The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-03
FIRE destroyed the business portion

of Fonda, la ...-'5...s -
AT Independence, Ia, Faustino won
the IS, 900 stake for S-year-olds, making
the last three heats in 2:1sA, 2:17 and
2:1sh, the best three heats ever trotted
by 3-year-old. .~-,a-
SOME 800 San Francisco employers
have formed an association to fight
trades unions
In the northwest frosts greatly dam
aged wheat and other crops. In por.
tions of Minnesota and the Dakotas ice
formed, the thermometer marking four
degrees below the freezing point.
In a joking way Mrs. Tillie Reck.
man, of Ironton, O., pointed a revolver
supposed to be unloaded in the face OF
Mrs. Dora May, who was visiting her
from Ashland, KY. The weapon went
off, killing Mrs May instantly.
A CALL has been issued for state
hood convention to be held at Okla
homa City September "a next
On the Western North Carolina ra il.
road a passenger train jumped trestle
and went to the bottom of deep
ravine near Statesville, killing forty
passengers and injuring thirty othe rs,
nine seriously.
THE death of Newton Bacon, the
oldest member of the masonic order in
Wisconsin,, occurred at Oshkosh, aged
80 years. The deceased had been a
mason sixty-seven years.
BARLOW S. WEEKS, of New York,
was elected commander in chief at the
national encampment in Minneapolis
of the Sons of Veterans
NEAR Red Oak, Mich, James Burns
and his daughter Alice were found dead
in their house. It was thought they
took their own lives
In street fight A. J. Montgomery
and two brothers named Jarvis were
killed by Milton Kendall and his four
sons at Georgetown, KY.
MARYLAND repu blicans in state &C n
vention at Ocean City nominated w. G.
Van Mort, of Kent. county, for gev.
ernor.
The failure of the Bremaker-Moore
Paper Company of Louisville, KY,
with liabilities Of 100000, was re-
p,r'el.
NANCY HANKS, a Kentucky mare,
trotted three straight heats at Inde-
pendence, Ia, in 2:l2, 2:12A and 2:12,
breaking all trotting race records.
The legislature of Georgia, by vote
of "a to 81, declined to accept the con.
federate veterans home, an institution
built with private funds
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
THE death of Henry Cecil Raikes, the
British postmaster general occurred in
London, aged 53 years.
ALL along the Spanish coast gales
and hurricanes were reported, and
many vessels had been wrecked and
heavy damage done.
SANTIAGO, (ChilD advices say that
sixty unarmed youths belonging to
good families, while holding political
meeting, were massacred by a detach-
ment of cavalry by order of President
Balmaceda-
In Cuba the total crop of sugar and
molasses produced this year is estimated
at 750, $50 tons of sugar and 81, 247 tons
of molasses.
DISPATCHES from chihuahua, Mex,
give fearful picture of the destitution
of the peasantry. For twelve months
not a drop of rain had fallen, cattle had
died by thousands, and the small farm
ers and ranch hands were starving.
THE Venezuelan congress is said to
have rejected the reciprocity treaty
proposed by the United States.
On board the steamer which arrived
at Singapore with 800 Chinese coolies
for the Penang market, cholera broke
out and sixty deaths occurred.
THE census returns in Canada indi-
cate population of about 6, 600, 900 fol
the entire dominion.
THE death of Edward O'Malley 90
CURED at Enly, county Tipperary,
Ireland, aged 1o6 years
AN appeal has been made by the
governor of Martinique for assistance
for the people of that unfortunate isl.
and. In addition to the enormous
loss of life in the late hurricane whole
villages have disappeared, and the
growing crops were almost totally de-
stroyed.
A HURRICANE at Boulogne, France,
unroofed thirty houses.
GEN. WICHoTE, the last of the Eng
lish officers who fought at Waterloo,
died in London.