The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-03-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
tuesday. Feb. FL.

Tuesday. Feb. 81.
Steele Mackave died in his special Car
near La Junta, Cal.
Ex-President Harrison and party have
started for California.
The visible supply of wheat decreased
1,41O, 900 bushels last week.
National league base ball magnates
are in session at New York.
Ex-Minister Phelps is reported out of
danger and improving slowly.
Eighteen inches of snow has fallen at
Pomeroy. o., in the past IS hours.
The court of inquiry in the matter of
the loss of the Kealsarge has convened
at New York
The striking carpenters at the new
Chicago stock exchange building have
Won their fight.
Eastbound shipments last week
amounted to SO. 968 tons, against 48, 1871
for the previous week and 7o,315 tons
for the corresponding week of last year.
Wednesday. Feb. 20.
Chief of Police Seave- of Omaha has
ordered all gambling houses to close.
Funeral services over the remains of
Steele Mackaye were held at Chicago.
Over 20 farmers near Somerset, Pa.
are seriously i'll from eating poisoned
meat. Two are reported dead.
The French senate has passed the
house of deputies bill placing duty OF
seven francs on wheat.
Civil engineers have commenced
sounding the Missouri river at Yankton
for pier foundations for railroad and
wagon bridge.
The state prison at Sing Sing, N. Y,
has been placed under close quarantine
because several of the convlcts have
been seized with smallpox.
The Hon. Thomas H. Bayard, United
States ambassador to the court of St.
James, emphatically denies the report
that he intends to tender his resignation.
The house committee on naval affairs
has voted favorably on Representative
Blair's bill to appropriate $4,000 for
the purpose of recovering the wrecked
steamer Kearsarge.
Thursday March 1.
Paris police have arrested 10 more
anarchists.
The trials of Corbett and Mitchell
have begun at Jacksonville, Fla.
Nine. Patey, the distinguished con-
tralto singer, died at Sheffield, Eng.
The Western Union of Insurance I'm
derwriters is in session at St. Louis.
Of the a. delegates at large to the
Populist city convention at Leadville,
Colo.. 20 are women.
L. Lyle has sued for divorce at Fort
Worth. He claims his bride married
him at a pistols point.
Isaac P. Berg and wife, living nea,
Marion, S. D., were found dead in bed
from escaping coal gas.
| DR.. R. w. Patterson, one of the old.
est and best known Presbyterian minis.
tiers Of Chicago, is dead.
John Callaghan. a we'll known farme,
of Kenosha county, Wis, was brutally
murdered by an unknown robber.
Colonel w. G. Brennan, appointed
paymaster of the Chippewa reservation
by President Harrison, suicided at Min
neapolis.
Joseph DOMAIN has been sentenced t.
ID months In the penitentiary for send
ing threatening letter to Vice Presi.
dent Stevenson.
The jury at Jacksonville acquitted j
J. Corbett of the charge of willfully
beating, bruising and misusing one
Charles Mitchell.
Friday, March 2.
''Boss" McKane has been taken t.
Sing Sing.
The Washington National bank O
Spokane will liquidate.
Hot Springs, Sd, citizenl have raiset
81, 600 for base ball club.
Lieutenant Charles A. Churchill, q
s. A., is dead at Louisville.
st. Johns Lutheran college at Win
field, Kan, has been dedicated.
Charles Salyards was hanged at Car
Isle, Pa, for the murder of Policema,
Martin, Saturday night, April 8, 1893.
Comptroller Eckels has ordered q,
assessment of 100 per cent on stock O
the Merchants National bank of Grea
Falls.
DR.. WI. Poole, librarian of the New
berry library, Chicago, died at his resi-
, dence OF nervous prostration. DR.. POOL
was one of the best known librarians il
the country.
William E. Burr, Jr., ex-cashier O
the st. Louis National bank, for who's,
arrest a warrant was sworn out b,
Bank Examiner Galbraith, the charg'
being embezzlement, has surrendered.
Saturday, March 3.
Boss McKane has been put at worl
cutting overalls at Sing Sing.
Governor Osborne of Wyoming ha
issued quarantine against Texas cattle
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