The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-03-09
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.


drowned.
Anna Robliski, q Polish woman,
lebrated her 1O5th birthday at Cold
water. Mich.
A fire at Constable Hook, N. j., de-
stroyed seven buildings and rendered
fifty families homeless.
A sole leather trust with capital of
$40. 100000 was said to have been
formed at Buffalo, N. Y.
Erastus Ramey, farmer, of Burling
ton, Ia, committed suicide by drinking
cup of concentrated lye.
Boyle Davis. white pauper at Mex
leo, Mo-, was advertised to be sold Mt
auction to the highest bidder.
Alfred P. Robinson. chief justice of
Delaware, died suddenly from heart
failure at his residence in Georgetown.
The president has appointed Richard
j. Oglesby, Jr, son of ex-Gov. Ogles-
by, of Illinois, a cadet-at-large to West
Point.
In the family of w. S. Hamm;.l<er,
four weeks of a malignant form of
diphtheria.
Luring the progress of bull fight at
Linares, Mex, p wall of the building
fell, killing eight persons and injuring
thirty others.
Lorenz Zeis and his three children
died near MascOutah, ILL, from the eff
fects of eating>apple butter cooked in a
copper kettle.
In Dubuque, Ia, on Friday l04 cars
of stock passed through with their
owners, Illinois immigrants, enroute to
western Iowa.
The trial OF the boy Harry Kelly at
Galesburg, ILL.,, for killing Lawrence
Riley last Deem Der, resulted in a ver-
diet of not guilty.
Rev. Henry Laurens Hammond, aged
Is, one of the oldest Congregational
ministers in Chicago, dropped dead
from heart disease.
The fourteenth annual commence
ment exercises of the Indian industrial
school took place at Carlisle, Pa, and
was largely attended.
Frank H. Jenkins, of Rox bury, Mass,
driver of an express wagon, shot his
wife and himself fatally. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
Editor Chevis, of Baton Rouge, La, ,
and Editor Hicks of Shreveport, La,
fought duel with pistols in Texas,
but neither was injured.
Alexander p. Hetherington, young
Greek, shot Miss Emma Klaus at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, because she refused
to marry him and then shot himself.
The Michigan board of prison in
spectors has appointed ex-State Sen
| ator William Chamberlain warden of
the state penitentiary atJackson, Mich.
The organization of the Associated
Press was completed in Chicago with
Melville E. Stone, of that city, as gen.
| eral manager, succeeding William
Henry Smith.
President Harrison approved the car
coupling bill and the pen with which
he signed it was presented to K. A.
Moselv, secretary of the interstate
commerce commission.
A cyclone at Marksville, La. caused
uprooted trees marking the place
where once handsome residences stood
Two persons were killed.
The Washington legislature has
passed bill making it unlawful in the
state to manufacture, buy, sell or give
away or to have in ones possession
cigarettes or cigarette papers.
Henry M. Goodwin, for twenty years
pastor of the First Congregational
church of Rockford, Ill. and later pro-
fessor of literature at Olivet college at
! Olivet, Mich, died at Williamstown,
| Mass Wednesday,
On account of the failure of the Mon
! tana legislature to elect United States
senator, Gov. Richards, the 4th, ap-
pointed Lee Mantle of Butte as senator
to succeed w. F. Sanders. Mr.. Mantle
started at once for Washington.
ONE of the groups of the state hospi-
tai buildings for the insane at Ogdens-
burg, N. Y, was partially destroyed by
fire the 4th.
AT Ford, KY, the 4th, Mrs. Matte
Hambrick cut the throat of her Swear
old daughter, Jessie, while the little
one was asleep, causing instant death,
and then attempted to kill her sister.
Grief over the death of one of her chill
dren rendered the mother insane. She
attempted to kill herself few days ago.
The village of Toomsuba, Miss, was
destroyed by cyclone the night of the
18th. Forty out of forty-eight houses
were blown down. Several people were
injured but no one was killed. A short
distance from the village a house was
blown down and William Webb had
one of his legs broken. His daughter
was fatally injured and his son killed.
A coLoRED lad named Oliver johnson,
aged Is years, was arrested at Column
bus, O., the 4th, charged with having
killed Stanley Holt, white, aged 5, with
a Ratchet and throwing the body into
the river.
EMIL BAUER of Davenport, To-, the
5th, placed revolver at his breast and
fred, instantly killing himself. 1t &C.
CURED in his room at the Ackley house.
Bauer was enamored of a girl in West
Davenport, and since she Tilted him