The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thursday, Aug. IA.

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The French board OF pardons refuses
to mitigate Santos sentence.
During the last few days over 400
anarchists have landed in London.
The National Colored Democratic
league is in session at Indianapolis.
Ex-President Harrison is quoted as
saying he is out of the presidential race.
Congressman D. B. Bynun of the
Seventh Indiana district has been re-
nominated.
The cash balance in the treasury is
$116, 792, 500, of which $52,664, $50 is
gold reserve.
Police Justice Quigley Of Brooklyn,
fined a carriage driver $50 for deliber-
ately running down bicyclist.
The house Of commons has, by vote
Of 112 to 1O7, adopted local option
amendment to the miners bill for an
8-hour day.
Democrats of the Eighth Missouri
congressional district renominated Rich
ard P Bland for congress for the twelfth
consecutive time.
Wednesday, Aug. Is.
Emperor William has left Gravesend
for home.
Rt. Rev. Dr. OHara, Roman Catholic
bishop of Scranton, Pa, is lying criti-
cally Ill at the cottage of his brother,
DR.. O'Hara, at Cape May.
The Republicans Of the Eighth Mis-
souri, district have nominated Dr. J. L.
D. Hubbard for congress to run in oppo-
sition to Hon. R. P. Bland.
Hon. Clifton R. Breckenridge of Ar
kansas has qualified as minister to Rus
STA. Mr.. Breckenridge expects to leave
the United States in about a month.
The house committee on pensions has
agreed to the senate bill to pension Mrs.
Ada J. Schwatka, the widow of Lieu
tenant Frederick Schwatka, the Arctic
explorer, at $50 a month.
1t is announced at Kansas City upon
reliable authority that Colonel J. G.
Holiday of Topeka, Kan, will be ap-
pointed by Judge Caldwell receiver of
the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, to
succeed Mr.. Reinhart.
Thursday, Aug. 16.
Canadian lumbermen are iubilant
over the prospect of free lumber in the
United States.
Dennis Norton, pioneer grain mer-
chant Of Burlington, Ia, died suddenly
of heart disease, aged s..
The condition Of ex-Premier MERCER
OF Quebec, who has been reported as
dying, is much improved.
The resignation of John E. Striker as
as assistant United States district attor-
ney for Minnesota has been accepted
Elmer E. Reisinger. former govern
ment employee, suicided at St. Paul
Wednesday. Dependency was the
cause.
Millions Of grasshoppers have taken
the fields of East Tennessee by storm
and are working destruction upon the
crops.
The Republicans of the Fourth Ne
braska district have renominated Con-
gresham John E. Hainer by acclama-
nation.
Senator Washburn has favorably re-
ported Congressman Haugen's bill for
bridge over the St. Croix river at Osce-
ola, Wis.
Friday, Aug. II.
The Satanita beat the Britannia and
Vigilant in race at Ryde, Isle of
Wight.
Dispatches from steamers arriving at
Victoria announce the death Of the king
of Siam
United States Consul General Jones
at Amsterdam has cabled the state de-
partment that there are 20 cases of
cholera in that city.
Mrs. Forster, widow of John Forster.
the English historian and biographer of
Charles Dickens is dead.
Fantasy trotted mile in 2:O7h, at
Rochester, N. Y, the fastest time ever
made by a 4-year-old mare.
Representative E. E. Meredith has
been renominated by the Democrats of
the Eighth Virginia district.
The butchers strike at the Chicago
stockyards has been declared off on the
terms proposed by the strikers.
Saturday, Aug. 1s.
Robert j went a mile in 2:O4L at
Rochester, N. Y, Thursday.
The New York constitutional conven-
ton has decided upon removing the
$1,000 limit for damages by the loss of
life.
The fastest three heats ever made in
race were trotted by Joe Patchen at
Terre Haute Thursday-2:O6A, 2:O6 and
1904.
Frederick J. Lovejoy, vice president
Of the Adams Express company, is
critically i'll at the Grand Union hotel,
Saratoga.
Ex-Governor Charles Robinson died
at Lawrence Friday. He had been i'll
several weeks. Robinson was the first |
governor Of the state.
The First Nebraska district Repub-
ican congressional convention, after |
being in session two nights and two
dave 1o,,,oc D C%nola ~