The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1891-09-03
NEST AND SOuTEl.

THE crews of two whalers in Alaska,
sixty in number, were said to have
been massacred % the natives of that
region.
In Beaver county, o. T., DR.. Davis, a
prominent stock raiser, circulated
scandalous stories about Mrs. Thomas
Inflow, and the woman's husband
whipped Davis to death with a black
snake.
The oldest pensioner in the country is
William J. Haines, of Chicago aged 1O3
years, veteran of the war of 1912 and
the late war.
In Wisconsin frost destroyed Is per
cent. of the cranberry crop and did
great damage to corn and potatoes in
some localities.
THREE Indiana bankers, Malott,
Decker and Dougherty, of Indianapo-
lis, Evansville and Bluffton, respective
ly, were fined $500 each and ordered
committed until the amounts were paid
for refusing to disclose the accounts of
depositors to the board of tax commits
sioners.
A MOB lynched Andy Ford, q noted
criminal, at Gainesville, Ga.
MRS. MARY RICHARDSON and her two
girls, aged 8 and 6years, were knocked
from a railroad bridge near Nicholas
Vile, KY, to the rocks so feet below by
an engine and instantly killed.
A MILITARY post is to be established
at a point $50 miles northwest of Du-
luth, Mimi, to prevent Canadian thefts
of American timber.
AN old trunk which belonged to Ed
ward Baker, who died recently near
st. Louis, was found, and $4,000 in
money discovered. Baker left a widow
and three children, none of whom sus-
pected his having the money.
GEORGE DECKER, of Williamson, O.,
while handling a gun supposed to be
unloaded, shot and instantly killed his
15-year-old sister.
ABOUT one-half the village of Charles,
ton, Ark, was swept away by fire, in
cluding the courthouse and all the
records.
AT Tacoma, Wash, Edward Albert
son, secretary and teller of the Fidelity
Trust Company bank, took SO, 600 from
the safe and fed
WILL LEWIS (colored), aged 1s years,
was taken from Jail at Tullehoma.
Tenn, by eight masked men and
hanged. Lewis was drunken rowdy,
but had been guilty of no great crime.
AN old soldier named Saltzgaber,
while preparing papers at Marion, Ind. I,
on which to secure q pension, walked
in front of a moving train on the Clover
Leaf railroad and was instantly killed.
FLAMES destroyed the business por-
.tion of Grand Mound, la.
A BARN belonging to Mrs DR..
RICHTER, near Columbus, ind, was
burned and nine horses perished in the
flames
In Detroit the Morton RackuS Lum-
ber Company failed for 500. .OOt
A TRAIN was wrecked near txAnts-
burgh, Mimi, and twenty persons were
badly injured.
AL MORGAN and Walter Lomax,
prominent business men and politicians
of North Arkansas, fought duel at
Little Rock with revolvers and both
were fatally wounded.
A. H. WHITNEY, of Quincy, ILL.,, and
A. H. Whitney, of Toronto, Ont, both
died suddenly in the Russell house at
Detroit within a few hours Of each
other. These brothers in death were
neither relatives nor known to, each
other. - y
THE death of DR.. Lyman G. Draper,
the noted historian, occurred at his
home in Madison, Wis, of paralysis,
aged IS years. rFFgF ..>
Ar sths national. spcampment at
Cleveland. O., s. =. Yoder was elected
president of the Union Veterans union.
j. B. MeRRIsoN's two. daughters,
aged II and 15 respectively, were
drowned near Birmingham, Ala, while
bathing.
NEAR Pomona, Cal. eastern capital
lists have bought $40 acres of land and
will set out $4,000 fig trees.