The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-09-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tuesday, Sept. 4.

Total dead in the burned district Of
Minnesota and Wisconsin, 425.
Hem. Irving, the English actor, sent
$5OC to the fire sufferers in the North.
west.
Employees of the largest sweat houses
in the New York clothing trade have
struck.
An unknown tramp was lynched at
Watertown, s. D., for attempted rape
Of Mrs. Will Bone.
Iowa People party nominated a state
ticket, headed by S. B. Crane of Dav-
export for secretary Of state.
Senator Jones of Nevada announced
allegiance to the Peoples party. He
has always been a Republican.
Wednesday, Sept. 8.
A German immigrant, having Asiatic
cholera, arrived in Pittsburg.
| George l.. Becker was nominated for
governor by the Democratic state con-
vention.
DR.. F. A. Cooks arctic expedition,
from New Cork, was obliged to return,
! its ship sinking.
Attorney General Maloney of Illinois
is still trying to bring the Pullman COM
pany to legal accounting.
President Cleveland has recognized
! the new Hawaiian republic, by letter,
| and received a cordial response
President J. J. Hill, president of the
Great Northern railway, donated 5000
acres of land to homeless families at
Hinckley.
The irrigation congress in Denver
adopted resolutions favoring state con-
troll of irrigation work and retaining
arid lands.
The contempt case against President
| Debs and other American Railway
Union officials was resumed in Chicago,
and jury trial was denied them.
Thursday, Sept. 6.
| Eleven thousand tailors on strike in
New York city because wages reduced.
Proceedings begun to cancel Ameri-
can Tobacco Company charter because
| it operates as trust in violation of New
Jersey laws.
Three inches of rain fell in two hours
at Ottawa, Ills.
Cornerstone Iowa soldiers monument
laid at Des Moines. Base will be 60 feet
square and shaft 1856 feet high.
Brotherhood Fireman shown to be in
good financial condition, 81, 900 on hand
and no debts.
| A suit involving millions of dollars
for lake front property was begun in
Cleveland.
The stallion Robert J paced mile in
| 2:O21a at Indianapolis, the best pacing
time ever made. Average time for three
heats was 2:O3 2-5.
Friday, Sept. !.
Milwaukee smallpox epidemic is de-
creasing.
China bought million rounds of
cartridges from Connecticut firm.
Cholera is very bad in Russian Po-
land. Weekly deaths average 2,OOO.
Directum paced a mile in 2:1Oh at
Indianapolis, breaking the 2-year- old
record.
Japan borrowed a large amount of
money to carry on the war against
China.
Supreme lodge, K. of p, decided to
build a monument to Major Rathbone,
founder of the order.
Republicans, basing their claims on
Oregon and Vermont, predict many
congressional victories.
In the Debs trial in Chicago Bill Err
win furiously denounced the methods
of government attorneys.
The Rockefeller corporation at Duluth
has been sued for $500, 900 for alleged
fraud in obtaining control Of iron mines
from John and William Mckinley.
Saturday, Sept. 8.
Fire destroyed part of the prison shoe
shop at Waupun, Wis.
Tammany is charged with the corrupt
condition of the New York police force.
Chauncey Depew says he is not
candidate for nomination for governor
Of New York.
A new Methodist Episcopal church
will be built in Dubuque, for which
CSC, 900 is ready.
The weeks total clearings in the
business centers was 81, 657 600 greater
than in the week preceding.
At Kossuth, o., man stolen by gyp.
sizes "a years ago when a'child, has Just
found his family living near him.
Two men have been arrested at San
Francisco, suspected of flooding South
ern California counties with bad money.
Monday, Sept. 10.
Minneapolis -four took first prize at
the Iowa state fair.
Minnesota lumber companies lost
loo, zoo, 900 feet of pine timber by the
forest fires.
]. J. Hill is asked to extend the Great
Northern railroad from Duluth into the
mining country to the north.
Testimony in the Plankinton bank
case at Milwaukee shows the failed
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