The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-24
EpitOme of the Week.
NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WAS' rGTON.


urned to Washington.
In August the United States export
ed $2s, s53, $40 worth of breadstuffs and
81, ,6O2, $50 worth of beef and hog prod
nets.
A BULLETIN from the census Office
says the increase in the consumption
of malt liquors which require hops in
their manufacture in the United States
was from s44, ,6O5, 4s5 gallons in 1879 to
779, S97, 1926 gallons in 1889.
In the first sixteen days of Septem-
ber the United States paid S., 555, 900 to
old soldiers for pensions.
IT was claimed at the Farmers Alli-
ance headquarters in Washington that
6fty-five members of the lower house
of the next congress would vote for all
the measures of the alliance, and at
least four in the senate.
The president has appointed Senator
Francis Hendricks collector of the port
of New York, to succeed j. Sloat Fas-
sett, resigned.
The president has signed the procla-
nation opening to settlement and
homestead entry the newly ceded In
hOma.
The business failures in the United
States during the seven days ended on
the 18th numbered 239. against 2l4
the preceding week and 100 for the cor
responding week last year.
THE EAST.
IN Philadelphia the president and
cashier of the wrecked Spring Garden
bank were sentenced to ten years i'm
prisOnment.
FLAMES at the corner of Fulton and
Nassau street in New York caused a
loss of $5OO,OOO.
THE republicans of Massachusetts, in
convention at Boston nominated
r'harles H. Allen, of Lowell, for govern
or. The platform eulogizes President
Harrison's administration; calls for
he enforcement Of civil and political
lights in every quarter and purity of
elections; opposes unlimited coinage of
silver; declares that the Mckinley bill
and reciprocity have done enormous
good to the country; favors legislation
restricting the evils of the liquor traffic:
also all proper legislation in the inter-
ests of the laboring classes.
The Pennsylvania peoples party was
organized at Greensburg, and the plat
form adopted demands the abolition
of national banks; condemns alien
ownership of land; demands free
and unlimited silver coinage; govern
ment control of railroads, and a direct
vote of the people for president, vice
president and United States senators.
IT was said that w. f. Slipgluff,
treasurer of the Montgomery Trust
Company of Norristown, Pa, had en-
bezzled S1SO,OoO.
vention at Saratoga Springs nominated
Roswell ?. Flower for governor. The
platform reaffirms the democratic doc
trines as set forth in the platforms of
1884 and 1883; opposes the free coinage
of silver dollars not of the intrinsic
value of any other dollar of the United
States; denounces the Sherman silver
bill, the Mckinley tariff and the Blaine
reciprocity treaties, and indorses the
administration of Gov Hill
THOMAS H. SHIELDS, secretary and
treasurer of the Allegheny Heating
Company at Pittsburgh, Pa, was said
to be short over 100000 in his ac-
counts.
FLAMES destroyed the buildings and
stocks in G.. Baker & Co. S lumber yard
in Worcester, Mass. Loss, 800, 900
On the 18th Boston celebrated its
261st anniversary as town and Goth
anniversary as city. The city's popu-
lation is about $50, 900, the legal voters
number 10000 and tue valuation is
over $500, 100000.
The James Wick Company, dealers in
seeds at Rochester, N. ", made appli-
cation for a receiver. The liabilities
were said to be between $75, 900 and
100000.
IT was said that James E. Ostrander,
treasurer of the Ulster county savings
institution at Kingston, N. Y, was a
defaulter to the amount of 100000.