The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-18
WEST AND SOUTH.

LIGHTNING instantly killed George
L. Gowdy at Shelbyville, ILL.,, and his
wife and infant daughter were prob
ably fatally injured.
AN entire family, consisting of a man,
wife and four children, names un-
known, were killed near Guthrie, o. T.,
by their team running away and going
over precipice.
WHILE bathing Richard Downey,
Hiram Brotherton, Emel Coos and Bert
Altman were drowned at Council
Bluffs, Ia.
THE death of Archibald Thacker oc-
Cured at his home near Martinsville,
Ind, aged 1o1 years.
FLAMES which started in the furniture
factory of Chatterton & Co., in Baltl-
more, Md, damaged property to the
extent of $500, 600.
On the Santa Fe road passenger
train was wrecked near Petersburg,
COL, and forty persons were injured,
twelve seriously.
IN Detroit, Mich, Clotilda Robinson
died at the age of 1O6 years. Her hus-
band died thirty years ago, aged 115
years.
In Denver, Col., the great pageant of
the knights templar took place.
BY the swamping of a ferry sloop
near Charleston, S. c., eight persons
were drowned.
AT Waldo, O., Harvey Kenyon, a
wealthy farmer, was fatally shot by
his son George. The old man was in
toxicated and he began abusing his
wife, finally striking her with club,
when the son shot him.
In St. Louis Judge James C. Normile,
Of the criminal court, committed sui
eide by taking poison because of a
newspaper attack upon him. DR.. Wal
ter Cole and DR.. NJ. Tolheie, we'll
known physicians, also took their own
lives in the same city. No cause known.
DEMOCRATS of Tennessee in conven-
ton at Nashville nominated Peter G..
Turney for governor. The platform
mbodies the national platform adopt
ed at Chicago.
In Memphis Henry Clay King, the
murderer of David H. Poston, will not
hang on the 18th, Gov. Buchanan hav-
ing commuted his sentence to life i'm
prisonment in the Tennessee peniten-
tiary.
BERTHA and Lizzie Shultz were
driving in Fairmont, Neb., when their
horse ran away. The girls were not in
jured, but shortly afterward both
dropped dead.
MINNEAPOLIS and st. Paul were del
uged with counterfeit one and two-dol-
lar silver certificates and silver quar-
tiers.
GREAT excitement prevailed at Noun
tain Home, Idaho, over the discovery
Of fabulous rich gold-bearing quartz
lodges in the Dixie district.
MEXICAN prospectors about 80 miles
from the new camp of the Harqua
Hala, A. T., found the famous French
mems mine, which has been lost for
thirty years.
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Indiana, Ninth district, L.
n. Mering (rep.), James Brown (dem. };
Ohio, Twentieth district, w. j. White
(rep.); Minnesota, Sixth district, w.
R. Baldwin (dem.): Iowa, Eighth dis
trict, w. s. Scott (people's).
NOMINATIONS for congress were made
as follows: Ohio, Fourteenth district,
Q. H. Wakeley (rep.); Kentucky, Sec
ond district, w. L. Ellis (dem.); West
Virginia, Second district, ]. N. Wisner
(rep); Iowa, Third district. ]. H.
Shields (dem.); Rhode Island, First
district, Isaac S. Turner (pro.) }, Second,
E. A. Lewis (pro).
FLAMES at Loraiu, Cal, destroyed six
buildings, and Mrs. L. D. Howe and
three men were burned to death.
AT Eagle Lake, Mimi, Mrs. Martha
Kesler, Milwaukee woman, poisoned
her month.pld babe and threw her
3-year-old boy in the well and drowned
him.
In convention at Atlanta the Georgia
democrats renomiaated w. j. Northen
for governor.