The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

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Fer the week Baaiag Aus. -.
4 buokwheat trust was formed q
Trenton, N. J., with . capital stock Of
q, 900, 900.
A IRE in the town Of Sardovsk, Rus
sia, destroyed 800 houses and made z, 500
persons homeless.
Stanley A. Austen, the paymaster Of
the Epson Nut Company at Cleveland,
O., confessed to having embezzled $780,
900.
Carroll Rutherford, a wealthy negro
at Memphis. Tenn, killed his wife in a
fit of jealousy and then took his own
life.
At the state convention in SPRING
field, ILL.,, of the republican league
clubs w. w. Tracy was reelected pres
dent.
At Pendleton, Ore, Frederick Zorn
was hanged for the murder of his wife
and mother-in-law near Milton last Oc-
| tober.
The board of control of the worlds
fair have decided to issue over 12O, 900
invitations for the dedicatory exercises
in October
Dan Moriarty, an old man, was locked
up at Mondori, Wis, for being drunk.
His pipe set fire to the Jail and he was
burned to death.
Mary Gooding, aged 81 years. and
Harry Goodwin, both of Catlin, Nd,
have just been married. They had been
engaged twenty-seven years.
By the running away of their horse
and overturning of their carriages
Thomas Lee and wife of st. Clair
Tenn, were instantly killed.
At Fall River, Mass, Charles II. Peck
ham, 62 years old, said he was the MUIR
derer of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew j. Bor-
den. He was said to be insane.
Logan Murphy, desperate and muir
derer, was hanged near Mount Ster-
! ling, KY, by an armed mob of 800 men,
who took him from jail by force.
July last the little baby of Cor
nelius Scuseman, at New Carlisle, O.,
swallowed a needle. Friday doctor
cut the needle out Of the childs hip.
Officers have been compelled to guard
the Yaston coal mines at Paramount,
w. Va, on account of the replacing Of
union men with non-union laborers.
Officers have been compelled to guard
the Yaston coal mines at Paramount,
w. Va, on account of the replacing of
union men with non-union laborers.
A. r. Sullivan, a farmer of Hills
boro, ILL.,, was found dead IN his yard
by his daughter. He is supposed to
have died from the effects of the heat.
1t is said that Ferdinand Allard, a
poor blacksmith at Quebec, has discov-
cred the long lost art known to the
pyramid builders of Egypt of harden
ing copper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Lee, of st.
| Clair, Tenn, were killed Thursday
night in a runaway, their bodies being
| dragged long distance and horribly
mutilated.
A cloudburst occurred at Freeman,
| Pa, town of 3, 900 inha bitants, which
nearly destroyed the entire place. It
was feared that several persons had
been drowned. -(
AS the result of poor patronage the
Des Moines Qa.) trotting races were
declared off and claims for So 900
were filed in court against the Driving
Park association.
Bookkeeper John F. Miller, of the
First national bank at Columbus, Pa,
is missing and is said to be short over
$50, 900 in his accounts He is thought
to have gone to Brazil.
The British bark Ashbank, Capt.
Oats, which sailed from Algon Bay
May 81 for New Castle, New South
Wales, was given up as lost with the
crew of thirty two men.
President Harrison has pardoned, be-
cause of i'll health, George West, of
Arkansas, sentenced in 1889 to eleven
years Imprisonment in the penitentiary
at Little Rock for larceny.
Mcdonnell and Hill, the accomplices
of the Bidwells. the Bank of England
forgers, were released from prison on
condition they leave England forever
Hill is an idiot, and his hair had turned
white.
w. r. Jones, a mechanic of Rockford,
ILL.,, has invented knitting machine
which it is claimed will do greatly in
creased work over those now in use
and effect considerable saving in ma
terial.
At Hillsboro, Tex, Warren Fisher
slapped his 1s-year old sister for some
a carving knife and fatally stabbed
him. She would not be arrested on &C
count of her tender age.