The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-09
SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS NEWS
Tuesday, Dec. 81.

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Tuesday, Dec. 81.
The H. w. Ladd company, one Of
the largest dry goods firms OF Provi-
dence, R. l., has assigned.
The treasury lost STA, 800 in gold by
redemptions Monday, leaving the true
amount Of the reserve $63, 132,551.
A strong earthquake shock was felt
on Saturday at Ciciano, in Cacerta,
Italy. Several persons were killed and
number were injured.
Eastbound shipments from Chicago
last week amounted to 1881 tons,
against 9O,577 for the preceding week
and 30, 1877 for the corresponding week
last year.
Officials at the Charleston navy yard
have received dispatch from Wash
ington ordering the commandant to
place the monitor Passaic in condition
for immediate service.
| Wednesday, Jan. I.
The Gisholt Machine company of
Madison, Wis, employing 1875 men, has
adopted the profit sharing plan.
The eighth annual convention Of the
Western Commercial Travellers asso-
citation is in session at ST. Louis.
E. F. Emerson, aged so, and who
claimed to be cousin of Ralph Waldo
Emerson, the poet, was found dead in
bed in Chicago lodging house.
The receipts of the st. Paul postofice
4l,o
while the total for the previous year
was only 1868, e74.39.
The Watertown National bank, one
of the leading banks Of South Dakota,
has decided to 60 into voluntary
liquidation and is closing out it's affairs
and paying all creditors in full.
Ex-senator Spooner is in favor of a
special session Of the Wisconsin legisla-
ture to reapportion the state into senate
and assembly districts under the census
of 1895.
Thursday, Jan. 2.
The Maryland legislature organized
Wednesday and the governors message
was read.
G.. A. Peterson, who killed DR.. Young
of Buffalo, N. D., has been sent to the
Jamestown asylum.
Five men were badly burned, three
of them probably fatally, by an explo-
sion of gas in the Girard mine at Sha-
mokin, Pa
The Omaha Temple of Labor was
dedicated Wednesday by Omaha work
ingmen under the auspices of the GEN.
trail labor union.
. While Mrs. Thomas R. Bebb Of Pal
myra, O., was making call her house
was burned and her two baby boys Gre
I mated in the ruins.
: Cincinnati received New Years
e gift Of IL square miles Of territory, in
e creasing the area from 241a square miles
8 to 3o1a and increasing the population to
). $4,000.
Friday, Jan. 8.
The Watertown IS. d. national
bank will go out of business.
r Witnesses in the Peralto- Reavis case
will be prosecuted for perjury by the
: government.
n The sheriff of Ellsville, Miss, was
> held up and robbed of $4,000 belonging
', to the county.
% A Christian Citizens League has
been organized at Sioux Falls with
;, many of the most prominent mel
!. actively identified with it.
70 John Scott has been made control1e,
% of the Western division Of the Northern
IS Pacific, thereby becoming controller O.
the entire system.
Saturday, Jan. 4.
E. II. Copp, one of the oldest jeweIer:
at Madison, Wis, has assigned.
The New York legislature has con
', vened. Hamilton Fish was elected
l speaker.
Chaplain Rutledge of the Illinois Sol
diers' home was dismissed on charge
of neglect of duty.
D. A strip of land in Franklin county
9 Mo-, sank SO deep that trees which
. stood upon it disappeared entirely.
Emperor William telegraphed Presi.
dent Kruger congratulating him on the
suppression of the British invasion
y The Philadelphia Loan and Trust
r. company has assigned. Differences
b among the management is the reported
cause.
The Sioux Indian, Kills the Enemy,
> from Pine Ridge, who is charged with
stealing horse valued at $25 from his
friend Bad Corn Cob, is under arrest at
Hot Springs, S. D.
Monday, Jan. 6.
: Two Indian boys confessed to having
? butchered a man near Antlers, I. T.,
because he was white.
Friends of Carter H. Harrison, Jr.,
, have decided to urge the late mayors