The Redwood gazette., 1895-08-08
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS,

Tuesday, July 80.
FIRE at Custer City. s. D., did $22,-
900 damage.
Adam Decker, q resident of st. Paul
since 1850. is dead.
The courthouse at Fresno. Cal,
burned to the ground. About half the
records were saved.
The London Chronicle declares that
the report that England has abandoned
the Island of Trinidad is unfounded.
The Reading (Pa.) Iron company's
sheet mill employees, $50 in number.
have received 10 per cent increase in
wages.
Albro Mott, aged 80. was killed at
Marion, Wis, by David Hatford.
Motifs attentions to Mrs. Hatford was
the cause of the shooting.
Lea Van Dyck, prominent in New
York musical circles and wife of Harry
q. Davis, contractor and builder in
Philadelphia, is in Yankton, s. D., for
divorce.
Wednesday, July FL.
Judge John D. Cation, ex-judge of the
Illinois supreme court, is dead, aged "a.
Taking of testimony has begun in
the Duestrow murder case at Union,
Mo.
The first national convention of the
Colored Women's League OF America
is in session in Boston.
Henry Simmons, aged 72, an old res
ident of Dodge county, Mimi, was
killed in runaway.
Army worms have made their ap-
pearance in some places in Oklahoma
and are doing great damage to alfalfa
and corn.
Rt. Hon. A. B. Forwood, Conserva-
tive member of parliament for the
Ormskirk division of Southwest Lanca-
shire, has been made a baron.
David j. Welsh, a Chicago printer,
was horsewhipped on one of the prin.
cipal Chicago streets by Miss Ella
Bradley, who said Welsh's wife had
slandered her.
Thursday, Aug. 1.
The treasury statement shows avail
able cash balance, 1898, 573,624; gold
reserve, $1O7, 1858
The Rt Rev. M. A. De Wolfe Howe,
Protestant Episcopal bishop of Central
Pennsylvania, is dead.
The Dollar Savings bank at Kansas
City has gone into voluntary liquida-
tion for the purpose of retiring from
business.
William Picker, who was awaiting
trial for implication in the mint bull
lion shortage, was found dead in bed
at Carson, New.
The strike of the journeymen bakers
in the City of Mexico is increasing in
proportions and in many quarters OF
the city families are without bread.
Fire at Wells, Mimi, Wednesday de.
stroyed number of buildings, includ'
ing livery stable, in which 26 horses
were burned to death. The total loss
is $50, 1000.
Friday, Aug. 2.
Ex-Mayor Hugh O'Brien of Boston
is dead.
At Redding, CAL, Frank Miller, 8
pioneer merchant, was killed in his
store by his wife, who attacked him
with an axe. She is insane.
The Big Four railroad is surveying
line from Black River, o., to Lorraine
to get the Southwest trade of the big
steel mills at the latter place.
The Standard Wagon company Of
Cincinnati has assigned to Edward
Ritchie. Assets, $500, 700; liabilities
$4OO, 1000.
Secretary and Mrs. Carlisle have
gone to Chicago. They will cruise
around the lakes on the cutter Amar
anth for month.
Senator H. D. Heller, who operates
the Heller Town blast furnace anG
stone Qurries at Bethlehem, Pa, ha.
advanced the wages of it's employees II
per cent.
Young Mr.. Bancroft, member of ,
well known English family, has, it i
understood, proposed to. and been &C
cepted by Miss Margaret Grimston
elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kendall
Saturday, AuE. 8.
Joseph Thompson, the African trav
eler, is dead in London.
The frontier dispute between Argen
tine and Chill has been settled. nt
Six jurors have been secured in tn
Durrant case at San Francisco.
At Dangerdeld. Tex, whitecaps sho
and killed James Mason, q negro, ant
fatally wounded his wife.
The dean of Westminster has offeret
q place in the abbey for a slab or me
dallion portrait of Professor Huxley.
w. E. D. Stokes of New York ha
received two yearling stations, wortl
$4,000 each, as present from tn
Grand Duke IDENTITY, uncle Of the cza
of Russia.
The Rev. Father Sherman son Of tn
late General Sherman, will engage il
mission work in the Northwest, unde
the direction of the Jesuit order, o
which he is a member.
Lord Rosebery has resolved neve