The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-09-01
MINOR9NEW ITEMS.
FOR the week Ending Aug. ~.

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For the Week Ending Aug. ~.
b Fire At Muncie, Ind. destroyed the
rail mill, resulting in q loss of 800, 900.
By the caving in of a sewer at Hunt
ington. w. Va, three workmen lost
their lives.
Five persons were injured in rail-
road collision at Pittsburgh, some, it
was feared, fatally.
The Hotel Belmont at Sulphur
Springs, N. c., was totally destroyed by
fire.. Loss, 800,
Judge R. F. Graves, of Seattle, was
dominated by the prohibitionists of
Washington for governor.
Idaho democrats in state convention
at Boise nominated John M. Burke. of
Shoshone county, for governor.
H. J. Snively, of Yakima, was nomi-
mated by the democrats of Washington
as their candidate for governor.
John H. Taylor, an alleged horse
thief from Franklin, KY, was shot and
killed by Sheriff A. J. Hill at Nashville,
Tenn.
The total assessment of railroad
property in Arkansas for 1892 amounts
to SIS, 7s5, 1856, an increase of $461, $40
over 1891.
The British steamer Anglom, from
Calcutta for England, capsized in the
Hooghly river and fifteen of the crew
were drowned.
William B. Cochran, the fugitive Sec
rotary of the Bushwhacker Mining Com
pany, of Aspen, COL, was arrested in
San Francisco.
August Dupke, of Rio Grande county,
Col, while in Chicago on his way to
Germany was robbed of $1,000 in for
eign exchange
French officers of high rank have
been punished by retirement for expos
ing soldiers needlessly to the danger of
fatal sunstroke.
Reports received from all parts of
Canada by grain merchants of Toronto
give promise of good harvest in every
part of the dominion.
Perry Turner, the Kentucky outlaw,
was found guilty of the murder of Isaac
Lewis, and was sentenced to twenty
one years in the penitentiary.
A man named Unger, living near
East Liverpool, O., shot and killed his
brother-in-law and then killed himself.
Family trouble was the cause.
Gertie earns, the female balloonist,
who has been making ascensions at the
Detroit exposition grounds, was killed
by falling from great height.
Henry Fisher was killed and several
others seriously injured by the engine
on which they were riding going
through bridge at Dixonburg, Pa.
At a meeting in New York of western
and eastern anthracite coal agents it
was decided to again advance the price
Of coal twenty-five cents September 1.
Louisiana lottery agents now in
Honolulu offer al immense sum of
money in the event that charter is
granted the company by the Hawaii
egls. ature.
Eroch May. ST., the oldest printer in
-l.o wya.., died in Ear,ii. 2 Ion, Ia, aged
81 years. He was born in Boston and
was connected with early journalism
in that city.
The Grand Lodge of Colored Masons
of Kansas closed its seventeenth COM
munication at Atchison yesterday. G.
w. Smith, Of Topeka, was reelected
grand master.
Great Britain has accepted an invita-
ton from the United States govern
ment to take part in the naval parade
in April next in connection with the
Columb bus celebration.
Jacob Yondell and Adelphena Han
son were married in Milwaukee bv
Court Commissioner Kate Pier, it being
the first marriage ever solemnized in
Wisconsin by woman.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau states that there are 2,a40, 354
communicates in the Methodist Epis-
copal church in the United States, rep
resented in 102 annual conferences.
With the death of Rhoda Sparrow
(colored) st. Louis loses its oldest citi-
zen. She was born in Delaware 100
years ago and had been living in St.
Louis for the last ninety-five years.
At the meeting of the National Let
te-Carriers' association at indianapolis.
Ind, Frank E. Smith, of San Francisco,
was elected president and Kansas Citv
selected as the next place of meeting.
AS the boat Jolly Brothers, with over
100 excursionists on board, was coming
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