The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-07-21
KANSAS prohibitionists in convention

ticket being placed in the field. Rev.
j. M. Monroe, of Wichita, was nomi-
mated for congressman at large. The
platform declares for free trade, free
silver, the election of president. vice
president, senators, postmasters and all
district federal officers by direct vote
of the people.
In state convention at St. Paul, Mimi,
the peoples party nominated Ignatius
Donnelly for governor. Effort toward
fusion with the democrats failed.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Ninth Georgia district, Car.
ter Tate (dem.); Second Iowa district,
John Monroe (rep.); Ninth Iowa dis.
trict, A. l.. Hager (rep.); Eighth North
Carolina district, William H. Bower
(dem.); Tenth Indiana district, David
Yeomans (people's).
AT Bay City, Mich, Rush Bartlett
shot and fatally wounded his wife and
5-year-old son and then attempted
suicide, but will recover. Famil y
trouble caused the tragedy.
In the Warrior and Tom bigbee rivers
in Alabama floods swept away cult
vated fields and many houses, causing a
loss of millions to farmers and planters.
The sudden death of Newton Booth,
ex-governor of california and ex- United
States senator, occurred at his home in
Sacramento.
A TRAIN on the Missouri, Kansas &
Texas road was held up by gang of
masked robbers at Adair, l. T., and the
express car rifled of $4,000.
For numbering his wife Charles
Blackman was hanged at Greensboro,
n. C.
WHILE insane John C. Quincy. law
yer, shot his wife and himself fatally at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
CANDIDATES for congress were named
as follows: First Arkansas district, P.
D. McCullock (dem. J; First Indiana dis
trict, Arthur p. Twineham (rep.); First
West Virginia district, B. b. Dorener
(rep.); Tenth Georgia district, John C.
Black (dem.); Eighth Illinois district,
Norman Kilburn (pro.); Sixth Iowa
district, John F. Lacey (rep.); territory
of Okla homa, Dennis Flynn (rep.).
A SEVERE rainstorm near Sedalia,
Mo-, accompanied by high wind, ut.
terly destroyed thousands of acres OF
growing corn. Several small buildings
were also blown down.
A sAwMILL boiler at Hague, Fla, ex.
ploded, killing two men and injuring
five others, tN o of whom will probably
die.
A MOB lynched julien Moseey (col,
oredD at HALEY, Ark, for assaulting
his 7-year-old stepdaughter.
In Idaho the miners war was
no desire to fight the federal troops.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
In the river at Strasburg, Germany,
eleven persons were drowned by the
capsizing of a boat.
In Mexico the elections resulted in the
reelection of President Diaz.
NEAR Bacle French convoy fell into
Chinese ambuscade and Commander
Bonneau, Capt. Charpentier and ten
men. were killed and several others
were wounded.
FIRE destroyed the government rail
way works at Breslau, Prussia, the loss
being 1000, 600 marks.
THE British elections show that the
Irish are masters of the situation. and
in their hands will be the destinies OF
the next parliament.
AT St. Gervais Les Bains, a summer
resort in Savoy, nearly $50 persons
were killed by an avalanche which de-
scended from Mont Blanc.
THE Mount Etna eruption was rap
idly increasing in violence. An earth
shock reduced to ruins the town OF
Giarre, with population of $4,000, on
the coast of Sicily, and it was feared
that many must have perished. The
whole country suffered severely from
the shock.
WILLIAM GLADSTONE has been re.
turned to parliament from Midlothian.
BY landslide at Glamour, France,
twenty persons were killed.
FIRE destroyed a school building al
Berkhamstead, England, and eight
children perished in the flames.
In storm off the coast of Uruguay
the Arge entine torpedo catcher Rosalis
foundered and seventy of the crew were
missing.