The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
tuesday. March go.


tuesday, March 20.
Ex-Cong ressman Townsend of Penn
sylvania Is dead, aged 81.
A yacht capsized in San Francisco
bay. Two ladies were drowned.
to Mr.. Truxton Beale. son of the late
General Bsale, is announced.
The Poorman mine. in the Coeur
d'Alene mining district, has been sold to
English capitalists for $500, 200.
The South Chicago plant of the nli-
nois Steel. company has resumed opera
lions, giving employment to 5000 men. ,
The Washington Times is q new
morning daily at the national capital.
It is strongly backed by labor organiza-
tons.
The portuguese corvette Mindello,
with Da Cana and other insurgents Oh
board, has put to sea. Her destination
is unknown.
1t is announced that Congressman
Harris will positively not be a candidate
for congressman-at-larg from Kansas.
Jerry Simpson will run for the place.
Wednesday. March FL.
Woo Chez. Chinaman, and Carrie
Walters, an Irish girl, were married at
St. Paul Tuesday.
Colonel Allen Sells, one of the orig
inal Sells Bros. of circus fame, died at
his home in Topeka, aged 56.
Chorister, Foxhall Keene's great j.
year-old, who, in company with St.
Leonards ran in the American derby
last summer, has broken down.
Miss Alice Hicks of Napoleon, Ripley
county, Ind, college student, has
fallen heir to fortune of 500, 900. Her
aunt in Texas Willed her entire fortune
to the young lady.
East bound shipments from Chicago
took another upward bound last week.
The total was SO, 619 tons, against 81, 955
for the preceding week and SS.615 for
the corresponding week of last year.
Thursday March 22.
The defense has opened its case in the
Pollard Breckenridge trial.
What is believed to be case of gen.
Newport, KY.
A Denver syndicate is negotiating for
the Detroit city railway franchise,
which expires this year.
Fourteen hundred delegates are at
tending the state Christian Endeavor
convention at Detroit, Mich.
The marriage of Ferdinand Ward to
the wealthy Miss Belle Slower of Staten
Island occurred at Genesee, N. Y, at 3
o'clock.
The sugar bounties paid Tuesday
and Wednesday by the treasury depart
ment aggregated $3.50, 1852, all of which
went to Louisiana.
Secretary Smith has approved the ap-
plication OF ''Pawnee Bill' for loan of
30 Sioux Indians to be exhibited at the
Antwerp exposition.
More than one half of the whole
mum Ger of presidential postoffices have
been filled by nominations sent to the
senate since the incoming of the present
administration.
Friday, March 23.
There is to be popular subscription
opened in Hungary for monument to
Kossuth.
Ten families on Lord Dillon Tough
Glynn's estate, near Castlereagh, have
been evicted.
Senator Coiquitt of Georgia, who is
seriously i'll at Washington, shows no
sign OF improvement.
Rev. Father Phelan, editor of The
| Western Waterman, has appealed his
dispute with Archbishop Kahn to Mgr.
Satolli.
The Irish Times says that Thomas
Sexton, member of parliament for North
Kerry, has decided to relinquish his seat
in parliament.
The London Daily News says DR..
Nettleship. the oculist, believes an oper-
alton will fully restore Mr.. Gladstone's
normal powers of vision.
The rumor of Lord Rosebery's ap-
preaching marriage with the Princess
Maud of Walse has been revived with
considerable positiveness, but it cannot
be corroborated.
Saturday, March "a.
The postoffice at Lower Brule, S. D.,
has been ordered IS miles northwest.
Admiral Mello has Eeen proclaimed
head of the provisional government at
Desterro.
st. Louis banks have lost $4,000 by
forged checks. It is the work of pro-
fessionals.
Congressman Lucas of South Dakota
has decided to become candidate for
reelection.
George c. Baker, the inventor of the
submarine torpedo boat, died in Wash
ington Friday.
Knights of Labor are preparing a
boycott on % st. Louis breweries con-
trolled by the English syndicate
AT Hayward. Wis, Tom Davis, who
stabbed John Day at O'Brien's some
time ago, plead guilty and was SEN
fenced to one year at Waupun.
George Dixon, the featherweight
champion, was knocked down and badly
stunned in a s'friendlv bout'' with Woi