The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-10-20
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

For the Week Ending Oct. II.
s. A. Whitfield has resigned as first
assistant postmaster general.
The village of Bluford, I'LL, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire.
Most of the business portion of Hill
City, S. D., was destroyed by fire.
"A mountain of carbonate of zinc has
been discovered near Hillsboro, N. M.
Fire which started in frame tene.
ment at Jersey City, N. j., did 1926, ooo
damage
Several factories and other buildings
were burned at Bethel, Conn, the loss
being 1925, 00O
Linus B. Comins, member of con.
gress from 1855 to 1858, inclusive, died
in Boston, aged Is years.
Maxwell Anderson, IA years of age,
died at Jacksonville, Ind, of hydro
phobia caused by a rat bite.
E. D. Lorenzo, a bookmaker of ma
tlonal reputation, was found dead in
the Dearborn hotel in Chicago
In fight on train near Bonneville,
Mo-, John Leary and Frank Harris,
both colored. killed each other.
Phil Young, the negro who shot
Walter Glass ,(white), was taken from
the Palmyra (Na.) Jail and lynched.
C. w. Acker.nan, porter, attempted
to handle live electric-light wire in
Kansas City and toppled over dead
man.
A territory in Nueces county, Tex,
embracing 100000 acres of land, was
flooded to depth of feet by water
spout
All of the prisons and reformatory
institutions of Michigan will furnish
displays for the Michigan worlds fair
exhibit.
Two boys aged and 1, sons of J. H.
Mcnamara, of Des Moines, "a, were
run over by an electric motor and in
stantly killed.
Martin Peterson, of Goshen, Ind. was
awarded $4,000 damages against the
Lake Shore Railway Company for the
loss of two arms.
Anew counterfeit five-dollar silver
certificate has been put into, circulation
in Chicago. It has the new back and is
Of the series of 1891.
Peter Wagner, stonecutter in
Brooklyn, N. Y, fatally shot his wife
and then blew out his own brains.
Jealousy was the cause.
John Butts shot and fatally wounded
his wife at Portland, Ore, because she
would not live with him and then put
bullet into his own head.
At the annual encampment in In
dianapolis of the Union Veteran legion
w. H. Tucker, of Indianapolis, was
elected commander in chief
At Monroe, Mich, Mrs. Mary Bau-
bien, widow of "A, has begun suit
against William Roman, bachelor of
about so, for breach of promise.
Mrs. William Hickman, an aged in
mate of the county infirmary at Cald-
well, O., was fatally burned by her
clothing igniting from her pipe.
Edward w. Seymour, Judge of the
supreme court and member of congress
from 1882 to 1887, died at his home in
Litchfeld, Conn, aged 60 years.
wi. IL. A1uCCCIs I'll CdSLOH,
Pa, one of the Oldest newspaper men
in the Lehigh valley, died of nervous
prostration. He was SO years old.
President Carnot has bestowed the
cross of the Legion of Honor on Henry
Harris, the eminent American writer,
who is at present a resident of Paris
OThree colored miners, ODE Taylor,
Andrew Vineyard and his son, were all
instantly killed in a coal mine near
Bevier, Mo-, by the falling of a rock.
j. S. Bedford and another man who
had been arrested on the charge of
horse stealing and acquitted were
shot and killed from am ush near Chey.
enne, Wyo.
The republicans made the following
congressional nominations in New
York; Second district, w. N. Grace;
Fourth, C. B. Hobbs; Fifth, C. G. Ben
nett; Sixth, John Creamy.
In cyclone that passed over the
| Cape Verde islands houses were de-
molished, many plantations devastated,
hundreds of head of cattle were killed
and several vessels foundered.
The western half of Alberta, the
ranching district of Manitoba, has
been devastated by prairie fires.
Thousands of tons of hay and many
| buildings wara burned and manv cat-