The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-05-02
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, April rs.

Tuesday, April IS.
Cholera has broken out in Mecca.
May wheat jumped ~ cents at Chi
cago Monday, closing at 81.
Forest fires are raging in the noun
tains in the southern interior of West
Virginia.
Catherine Scott, the oldest woman in
Brooklyn, is dead at the advanced age
of 10S years.
The ex-speaker of the house of COM
mons, the Rt. Hon. Arthur Wellesley
Peel, has been created viscount.
R. B. Armstrong of Kansas has been
appointed special agent for the purchase
Of lands for the absentee Wyandotte
Indians.
George II. Rickar, editor Of the Bris-
toll Comm Herald, committed suicide
during fit of dependency by cutting
his throat with a rozor.
Charles Upper, at one time one of
the best known baseball players in the
West was found dead in bed at Chicago.
Death resulted from consumption.
wednesday,, Aprn <4s
Tracy, Mimi, has voted $500 to
Guild new school house.
Secretary Gresham has returned to
Washington from New York.
Wheat dropped ~ cents at Chicago
Tuesday, May closing at 591a.
In barroom fight near Downing.
Wis, J. w. Windsor shot Matt Wood
ard three times None of the shots are
fatal.
James H. Eckles, comptroller of the
currency, has declined an offer to be-
come financial editor of the Chicago
Times Herald at large salary.
The Great Northern passenger train
struck an unknown farm hand sleeping
on the track near Fargo. His skull was
fractured, and he died soon after reach
ing the hospital.
Thursday, April rs.
Fire destroyed the entire business
portion Of Chester, Neb., including
seven buildings.
The annual convention of the Wis
consin State Federation of Labor will
be held at Green Bay June IL.
Eli Lancaster, an old resident of Lis
comb, Ia, was crushed to death by q
huge rock under which he was exca-
waiting.
Miss Jane Adams, prominent in mu-
nicipal reform work in Chicago, has
been appointed a garbage inspector by
Mayor Swift.
Paul Kleinschmidt, charged with kill
ing Hans Piegert at Minneapolis, has
been found guilty of manslaughter in
the first degree.
Three pool rooms in Denver were
raided by the police Wednesday. The
proprietors will resist the attempt to
close their places.
Two attempts were made to wreck
the Big Four train known as the Court
House Flyer" near Benton Harbor,
Mich. Ties were piled on the track.
Friday, April &c.
At Rockford, Ills, the grand jury is
investigating Jacob Schwe.nturth, of
''heaven' fame.
The council of state has approved the
Gillian governments proposal to raise
in Europe loan of $40, 100000.
William Kelly of Superior, has re-
ceived West Point cadet appointment,
with Isaac Staples, Hudson, Wis.,, as
alternate.
The phenomenal PAGER, Rowdy Joe,
2:0814, owned by DR.. j. B. Hawkins of
Lexington, KY, has BEEN sold to East
ern parties for $4,000.
An effort is being made by the civil
service commission to extend the pro-
lection of the classified service over the
steam and electrical engineers en-
ployed in the departments at Washing
ton.
Saturday, April ~.
James M. Hamilton, one of Nash
ville's leading merchants, is dead.
George Bay, disreputable negro,
was hung near Jensenton, KY, by
Whitecaps.
Justice Andrews of New York de
cided that George J. Gould must pay
taxes On the assessment of $40, 900, 900
levied by the tax commissioners.
Jake Schaefer, the billiard wizard,
will be the attraction at the opening of
new billiard hall in Minneapolis next
week, and will probably give exhibi-
tions in st. Paul.
"Biu" Cook, the famous outlaw has
arrived at Albany. N. Y, with IL other
famous convicts sent from the West.
The prisoners were taken to the peni-
Tertiary.
Special reports to The Manufacturer 3
Record show very decided increase in
the southwark trend of population, il
Illustrated by large purchases of lands in
Georgia, Arkansas and other Southern
states.
Monday, April 20.
The Ohio Republican state convention
will be held at GAINESVILLE May %
and 20.
Lieutenant Taylor, attached to the
Norfolk navy yard, and appointed fr:c.1a
Michigan in 1868, died at Norfolk OF
apoplexy.
An important gold discovery is re-
ported from an island in the Rainy
Lake country.
Frederick Boebel, a. contractor of
Mansfield, O., was murdered and
robbed by hobOes, who secured about