The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-01-05
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.
For the Week En,sin. Dee. III.

For the Week Enesin$ Dee. II.
Ludwig Kahn. prominen nj dry goods
man at Duluth, Mimi, failed for $780,
600.
A cyclone passed over Vera Cruz,
Mexico, causing great damage to prop
| erty..
Flames at Evansville. Ind. that
started in G. W. Warren's music house,
| caused a loss of 100000.
The inspectors of the treasury de-
| partment in Boston have discovered an
Opium smugglers' rendezvous.
Anarchists attempted to blow up
with dynamite the police office in Paris,
but only little damage was done.
Struggled opium valued at $4,000
was found at San Francisco in the
hold Of the steamer Oceanic, from Hong
Kong.
Work has commenced again on the
monument over the grave of. Mary, the
| mother of Washington, at Fredericks-
burg. Md
Miss Mary +. Garrett. daughter OF
the late John W. Garrett. of Baltimore,
presented johns Hopkins university
with $3.50. 600
Lewis Fox: and Adam Gripson, both
colored, were hanged by mob at Hull
ing, La, for numbering Emanuel Bas-
tel, a grocery clerk.
J. II. Todd, cashier of the ST. Paul &
Duluth depot at West Duluth. Mimi.
left for parts unknown with S., 900 be-
longing to the company.
The discovery was made that the tim
Der on 5000 acres of school lands in
Mcdonald. Christian and LaClede coun-
! ties, Mo-, had been stolen.
Judge Barton Bates. ex-judge of the
supreme court Of Missouri and attorney
general in President Lincoln's cabinet,
died III st. Louis, aged 90 years.
Burglars broke into the Onondaga
penitentiary at Syracuse. n. Y, and
got the outer door of the safe. open,
but could not open the inner door.
Dartmouth college at Hanover, n.
H., has received a bequest of $500, 900
from the estate of the late Ralph But
ter6eld, NJ. d., of Kansas City: Mo.
The SEVENTEEN anniversary of the
birth Of NJ. Louis Pasteur. the distin-
guished biologist and chemist. was
cele brated in Paris with great pomp.
A shantv on the levee in Kansas City
Kan, was burned and Mother Reney
Simmons, its only occupant an ex-
slave over 100 yeas OIL, was fatally
burned.
BY the explosion Of a plumbers gas
oline stove in a house at Orange, Mass,
caused by placing it on the top Of a
hot cooking stove, five persons were
badly injured.
Loring Pickering. senior proprietor
of the Morning Call, died in San Fran
cisco. aged 80 years. Mr.. Pickering was
the oldest pioneer newspaper man on
the Pacific coast.
The hamburger Nachrichten denies
the statement in aMilwaukee newspa-
per to thu, effect that Prince Bismarck
| has an interest in a Milwaukee street
railway company.
\. Byerly went to bed at the Laclede
hotel at Ottumwa. Ia. and got up to
turn on the electric light. but turned
on the gas instead. lie was found dead
in his room Tuesday morning.
\ plot to burn up Bueuos Ayres was
discovered. and a number of police men
and fremen We're arrested on the
charge of being connected with the
| conspiracy. Plumber was the object.
Three old residents of Dubuque
county. Ian. j.. Loes, Of Key West.
aged 81: James Lynch, of Washington
Mills. aged 81, and E. G. French, of
Epworth, aged 12-died on the same
day.
The Russian minister of justice has
decided to exempt female convicts in
Siberia from fiogging and wearing
manacles and to substitute punishment
by restricted diet and isolation. The
decision awaits the sanction of the inn
perial council
Annie Clark (colored), of Cairo. ILL.,,
was found in an unused stable near the
Union depot Thursday morning will,
her head nearly severed. from the
body. 1t is supposed she was enticed
there by some one who, after assault
ing her, killed her.