The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-05-23
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS



Tuesday, May II.
Mr.. Frank 81. Thomas, the chief
clerk Of the postofice department, has
resigned.
Horatio s. Smith, the president of
the Minneapolis Produce Exchange,
died Monday, aged Sc years.
North Alabama is greatly excited
over find of gold on Santa creek, near
Guntersville, Marshall county.
Mrs. Henrietta Moore has been Sc.
lected as the temporary chairman of
the Ohio Prohibition state convention.
J. w. Cirkel & Sons, manufacturers
of staves and headings at Thorpe and
Boyd, Wis, have made an assignment.
Easbound shipments from Chicago
last week amounted to 1881 tons
against So, 1856 for the preceding week
and 81, 375 for the corresponding week
of last year.
The Costa Rican government has
signed a contract with the Pacific Mail
Steamship company by which the for
mer will pay the latter for three years
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Wednesday, May Is.
South Dakota Populists have started
colony in Mississippi.
New Orleans wants the next Repub-
ican national convention.
Four Thousand persons participated
in the G. A. R. parade at Bloomington,
Ills.
The pure food law of Ohio has been
declared constitutional in q vinegar
case.
Peter Burnett, first governor of Cali.
fornia, is dying in San Francisco. He
is 81 years old.
A boiler at the Homestead PA. steel
works exploded wrecking the building
and fatally injuring two men.
The condition of Secretary Gresham
continues favorable and his physician
reports him as doing reasonably well.
Hugh McCulloch, formerly secretary
of the treasury, is seriously i'll at his
country house in Prince Georges
county, Md.
Thursday, May 18.
Several mines in the keystone dis
trict, South Dakota, have resumed
work.
Hon. Hugh McCulloch, formerly Sec
rotary of the treasury, is resting easily.
His condition on the whole shows q
slight improvement though he is crit
ically ill.
The 10th annual convention of the
Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit association
met in banquet hail of Delmonico's,
New York, there being about 400 dele
gates present.
The Lake county (Ind. circuit court
has dissolved its temporary restraining
order against Roby, but the state will
at once take action to put q stop to rae
ing at that place.
Theodore Cushing, one of the richest
men of Spokane, WASH, shot and
killed Thomas King, hired man on
his farm. Cushing and the hired man
quarreled and Cushing shot him twice
with Winchester.
Friday, May II.
Colonel Judson D. Bingham, assist
ant quartermaster general, has been re-
tired.
Governor Turney of Tennessee has
issued call for an extra session of the
legislature, to meet Monday, May ~.
The statement of the condition of the
treasury shows available cash balance,
1882, 5O6.31l gold reserve, $97, 043, ia
The comptroller of the currency has
given authority for the organization of
the Forest City National bank of For
est City, La.
A number of warehouses and facto.
ries near the leather market, Bermond.
sey, London, covering one and half
acres of ground, have been burned. The
loss is estimated at 81, 900, 600.
The Toronto Post announces that a
marriage has been arranged between
Captain Fltzherbert of the Royal Berk-
shire regiment and Mary, daughter of
the late Eugene M. Wilson of Mime
apolis.
Saturday. May l8.
The miners near Alliance, O., have
resumed work at the old scale.
Wheat closed at 7OL at Chicago Fri
day, an advance of nearly cents for
the day.
The directors of the Burlington rail-
road have declared the regular quar-
terly dividend.
Peter Il. Burnett, the first constitu-
tional governor of California, died
Friday, aged 50 years.
Mike King, who murdered a school
teacher named A. G. Beck on Dec. %