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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
GOT THE FARM.
A Boy Goes to Court to Make Ills Parent
Keep His Word,

A Boy Goes to Court to Make Ills Parent
Keep His Word.
A decision was handed down by the
supreme court in st. Paul in the famous
case of Tennis Slingerland, Jr., against
his father, Tennis Slingerland. The
case had been in the courts for five
years The dispute was over tract of
land in Olmstead county valued at
about $4,000. 1t appears that Singer
land, Jr., had worked for his father a
long time, and as his compensation was
not forthcoming he commenced suit
against the old man in the district
court Finally the father proposed that
if the son would drop the case in court,
get married and settle down
he would present him with the
farm. The son agreed. He took a
wife and went on wedding tour.
When he returned he expected to find
the farm awaiting his pleasure. In
stead of this the old man told him he
could 60 and buy farm if he wanted
one. The son brought suit against his
father to recover the farm. He was
beaten and obtained new trial and
won. The father then took the case to
the supreme court. Here the son again
won his case. Then the father took a
second appeal, trying to get new
trial. Judge Dickinson refused to grant
this, however, and the son will own
the farm, which has been increasing in
value all the time the case has been in
court and is now worth conforta BILE
fortune
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
THE EAST.

In a fire at the Belmont race track in
Philadelphia nine valuable trotters and
PAGERS were burned to death.
In Philadelphia building occupied
by the National Publishing Company
was burned, the loss being 5000, 900.
GEN. U. S. GRANTS Goth birthday
was appropriately honored in New
York, Pittsburgh and other cities on
the 27th.
FIRE destroyed twenty-five dwelling
houses at Forestport, n. Y.
Four imported stations valued at
$40, 900 were poisoned by some fiend in
the stable of Jacob Kemerer near Muir
raysville, Pa.
FIRE destroyed the village of Harris
vile, N. Y.
Mr.. AND Mrs. CONRAD, of Fort
Washington, Pa, were celebrating their
wedding anniversary when a lamp fell,
and Mrs. Conrad and her daughter Flor
ence were burned to death and Mary.
another daughter, was fatally burned.
In New York city ground was broken
on the 27th for Gen. Grants monument.
FRANK DRAMM started from New
York to walk to San Francisco in four
months
Two ENDOWMENT societies in Phila.
delphia, the Benevolent Order of Active
Workers and the BiMonthly Benefit
association, collapsed, the former owing
$780, ,OOO
In the Center block at Franklin, Pa,
fire destroyed 500, 900 worth of prop
ertv.
JAMES R. DAWSON, of Green Point,
N. Y, shot his wife while temporarily
insane and then cut his throat with a
razor. Both were aged people.
FLAMES near Millville, N. j.. made
a swath through timber miles long
and miles wide.
In Pennsylvania the coke strike be-
gun twelve weeks ago has cost thus far
So, 500, 900. The men had lost 81, 600, 900
in wages.
AT Topeka the Chicago, Kansas &
United States Trust Company of New
York for S25, ,232, 900.
THROUGH excessive cigarette-smok-
ing Stephen McClelland, of ohnstown,
Pa, a young man of 21, has become in
sane.
FIRE nearly wiped out the little ham,
let of West Bloomfield, n. Y.
In the building trades at Pittsburgh,
Pa, 10000 men have struck for an
eight-hour day.
In New Jersey thousands of acres
of forests were swept over by fire and
several houses and outbuildings were
burned.
EVERY sawmill on the mountains be-
tween Bellefonte and Lewisburg, Pa,
was reported burned by forest fires,
and millions of feet of valuable timber
had also been reduced to ashes.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
TRULY PATHETIC.
A Mother Faints on the Train Clasping
Her Baby's Corpse.

a Mother FaintS on the Train ClaSping
Her Baby's Corpse.
A very sad incident occurred on the
Milwaukee train which arrived in st.
Paul the other morning from Chicago.
Among the passengers was Mrs. Helen
Hope, the 19-year-old wife of a Mime
apolis mill employe, who had with her
an infant in arms. During the entire
trip the baby was sick and the young
mother cared for it with the utmost
tenderness, but just before the train
reached St. Paul it was noticed that
both mother and child had become
strangely silent. For some time it was
supposed that they were sleeping but
finally it was discovered that the
mother had tainted and that the little
one which she clasped in her arms
was dead. The unhappy mother was
revived and given in charge of her hus-
band who had come to St. Paul to meet
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
WEST AND SOUTH.


A CYCLONE destroyed several dwell
irgs near Beda, Ky. No one was killed.
FLAMES wiped out the town of
Spechts Ferry, la.
A COMPRESS and 300 bales of cotton
at Honey Grove, Tex, were de-
stroyed by fire. causing los of
$15O,OOO.
lr was said that negroes who were
deluded into going to Oklahoma in
large mum bers last fall were starving.
Many were trying to beg their way
back to their former homes.
A WIND storm at West Superior, Wis,
wrecked several buildings and Robert
Biggerstaf was fatally injured.
WHILE preaching in the Methodist
church in Burlington, N. c., Rev. r. A.
Ricks, prominent minister, fell dead
in his pulpit.
A MAN named Welden murdered Mrs.
Mary Kinzie, his mistress, and then
killed himself at Hot Springs, Ark.
AT st. Louis Jack Haynes, aged 1O3
years, Joined the Frank P. Blair post,
G. A. r.
AT Butte, Mont, it was said that the
Rothschilds had purchased the Anacon-
da mines for S25, 100000
AT the age of 100 years Nathan S. Fisk
died at his home in St. Croix Falls, Wis.
On the Baltimore & Ohio road an ex-
press train collided with freight train
near Gaithersburg, Md, and Engineer
Curtis Elliott of the express, Engineer
Henry Croft, Fireman Murphy of the
freight, and Postal Clerk S. c. Burdett
were killed.
JONAS JoHNsoN's wife and youngest
son were fatally injured by the burn
ing of their home near Wheaton, MINI.
j. i. BUCK, of White Pigeon, Ind,
knocked his wife down and was about
to choke her when she shot him dead.
THE death of Richard Griffiths, founder
of the order of the Knights of Labor in
Chicago and the west, occurred in Chi
cago, aged 66 years.
In Arkansas all the cotton-oil mills,
with one exception, are said to have
formed pool, with capital of 50,
0O0, 900.
CHARLES L. ROSE and Nick Flood,
two gamblers, quarreled at Roanoke,
Va, duel followed and both men were
fatally hurt.
On a train at Aurora, ILL.,, R. H. Gi)ls-
bic, of Columbus, O., was drugged and
robbed of $4,000 by woman.
AT Peru, Ind, John johnson was
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary
for stealing a bushel of potatoes and
selling them for ninety-five cents.
In the Thresher Company's paint
shop at the Saltwater (Minn) prison
fire did 500, 600 damage.
The governor of Ohio has commuted
to life Imprisonment the death sentence
of Isaac Smith, convicted of killing his
cousin, Stephen Skidmore, in 1888.
Smith has been sentenced to death nine
times.
In the vicinity Of Wabash, Ind, frosts
did great damage to fruit.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
EpitOme of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
FROM WASHINGTON,

THE exchanges at the leading clear
lng-houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 25th aggregated
81, 1S2, 800, 81, against 81, 142, 723, 263 the
previous week. AS compared with the
corresponding week Of 1890 the decrease
amounted to 0.2.
In the treasury of the United States
the amount of money on the 1st of
April was S75l, 100000 of which $685.
900, 600 was trust money" held for the
redemption of gold, silver and currency
certificates, and the balance of $25S, ,000,-
600 belonged to the government.
In the United States the visible sup
ply Of grain on the 27th was: Wheat,
%, ,343. 563 bushels; corn, 2, ,464, 4S3 BUSH
els; oats, 2,622,3 35S bushels.
RECEIPTS of the American Tract So
ciety for the year, as shown by the
treasurer's report at the annual meet
ing in Washington, were $305, 900.
THE new United States treasurer,
Enos H. Nebeker, of Indiana, has en-
tered upon the duties of his office.
The United States has been notified
by the Chinese government of it's un-
willingness to receive Hon. Henry w.
Blair as minister to China.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
A SAD FATE.
BY an Explosion i'm a Fireworks Factory
in New York Four Girls Lose Their

BY an Explosion i'm Fireworks Factory
in New York Four Girls Lose Their
Lives.
New YORK, May Am explosion Of
powder in a little one-story structure
in the rear of the building at 9O2 Union
avenue, near One Hundred and Sixty
second street, caused the death of four
persons Friday and severely in
jured another. There were two
small buildings back of 9O2,
both occupied by George Kreamer. a
manufacturer of fireworks, who lived
over the store in the front building.
Kreamer employed about dozen
young girls and two or three boys.
Just before o'clock in the afternoon
there was a flash in one of the
buildings, in which there were at the
time six or seven persons. Three Of
the girls were stunned and blinded by
the explosion and almost in a mo-
mcnt were burned to death. They
We're: Lille Hammond, 10 years
old, Mary Lynch, II years old; Jennie
Harpley, II years old. s-.
One little girl, Lottie Horn, aged IA,
the daughter of saloon keeper at 942
Washington avenue was so severely
burned that she died about six
hours after the accident George
Kreamer, the proprietor of the
place, was severely. but it is
believed not dangerously burned about
the arms and head. The fire itself was
of little account. The flames were
quickly extirguished, and as soon as
possible the bodies of the girls were
taken out of the ruins.
1t was only after the most careful ex-
animation that the bodies were identi-
fed, although it was known which of
the girls at work in the place had been
killed. Their faces were disfgured be-
yond recognition and the Identification
was finally completed by the aid of
scraps of clothing and small articles of
jewelry that were recognized by the
victims families.
Kreamer could give no explanation
of how the explosion was caused. He
manufactures small fireworks and did
not keep large quantity of powder on
hand. By the people living in the
ncighborhood different theories were
advanced, the most plausible being
that match had in some way been
carelessly dropped upon pile of loose
powder.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
MINNESOTA STOCK.
A Department Bulletin Says Horses a
Cattle Are in Good Condition.

A Department Bulletin Says Horses and
Cattle Are in Good Condition.
A bulletin issued by the agricultural
department has the following relative
to the condition of stock in Minnesota:
Never, in the history OF the state have horses
wintered better. Food has been plenty, and
since there has been general tendency to take
better care of them, the loss from disease is
much reduced. No epidemic has appeared dur
ing the past year. Cattle are in excellent
condition. They have been free from all dis
ease, and there has been no lossfr exposure.
Sheep have wintered excellently we'll No dis
eases have prevailed. The ravages OF dogs
and wolves appear to be the only source Of loss
to the flocks. Hogs are in fair condition The
high price OF grain has lessened the average
weight, perhaps, as much more corn would have
been fed to them had it been cheaper.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
LATER
Meat Inspection.

CHICAGO, May s.-Dr. S. E. Salmon,
of Washington, chief of the bureau of
animal industry, is here for the purpose
of establishing government inspectors
at the various packing houses in ac-
cordance with the law passed by the
last congress. This is the first move in
this direction, and Chicago will be the
first city where inspectors will be
esta blished. There are already state
inspectors, and the government inspec-
tor is appointed for the purpose of in
terstate commerce. Before meat can
be shipped from this state it will have
to bear the stamp of the government
inspector.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

The census office has issued a state
ment of the acreage and yield of tobac-
co for the year 1889, showing an in
crease over the last census of IS, 223
acres and 19,052,44O pounds. The
amount produced in Kentucky has in
creased over 100000 pounds, and
there has also been a substantial in
crease in North Carolina, Tennessee,
Ohio, New York and Wisconsin. On
the other hand, there has been more
or less serious falling off in Virginia,
Maryland, Connecticut, Massachusetts,,
Pennsylvania and Missouri. The fig
ures are liable to slight modification in
the final revision, vet to be made.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

THIS is a great nation. While states
men and newspapers the world over
are wondering whether there will be
war the president is off on a pleasure
jaunt of nine thousand miles, and the
secretary of state upon an ocean voyage,
and the great offices are left in charge
of ianitors and private secretaries with
out fear of danger.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
The New. ,,r,e,iv Chronlciel.

At the village election in Preston
license was carried by 27 majority.
Freeman Reynolds was fatally hurt
at St. Paul by falling from third
story window of the Ryan hotel.
Charles Freder, Of Minneapolis, was
killed near West Superior, Wis, by a
falling tree.
A petroleum tank filled with crude
oil exploded in st. Paul, killing John
Johnson, plumber.
The thirtieth anniversary of the en-
listment of the ''Old First Minnesota"
was celebrated at Morgan post hall in
Minneapolis.
w. S. Cox, Of Dassell, Mimi, was
fatally shot with revolver.
Andrew Nelson, farmer living near
Tyler, was run over by a seeding ma
chine and terribly cut.
The current state expenses for March
were So, 933, 218.
The body of girl, apparently about
6years old, was found in the Mississip-
pi at Little Falls by lumbermen. 1t
was supposed to be the child who was
drowned at Gull river last winter.
The pay roll of the State university
for April amounted to $40, 726. %.
A mad dog bit eight hogs and one
COW in the town of Hart before it could
be killed. The bitten animals all
showed signs ofhydropho bia, and it was
necessary to put them to d cath.
The residence owned by J. D. Green,
1T Eor
Poole, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
2,5O0
A heavy windstorm near Northfeld
caused considerable loss to the farmers,
as much seed was blown out of the
ground.
A painting in oil of rare beauty was
discovered in the ruins of the old
French mission few miles north of
Little Falls by Rev. A. Lamothe, of the
French Catholic cy lrch here. 1t rep
resents one of ting Aints holding aloft
a cross, and aroy I'd him representatives
OF the various races of the globe gazing
at the uplifted cross.
John Casey, assistant road master of
the Great Northern, was seriously in
jured by falling from a moving train at
Osakis.
Gen. H. o. Van Cleve, an old resident
Of Minneapolis, died Of pneumonia
aged 81 years.
The state treasurer has received S.
$50 from the government as part of the
annual allowance for the soldiers
home.
Rev. w. f. Greenman has severed his
connection as pastor of the Unitarian
church in Winona and gone to New
England, where, with his wife, he viii
u the t.l.ure reside.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

A RECEPTION was given by the medi-
cal profession of London to DIR. Will
liam Salmon, of Glamorganshire, who is
probably the Oldest living member of
the medical profession in England, if
not in the world. He was born in Suf-
folk 1Ol years ago last Monday, and the
fact is corroborated by the appear
ance of his name upon the list of
members of the Royal College of Sur
geons of England in 1909, when he was
but nineteen years old Notwithstand-
ing his advanced age he is in the
full possession of all his faculties and
attends to his practice with more regu-
larity than many younger men.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

In court at Wheeling, w. Va, Judge
jackson met with a peculiar case of
dense ignorance. James Penning-
ton pleaded guilty of selling liquor
without license and declared that he
did not know he required license.
did you ever hear of the United
States?" asked the court. Eyes, but
only in an indirect way" the prisoner
replied. II live in Brayton county, and
did not think the United States had
any control over its affairs. The county
court makes the laws there" The judge
fined him 500 with ten months in Jail,
and told the clerk to furnish him with
a copy Of the constitution to study.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

FRANCE and Russia are carrying on a
desperate Irritation and SO ostensiblv
preparing for future military union
that they may provoke some kind of
retaliatory measures from those who
are obviously threatened. 1t appears
that the military systems of the two
countries are to be so modified and har-
monized that their respective armies. if
called upon to do so, may act together
with the least possible friction.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

Rev. Father Thomas Briody, of Min
neapolis, arrived in New York the
other night on his way to Europe, hav-
ing in his possession check for $1,000
on the Irish national bank of Minneap-
oils and $500 in cash. Fearing that he
might be robbed he stepped up to II
policeman on the corner Of Sixth ave-
nue and Eleventh street and gave him
the check and money for safe keeping.
The next morning the priest went to
look for the bluecoat and found him
not
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

TIE statistics show that fewer Ital-
;ans bring their wives and families with
them to the United States than any
other class of immigrants. AS rule
they do not come to stay and are neither
profitable to the people of the United
States while they do remain or their
own nation. which has to care for the
families of the wanderers in their alb
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
CHURCHES.
81 so per Year, in 4

DRESBYTERIAN.- J. G.. RiheldaIer,
L pastor. Services every Sabbath at 1880
o'clock AN. and at o'clock P. u. Sab
bath school at Il o clock NJ.
NETHODIST.-Rev. F. A. Cone, Pastor
4tI Services every Sabbath, at 1880 o clock
A. n. and at 8 Pm. Sabbath school at IL Z.
THRISTIAN. Preaching on every Lords
~ Day at 1880 O'Clock A. NJ. and p. NJ, by
J. G. Harrison. Sunday School at u NJ.
E'PISCOPAL.-Churc Of The holy Com
1A munion. Rev. s. B. Purves. Service
every Sunday, except the last Sunday in the
month, at 1879 A. N. and P n. sunday
school at I'm.
TATHOLIC.-Tmeso OF service to be an
~ nounced hereafter.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

ROBERT HARRISON, of Birmingham,
conn, who had been asleep for three
days and nights, awoke feeling none
the worse for it. He says that he
dreamed that he was in another world,
and was positive it was much better
than this one. He had a prolonged
sleep once before.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

The finding of fifty human skeletons
near Corpus Crispi, Tex, is accounted
for by William Payne, manager of the
Farmers Alliance at Whitewright, Tex
He says eighty of his comrades de-
serted in body from the rebel SER
vice and started for Mexico, not one of
them having been heard of since, and
that they were captured and executed
to man.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

In the United States district court at
Boston the other day, Gen. B. T.
Butler, who appeared for Mrs. John
son, defendant in prosecution for
pension forgery, was ordered from the
room by Judge Carpenter, who had the
marshal and an assistant enforce his
decree. Gen. Butler, with tears in his
eyes, said that he yielded to force; and
when he returned to the court after the
judge had left the bench, remarked
that the room smelled a little better.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

THERE are 14,056,75O horses in the
United States, 1896, 542 mules, 16,O19,-
591 milch cows, 36,s75,64S oxen and
ether cattle, 43, 451, 1876 sheep, and 5O,-
625. JOG hogs-and all these animals are
on the farms of the country, not count
ing those in the cities, towns and vii
10
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

PAY-CARs are familiar sights on
American railways, but this country
has not yet employed the locomotive in
banking operations. One of the New
Zealand banks has a special car which
visits the rural districts, cashes checks
and receives deposits. The experiment
is said to be profitable, and it is great
convenience to settlers who would 9th.
erwise be compelled to leave their farms
and visit town on numerous occasions.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

Miss MAGGIE ScHUTT, of Derry, Pa,
died recently. She was IS years of age,
and since her fathers death, twenty
years ago, had been living out as maid
Of all work. Investigation of an old
canvas hustle belonging to Miss Schutt
disclosed q fortune of 50 OOO
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

Mrs. CATHERINE SHARP, of Phila-
:lelphia, now in her 1l4th year, attrib.
utes her great longevity to the fact
that she has made it the rule of her life
to preserve Il tranquil mind and never
to hecOmc a0itated
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

IT is reported that the Panama canal
can be completed for 600, 600, 900 francs.
This frank statement will not be par
ticularly relished by the Parisians who
have already put SO many millions into
the ENTERPRISE
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

CAPT w. II. P. HAINEs, of the steam
ship Etruria, has completed his five
hundred and first voyage across the At:
lantic. He first went to sea as an ap-
prentice in 1883, and got his first COM
mand of Cunard steamship in 1864.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
Many Buildings DESTROYED.

A fire in the north end of St. Charles
destroyed over 800, 900 worth of proper
ty. George Smith & Co, general store; NJ.
II. Gale, dry goods; c. E. Smith, furni-
ture; S. A. Johnson, hardware: F. Kuf-
fer, saloon; Henry Frisch, hotel; Times
printing Office, Masonic hall and a
number of other buildings, together
with several residences, were swept
RwaV.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

A NEW mineral has been discovered,
to which the name sanguinite has been
given. 1t is bronze-red in color by re-
tlected light, and upon analysis is found
to contain silver, arsenic and sulphur.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07

OSCAR WILDE has not proved entirely
recreant to estheticism, inasmuch as he
dimes now in white room with no fur
niture save the table and chairs, while
his drawing-room is provided with set
tees with high white backs aud sage
green cushions
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
Shot Three Persons,
First Step in Secretary Fosters Plan to
Put Subsidiary Coin in Circulation.

WASHINGTON, May 2.-United States
Treasurer Nebeker will issue circular
stating that banks throughout the
United States will, on application,
be furnished at the expense
of the treasury department
with $500 in subsidiary silver
coin. The circular will also state that
the supply of standard silver dollars in
the treasury, except those upon which
silver certificates have been issued, is
practically exhausted. This is the first
step in Secretary Fosters plan to put
the subsidiary coin into circulation.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-05-07
Bismarck's Election Assured.

BERLIN, May 1.-The election OF
Prince Bismarck to the reichstag is as
sured. Returns from the supplement
tary ballot at Geestemunde, while as
yet incomplete, show that Bismarck
will have majority of at least 5000.