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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
CIVIC SOCIETIES.

MASONIC. - REDWOOD FALLS COMMAND.
Nl ERY, No. Is, K. T.-Stated conclaves nrst
Monday Of each month, at p. n. w. +.
Dickinson. E. Z. E. D. French. Rec.
ANTIQUITY LODGE, No. 81. A. F. & A. M
Regular meetings on the 1st aud Sd Wednes.
day in each month, at 7:3O o'clock p. m. Geo.
Drake NJ. W.. o. w. Mcmillan, Sec.
REDWOOD CHAPTER No "a. r. A. M.-Stat-
ed Convocations the I'd Friday of each month.
W. F. Dickinson, H. P, E. d. French Sec.
T 90. REDWOOD LODGE, No 6s meets
1. every SATURDAY. night, at 7:30 o'clock.
Brothers from a distance are cordially invited
to attend. p. McPherso II, N. P, c. A. Nc
Clintock, R. s.
ENTERPRISE ENCAMPMENT, No. 35. Regular
meetings 1st and Sd Tuesday evenings Of each
month at 73J o'clock at l. o. o. F. hall. c.
D. Thompson, c. P. o. Van Dolah, Scribe.
CRYSTAL LODGE, No 25. D. of R-Regular
meetings I'd and 4th Wednesday evenings Of
each month at 7:;0 p. m. Mrs. T. ]. Tradewel
N. G. Mrs. E. B. Hale, r. S.
A OU. w-REDwooD FALLS LODGE, No.
~. 6s, meets on Monday evenings of each
week. Visiting brethren made welcome. &.
W. Mead, NJ. w. WIN. S. Mckay, Financier.
N. meets every Tuesday evening in Ack-
mann's Hall. Visiting brothers are cordially
invited. H. A. Baldwin, c. c. W. R. Caswell,
K. r. s.
r. A. R.-JoHN S. MARSH Posi-. No. s. Reg
". ular meetings first and third Thursday
of each month, at their hall E. d. French,
Com. M. II Jones, Adjt-
W. r. C.-Regular meetings 1st and Sd.
Thursdays of each month at 2 o clock p. m at
g. A. X. Hall. Fannie Buxton, Pres. H. Alb
eett Sec'y.
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EpitOme of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
FlFTY-FIRST CONGRESS.
Second Session.

TUESDAY. Feb. II. The (olomatic
and consular appropriation bill was
passed in the Senate and the Gre
dentials of William A. PETER as Sena-
tor from Kansas and D. w. Voorhees,
from Indiana were presented and placed
on file. In the House the general de-
ficiency bill (S36, ,574, ,3OS) was reported
and the Indian appropriation bill was
discussed.
WEDNESDAY. Feb. 1S. - The copy
right bill, with amendments to admit
copyrighted books, etc., printed in for
eign countries, on payment of tariff du-
ties, and requiring charts, photographs,
etc., to be printed on plates executed
in the United States, was passed in the
Senate by vote of 36 to IA. Other
bills were passed increasing the pen
sions of the widows of Generals Custer
and Ullman and Admiral Wilkes
to 800 per month, and House bill
dividing the State of Iowa into two
judicial districts. In the House the
Indian appropriation bill was passed
and resolutions were discussed to in
vestigate the condition of the Indian
tribes in the United States and to amend
the constitution so as to provide that
the terms Of Representatives shall be-
gin January l, and that the President
shall be inaugurated April 80.
THURSDAY, Feb. 19. - Bills were
passed in the Senate for the erection
of a bridge across Portage lake Michi-
gan, between Houghton and Hancock,
and for the adjudication of claims aris-
ing from Indian depredations. Sen
ator ingalls, resigned as President pro-
tenn. A bill was introduced to give a
pension of $4,000 year to the widow
of Admiral Porter In the House bills
were passed for the relief of settlers on
lands in Southern Iowa, and for the re-
lief of the Stockbridge tribe of Indians
in Wisconsin. A bill was introduced to
repeal that part of the National bank
act that compels National banks to pur-
chase United States bonds
FRIDAY, Feb. 90 - In the Senate
13O pension bills were passed The
measure to give aid to the construction
of the Nicaragua canal was discussed,
but no action was taken. In the House
the bill for the relief of the Supreme
Court and the bill to fix the salaries of
United States Judges were considered.
At the evening session 1l3 pension bills
were passed
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
INDIANA SOAKED.

Furious Rain-Storm Visits the Hoosies
State-Two Persons Drowned at Colum-
bus-A Long Drought Broken in Illinois.
COLUMBUS, Ind, Feb. 21.-For thirty
six hours there has been a constant
rainfall in the southern half of this
State, such as has not been witnessed
for years. All the rivers are out Of
their channels and rising rapidly. The
house of a fisherman was thrown into
the river by falling bank and two peo-
pie are reported drowned. In several
places the river is changing it's channel
and great damage will be done.
indianapolis, Ind, Feb. 21.-The
tunnel under the Union railway station
is half-filled with water. Several man
ufacturing establishments and many
houses in the northeastern part of the
city are flooded, and inundation of the
section of the city lying west of White
river is threatened The rise of the
water has been so rapid that in the in
undated district in the neighborhood of
the Atlas engine works many families
have had to leave their houses through
their windows.
VANDALIA, ILL.,, Feb: 21.-The drought
in Southern Illinois is at last broken.
Rain has fallen almost necessarily dur
ing the last twenty -four hours.
PARIS, ILL, Feb. 21.-The drought in
Edgar County has been broken by
heavy rains during the last twenty-four
hours Some districts were greatly in
need of water. Farmers for the last
two months have been hauling water
from springs for their live stock.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

In the House of Representatives of
the present Congress, now nearing its
close, there have been twenty-six
changes in embership-eleven by
death, six by resignation, and nine by
unseating in favor of contestant. The
deaths were as follows: S. 5. Cox, New
York; James Laird, Nebraska; James
N. Burns, Missouri; James P. Walker,
Missouri; Edward j. Gay, Louisiana;
R. w. Townshend, Illinois; David Will
Der, New York; William D. Kelley,
Pennsylvania: Samuel J. Randall, Penn
sylvania; L. F. Watson, Pennsylvania,
and James Phelan, Tennessee--the
largest death roll of any Congress.
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THE EAST.

FIRE destroyed the new power-house
of the Duquesne Traction Company at
Pittsburgh, Pa. Loss, $1OO, 600; no in
surance.
AT Pittsburgh the Allegheny and
Monongahela rivers were both near the
high-water mark on the 18th and still
rising Reports from different points
in Western Pennsylvania showed very
high water and much damage from the
flood. The loss at Pittsburgh and Ale
gheny alone was placed at $3.50, ,O0O
Thousands of persons have been driven
from their homes.
In a collision of trains at Railway, N.
j., three men were fatally injured
THE doors of the American Loan and
Trust Company of New York were
closed Depositors would be paid in
full.
The death of Mrs. Rose Mccormick
occurred on the 18th, at Green Point, N
Y, aged 104 years. Her father died at
the age of 1O2 years and her mother
lived to be 1O4 years old.
In burning building in Brooklyn, N.
", Mrs. John Henry and her four chill
dren and Jacob Enrich were suffocated.
THE Mckinley tariff law was de-
clared constitutional in test case in
the United States Circuit Court in New
York.
GENERAL SHERMAN's remains were
on the 10th borne from the family resi-
dence in New York to the depot and
embarked on train for St. Louis. The
ceremonies were attended by Presi-
dent Harrison and his Cabinet and
many other distinguished persons, and
thousands of old soldiers were in the
line of march.
BY collision of railway trains on the
New Haven railroad in New York City
six trainmen were killed and seven in
jured.
In Green County, Pa, the Standard
Oil Company has purchased 10000 acres
of oil lands. This corporation now
owns nearly all of five counties in Penn
sylvania.
AT Johnstown, Pa, the bodies of two
victims of the 1889 food were found in
the Conemaugh river. They were sup
posed to be the bodies of females.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

The estimates of mum bers and values
of farm animals, made at the end of
each year and returnable in January to
the Department of Agriculture, have
been consolidated. The number of
horses on farms, as reported, is IA, O56,-
$50, and the average price of all ages,
ss7. Number of mules, 1896, 532, hav-
ing an average value of $77Ss. Num-
Der of milch cows, 1908. .591, having an
average value per head of $21.62 Other
cattle aggregate Se,s75,64s. The esti-
mated number of sheep is 43, 4s1, 1873,
having an average value of s2.51. The
aggregate of numbers of swine is 5O,-
625, LOG, having an average value of 81. Is.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

ADMIRAL PORTER, who died recently
in Washington, was nearly Is years old
and had seen nearly sixty years serv-
ice in the navy. He was the son of Cap
tain Porter, of the navy, who in 1914
made the great fight on the Essex.
Admiral Porter entered the war for the
Union as commander of the Powhat-
tan sent to re-enforce Fort Pickens. He
commanded the mortar fotilla in opera
tions against New Orleans and later COM
manded the Mississippi squadron which
operated against Vicksburg, and COM
manded the naval forces at the capture
of Fort Fisher. On the death of Farra-
gut, Porter succeeded him as Admiral.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
AROUND THE GLOBE.

VoLAPUK is but eleven years old and
1t is said that 100000 people are able
to use it.
A PROPHET has arisen who says that
the world will be densely overcrowded
before it is two hundred years older.
IT is estimated that nearly $1,000 pick
erel have been taken so far this winter
from Long Meadow pond, near Water
bury, Conn.
THE highest church-spire in the world
has just been completed. It is that Of
the cathedral at Ohm. Wurtemberg, and
is $50 feet high.
Mrs. Fl. MCDOWELL, of Oskaloosa, Ia,
Segan about a year and half ago to
save dimes. A few days ago her bank
was opened and the sum total was S11s.-
70.
MARSHAL Booth gives this succinct
statement of the salvation methods:
''Scrubology and soapolcgy, instead Of
theology, in dealing with the submerged
twentieth of society"
THoRND1KE RICE is said to have once
won S10o, 900 at draw poker at single
sitting. It may be true and again it
may not, but there were no such
'shands" among the bric-a-brae which
he left behind him.
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GAVE UP THE LAKE FRONT.

All Worlds Fair Buildings to Be Located
at jackson Park - The Budget Com
mittee's Estimates of Receipts and Ex-
penses.
CHICAGO, Feb. 21.-The Lake Front
was abandoned by the worlds fair di-
rectory Friday night. There were
thirty-two directors present at the
meeting and by vote Of 25 to
they let the old Lake Front go. There
will not be a building placed upon
it and the great Worlds Colum-
bian Exposition will be held in jackson
Park. The Lake Front is to be adorned
with statuary and become lounging
place for tourists. The directory also
adopted the report of the budget COM
mittee, which presented estimates for
the expense of running the fair. which
shows that the directory expects to
spend approximately $685. ,453 and
realize from all sources $21, ZOO, 600.
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CHURCHES.

DREsBYTERIAN.- ]. G.. RiheldaHer,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath At TO- 30
O'Clock An. and At o'clock r. n. Sab
bath school at II O'Clock n.
METHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor.
Xil Services every Sabbath, at 1890 'clook
4. n. and at Pm. Sabbath school at 13k.
AN-Preaching on every Lords
~ bay at 80 O'Clock 4. n. and P. NJ. BY
]. g. Harrison. Sunday School at u n.
~ munion. Rev. s. B. Purves Service
every Sunday, except the last Sunday in the
month, at 1879 A n. and 8 P n. sunday
school at l2M.
NATHOLIC.-Times Of service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

ANOTHER of the peculiar incidents of
the war has cropped out At the battle
of Stone river Constable Walter Lacey,
of Cincinnati, saw, as he supposed, his
brother killed by his side, and has al
ways mourned him as dead. Recently,
however, he saw a notice of the death
of a John Lacey, at Chattanooga,
Tenn, and upon investigation found it
was his long lost brother
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

AN ingenious Chicagoan has per-
fected an electrical device for stopping
runaway horses, the electrical fluid
three volts-being conveyed to the ami
mails through the bits. The curious SEN
sation has never failed, it is said, in a
number of experiments to bring the
frightened animals to standstill. and
without i'll effects on the subjects of ex-
periments. Runaway marriages will
go on the same as ever.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

THE marriage of Morton Mitchell,
cousin of Vice-President Morton, to the
lovely widow, Mrs. George S. Ladd,
has been the seasons sensation in
Washington, and all the bachelors are
envying Morton's good fortune in win
ming pronounced blonde of delicate
beauty and high social station, who has
no membranes except a million dol
lars in good hard cash.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
A FATAL CRASH.
Trains Collide in a Tunnel q New York
Six Lives Lost.

Trains Collide in a Tunnel q New York
Six Lives Lost
New YORK, Feb. 21.-A shop train"
consisting of empty cars was moving
through the Fourth avenue railroad
tunnel at ITO a. m, Friday when it
stopped at Eighty-ffth street Behind it
came train No. 10, the New Haven 10
cal that left the Grand Central depot at
7:O2 a. m. The New Haven train ran
into the standing "shop train," wreck
ing itself and the rear cars of the train
with which it had come into collision.
In few moments flames broke
out, and while every thing was in
terror and confusion third engine,
running light" that is, without cars,
crashed into the wreck. The fire was
soon extinguished and the work of res
cue began.
Engineer Fowler, of the New Haven
train, said that when at Seventy
second street he got the white signal.
which was a signal to go ahead, there
was no ringing of the bell,
either, as is customary when the
danger signal is up. He was
running at the rate of about twenty
miles an hour on the north bound
track. He was so close to the
shop train before he was aware of
it that he telescoped it before he
was hardly able to put on the air
brakes.
On the telescoped shop train there
were probably a dozen or more en-
ployes, both of the road and of the
Wagner Company. Six killed and
seven wounded is the complete list.
The bodies were burned beyond recog-
milton. Parts of some of the bodies
were completely burned away.
A TRIPLE TRAGEDY.
A Wealthy Stockman at Leigh, Neb., Kills
His Wife, an Employe, and Then Cuts
His Throat.
LEIGH, Neb., Feb. 21.-The entire
community was aroused Friday over a
bloody tragedy in the family of William
McCubbin, wealthy stockman,
which resulted in the husband blow
ing his wife's brains out, shooting
his hired man, Frank Yots, to death
and cutting his own throat The crime
was committed as the result of a vague
ruInOT JudC i Gus was 100 luLlLudUo
with Mrs. McCubbin. After the
double murder McCubbin called
his little 5-year-old daughter, who
had witnessed the affair, and giving
her his pocket-book and keys told her
to go and live with her grandmother,
as she would never see papa and man.
ma again. When the frightened child
departed the frenzied man seized q
butcher knife and nearly severed
his head from the body. The
murderer's corpse was found an
hour later lying across those of
his victims who had fallen on the floor.
A shotgun and revolver were used to
do the bloody work The gun
charge tore the wife's face to pieces,
and the five revolver shots were fred
into the body of the hired man. Yots
was an ignorant fellow. and the
suspicious entertained by the hus-
band concerning his wife's inidelity
were considered in the county as en-
tirely ungrounded. McCubbin was q
prominent Republican and leader in
all county affairs
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26
FROM wASHINHrNN

ADMIRAL PoRTER's funeral took place
at Washington on the nth. He was
buried at Arlington Cemetery.
IT is stated in a bulletin issued by the
Census Office that the center of popula-
ton in this country on June 1, 1890,
was in Southern Indiana, near Green's
burg, and twenty miles east of Colum-
bus. Ten years ago it was eight miles
west by south of Cincinnati.
THE business failur in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the Goth mum bered 295. against 297 the
preceding week and 271 the correspond
ing week last year.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

WILLIAM CARoUrHERs, young Pc
destrian of Napa County, Cal, will start
March IS for a little jaunt from San
Francisco to New York. He has bet
that he can make the trip in less than
Six months, and expects to do it in four
months
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

JOHN F. HEWITT, of Los Angeles, is
an old soldier and an honest man. He
served in an Ohio regiment, and has
just been grantees pension on account
of disease contracted during the war;
But he declined to receive it, saying he
believed it would be wrong, as Il am
well enough to make my own living at
present" That is the stuff true man
hood is made of.
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MANNERS OF MEN.
uld be sons to themselves

IF fathers could be sons to themselves
what good sons they would be.
We never see poor man without
wondering why he never got rich.
WHEN the fires of youth go out in a
man he wonders that they burn in
others.
WE don't suppose there ever was a
small boy who could be made to be-
lieve that there are only ten command
ments.
A MANS boasts are great deal like
the diamonds he wears; the larger they
are the more apt people srs to say they
are paste.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

A BooNvILLE IN. W man has evolved
new reason why he should be given
an office. In his application for the
post-office he argues that he deserves it
because he has been thirty-four years
in the Presbyterian choir without COM
penSatiOn
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

THERE are more diamonds in the
African output was about 1,50O, 600
carats in 1889 above 400, ,OOO,OO carats,
and last October the trust which con-
trolls the principal mines said 16,ooo,-
900 carats were in sight!
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A MEDICAL gentleman of Philadelphia

A MEDICAL gentleman of Philadelphia
explains DR.. Kochs statement about
his lymph in this way: 1t wasn't
written for laymen, but it can be made
clear enough. Let us suppose that the
bacillus is but a small mosquito; that
it stings the flesh and injects virus.
"Now, Koch takes the mosquito, kills
it, extracts the virus, dilutes it-for it
is more powerful than the strongest
drug known-and then preserves it in
plYcerine"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

A REMARKABLE petition was sent
from India to Queen Victoria. 1t is
more than sixty feet in length, and is
signed by more than 10000 women in
India who are anxious to have the legal
marriage age for girls raised from it's
present limit of ten to fourteen years.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

A FIRE at Hoosierville, mining vii
lage in Clay County, Ind, almost en-
tirely destroyed the town.
Ex-TREAsURER WOODRUFF paid into
the State Treasury of Arkansas $63, 740.-
80, the full amount of his shortage.
A FLOOD swept away Riverside, a
suburb of Parkersburg, w. Va No
lives were lost.
MARTHA MOORE and Sarah Mules
(colored) were killed at Lake Station,
Md, by train.
AN explosion of natural gas in the
house of William Kuntz at Martins
Ferry, O., burned nine persons, two OF
them, Mrs. Kuntz and Miss Graves, IA
tally.
The Industrial party of Michigan in
State convention at Lansing nominated
O'Brien Jameson, of Port Huron, for
Supreme Court Justice.
The population of Tennessee by
races is announced by the Census
Bureau as follows: White, 1882, ,971;
colored, $4,000; Indians, 173; Chinese,
64; Japanese, 10; total, 1,767,51s. The
population of West Virginia was given
as follows: White, 72s, ,2e2; colored, 49,
sos; Indians, 8; Chinese, Is; total 762,-
794.
A MOB hanged John Bull, an Indian,
at Battlefield, Miss, for the murder Of
Ben Pierce, farmer.
In the Northwest a storm of sleet
and snow did great damage to the tele-
graph service.
THE worlds fair directory has aban
doned the Lake Front. There will not
be building placed upon it and the
Worlds Columbian Exposition will be
held at Jackson Park. 1t was said the
expenses of the fair would be ST., 81
453 and the receipts were estimated at
$21, 100000.
WILLIAM MCCUBB1N, a wealthy citi-
zen of Leigh, Neb., shot and killed his
wife and his hired man and then cut his
own throat. Jealousy prompted the
crime.
In the Northwest the total production
of white pine lumber during the past
season was 4,06s, 2s5, ,5S4 feet, an in
crease over the previous season of 500,
700, 146 feet.
THE death was announced of Mrs.
Elizabeth Winchester, of Floyd County,
Ind, aged 81 years, who was thought to
be the only person in Indiana drawing
pension on account of the revolution
ary war.
MICHAEL ZELLERs found alive in the
bottom of a forty-foot dry well at Craw-
fordsville, Ind, a hog which had been
there for forty-one days without food
or water.
In an interview in New York ex-
President Cleveland emphatically de-
MED a statement by Washington pa
per to the effect that he had decided
not to be Presidential candidate in
1892.
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MANY BILLS WILL FAIL.

There Are About 1900 Measures Which
Congress Will BE Unable to Act Upon.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21.-At the close
of this Congress there will be in the
neighborhood of 1900 bills on the cal
favorably reported, but which will fail
for want of time for their consideration.
Some of the appropriation bills will
probably be signed within an hour of
the time of final adjournment, and it
may be, as has often occurred, that the
hands of the clock will have to be
turned back to prevent the failure Of an
appropriation bill.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

CAPTAIN CHR1sToFFERs, Of the steamer
Aller, lately completed his one hun-
dredth trip from Bremen to New York
and back. In honor of the event the
Emperor decorated him with the Order
Of the Crown of the fourth class
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

ACCORDING to the new census the
South has only six cities which exceed
fifty thousand in population. Florida,
Mississippi and North Carolina do not
contain city with twenty-five thou
sand inhabitants
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Dropued Dead.

EMPoRIA, Kan, Feb. 21.-Rev. James
Pashe, of Ottawa, Kan, dropped dead
of heart disease in restaurant at the
Santa Fe depot in this city late Thurs
day night. He was a Baptist minister
and the secretary of the American Bap-
list Publication Society of Philadel-
phia, which he represented for this
State and the Indian Territory.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

THE numerically smallest religious
denomination discovered by the census
takers is that of the Schwankfeldians.
There are three hundred and six of
them and they dwell in Pennsylvania.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-02-26

CUSTER COUNTY, in Montana, which
contains thirty-six thousand square
miles, is larger in extent than the
States of Vermont, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut Delaware and Rhode Island