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

IN quarrel over women.
SIXTEEN survivors of the Blackhawk
war held reunion at Galena, Ill. Only
twenty three of the pioneers who
fought the Indians in 1889 are still
alive.
THE death of ex-Gov. Harrison Lud-
ington occurred at his home in Madi-
son, Wis, in his sOth year. He was
governor of the state in 1875.
The bursting of mill-race destroyed
800 acres of celery at Kalamazoo, Mich
involving a loss of $4,000
SPACE has been given every state and
territory in the union at jackson park,
Chicago, for building at the world S
fair.
On the mountains in which is situated
the Conception silver mine, in the state
of San Luis Potosi, Mex, waterspout
drowned twenty-three persons.
w. NJ. Dow MURDERED Capt. Perkins
and his 14-year-old son, of GAINESVILLE,
Tex, as the result of an old feud.
The steamers Alert and Mohican
sailed from San Francisco for Behring
sea under special orders to prevent seal
catching.
AT Utica, Ill, cloudburst caused
damage exceeding 100000, and
throughout the entire Illinois river
valley heavy losses resulted from
floods, which washed out crops and
swept away houses and live stock.
A BROKEN rail ditched freight train
at Disko. Ind, and sixteen cars were
wrecked and twenty head of imported
cattle killed.
AT Baltimore William X. Duval was
sentenced to nine years in the peniten-
tiary for obtaining christening and
Christmas gifts from United States SEN
ators and others under false pretenses,
alleging that he had named children in
their honor.
NEAR his home in Crook county,
Wyo., James Waggener, noted horse
thief, was lynched.
Miss Lou BELL and George Thomp-
son, both colored, were struck by a
train near Dayton, O., and both were
killed.
On the 18th John Brooks, of Wa1dron,
Nj .ch., celebrated the 1O5th anniversary
of his birthday. He was a soldier of
the war of 1872, is in good health and is
Michigan's oldest citizen.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
IT was said that religious persecu-
tion in Russia was being extended to
the Baptists and Stundists, and many
families were being banished daily.
SENATOR ABBOTT, the new premier of
Canada, has succeeded in forming a
cabinet. 1t is practically the same as
under Sir John Macdonald.
THE Casselman Lumber Company's
mills at Casselman, Ont, together with
six houses and large amount of lum-
be-. were destroyed by fire, Loss, $115,-
O00
THE new census of England and Wales
crease of 100000 in ten years.
KlLBURN J. Brown, a conductor on
the Canadian Pacific railway, was dis
covered to have been for ten years
smuggling goods, thus defrauding the
United States government out of over
$4,000
AT all the North German coast
cities a hurricane did great damage and
scores of persons lost their lives at
Hamburg, Kiel, Stettin and Dantzig.
AT the request of Premier Rudini,
Sig Corti, late Italian consul at New
Orleans, prepared report on the New
Orleans affair. He affirmed that the
victims belonged to no particular So
ciety, but were murdered because they
were Italians and were competing in
the labor market against natives.
In the railroad bridge accident at
Basle, Switzerland, $50 persons were
killed and the injured mum bered 800.
IT was said that a plan had been dis
covered in Guatemala to annex that re-
public to the United States.
A BOAT containing eleven persons
was struck by squall and upset in
Rice lake near Peterboro, Ont, and
John Foote and his two daughters were
drowned.
THE bill to prohibit children under II
years of age from working in factories
was adopted by vote of 20S to 1856 in
the British house of commons. This
was liberal victory.
FIFTY lives were lost Dy the cloud
burst in the Mexican mountains near
Catorce.