The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-08

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An effort ia being made to conceal the fact OF
the appearance Of the disease in the CITY,"
The arrival Of the German Emperor at st.
Petersburg, on the 9th, was the occasion OF
a great demonstration. He was met at Cats.
china, thirty miles from the capital, by the
Car and Grand Dukes, who accompanied him
to the city. The two Emperors made their en-.
trance In the presence of immense crowds of
people, who manifested great enthusiasm. EN-
leror William first reviewed the regiments of
which he is honorary Colonel, and was then
conducted to the winter palace, where he was
formally received by the Court with most i'm.
posing ceremonies. The Gar presented to
him his portrait, sword of honor, the cross of
st. George, and the iron cross for merit, with
the additional inscription, "For valor."
Paris, Marseilles and Bordeaux have cacl,
elected Radical Deputy to the French
Assembly. In Paris, NJ. de Remusat, who
supports the Presidents policy, received 135,
4O6 votes, while Barodet, the Radical candi-
date, got 1sO, l46.
The Lancashire Railway Company's carriage
works, in Manchester, Eng, together with 50
locomotives and $50 coaches were burned on
the 27th The loss is 100000.
The King and Queen of Denmark are to visit
London in May,
The East.
Gold closed in New York on the 2Sth at III
@ll7k.
The first vessel of the season passed through
the Welland Canal, from Lake Erie into Lake
Ontario, on the 2lst.
The sum of 500, $50 in United States bonds,
portion of the fruits of the Bidwell. Melon
nell forgeries in London, has been recovered in
New York, This leaves the gang only $780, 600
of their plumber for fighting their way through
the courts.
From January to April % of this year
81, 4S9 immigrants arrived at New York, against
46, 7S3 during the corresponding period of last
year.
bill to repeal the Usury law was passed by
the New York Senate on the 23d-17 to IL.
The wife Of George Hennessey, respectable
shoemaker in New York City, few evenings
ago, during an insane fit violently choked her
two children, one three years old, and the other
five months, and then roasted their bodies Oh
the stove.
Henry Fralich, who stabbed Peter Schaaffer
in August last, was hung in Syracuse, N. Y,
on the 18th.
A recent number of the New York Tribune
says that arrangements have been made for
81 800 passengers to Europe by steamships sail
ing from New York during the next three
months.
Wilfred L. Fits, a boy in Jail at Exeter, n.
H., charged with the murder of another boy,
named Emerson, while he, the murderer, was
in somnambulistic state, got possession of a
razor belonging to one of three prisoners and
attempted to cut their Threats, the boy being
this time also in a somnambulistic condition.
Twenty-seven delegates from the various
trades unions in the United States met in
secret session in New York City on the 25th,
and, after discussion, resolved to postpone any
attempt to enforce the eight-hour rule till
1874.
1t is now asserted in Wall street that the
recent tightness in money was, in great part,
the result of the operations Of two railroad
Presidents, in connection with the dcposed
President Of another road. Tom Scott was one
of this triumvirate, j. F. Tracy, President of
the Northwestern and Rock Island Roads, was
another, and Jay Gould, ex-President of the
Erie, was the third.
The cashier of the Atlantic National Bank, of
New York, Mr.. F. L. fainter, has confessed
himself defaulter to the amount of some
S4OO,OOO the result Of speculations in Wall
street for the last five years. He voluntarily
surrendered himself to the officers and was
lodged in Ludlow street Jail. An examination
into the affairs of the Bank showed that the
actual deficit, independent of the capital and
surplus, amounted to S6O4, 600. About $780,.
600 of this amount could be traced to bad debts,
for which the cashier was not responsible
About $40, 900 of losses were made by him in
his stock speculations. 1t was found that, be.
sides using the funds of the Bank for the pur-
poses Of speculation, he had also ''spouted''
1852 900 of private securities left for safe keep.
ing in the Bank. Two tickets were also found
representing $4,000 of gold asassets.
The Bank is hopelessly bankrupt. The stock.
holders lose all their investment and surplus.
The depositors may receive 50 per cent, while
those who placed their securities in bank for
safe keeping have no redress. fainter says
that the speculations entered into by him were
all on behalf of the Bank, and had they proved
successful the Bank would have had the entire
benefit.