The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1904-10-26
4 WEEKS RECORD
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0A IuS S4cCuIAFG CIVIL SC1f1CS "a GAe
United States, showing total of 271,-
169 employees, embracing all persons en-
ployed in the executive branches of the
federal government, except enlisted men
in military and naval branches.
United States Treasurer Ellis H
Roberts reported a decrease of $19,-
764,925 in revenues during the fiscal
year.
Fire Marshal William Fl. Musham,
Of Chicago, has resigned, and John
Campion, now first assistant marshal,
will succeed him.
Mrs. Mary E. Warren, widely
known as a temperance worker, au-
thoress and philanthropist, is dead at
her home in the village of Fox Lake.
Wis. She was rs years of age.
William Scott Worth, brigadier gen.
eral, U. S. A., retired, is dead at Clin-
ton, Staten Island. He served through
the war of the rebellion, in several
Indian campaigns and in Cuba
The record of railway casualties in
the United States shows 354 dead and
over 200 hurt since January /.
-Four United States soldiers were
killed and seven injured by the ex-
plosion of a mortar at Fort Banks, in
Boston harbor.
While testing rope fire escape, Of
which he was the inventor, p M. San
non and his wife, of Minneapolis, fell
from third-story window in St. Paul,
and both died later from their injuries.
Wilhelmina Masur, aged SO years,
wife of John Masur, one of the oldest
newspaper men of Pittsburg, was
stamped to death by a bull in the sta
bic at their home in Allegheny, Pa.
Alonzo B. Cornell, former governor
of New York, died at his home in
Ithaca, N. Y, of Bright's disease, aged
u years. He was son of Ezra Cor
nell, the founder of Cornell uniEer-
sity.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
has made the seventh of the stipulated
100000 payments on the government
loan of $4,600,00O. There is still
balance of 1891, S50.45 due the United
States government
indictments charging larceny by
embezzlement and perjury were re-
turned by the grand jury against S.
r. Smith, former mayor of Davenport,
Ia, and trustee of several estates. The
sum involved is 100000.
The Mississippi river commission
plans deep water route from st.
Louis to Chicago.
Three men were instantly killed bv
the fall of bridge girder, which they
were placing in position near Cotter,
Ark.
Miss Georgiana Bishop, of Bridge
port, Conn, won the national golf
championship, defeating Mrs. e. F.
Sanford by 5 up, to play at Philadel-
phia.
Capt. Williams and three members
OF his crew persisted off Gloucester.
Mass, when his schooner, the Elwood
Burton, which had struck on the
rocks il a gale, was broken I'D by the
sea.
Dynamiters blew up the $25, 900 man
sion of Thomas j. Mccoy, of Rensselaer,.
Ind, former official of the defunct Ne
Coy bank. No one was injured. but the
residence was blown to atoms.
Judge Shepard is dead in Chicago.
after service Of 81 years on the bench
He was the first to propose the worlds
fair Of 1898, and was the father of the
eight-hour law.
In battle in Memphis, Tenn, between
three police officers and negro fugitive.
two men were killed and two were in
jured.
While sitting conversing with his
bride of but few days, Columbus King,
prominent young man of Parker, Wet
eel county, w. Va, was shot and killed
instantly by an unknown man. The shot
was fired through window. The motive
is unknown.
1t is announced that the annual ami
versary Of the Sunday School Union of
The Methodist Episcopal Church of Amer
lea will be held in Providence. r. i. be-
ginning October % and continuing until
October 81.
The house of bishops, one of the legis-
lative bodies of the Episcopal general
convention in Boston. adopted an amend
Hlent 70 the canon on marriage and di-
sorce, forbidding the remarriage of any
divorced person. The amendment was
substantially the same as that which was
rejected by the house of deputies.
The Delavan, Wis, public school build
ing burned to the ground. The school,
which was one OF the finest in southern
Wisconsin, was built in 1894 at q cost OF
$50 600
Reports from the principal pepper
mint producing sections of southwest
ern Michigan indicate that the crop ID
small and, as this section produces
about IS per cent. of the worlds supply
of PEPPERMINT oil, the price of that
article is likely to rise -
Fire destroyed Martin female college
at Pulaski, Tenn, entailing loss OF
al. 600, with $4,000 insurance. The oc-
sapanta all escaped