The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-06

tached to the agreement, about which 20 much
has been eaid, and which has been kept out Of
sight so. far, contains several items showing
that the larm owed the President $2,4Os; ].
g. Blaine, $4,000; Gen. Babcock, $500
Gen. Dent, $2,5O0, and Senator Edmunds .
small amount.
A Philadelphia telegram of the Gath says
official returns of the recent election show
that Gordon, Republican, received a majority
of 14,294 for Supreme Court Judge, and
Mackey, Republican, received q majority of
q, $50 for State Treasurer.
The Apollo Hall Democrats and the Repub-
licans, on the oath, nominated Julius Wads-
worth for Congress, to represent the District
formerly represented by the late James
Brooks. 8. s. Cox is the Tammany Demo-
cratic candidate.
Anew York dispatch of the cath says that
sixty.eight indictments had been found against
A. L. Roberts and J. Gleason, for forging New
York Central and Buffalo & Erie Railroad
bonds. A meeting had been held in that city,
of the House of Bishops, and Rev. John 8.
spaulding, Rector of st. Pauls, Erie, Pa, had
been elected Missionary Bishop Of Colorado,
Wyoming and New Mexico.
A New York dispatch of the 25th says that
Peake, Opdyke & Co., the dry goods firm that
suspended short time since, had SO arranged
their business that they had been able to re-
sumo The stock market on that day was
thoroughly depressed, N. Y. Central selling as
low as SIS.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the 25th an
nounced that E. w. Clark & Co., the we'll
known bankers of that city, had resumed
business. This had largely tended to estab
fish confidence in tina! city.
The Harmony Cotton Mills, of Cohoes,
N. T., and the Newburgh Steam Mills, of
Newburgh, closed their establishments on
the 25th.
A New York dispatch of the 25th says a
bold and skillful attempt at forgery had just
been discovered at the Sub Treasury. The
forgery consisted of a legal-tender note of
1868 for 800, with o genuine face and forged
back. The forgery had been skillfully exc
cuted by splitting the bill in two, by which
500 bill could be SO transformed as to make
two bills of 800 each, one having a genuine
face and forged back, and the other forged
face and genuine back.
A Brooklyn, N. Y, dispatch says that the
grand jury ON the 25t Ii had indicted Whitelaw
Reid of the N. Y. Tribune, and Charles A.
Dana of the Sun for alleged libel upon Judge
McCue, of Brooklyn.
A disastrous conflagration occurred at Cam
astota, n Y, on the New York Central Rail-
road, near. Utica, on the 9th, which burned
over six acres of ground, destroying three no.
| tells, thirty-two dwellings, and between forty
and fifty business houses. The fire was the
work of an incendiary. The loss amounts to
$4,000.
The testimony in the Stokes case was closed
on the 27th, and MIR. Tremaine, for the de-
tense, began his address to the jury.
The West.
A Springfield dispatch of the 2lst says the
Chicago, Alton 4 st. Louis Railroad Company
had dismissed the suits brought against Myers
and Creary some months since, for refusing to
pay more than three cents per mile for passage
over the road.
appointed by the War Department some time
ago to examine and ascertain whether the
bridge now in process of construction across
the Mississippi River at st. Louis will, when
finished, obstruct navigation, have made very
elaborate report. They find that the bridge,
as at present designed, will prove very seri-
GUS obstruction to navigation, and as it is
impracticablc to change the plans of the
bridge, or to raise it, except at an enormous
cost, they recommend a canal, or open cut,
behind the eastern abutment of the bridge,
40 feet wide, extending from point 500 feet
above the bridge to 800 feet below it, with a
draw of the same width. They also recon-
mend that arch trusses, like those of this
bridge, be in future prohibited in plans for
bridges over navigable streams.
A st. Louis dispatch of the 21st says the
Attorney-General had commenced proceedings
in the Circuit Cont against the st. Louis Mu.
tuai Life Insurance Company in behalf of q
Mr.. Cottrell, a policy holder. The petition
charges that the charter of the company has
been forfeited for several years by reason OF
sundry acts of malfeasance and usurpation.
The court ordered writ of quo ,ra,7ut.to to
issue, returnable on the first day of the De.
cember term, and notice to that effect to be
served on the company Immediately.
A Yankton, Dakota, dispatch of the 22d
says the Grand Jury of the Territorial Court,
after being in session for week, had returned
an indictment against P. p. Wintermute fol
the murder of Secretary McCook, charging
him with manslaughter only.
The United States Grand Jury, at Spring.
field, Illinois, on the ed, returned bills against
ex-Collector John T. Harper for embezzling
$4,6l9. A prisoner confined in the Springfield
Jail had offered to reveal and secure the con
viction of the murderer of the late Hon
Sharon Tyndale, once Secretary of State, pro
vided he can be assured of pardon for the
offense for which he is now confined.
On the ed, Goldsmith Maid trotted against
time over the Dexter Park track, at Chicago
for purse of 5000. She took the purse in
2:1715. This was the best time ever made in
that city.
The National Convention of the Patrons OF
Husbandry met in Chicago on the 2sd, accord
ing to announcement, and organized by the
election James NJ. Allen, as President, 8. NJ
Smith, secretaa sand s. T, X. Prime, Assist,
ant Secretary. Delegates were present from
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, New York, Indiana
and Minnesota, numbering about 800. A
Committee was appointed to consider and re.
port upon all resolutions offered. Several
were thus offered, discussed, and then referred
under the rule.
The National Board of Trade was in session
in Chicago on the 21st, 22d and 23d. On the
latter day the Convention discussed, in all it,
bearings, the question of transportation. Ar
able and exhaustive address was made by W
NJ. Grosvenor, of st. Louis.
The second and concluding session of the
National Convention of the Patrons of Hus
bandry occurred in Chicago on the 23d. The
| GATHERING waa enfirplv harmonious ond corn
est. Railway monopolists were critically de-
nounced. The following resolutions, among
others, were adopted:
WHEREAS, The duty Of q Government is to pro
tect its people. Capital, directed by unscrupulous
} minds, reaPs the profit Of their labor. Men Of
great wealth revel In luxury, while those who earn
the money are destitute Of many of the comforts Of
life. Our State Legislatures have made laws de-
priving MS Of our land, from which we have q
title from the General Government, for the benefit
OF railroad companies, because it seemed for the
public good. Subsidies have been granted them,
and Congress has, with . lavish hand, given them
las 49, 2~r- Al.