The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-27
The East,

ciuncue ouu aA SouccIucu TcSpOuSlDlo IOr any
additional executions of British subjects.
The East.
A boiler in New York City, used by street
contractors, exploded on the 18th, killing
seven persons and wounding several others.
All of the killed had either the whole or q
portion of their heads blown or
Joseph Arch left this country a few days
ago for England; also, Mark Twain, who only
arrived from there two days before.
The principal discussion in New York on
the 10Th was the slaughter Of the captain and
crew Of the steamer Virginius, and the feel
ing of indignation was universal. Not
voice was raised in defense of the act, all as
serting that the killing Of the crew was UNI
justi6able and demanded prompt action on
the part of the United States Government.
The Republicans have majority Of eleven
in the New Jersey Legislature.
Active preparations were being made at the
navy yards on the 18th getting vessels ready
for active service. At the Brooklyn yard the
Kansas received her supply Of stores in the
afternoon. The Juniata was nearly ready to
sail. Executive Officer Ransom said that or
ders had been received from Washington
about fitting out vessels but he was not at
liberty to make them public. He thought
there was prospects of war with Spain, and
that the Government would undoubtedly pro.
coed by taking Cuba.
Oranges of the Patrons of Husbandry have
been recently formed at Harvard and Danvers,
Mass, and State Grange is to be formed on
the LIST of December. On the 18th there were
thirteen Oranges in Massachusetts, including
the Boston Grange, whose charter is in dis
pute, and the Order is rapidly extending
throughout the State.
Two German steamers recently sailing from
New York received large number of appli-
cations from emigrants, which had come out
by them, to work their passage back, some of
them offering all the money they had left for
the privilege. So many men are out of en-
ployment that the newly arrived emigrants
have been unable to procure work, and the
panic will thus prove q serious bar to immigra-
ton.
Orders were received at the navy yard in
Boston on the 18th to at out the frigate
Brooklyn so that she can sail on the 18th of
December. 1t was stated that the Franklin
was also to be got in readiness for sea.
Work continued in the navy yards on Sun
day, the 10th, seven hundred men being en-
ployed at Philadelphia, getting monitors
ready for service.
A fire in Haverhill, Mass, on the 10th, des-
troyed eighteen buildings. Three men were
burned to death. Eight hundred hands were
thrown out of employment by this fire, which
destroyed several leading shoe factories.
Several inches of snow fell at the East on
the 10th.
The steamship Cleopatra, which arrived at
New York on the 18th, brought back the
newspaper mails she took on her outward
bound trip to Havana. The Spanish author
tiles refused to allow them to be landed.
A mass-mceting Of American and Cuban
citizens was held in New York on the night of
the 18th, at which it was unanimously resolved
that the Government ought to take the
promptest and most decisive measures in re-
lation to Cuban affairs, and invited war as
preferable to submission to the late outrages.
Continued activity was manifested at the
navy yards on the 18th. It was stated that
work upon the Spanish iron-clad Arapides,
which was on the dry-dock at the Brooklyn
navy yard, had been suspended. .
The West.
The financial and commercial advices from
New York were still more cheering on the
18th, and the Journal says the feeling on
Change in Chicago had correspondingly i'm
proved.
Eleven ladies were elected Is School Super
intendents in Illinois at the last county cleo
tions.
The Interstate Industrial Exposition held
in Chicago, and which was recently brought
toA close, was . success In every respect. The
net receipts over expenses, exclusive Of the
building, were $4,000. The structure cost
$751;, 900.
The annual meeting Of the Illinois State
Grange is to be held at Bloomington on Tues
day, December Q, commencing at ten O'Clock,
.. m.
The mother and sister of General Ryan, one
Of the victims Of the recent butchery in Cuba,
are residents Of Chicago.
The official returns from the Fifth Michiran
Congressional District give Williams (Repub
lican) majority Of $50.
An ordinance to repeal the Sunday ordi-
nance has been defeated by large majority in
the Cincinnati Board Of Aldermen.
1t has been recently decided, in the United
States Circuit Court at Indianapolis, that q
drover whose leg had been broken in an acci-
dent on the Indianapolis q st. Louis Railroad
had valid claim for damages, although he
rode free, and the Company was mulcted in
5000 damages for his bens6t.
At an Anti Chinese Convention, recently in
session in San Francisco, resolutions were
adopted in favor Of the abrogation Of the
Chinese treaty and against Chinese immigra-
ton and labor.
A great four-mile race came on ct San Fran
cisco On the 18th, In which s'Thad. stevens''
was the winner Of the race and the $4,000
purse. Four heats were run, In the third Of
which "Tf1e Blue'' fell disabled on the track.
Oncial returns from the Thirty-second Seu-
atoFial District Of Wisconsin show that Field
(Republican) IL elected over Dewhurst. This,
It y said, win give the Senate to the Republi-
cans BY one majority.
In the Circuit Court ct Appleton, via, b.
W. Bass, Of Fond du Lac, has recovered YER.
dict Of a 500 against tho Chicago q Moth
western Railway for his forcible eiectmeut
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