The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-12-03
Epit0me of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.

INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON.
THE president has decided to with.
hold the appointment of Secretary
Proctor's successor until congress
meets.
THE treasury department paid out
$40, 500, 600 on account of pensions dur
ing the first twenty-one days of No
vember.
In Washington a great amount of
damage was done by hurricane and
two persons were killed and several
others were injured. A section of
stone balustrade around the roof Of
the white house was blown down, car
rying with it portico at the eastern
basement entrance.
In session at Washington the nation
al repub blcan committee decided that
the next national republican conven-
on should be held in Minneapolis on
June Z, 1892. j. S. Garrison. of Iowa,
was elected chairman of the commit
tee, and w. G. Barbour, of New York,
treasurer.
In the United States the visible sup.
ply Of grain on the gath was: Wheat,
4l,014.5l4 bushels; corn, 1850, 0S0 bush
els; oats, 4,645.230 bushels
For the month of October the imports
of gold were SIG, s97, 94S and the exports
were ss09,595.
EXPORTS from the United States for
the month of October were valued at
SiO2, 933. .290, the largest in the history
Of the government. Imports for the
same period were worth $66. 795, 2S9
GEN. k1MBALL of the life saving serv-
ice, shows in his annual report that
during the past year the total value Of
property saved was S5.7S3. $50; total
value of property lost, $l,336,s45 total
mum Der of pei sons saved. 3,4+1; total
mum Der lost, so. The cost Of the service
was S940.201.
The president has appointed William
K. Sullivan. Chicago newspaper man,
United States consul at Bermuda
THE EAST.
SAND caved in upon trench in
Brooklyn. N. Y, and four men were
killed and three injured.
BY jumping from the Brooklyn
bridge to the water, distance of 14O
feet, Francis McCarry committed sui
eide.
BY an explosion of nitro-glvcerine at
a gas we'll near North Washington,
Pa, George Lautfer and an unknown
German were killed.
tho oifioc ~
New York and Pittsburgh, doing great
damage and injuring several persons,
some fatally.
In the East New York conduit a
break precipitated water famine in
Brooklyn, and big factories had to
close down for want of steam, throw
ing so, 900 persons out of work
In hotel fire at jamestown, N. v,
three servant girls and d child lost
their lives.
THE returns for October showed that
immigration was still very large and
constantly increasing
The Farmers and Miners Deposit
bank at Irwin, Pa, suspended The
assets and liabilities were said to be
equal.
THE death of Mrs. Cyrus W. Field
occurred at her country home at
Irvington-on-t the Hudson, n. Y, aged
u years
Col. j. II. FRENCH, Boston broker,
failed for 5000, 900.
IT was stated that Jay Gould had re-
tired permanently from Wall street.
In Allegheny county, Pa, a tornado
unroofed hundreds of houses, and many
poor families on the eastern slope OF
the mountains were h omeless.
AT the recent election in Massachu-
setts the official vote for governor was:
Russell (dem.), 1O7,9s2; Allen rep J,
lo1. .515; Kimball (pro), s,96S; Robin
son (socialist), 1,492; Winn (people's
party, 1.722.
FLAMES destroyed eight business
blocks and the Congregational church
at st. Albans, Vt. Loss, 500. 900.
A FIRE destroyed the Second Avenue
Passenger Railway Company's car barn
at Pittsburgh, Pa, with contents, caus.
ing loss of SlO),O0O.