The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-11-17
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week Ending Nov. Il

was practically wiped out by a fire.
Fou. attempts were made by incen-
diaries to burn South Minneapolis,
Mimi.
The cholera was said to be spreading
Hungary.
Groveton, the county seat of Trinity
county, Tex. was almost entirely de-
stroyed by fire.
Franz Helbing, a mail carrier for
seventeen years, committed suicide at
Leavenworth. Kan
DIR. Lewis Swift, of Rochester, n. Y,
saw new comet, making six now visi-
BILE in the heavens.
Ten vessels and twenty-five lives
were lost in the recent gale on the
coast of Newfoundland.
The treasury report for October
shows the net debt of the dominion of
Canada to be $237, $4,000.
Henry Fulmer's school slate factory
at Slatington, Pa, was destroyed by
fire, the loss being 100000.
Ten persons were injured at Cleve-
land, O., in collision between pas
senger train and motor car.
At Cumberland park in Nashville,
Tenn, Kremlin lowered the worlds
mile record for stations to 2:07M.
Uncle jack Hook, the oldest driver
| and trainer on the turf, died at his
home in Paris, KY, aged 81 years.
Capt. E. s. Densmore, chief usher at
the white ehouse, died in Washington
after an illness of several months.
A heavy shock of earthquake was
| felt in San Francisco and also at nu-
merous points throughout California.
! Mary Gillespie Ewing. wife of Judge
Ewing and first cousin of James q.
Blaine, died at Lancaster, O., aged So
years.
Mary Morris, an old lady living 6
miles southeast of Kokomo, Ind, was
| burned to death in her bed by fire from
her pipe.
A census of the population of Japan
has been published, showing the total
population to be II ZOO, 900, an increase
of 800, 900.
Carl w. Amendorf, porter in a
saloon in Kansas City, Mo-, is heir to
81, 900, 900 by the death of his father in
| Germany.
! The non-union boarding house of
Mrs. Marley in Sharpsburg, Pa, was
blown up with dynamite, but no one
was injured.
| The steam tug Secret was wrecked on
the Irish sea near Lytham and three
passengers and the crew of six men
were drowned.
| +. A. Drew, the plate glass manu-
facturer, has purchased the old home
stead in st. Louis of tie late Gen. Sher-
man for S150.OOO
! George Grill and Lawrence Maher
were instantly killed by the premature
! explosion of blast in the Greedy mine
near Fort Collins, Col.
| p. Weller, of New York, member
Of Gilmore's band, was found dead in
a hotel at Dubuque, la. Excessive use
! of liquor was the cause.
| President Harrison has appointed w.
| R. Estes, of Minnesota, consul at Ham,
| burg, Germany, in place of Charles Il.
johnson, of Ohio, resigned
A terrible fight took place at Home
stead, Pa. between non-union colored
workmen and strikers. and many per-
sons were seriously injured.
! During ii fire among tenement houses
in Montreal several inmates jumped
from the windows and received inju-
ries. two being fatally hurt. z.
Ocean steamers arriving in New York
report great storms at sea and that sub
merged and capsized wrecks were
drifting about in midocean.
Three cannon-3a FOUNDERS, weigh
ing 5.700 pounds each-have been
placed in position to mark Capt. Miles
! Standish's grave at Duxbury. Mass.
In dispute over bill Robert Har-
vey, notorious gambler, shot and
killed Robert Lytle, proprietor of the
leading restaurant at st. Joseph, Mo.
1t is reported that unless the govern
ment interferes in their behalf the rem
nants of the Arapahoe and Cheyenne
tribes in Oklahoma will come to star
walton.
A dispatch from Shanghai. China, an
nounces that the two American college
students who set out some months ago
to cross Asia on bicycles have arrived
safely.
Arthur w. Wuellmeas, Frenchman.
will begin tifty-day fas: in Cleveland
on December 5. under the auspices of
the western reserve university medical
college.
In battle in Bledsoe county. Tenn.
between the Toilets and Spaffords A.
Spafford his son James and Moses Toll
lett were killed and two other Toilets
were badly wounded.
1t was claimed by the federal author
tiles along the Rio Grande border that
large NUN bers of Cinnamon were cross
ing the river from Mexico into the
United States each week.
Peter Schultz, the 1G-year-old boy
who was convicted in New York of the
murder of 3-months-old child, Mary
Wentheirner, has been sentenced to =
death in the electric chair.
A Russian woman named Alderman
during the absence of the mother killed
the latter'S child in ISmail and rnawAd