The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-08-07

agriculturists of the country, and adopted o
resolution inviting their brethren throughout
the State to meet in convention at Milwaukee,
on Thursday, August 81, 1878, at ten o'clock
| q M, "for consultation and such other action
| as may be deemed best for our interest and
that Of the State, and to that end we recon-
mend that each Grange in the State be entitled
to three delegates, to be elected by each
Grange and Commissioner, under seal, signed
by the proper officers"
Seven cholera deaths at Mount Vernon, Ind,
on the oath. None in Cincinnati.
One Thousand Mol mone arrived at Salt
Lake on the oath, from Europe.
At Logansport, Ind, on the oath, Miss Liz
zie Bures, servant girl employed at the Free
man House, attempted to start fire in the
stove with coal oil. Her clothes caught fire,
and she was seriously, and probably fatally,
burned.
A Des Moines Qowa) dispatch of the oath
says the new Rock Island grain tariff for the
Iowa Division reduces the prices up to that
station. West of there they are slightly ad-
vanced.
James NJ. Mcdonald, Vice-President of the
Pacific Bank, is the Democratic candidate for
Mayor Of San Francisco.
An adjourned meeting of Railroad Man.
ayers, Superintendents, and ticket and pas
senger agents, to consider commissions, free
passes, etc., was held in st. Louis on the 24th
After considerable discussion, resolutions were
adopted declaring that no more free passes or
half-fare tickets shall be issued after August
| l, except to officers, agents and employees of
roads. Twenty-one roads were represented,
twO-thirds of which are west of the Mis-
sissippi River.
Minneapolis telegram of the 25th says it
then seemed to be generally conceded by par
| ties on both sides of the boundary that the
| recapture Of Gordon was effected on American
| soil.
A st. Louis dispatch of the 25th says the
police Of that city, from facts which had
come to their knowledge, believe that the
robbers of the Iowa railroad train are the
| same that robbed the bank in st. Genevieve,
Mo-, last May, the Russellville (Ky.) bank two
years ago, and the Gallatin (Mo.) bank, and
also committed several other bold robberies.
| In noticing the reports in some sections of
the country that the cholera was prevailing
in Chicago, the city papers of the 25th en-
phatically deny the statement. The Times
says: 'The simple fact is that there has not
been a case of cholera in this city, and that
the health of the city is quite as good as
usual at this season of the year,
The verdict of the Coroner's jury in the case
of Rafferty,, the engineer killed on the wrecked
railroad train, is that he came to his death by
reason Of the train on the c. r. l. & 2. r. R.,
''being thrown from the track, between Anita
and Adair, Iowa, without any negligence on
the part of said Company, by the misplace
ment of the rail, with felonious intent, by q
certain number of masked men to US un-
known; and We further find that the said John
| Rafferty, refused to abandon his train when
apprised of danger, and died manfully at his
post"
An ordinance to prohibit the sale of liquor
on Sunday was successfully enforced in Cleve-
land on the 9th.
Judge Vinton, of the Tippecanoe Qnd.)
Circuit Court, has rendered an elaborate de-
cision, in which he concludes that the railway
act passed at the special session of the State
Legislature, requiring railroad companies to
issue stock paid for by corporations to tax
payers, ETC., is unconstitutional, and is there
fore null and void. He holds that the stock
is the property of the whole people, and is
held in trust by the County Commissioners
An appeal will be taken to the Supreme
Court.
At GAINESVILLE, Wis, a few days ago, johanna
Welsh, aged nine years, was building fire
with kerosene, and was fatally burned. A
similer accident recently occurred at Auburn,
Ind, to twelve year old girl named Culver,
who laid the foundation for fire by pouring
coal oil on the ashes. Live Goals concealed in
the ashes communicated fire to the can, which
exploded with great violence, covering the
poor girl with sheet of flames. She was
burned nearly to a crisp, and died in few
minutes.
An Indianapolis Qnd.) dispatch of the 9th
says the cholera had made its appearance in
that city. Three fatal cases occurred in one
family; no other fatal cases reported. There
were twenty-one cholera deaths in st. Louis
during the week ending on the Goth. The en-
tire mortality for the week was 225;;; decrease
of 50 from the previous week.
At a meeting held at Brownsville, Mnneso-
tn, on the 26th under the auspices of the Pa
irons of Husbandry, resolutions were adopted
denouncing the increased salary bill and all
Credit Mobilier transactions; declaring a loss
Of confidence in the honesty of the present
political parties, and in favor of new organi-
cation; demanding greater economy in county,
State, and National administration; dcnounc-
ing the present system of railroad manage
ment, and calling for a State mass-convention
of all who agree with the principles set forth
in the resolutions, said Convention to be held
at Owatonna, on the I'd of September next.
A letter is published from the Hon. W. 8.
Grocsbeck, of Cincinnati, in which he en-
phatically declares he will not accept nominal
ton for State Governor. He favors an aban-
donment of the old party organization, and
the formation of new party in opposition to
the present party in power, and suggests that
the new party.be called the Liberal Democ-
racy.
Bail has been refused in the case of the
Gordon captors, and the prisoners will have to
lie in British Jail until their trial in October
next.
The complaint and afiidavits in the case of
Ann Eliza Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, were filed on the 2Sth, in the Clerk s
Office of the Third District Court of Utah.
The complainant sues for $4,000 damages,
alimony, and pending the suit $1,000 per
month, and &C, 600 for counsel fees.
The second annual convention of the Catho-
lie Total Abstinence Union of Illinois met at
Bloomington on the 18th. About one hum
dred delegates were present.
Two additional deaths from cholera were
reported in Indianapolis on the 2sth. But
seven deaths in all had SO far occurred, five of
which were the children of one family.
Merriam, the only one of the Minneapolis
party whom the Manitoban Judge decided
bailable, was released On the 2Sth, two of the
wealthiest and most respected citizens of
Manitoba becoming his sureties. Attorney
General Clarke refused to deliver up $s5, 600
taken from two Of the Americans, although
the Court had ordered him to do SO.
John q. Page, who began an action to re-
cover 81, 900 paid into the Kansas Legislature
by A. M. York, dismissed the case on the 18th.
The suit was to recover money now in the