The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-05-16
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS


Tuesday, May !.
The police census of the city of Buf.
falo, taken May /, shows the popula-
ton to be 1856, 700.
A terrific hail storm did much DAM
age in Omaha Monday. Much property
was destroyed, mostly glass and young
trees.
Secretary Gresham is reported to be
somewhat better. The critical symp-
toms Of his illness have abated and the
crisis is said to have passed.
Henry Segelbaum was killed at Min
neapolis by jumping from the delivery
wagon he was driving because of the
threatened runaway Of his horse.
Easbound shipments from Chicago
last week amounted to 53,285 tons
against 81, 4O8 for the preceding week
and 30, 779 for the corresponding week
of last year.
The Japanese government has uncon-
ditionally relinquished all claim to the
Liao Tung peninsula, in accordance
France and Germany.
Wednesday, May 8.
A sugar famine is threatened in st.
Louis.
The New York assembly has passed
the civil rights bill.
General Pleasonton, Rear Admiral
Almy and General Coggswell are all
reported better.
King Humbert has signed a decree
dissolving the Italian chamber of depu-
ties and fixing May rs as the date for
the election Of deputies.
The reichstag has definitely passed
the Baltic and North Sea canal festivity
credit of 100000 marks, the Social
Democrats alone opposing it.
Sir John Adam Hay is dead. He was
the eldest son of Sir Robert Hay,
whose mother was Sally, daughter of
Alexander Duncan of Providence, R. /.
Phillips, Nimick & Co., owners of
the Sligo mill at Pittsburg, have signed
the wage scale of the Amalgamated as
the strikers.
Thursday, May 8.
Turney has been inaugurated gov
ernor of Tennessee.
Ex-Governor James A. Weston died
as Manchester, N. H., after an illness
Of several weeks.
During a quarrel at Galveston, Tex,
Louis Zimmerman was instantly killed
and Henry Bouss dangerously wounded.
DR.. Guzman has received a dispatch
from his government stating that every
thing is in . tranquil state in Nicaragua
The bill making the birthday of
Abraham Lincoln legal holiday has
passed both houses of the New York
legislature.
Charles E. Warner, knit goods manu-
facturer of Rockton, N. Y, has made
an assignment for the benefit of his
creditors. His liabilities are 81, 900.
The Utah constitutional convention,
which has for 70 days been framing the
fundamental laws of the state, has fin
ished its labors and adjourned sine die.
Friday, May 10.
Russia. France and Germany, it is
announced, are about to increase their
naval forces in the China seas.
The Rt. Hon. Sir Robert Pee, who
was chief secretary for Ireland from
1861 to 1865, is dead, aged 70 years.
The comptroller Of the currency has
issued q call to national banks for a
statement Of their standing at the close
of BUSINESS May.
Advices from the Pescadore islands
state that 1900 persons died there from
cholera during one month. The ,eni-
.demic is now subsiding.
Alfred Carl and Priesthood j. Ben
bow have been appointed receivers of
the Otis steel works of Cleveland, one
of the largest concerns of Its kind in
the country.
Minnesota and Dakota lines are voting
on proposition for one and one third
fare on account of the annual inter-
state encampment of the &. A. r. in
'Ortonville. Big Stone county, MINI.
June 1921.
Saturday. May II.