hotels. He is now worth half
million
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

A COMPANY has been Incorporated in
San Francisco for the manufacture of a
new explosive, said to be five times the
strength Of dynamite and the inven-
ton of Dmitri Mindliff, Russian
ohanict
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
LATER.
Alabama Outbreak.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Feb. 1.-White
miners are suspected of the killing OF
four negroes and the wounding of five
others at Carbon Hill mines, Friday
night, but there seems to be no evidence
against any one. The wounded negroes
say the men who shot them down were
white, but they are unable to identify
any Of them. Col. Clark received orders
from Gov. Johns to put fifty members
OF the local companies under arms in
readiness to proceed to Carbon Hill,
near Galloway mines. In the absence
of Col. Clark, Capt. Randolph Peyton of
the birmingham Rifles. assumed COM
mand and twenty-five men from the
Rifles and like number from the vol
unteers were assembled. Ats o'clock
this afternoon telegram was received
from the government to proceed to
Carbon Hill.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

E. B. SEARS, of Boston, has bought
the famous English st. Bernard dog,
Sir Bedivero, paying for it $4,000.
Rather costly piece of unconverted
S1OSaUa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

POLICEMAN buying paregoric sur
prised Brooklyn reporter, who thought
that the profession had no need of that
medicine.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

THERE are now two hundred regularly
ordained women preachers in the United
States, where forty years ago there was
ONLY one
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

James Cruzen, his wife and daughter
have been arrested for an assault upon
Matilda E. Lent, a school-teacher at
Winnebago City, with intent to kill.
The wife was the one directly accused.
She made the assault upon Miss Lent
with heavy school-bell on account Of
a whipping the school-teacher had in
f1icted upon her child. 1t was feared
Miss Lent could not live.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

ASK any woman what is a woman's
most interesting age and she will come
very near telling you how old she is.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

IT speaks well for the thrift of the
black men of old Virginia that in six
teen cities of the State the blacks are
said by the census to own property
worth $s,s24, 542, mostly real estate. In
Richmond their wealth 10 placed at
$500, 13a
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

Mrs. Mary Mccormick, of Minneap-
oils, was found dead in her bed. Some
days before the lady had met with a
heavy loss by being robbed on a crowd
ed street-car of pocketbook contain
ing S5s in cash and note for Slo5, and,
as she had been a sufferer from heart
disease, it was supposed that the worry
consequent upon this loss was the cause
of her death. She leaves a family of
three boys and two girls.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
His Returns Not False.

The jury in the case of j. O. Vcrvais,
the St. Paul census enumerator who
was charged with making false returns,
brought in a verdict of not guilty.
This was said to be the first complete
trial of it's kind in the history of the
country. The trials of the Minneapo
lis enumerators, charged with conspir.
acy, would be held later at Minne-
apolis.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

CAMPANINI has the spirits of boy
since his voice has been restored to him
by surgical operation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
New P0Jt-Ofces.

New post-ottices have been established
in Minnesota as follows: c. E. Cham
berlain, Belle Plaine, Scott County; N.
G. Marn, Cologne, Carver COUNT; T.
X. Boyle, la loway, Swift County;
Archie A. True, North Sioux Falls, Pipe
Stone County.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

Archbishop Ireland has issued letter
to the clergy of the archdiocese of St.
Paul in which he percmptorily forbids
every practice that in any way re-
sembles lottery at Catholic fairs, pro-
hibiting all selling of chances, ratfles,
fish-ponds, post-otfices and other de-
vices generally in practice at such en-
tertainments and upon which church
people largely rely for their receipts.
The letter created general interest.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
TO AVOID CREDITORS.
The Reason for q Minnesota Bankers

The Reason for Minnesota Bankers
Suicide Disclo ed.
The mystery of the suicide on De-
cember of Henry L. Branham, presi-l
dent of the bank of Stevens & Co.,
at Litchfeld, is solved. The bank was
irsolvent, and its president, who was
also mayor of Litchfeld, took his own
life rather than meet his creditors
What was done with the me 1ey,
whether spent in gambling in grain and
railway stocks or invested badly in
real estate, was unknown, but it was
not in the bank. The liabilities of the
institution were about S150,00o and
there was not $4,000 to pay the deposit
tors. Conservative business men said
the dcpositors would get no more than
10 per cent.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05
A Foolish Lover.

In Ben Wade township Miss Annie
Simonson, girl of Is years, met
Christ Abrahamson at the gate of her
fathers yard and told him she could not
marry him because she was too young.
Abrahamson, who himself is but IL,
pleaded with her few minutes and
then drew a revolver and shot her
through the heart. Walking away few
yards he placed the weapon to his tenn
pie and fired, dying almost instantly.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

Joseph King, young lawyer who
came to st. Paul four years ago to accept
the position of assistant solicitor Of the
Manitoba Railway Company, lay at st.
Joseph's Hospital a hopeless lunatic. DR..
Talbot Jones examined King and pro-
nounced him non compos mentis, urg-
ing his friends to take care of him or
he would commit suicide. In the last
three months King had lost several
thousand dollars. Running out of
money he gave large nun Der of checks
on the German-American Bank, at
which institution he had no funds.
Hearing that Sheriff Bear was after him
he became violently insane.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-05

-"What a pretty idea, Johnny, to
call your sailboat Mammal" Eyes II
Is: tell you she's spankcr!'-Brool
lyn Eagle.