The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-02-09
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.



For the week Fading Feb. 4.
The state legislature of Pue bio, Mex,
has abolished bull-fighting.
Mrs. Catherine Robinson died at Os-
kaloosa, Ia. Thursday, aged 102 years.
An iron roller mill was burned at
Jrondale. Mimi. the loss being $3.50. 0)0.
The Chicago Milk Shippers associa-
ton, with a membership of 2, 200, failed
for 500, 900.
John Black, of Pulaski ILL.,, jumped
from a moving train and had his head
cut of by the wheels.
Flames in q tenement house in New
York caused the deaths of Morris Cohen
and his wife and little girl.
Fourteen men were seriously injured,
one fatally, in an explosion at the Star
foundry in Worcester, Mass.
Counterfeit silver dollars, halves,
quarters and dimes of the issue of S92
were in circulation in Chicago
Wharton Mcknight, owner of u large
iron foundry and machine shops in
Pittsburgh, Pa, failed for 1925, 600.
The value of the honey and wax pro-
duced in the United States during the
past year is estimated at $40, 1000, 900.
The boilers of the Planters Compress
company at Vicksburg, Miss. exploded,
killing three men and injuring twelve
others.
Thomas w. Bennett, ex-governor OF
Idaho, who was appointed by .Presi.
dent Grant, died at his home in Rich.
mond, Ind.
Sam Smith, 19-year-old negro, was
hanged at Birmingham, Ala, Thursday
for the murder of Isaac Burger nine
months ago.
A lamp explosion set fire to the
house of Alfred Bur gerson in Chicago
and Mrs. Burgerson and her baby were
fatally burned.
1t was reported that the liabilities OF
the Erie car works at Erie. Pa, whose
failure was recently announced, would
reach sl,OO0.OO
1t has been determined to remove
the remains of jefferson Davis from
New Orleans to Richmond for inter.
ment on May 80.
robbed two white men named Radcliffe
and Shortridge at Richards, Va, were
lynched by mob.
Martin Foy has been sentenced at
Ballston, N. Y. to be electrocuted at
Dannemora prison during the week
beginning March 13.
A natural gas explosion in the home
of John D. Shofstall, at Urbana, O.,
killed his daughter, aged %, and Mrs.
Clark, aged IS years.
Ira Mulock, president of the defunct
bank of Florence, COL, died in Mex
leo. where he had been exiled for sew.
eral years to escape criminal prosecu'
ton.
Rev. w. j. Tucker, d. D., professor
of sacred rhetoric at Andover theolog-
ica1 seminary, has been elected presi-
dent of Dartmouth college at Concord,
N. H.
The fire losses of the United States
and Canada for January amounted to
81, 95S, 400, which is larger aggregate
than for that month in any year since
1882.
The total number 6 deaths reported
in the state of New York for the year
1892 was 13O,75O This makes the death
rate for the year sO.7s per 1000 popu-
lation.
Mrs. Jacob Plimler, of Brooklyn, N.
Y, a handsome woman of 56 years OF
age, after a brief quarrel with her hus.
band shot him fatally and then shot
herself dead.
Several buildings, including the
Hotel Rockton, Grand Central hotel
and the Metropolitan block, were
burned at Little Falls, n Y, the loss
being 100000.
The Reading Railway company says
that if the bill before the New York
legislature to fix the price of anthracite
coal becomes law they will not bring
any coal into the state at all.
All the mines of the Delaware, Lack.
awanna & Western Coal company in
the Lackawanna and Wyoming val.
legs, Pa. employing about $4,000 per.
sons, have been put upon eight hours
per dav.