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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25
UNCLE SAM LOSES.

The Government Beaten in an Important
Suit-A Decision Under Which 1t May
Have to Refund $40, 90, 900 to $50, ,OOO-
900 of Duties.
PHILADELPHIA, June 20.-The jury
in the suit of Meyer & Dickinson
against the government to recover
excess of duties levied on ma
terial used as hat trimmings returned
verdict of S632.4O for the plain
tiffs. The government will appeal the
verdict to the supreme court. BY the
verdict of the jury in this city the
government is made liable for
from s2O,OOo,0Oo to $50, 900 it has
collected in duties from importers of
millinery materials in various parts of
the country. The suit of Meyer & Dick
inson was a test suit and was intend
ed to test the right of the government
to collect the duties on the goods
in dispute. Other pending suits
will be affected by the ver-
dict, and that is where the large
amount of money and the great inter-
est taken by importers comes in. TAX
ing the suits altogether, the i'm
porters claim the goods in ques-
ton to be hat trimmings, and
to be dutiable at 20 per cent.
ad valorem. The government claims
they are dutiable at so per cent. ad
valorem under the clause of all goods,
wares and manufactures of silk, or of
which silk is the component material
of chief value.
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CIVIC SOCIETIES.

MASONIC. = REDWOOD FALLS COMMAND.
4Nl ERr, No. l5, X. T.-Stated conclaves first
Monday of each month, at P. N. w. +.
Dickinson, E. Z. E. ID. French. Rec.
ANTIQUITY LODGE, No. 81. A. F. & A. M
Regular meetings on tho lst and Sd Wednes.
day in each month, at 7:30 O'clock p. m. Geo.
Drake. NJ. W., .. W. Mcmillan, Sec.
REDWOOD CHAPTER No. "a. r. A. M-Stat
ed Conversations the I'd Friday of each month.
W. +. Dickinson, H. p, E. ID. French, Sec.
90. REDWOOD LODGE No 6S, meets
L. every Saturday night, at 7:30 o'clock.
brothers from a distance are cordially invited
10 attend. =. McPherson, N. P, G. A. Mo
ClintCck, II. S.
ENTERPRISE ENCAMPMENT, No. IS. Regular
meetings 1st and Sd Tuesday evenings Of each
y. Thompson, c. p. o. Van Dolah. Scribe.
CRYSTAL LODGE, No 25 D. Of Irregular
meetings I'd and 4th Wednesday evenings Of
each month at 30 p. m. Mrs. T. j. Tradewel,
N. q. Mrs. f. B. Hale, X. S.
A O.U. w.-REpwooD FALLS LODGE, No
~. g. meets on Monday evenings of each
week. Visiting brethren made welcome. c.
'" Mead, NJ. W. WIN. S. Mckay, Financier.
X OF P.--REDwoop FAILS LODGE. No "a
N. meets every Tuesday evening in Ack
mann's Hall. Visiting brothers are cord ally
invited. H. A. Baldwin, c. c. W. R. Caswell,
K. r. S.
r. A. R.-.JoHN S. MARSH Posi-, No. S. Reg.
~. uIar meetings first and third Thursday
Df each month, at their hall. E. d. French,
Com. NJ. II Jones, Adjt.
w. r. C.-Regular meetings 1st and Sd.
Thursdays of each month at o clock p. m at
g. A. X. Hall. Fannie Buxton, Pres. H. Abb
oett, Secy.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

WHILE preaching, Rev. Ephrlam
ROehr, aged 20 years, a minister of the
old Mennonite church near Montville,
Pa, dropped dead.
In eastern states hot weather pre-
vailed on the 18th. At Providence, R..
l., the thermometer registered 107 in
the shade, at Portland, Me-, 80, at Hart
ford, Conn.,, 81, at Pittsburgh, Pa, &C.,
and at New York 81, the warmest June
day ever known in that city.
The failure was reported of the firm
of Sevill Schotield, Son & Co., wooden
manufacturers at Manayunk, Pa, for
$500, 900.
In the six days ended on the 18th H.,
500 immigrants arrived at New York
from various countries of Europe; and
barred as undesirable.
The death of Joseph X. ("Fritz')
Emmett, the comedian, occurred at
Cornwall-on-the-H Hudson, aged 50 years
Pneumonia was the cause.
AT Hartford, Conn.,, Harriet Beecher
Stowe, author of "Uncle Toms Cabin
and many other works, celebrated her
sOth birthday on the 18th.
Miss JOSIE ORR and John Adams were
drowned near Troy, N. Y, by the cap
sizing of boat.
In New York Generezi Desiderio, an
old Italian, sold his handsome young
wife to Allessandro Vanegi for $50 spot
cash.
THE city of Seabright, N. j., was
burned. No lives were lost, but $50
families were rendered homeless
NINE deaths occurred from sunstroke
in New'York city on the 10th and thirty
others were Frustrated.
AT New Brunswick, N. j., Mrs. Cath
arine Hughes died at the age of 1O7
years. She was born in that city April
16, 1884.
A MAN named Bixby, of Royersford,
Pa, while crazed by whisky seized a
little girl named Knerr and jumped
into the canal and both were drowned
AT Boston the 116th anniversary of
the battle Of Bunker Hill was celebrat-
ed on the 18th.
OVER 5000 immigrants arrived in
New York on the 18th, 145 of them be-
ing Mormons bound for Utah.
JEALOUS negro named Saunders
shot and killed his rival. named Har-
ris, and accidentally killed Mrs. Harris
at Oakdale, Pa.
The execution of Jacob Scheele took
place at Bridgeport, Conn, for the
murder of Louis Drucker on January
25, 1883.
In Pittsburgh, Pa, the Allegheny
Reformed Presbyterian church has
withdrawn from the Presbyterian fold
because the synod recently deposed its
nastOr Rev J. R. T. Millipan
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RIOT ON A STEAMBARGE.

Capt. Dupont and Five Men of the Jane
Cook Shot Down at Amherstburg, Ont.
AMHERsTBURG, Ont, June 2O.-Thurs-
day evening the steam barge Jane Cook,
of Port Dover, Ont, anchored about
300 feet off the Amherstburg dock, and
a portion of the crew went ashore
and filed up with liquor,
returning about midnight. They
proceeded to make dis
turbance below deck, and became so
noisy and abusive that the other men
objected. Captain Dupont went below
to stop the row, but matters had
reached the danger point, and about
the time the captain showed up
pistols were pulled and indiscrimina te
firing started. The battle ragged for
half an hour, and when it was over it
was found that six men had been
shot. DR.. Robertson and an assist
ant were summoned and dressed
the wounds. Captain Dupont was
shot through the right lung and his
recovery is doubtful. Peter Riopelle
was also shot in the chest and may die.
The other four wounded men were shot
in the legs and their wounds are not
considered dangerous.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25
WEST AND SOUTH.

In fit of insanity Frank D. Lee, re-
siding near the theological seminary in
Fairfax county, Va, killed his only
son, aged 9, years, to whom he was de-
votedly attached, and then committed
suicide
In quarrel with his wife August
Vogt, of st. Peter, Mimi, fatally beat
her with hatchet and then hanged
himself.
New United States courts of appeals
were organized in accordance with an
act of congress at St. Louis, Chicago,
Cincinnati and San Francisco. the OBJ
ject being to remove an immense
weight from the already crowded SUI
preme court at Washington.
The firm of r. w. Dunham & Co.,
Chicago commission merchants, has
failed for 100000.
AT Newmanville, Tenn, cloud
burst swept away many houses and
ruined crops on the bottom lands
The tobacco statistics of Indiana
show that the number of planters in
the state during the census year was
4, 457; the area devoted to tobacco, 1878
acres; the product, Z, 71O, 297 pounds, and
the value of the crop, 1884, $40.
FIRE destroyed the business portion
of Mondovi, Wis.
The Iowa coal miners strike has
come to an end, the men returning to
work at the old prices and hours.
HENRY EMMETT and Will Ross were
drowned at Kansas City, Mo-, by the
upsetting of boat.
On the Milwaukee line a train from
Omaha to Chicago jumped the track
near Cedar Rapids, Ia, Is and rolled down
an embankment, killing three passen-
gers and injuring thirty others !
Brown CuDN1PF and a man named
Turner were struck by an engine at
East Hillsboro, Ill, and killed.
REPORTS that the Anaconda and ad-
jacent copper, mines, in Montana had
been sold to a foreign syndicate were
denied. 4
THERE was a light snowfall at Bon
ham, Tex, on the 10th while the tenn
perature was 50 degrees.
THE republicans of Ohio in conven-
ton at Columbus nominated the fol-
lowing ticket: For governor, William
Mckinley; lieutenant governor, a. L.
Harris; state treasurer, w. r. Cope;
auditor, E. w. Poe; attorney general,
J. X. Richards; supreme, Judge, NJ. ].
Williams; school superintendent, O. T.
Carson. ~ IS .,s..ss,
CASEY, Ia, was inundated by a heavy
rain and two girls were drowned
WHILE bathing in q pond near Grant
City, Mo-, Charlie France and his
cousin, Myron Gardner, were drowned.
DIVINE to domestic trouble John
Duty, living near Benton, Ill, shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Allen,
on the street and attempted to kill his
wife, but failed
In Nebraska the heaviest rain known
for years fell on the nth. The town
of Battle Creek was flooded and sew
eral houses wrecked. At Humphrey
Bartholomew Bogus was killed by
lightning, and at Palmer the wife and
grandmother Of v. Lauton met Q like
fate
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DROWNED IN ICY BAY.

Two Members of the Mount st. Elias Ex-
ploring Party and -Four of the Crew Of
the United States Steamship Bear Per-
ish in Alaskan Waters.
VICTORIA, B. c., June 2U.-News of
the drowning of six men of the United
States steamship Bear in Alaskan
waters has been received by telegraph
from Nanimo. The cutter bear
had put into Icy bay for the pur-
pose of landing the Russell Mount St.
Elias exploring party. A heavy sea
was running when the boat containing
the party left the Bear for shore. In a
few minutes, and when within plain
sight of those aboard the
Bear, all the occupants of
the boat were buffeting the
waves in the ice-cold water. Boats
were launched from the Bear and
rowed to the scene of the disaster, but
before they arrived six of the unfor-
tunate occupants had sunk. They
were Lieut. Robinson and w. c. Moore
of the Russell party and four seamen
of the Bear. ss@
WASHINGTON, June 20.-The United
States geographical survey has re-
ceived a dispatch confirming the news
from Victoria of the drowning of Lieut..
Robinson and four of the crew of the
revenue steamer Bear and w. G..
Moore, one of the Russell party. The
dispatch was from Mr.. Russell, of the
geological survey, who is in charge of the
party sent to Alaska by the Geograph-
ical society to explore Mount St Elias
and to reach its top, if possible. Mr..
Russell left the Pacific coast last spring
on the Bear with a party of five or six
assistants for Alaska to pursue his re-
searches began last summer, and the
first news received from him was the tel
egram announcing the accident. 1t is
said at the geographical survey that Mr.
Russell is now probably on his way up
the mountains, and that the accident
to one of his men will not prevent the
continuance of the exploration. Lieut..
L. L. Robinson, who was drowned at
Icy bay, was born in Ohio He leaves
wife who resides in Port Townsend.
BLENHEIM, Ont, June 90 - Friday
afternoon Mrs. David Clarke, who was
deserted bv her husband some months
ago and left without means of support
went down to Rondeau dock with her
three children, two boys of 10 and 4
years old and an infant in arms. She
sent the elder boy on a message and
while he was absent she drowned her
young son and leaped into the water
with her infant, meeting SIMILAR fate.
QUEBEC, Can, June 2O-Five chill
dren, belonging to family named
LaChance, were playing in boat on
the st. Lawrence river near Port Neuf,
a few miles from Quebec, when waves
from passing steamer caused the boat
to fill, and four of the children were
drowned
GRAND HAVEN, Mich, June 20.-Dr.
Springer J. Sciesce and O. johnson,
Grand Rapids gentlemen who arrived
at Spring lake Friday morning on a
fishing trip met with sad accident at
noon. Their boat was accidentally up
set and johnson was drowned.
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 20.-Opposite
Golconda, ILL.,, Will II. Hockwisher and
Willie Kreipke, both under 30, and two
colored men, were drowned by the
overturning of their skiff in a sudden
windstorm.
HANCOCK, Mich, June 2O.-William
Shellman and Jerry Kelly were
drowned in Portage lake, near here,
Friday.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25
A HERo'S FATE.

A Nebrasks schooihouse Threatened by .
: Flocd "A Young Scholar Saves Several
OF HIS Companions, but Loses His Life
Together with two Others whom He
Was Trying to Rescue-Furious Storms
Elsewhere.
NORFOLK, Neb., June 20-A country
schoolhouse near this place which was
crowded with children was washed
away during the recent storm. The
catastrophe resulted in the drowning of
Charles Miles, Cora Hamlin and Anna
Cox. That all the children did
not perish was due to the heroism of
young Miles who, on observing the
ravine filing with water apd the build
ing settling, attempted to conduct the
scholars to high ground. Several
1eipiA drifted away with the flood, but
soung Miles gallantly plunged in and
rescued them. While struggling ashore
with the two little girls all three were
swept away beneath pile of drift
wood.
GREAT DAMAGE IN ILLINOIS.
PEORIA, Ill, June 20.--The damage
by Thursdays storm is more general
and widespread than was at first sup
posed A new iron bridge 800 feet
long oyer Ten.Mile creek. in Fond du
Lac township, was washed away. The
creek is high and people there are cut off
from communication with the rest of
the world. Just across the river from
Peoria two brickyards are under 10 feet
of water. The face of the country was
entirely changed. Where hillocks stood
there are now ponds and where there
were ponds and depressions there are
now sand ridges. The damage to crops is
almost incalculable. The reports come
in slowly for the reason that in the
country districts all bridges were
swept away and the roads washed out
so that it is impossible for people to
get to this city.
The farmers for distance of s or 6
miles up the river and ~ miles back
to the hills have lost all their crops
In many places the water is yet stand
ing over corn fields to depth of feet.
Along the line of the Toledo, Peoria &
Western road is a terrible scene of
"TcChdSc. uc uOuScuOlu 1urQlCurC OF
people in Farmdale and Hilton was all
washed away. Chairs, baby carriages,
wagons, dead cattle, pianos, tables and
picket fences are piled up 10 feet high
against the railroad trestle.
ALTOONA, PA, UNDER WATER.
ALTOONA, Pa, June 2O.-One of the
heaviest transforms in years struck
Altoona Friday afternoon. The streets
and avenues looked like small lakes,
and the sewers failed to carry away
the large body of water. Gel
lars in all parts of the town
were filed with the fluid, and a
great deal of damage was caused in
consequence. A second storm oc-
CURED about o'clock, followed by
serious results. Mrs. Barbara Reichl,
aged 35 years, and Katie Brady, aged
syears, were struck by lightning The
former will die. Small bridges through
out the county have been swept away
by the overflowed streams.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

OVER two and a half million dollars
have been absorbed by the short term
endowment societies which have been
going to the wall so rapidly of late in
Philadelphia. Very little of this money
will ever 60 back to the artisans and
working people who paid it. Most of
those who went into these get-rich-
quick orders realized that they were
only engaging in speculation. Their
experience shows how ready people
are to speculate when the cost is small
and the returns promised large. and
how little attention is paid to which
way the odds lie until it is beyond their
power to retrace their steps,.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

THE census bureau has made public a
bulletin on the subject of bituminous
coal production in Pennsylvania. 1t
shows the output of that state to have
been Sc, i74,O ,Os9 short tons in 1889, near
ly double that reported at the tenth
census The total value of the, output
is given ut $27, ,953, 215, or an average of
77.9 cents per short ton at the mines,
against s1s,567,1 129 in 1880, or an aver
age of zoos cents per ton at the mines.
The average number of persons en-
ployed IN 1889 was So, $780, against
80, 24S for 1850, the amount paid for
wages in 1889 being s2l, ,142, o51, against
$40, S63, ,5S3 for 1885,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

NAUvoo, Ill, June 20.-The straw
berry crop at this place is enormous.
Over 1000 men, women and children
have been engaged in picking the fruit,
which is shipped away by the steam
boat and carload. Shipping at one
time had to cease on account OF the
strawberries becoming too ripe. The
grape and peach crop will exceed any
thing Of the kind known for years
Some peach trees are breaking down
ON account Of their burden of fruit
The fruit crop generally in Hancock
county will be largs,
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

A BOY in New Jersey has created a
great deal of trouble for the school au-
thoritics of that state because he re-
fused to apologize for kissing girl and
would not take whipping from the
teacher. The boy refused to acknowl-
edge that he ha committed a crime
even though the kiss was stolen. He
was dismissed from school, but tho
county aud state superintendents were
both boys once, and they have rein
stated him.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

EDWARD WHELAHAN, who died re-
Gently in New Haven. Conn, was near
er to the head of the army for longer
time than any other man. He was a
trooper in Company b. of the Fifth
Connecticut cavalry, but was detailed
as the personal orderly of Gen. Grant
When Grant rode out the armed cavalry
man rode fifteen PAGES behind to
personally guard his commander.
Wherever Grant walked there Whela-
han followed. The trooper was tall,
powcrfully-built man of splendid mill
tary bearing, bold and skillful rider,
C soldier of recognized bravery and q
faithful man. :
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25
A Genuine Curiosity.

The society of California pioneers il
the owner of a wonderful curiosity. II
is q section Of timber taken from tho
side OF. the ship Powhatan. It includes
. portion Of the "skin,'' which is four
inches thick, and piece of abutting,
knee which is nine inches thick; trans
versely through the whole of this .
swordfsh has dashed his sword, and the
portion broken of is still imbedded in
the timber. The sword pierced through
thirteen inches of this solid oak, and
the fish was going in the same direction
ss the vessel at that, the ship being
under good head Of steam at the time.
An idea Of the strength which must
have been exerted can be obtained from
the fact that rifle six-pounder could
not have done more than pierce that
thickness Of solid oak. CHICAGO Nswa
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

A RECENT visitor to Concord, N. H.,
ran across an old man who claimed<o
have worked for Hawthorne, and who
indulged in this bit of description of
that author: II could never get him to
say anything till after three in the
afternoon; he was writing and think
ing about his books, you know, morn
ings. Why, he'd go as near to me as
that tree pointing to one three feet
off and never see me mornings But
after three, when was working round,
he'd sit on saw-horse and talk
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

ANTWERP diamond frauds are said to
have fooled the world with 25, 900, O0O
francs worth of bleached diamonds
since they commenced the business.
Eut as long as the owners are not
aware of the fraud they are happy.
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CHURCHES.
DREsBYTERIAN.-Dr. J. @. Riheld,

DRESBYTERIAN.-D J. @. RiheldaHer,
l. pastor. Services every Sabbath at 10: 30
O'Clock An. and at o'clock p. II. Sab
bath school at IL o clockN.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
4fI Services every Sabbath, at 1880 o clock
A. Il. and at Pm Sabbath school at Rk.
THRISTIAN. Preaching on every Lords
~ DAY at 10:30 O'Clock A. NJ and p. NJ, by
J. @ Harrison. Sunday School at y n.
LNPISCOPAL.-Churc Of The Holy Com
~ munion Rev. S. b. Purves. Service
every Sunday. except the last Sunday in the
month, at l0:3J A. n. and P n. sunday
school at I'm.
TATHOLIC.-Timeso OF service to b ~
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

THE 14th of June was the anniversary
of the adoption of the American flag.
On that day in 1777 the continental
congress passed the resolution estab-
fishing the stars and stripes as the ma
tional standard. The Sons of the
Revolution have issued request that
the day hereafter be annually observed
by finging the glorious star-spangled
banner to the breeze
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

VERY sensible little booklet has
been published under the ominous title
OF Getting Married and Keeping Mar
ried. There seems to be in this age a
need for instruction in the second
clause. Too many people think the
work is all done when the marriage
ceremony ends, when the fact is that
the real courtship then begins
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

NOVEL and interesting feature of
the immigration to this country is the
Danish immigration to Maryland.
The first arrival some time since was a
colony Of 463 under the leadership of
Peter Cedar, of Copenhagen, and now
100 more have arrived. They will buy
1,7oo acres of land in Prince Georges S
county, near the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad, between Baltimore and Wash
ington, and will devote themselves to
dairy and truck farming, in which the
Danes are adopts
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

WE hear a great deal about smo
less powder. There is a statue, can
ization, immortality and eternal gr;
tude for the man who can invent
SmokeleSS cigarette.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

JUDGE PIILLIrs, of the United States
court at Kansas City, has decided a
case interesting to accident insurance
companies. He decides that sunstroke
is not an accident, but brain disease,
arising from natural and known causes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

AS USUAL, most of the graduating
class at Yale this year will study law,
says the Boston Herald, and it will be
the same at Harvard and all the other
colleges, doubtless 1t is the most
crowded of all the professions, but it still
holds out the most attractions to the
ambitious young men about to choose a
calling in life. We suppose it is speak
ing entirely within bounds to say that
not one-half of the young men who go
into law ever succeed in making liv-
ing out of that alone.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

EXPERIMENTS at the McGill univers
in Montreal show that signal may
flashed through the round circuit
eight thousand miles of ocean cable
the average time of only LOS seconds
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-06-25

WHEN China finds and convicts a {
honest official she chops his head {
and never gives him a second tri
The Chinese believe that they can g
this republic pointers.