The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-25

| visited by the father Of the girl, who shot
Canavan in the mouth, the wound not being
a fatal one. The prisoner was afterward in
dicted, tried, convicted and sent to State
Prison for life, all within the space of three
days.
The Railway and Warehouse Commissioners
of Illinois sometime since issued circular, In
which they assumed that for business pur-
poses, intersecting lines of road form q con-
tinuous line. In reply to certain query by
the Superintendent of the Rockford, Rock
Island & st. Louis Railroad, as to whether
each road can bill goods to point Of intersec-
ton, and confine its receipts and liability to
the same point, the Commissioners answer that
the goods must be receipted for to the desti-
nation. They can be billed to the point of in
tersection, but the bill must also state the rate
to the destination.
A Convention of General Freight Agents at
Cleveland, Ohio, has adopted the following
basis for the government of the future ad-
vancement Of rates on eastern-tound fourth
class freights to New York: From Cleveland,
Ohio, S5c.; Dayton, Ohio, 4sc.; Cincinnati,
Ohio, Fort Wayne, Ind, indianapolis, Ind,
and Logansport, Ind, 45c.; Columbus, Ohio,
4Oc; Toledo, Ohio, Sc; Chicago, ILL.,, Terre
Haute, Ind, Lafayette, Ind, Decatur, ILL.,,
Hannibal, Mo-, Bloomington, ILL.,, &c.,; Peoria,
ILL.,, Quincy, ILL.,, Rock Island, ILL.,, Burling
ton, Iowa, st. Louis, Mo-, Davenport, Iowa,
Co.,; East st. Louis, Ill Z, SIC; Des Moines,
Iowa, 1Oc.; Kansas City, Mo-, 75c; Louis
vile, KY, Sc; Pekin, ILL.,, and Vincennes,
Ind, 55e.
The Chicago Journal of a recent date saws
bank in that city had sent package contain
ing $l3O, GOO in $500 bills to a bank in Milwau-
kee, but the package was returned intact,
with the explanation that the new $500 coun.
terfeit was SO perfect the milwaukee, bank was
| afraid to accept the ,,st,z a.rt Tho ya.-rnt
| says 1t was understood that several of these
! dangerous counterfeits were in circulation in
Chicago.
The following are the newly-elected officers
OF the Illinois Grand Lodge 1. O. g. T.: uriah
Copy, !r:, OF Loda, 6. W. C. T.; j. L. Drake,
of Chicago, G. w. Councillor; j. X. Van
Doom, Of Quincy, G. W. g.; Fred. D. Dalton,
OF Streator, A. G. s.; c. w. Rassett CT Abiny-
don, q. w: T.; S. Love, of Rockford, G. w,
H.; Representatives to Right Worthy Grand
Lodge, Fred. D. Dalton, Of Streator; Uriah
Corp, OF Loda; James Lamont, of Rockford.
The Oregon Republican State Convention
has nominated Hiram Smith, of Linn County.
1or congress. A resolution was adopted ex-
pressing confidence in Senator J. H. Mitchell.
General E. 8. McCook, Secretary of Dakota
Territory, was shot through the breast on the
night of the nth, at Yankton, by 2. p. Win.
| termute. and died the next morning at seyer
O'Clock. General McCook attempted to enter
inc court room, where railway meeting was
being held. He was met at the door by Win.
termute, who, after some high words, drew
pistol and shot McCook, the ball entering near
the shoulder and severing an artery. But lit
tic is known Of the origin of the difficulty, It
is generally supposed to be long-standing
| 1eud In regard to railway bonds voted by Yanl,
| ton County
line committee having charge of the coming
reunion of the Army Of the Tennessee have
received letters at Toledo, Ohio, assuring
| them that the President. the Secretary of War
and General Sherman will be present at the
| meeting.
Governor Booth was given an enthusiastic re.
ception in San Francisco on the 18th. As he
arrived from the capital he was greeted with
d perfect ovation, and thousands of people
| assembled at the boat landing with music and
|
Telegraph Hill. The houses along the line
OF the procession were brilliantly illuminate
re was escorted by an enthusiastic multitude
OF people to the Grand Hotel, where he made
speech congratulating the people on their
complete victory over railway monopoly.
dispatch from Grand Rapids, Mich, saws
! train was wrecked on the 18th on the De-
| troit Il Milwaukee Railroad between that CITY
| and Lowell. There were eleven passenger
coaches, all crowded, and all are reported de-
molished. Six persons were known to be
killed.
The steamer 1ronsides, of the Englemau
line, one of the largest steamers on Lake
Michigan, foundered and sunk within seven
miles from Grand Haven, Mich, on the 18th.
Her signal of distress was hoisted at o'clock
in the morning, but so terrible was the sea and
heavy the wind that no assistance could posi-.
bly, reach her. She labored in the trough of
| the sea from about 73O a. m. till the time she
sunk. The passengers and crew, of which
there were nineteen of the former and thirteen
OF the latter, manned the life-boats and left
her about II a. m, the last boat leaving her
at about 11:5O a. m. When the last boat
had got about quarter of mile from
her, she went down. There were six boats
filled with the crew and passengers One of
the boats, having five men and four women,
capsized, and only one man reached the shore
Four boats had reached the shore up to II
p. m. The boat with Captain Sweetman, his
wife, and five passengers had not been
heard from. 1t is feared they are among the
lost Thirty-two persons are known to have
been saved, and eighteen bodies had been re-
covered. The following is partial list of
those lost, whose bodies had been recovered
and identified: John Driscoll, steward of the
boat; John Hilles, of Milwaukee; Charles
Wimmell, agent of c. E. Harling g. Co., New
York; Mrs. H. A. Valentine and child, of Mil.
waukee; Mr.. John Denison, of Spring Lake,
Mich; Mr.. j. B. L. Dewitt, of Milwaukee;
James Brown, Harry Hughes, Ed. lyle. The
Others are not yet identified.
The South.
Judge T. Crawford and District Attorney
Arthur H. Harris, Of the Twelfth Louisiana
Judicial District, were assassinated on the Sth,
twelve miles southwest of Winnsboro, in
Franklin Parish, while on their way to hold
court at that place. The murderers were
not known, but it was thought that personal,
and not political, differences led to the assass-
nation, as Crawford was Radical and Harris
| q Democrat.
A Shreveport Ua.) dispatch of the 10th
says: "Yellow fever prevails as an epidemic,
and business of all kinds is suspended. There
is much suffering for want of attention; nurses
and doctors are worn out. Interments yester-
day were 10 and to-day IL. At least 400 are
down, though not all with the fever. The
sickness is fearful to contemplate"
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
Colonel Robb, one of the ex- Commissioners to
persons and property OF American citizens on
the Rio Grande border, had recently received
numerous letters stating that such acts were
constantly occurring, and that since the Com
mission left the section last spring large
droves Of cattle have been driven to the Next
can side from ranches between Brownsville
and Brazos de Santiago, and between Browns
vile and Rio Grande City. These thieving