The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-10-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Tuesday. Sept. 20.

that the cZar is suffering from Brights
disease of the kidneys. s
At Upper Sandusky, O., gas well
with a volume of 4, 0O0, 600 feet has been
struck in nine feet of sand.
Two thousand four hundred New
York shirtmakers are on strike in New
York for more pay and shorter hours.
Ell. Cakes, Beloit wis. carpenter,
who was camping and pearl fishing, was
drowned in the Pecatonica river, near
Rockton, Ills.
The puddlers of the Oliver iron and
steel works, Pittsburg, have struck
against 25 per cent reduction, and all
but four furnaces closed down.
The University of Chicago has made
arrangements fer the publication of an
astronomical journal which will be in
ternational in scope and character.
Mr.. Andrew D. White, the United
States minister to Russia, has gone to
Munich, Bavaria. He will return to
st. Petersburg in October in order to
present his letters of recall. ~
Wednesday, Sept. e6.
Sioux City won the pennant in the
Western league and Baltimore the Ma
tional.
Billy Plimmer of England and Pro-
fessor Murphy fought rs rounds to a
draw in New Orleans. ,f.o
Max Dembufsky was nominated for
congress by the Democratic convention
OF the Illinois First district. t
Mrs. Rebecca A. Carney, widow of
Thomas Carney, second governor of
Kansas, died at her home in Leaven-
worth, Tuesday.
The net cash in the treasury at the
close Of business Tuesday was $l23, $780,
$50, of which SOS, 296,.32 represented
the gold reserve.
Sir Country E. Boyle, permanent Sec
rotary of the London board of trade
gave a dinner to congressman Wilson
and Isidore Strauss.
Assistant Attorney General Hall of
the interior department. has rendered
decision, approved by the secretary,
which will enable the Puyallup Indian
commission to conclude it's work and
dispose Of the lands.
Thursday, Sept. 27.
Henry II. Eubner fell into an open
sewer trench at Mapleton, Wis, and
broke his neck.
The fight between Smith and Farrell
will take place somewhere near Denver
early in October
Andrew Considine, one of the oldest
citizens of Dubuque county, Ia, was
thrown from his wagon and instantly
killed.
General Egussquiza has been elected
president OF Paraguay, to succeed ex-
President Gonzales, whose term had ex-
pired, while he is in exile.
The Democratic convention of the
Twenty-second New York district has
nominated DIR. William r. Hosie of St
Lawrence county for congressman.
The fiftieth annual conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church for the dis
trict embracing Northern Iowa, South.
ern Dakota and fraction of Wisconsin
and Illinois is in session at DUBUQUE.
Friday, Sept. 20.
The time system has replaced piece
work in the government printing office.
The Altoona Manufacturing CON-
pany, high grade engine builders, have
assigned. 5.j VIZ.
Two men were burned to death, two
othher men and little girl were badly
injured and 500, 600 worth of property
destroyed by fire at Nanaimo, B. G.
Howgate, arrested in New York for
embezzling several hundred thousand
dollars from the government, has been
taken to Washington for trial.
The clerks of the Bank Of England
are holding angry meetings of protest
against the recent admission into the
service of the bank of two patches of
lady clerks. .r,. .... ...
The rifle competition of the dopart-
ments of California and the Columbia
has terminated, comparatively poor
scores being made, owing to the unfa-
vorable condition of the weather.
SATURDAY. Sonf