The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-02-28
SUMMARY OF WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, Feb. 10.

Tuesday, Feb 10.
/ EastbOund shipments from Chicago
last week amounted to 40, 1873 tons,
against 81 ,532 for the preceding week.
From the best possible source it is
learned that settlement between Mex
leo and Guatemala will be reached in q
few days.
Colonel Mason Colburn, one of the
best known men in the state and a
member Of the Republican national
committee, died at Manchester, Vt.
With the exception of John Wilde, an
American, all the foreigners who were
serving with the Chinese at Wei-Hai-
Wei have been released by the Japs.
Fearful snow storms are prevailing
along the Russo Austrian frontier. The
railroads are interrupted and many
deaths have been caused by the ex-
IRENE cold.
Archduke Albert of Austria died at
Arco, South Tyrol, of congestion of the
lungs, i'll his 18th year. He was the old
est son of Archduke Charles, brother
OF the grandfather Of Emperor Francis
Joseph.
The California assembly has unani-
mously adopted resolut ons favoring the
annexation Of the Hawaiian Islands and
the election Of United States senators
by popular vote.
| Wednesday Feb. 20.
Henry Irving the actor, is severely
indisposed. Influenza is the malady.
DR.. Hulke, president of the Royal
College of Surgeons, Of England, is
dead.
| Senator Cullom of Illinois is confined
to his room with slight attack of the
grippe.
The amount of gold now on the way
to the United States from England is
5,73O,OOO.
| Eli Marks, probably the best known
gambler in the South, died III Louis
vile Tuesday.
| The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad company has declared a quar-
terly dividend of per cent.
The Yale Freshmen Debating union
has been challenged by the Harvard
| Freshmen union to debate to take
place within three months.
Col j. P. Martin, adjutant general of
the department of Missouri, died at the
| Chicago Beach hotel. He had been i'll
for some time with kidney diseases.
Thursday, Feb. Fl.
Heavy snow blockades are still re-
ported from Western and Northern
Michigan.
Moses Kimball, the founder of the
Boston museum, died at his home in
Brookline, Mass, aged IS.
Governor Morton has signed the Law
son bill, preventing the display of for
eign flags on public buildings.
| A special to the New York World
from La Paz, Bolivia, says the revolu-
ton appears to be, gaining ground.
Galveston, Tex, cotton mill opera
tives have gone out on a strike because
of request to work all extra hour each
day.
A committee appointed to examine
into the books Of John F. Bella, county
treasurer at Durango, Colo, has re-
ported shortage of over $4,000. He
claims the shortage was caused by a
former deputy, now under Indictment.
Friday, Feb. 20.
Iowa coal operators will meet in Des
Moines March 6.
The Oregon senatorial deadlock re
mains unbroken. Dolph is still in the
lead.
Several prominent Paris editors have
been sentenced to Jail for blackmail.
The terms range from Is months to five
years.
Senator Kyle, from the committee on
education and labor, has made favor
able report on Senator Bates bill for
government aid to the proposed Nash.
vile exposition of 1896.
The severe weather continues through
out Central Europe. Twenty persons
were frozen to death in Galicia in two
days.
At Butternut, Wis, William Harms
was sent to Jail for six months for blow
| ing up the Farmers union store with
dynamite.
The condition of the treasury shows
available cash balance, $166, 407, 101 !;
gold reserve, $61 1868, 121.
Saturday Feb. 2s.
Lord Rosebery is indisposed and con-
fined to his bed.
A reduction of wages, amounting to
| IS to so per cent, announced by Trenton
potteries is likely to cause general
strike
Governor Morton has approved the
act to prevent the display of foreign
flags upon public buildings in New
| York state.
A movement has been set on foot by
citizens Of Lancaster, O., to secure
means to erect monument to General
| w. T. Sherman
Georgia won the Interstate military
shoot at Savannah, the team Of Georgia
Hussars defeating the picked team of
New Jersey troops by Al points.