The Redwood gazette., 1894-05-10
1894
1894
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
Tuesday, May 1.

Tuesday, May 1.
Frank Hatton, editor of the Washing
ton Post, died from paralysis, Monday.
By the giving away of a pier at
Brohilov, Roumamia, large number
OF persons were drowned.
Miss Harriet Blaine was married
Monday at Washington to Truxton
Beale, ex-minister to Persia.
The cornerstone has been laid for the
new normal school at Stevens Point by
the president of the Wisconsin state
board of regents.
Senator Stockbridge of Michigan died
suddenly at Chicago. Monday. He has
been i'll some days, but his condition
was not considered serious.
The Colorado Populist state central
committee has decided to recommend
that the state convention be held at
Pueblo Sept. to name the party's can
didate for United States senator.
William Duff Haynie of South Da-
kota has been appointed chief clerk to
the first assistant postmaster general.
Haynie is lawyer at Sioux Falls and a
relative of Vice President Stevenson.
| Wednesday, May 2.
Fourteen business houses were de-
stroyed by fire at Tahlequah, 1. T.,
Friday.
1t is believed the total loss of life
from recent earthquakes in Greece will
amount to 500.
The national society of the Sons of
the American Revolution is in annual
session at Washington.
Eastbounl shipments last week
amounted to 57,2S9 tons against 64.OO3
for the preceding week and 60, 1888 for
the corresponding week of last year.
Mgr. Sato,i has ordered that English
be the language of all Catholic cathe-
dral churches in America, and that St.
Mary's will be the cathedral church of
La Crosse.
In consequence of the dullness in rail-
way business. 200 Canadian Pacific en-
ployes. principally machinists, will lie
laid off. Reductions will be made in
all departments.
The regular monthly statement of the
treasury shows the public debt on April
80 was SLOT, $50. .979. an increase for
the month of $1,16O,97l. The cash in
the treasury was $790, ,S26, $50.
Thursday, May 3.
Ernest Slingineyer, the Belgian artist
is dead.
In the city election at Phoenix, A. T.,
the Repul licans carried every Office.
Two masked men robbed the house o1
John Bowler, near Maiden Rock, Wis,
securing S1,1O5. They were tracked
and captured.
P. J. Sorg, the tobacco manufacturer,
has been elected to congress from the
Third Ohio district. He is Democrat
and succeeds Houk.
Harry S. New, editor of the Indianap
oils Journal, is authority for the state
ment that ex.President Harrison's name
will go before the next Republican con
vention.
Friday, May 4.
The gold reserve is again below the
hundred million mark.
Thomas E. Benedict of New York has
been confirmed as public printer.
| WlCQs
drawn from the Western Passenger as.
sociation.
Charles Niebel, postmaster at Soldiers
Grove, Wis.,, has been arrested for rob.
bing the mails.
The Chaplin mine at Iron Mountain,
Mich will resume Monday, giving EN-.
ployment to 500 men.
Senators Sherman, Allison, Davis,
Voorhees,, Hill and others have sent a
cablegram to London, expressing sym.
pathy with the International bimetallic
movement.
Unless something unforeseen prevents,
the president will participate in the
ceremonies attending the unveiling Il
the Mary Washington monument al
Fredericksburg, Va, May 10.
Saturday. May 8.
About 65. 900 Chinese registered un.
der the Geary law in California.
A cold wave has spread over Scot
land. It is showing hard and the cold
is intense.
At the Republican congressional con.
vention at Geneva, Ills., Congressman
A. j Hopkins was renominated.
Governor Flower has signed the bill
making the Office of sheriff of New
York salaried one exclusively.
The trial of Coxey and Browne for
violation of the Capitol grounds act ia
on in the Washington police court
Secretary Smith has appointed De