The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-31

The New York E,ening Post says that Loo
newly converted Mormons were landed In that
port on the 18th, and another large company
was expected.
Mrs. Walworth and her younger son have
taken up their residence in Sing Sing village
By special request no visitors viii be allowed
to see Frank, who has commenced work in the
private onice OF the clerk Of the shoe depart.
ment.
The inventory of the property of the late
oakes Ames shows his real and personal es
tate to be Is, 75 ,254, exclusive of his intercs,
in the works at North Easton.
The argument in the case of Charles A.
Dana, accused Of libel against Alexander r.
Shepherd, of Washington, on motion for q
warrant for his removal to that city for trial,
came up before Judge Blatchford, In the
United States District Court, New York City,
on the 10th. Judge Blatchford decided that
the Constitution render ed the jurisdiction Of
the Washington Police Court utterly void, and
refused to grant the me tion. Objection being
taken to this ruling, the Judge remarked fur
ther that the Constitution of the United States
expressly declares that all offenders shall be
tried by jury, and there was no getting over
that.
In their verdict in the Goodrich case, the
Coronor's jury declared their conviction that
the Coronor's jury, as an institution for the
discovery of crime or nc detection of indi-
viduals, has outlived the period of its neces-
sity or usefulness. They urge that, in cases
where the causes Of death are uncertain and
an investigation is necessary, the latter could
he more efficiently conducted by some legally
constituted criminal or health authorities, or
by both combined, than under the present
system.
CHASTITY horror has been unearthed in New
York City, by the finding of the mutilatcd re-
mains of wealthy and eccentric woman in
her house where she resided alone. The body
had been almost entirely devoured by rats,
and it is thought the woman when found had
been dead three or four weeks. She was q
maiden lady by the name of Willetts.
The announcement is made that the New
York Custom officers, in their recent investi-
cations, have discovered such evidences of
fraud on the part of well-known importing
house as to compel the payment of about
$5OO, 900 as penalty to the Government, and
the imprisonment of at least one member of
the firm.
While initiating balloon at Philadelphia the
other evening, the canvas took fire and the
acronaut was badly burned.
Ex-Governor Colby, of New Hampshire,
died In Concord on the 21st.
E. 8. Mills, President of the BROOKLYN
Trust Company, was recently drowned at
Coney Island, and it has since been discov-
cred that he had overdrawn his account about
$50, GOO, and had also accepted of worthless
is strongly suspected that he committed sui
eide, though many of his friends think his
death was purely accidental.
The West.
The Industrial Congress of the United
States, composed of delegates from the various
trades organizations of the United States, met
at Cleveland on the 18th. The attendance was
quite large, over one hundred delegates
being in attendance, representing $4,000
trade and labor union men. Permanent officers
were chosen as follows: President, John
Fcrcnbach, of Cleveland; Secretaries, s.
Keefe, Of Philadelphia, and John Schley, of
indianapolis.
The Nebraska State Sunday School Conyen-
ton met at Omaha on the 18th. There were
1GO delegates present from all parts of the
State. Prof. A. F. Nightingale was elected
President of the Convention, and delivered the
address of welcome.
Tacoma, Washington Territory, has been
chosen by the Commissioners of the Northern
Pacific as the western terminus of that road.
Atwo-year old child in Dubuque, Iowa,
named Mary Freshman, died on the 18th of a
rat bite inflicted three days before.
The Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton met at st. Paul on the 10th, and nomi-
mated Cushman X. Davis, of st. Paul, for
Governor. The vote stood, on the fourth
ballot: Davis, 155; w. D. Washburn, 49,
Resolutions were adopted favoring cheap
transportation, according to the capital in
vested in railroads; the right of reasonable
but opposing unjust discrimi-
nations and all arbitrary and improper use of
the growing power of railroads and other cor
porations; declaring that no rights should be
vested in railroad corporations beyond the
control of future Legislatures; demanding
pure official conduct, and the punishment of
unfaithful public men; condemning the
salary and back-pay grab, and demanding the
prompt repeal of the law authorizing it.
Two Modocs, the last Of Capt. Jacks band,
surrendered on the 10th, and were taken into
camp.
A Cairo (nl.) dispatch of the 10th says the
cholera was reported to be very bad in the
northern part of that (Al exander) county, and
about forty-five miles fr ON that city it was
said that from the 10th to the 18th inst. there
had been thirty cases, tv enty proving fatal.
The neighborhood was said to he almost with
out an inhabitant, every one having gone to
the hills. The crops had been left to take care
Of themselves. In Cairo there was not case
of cholera, and the health generally was re-
markedly good
There were 257 convict$ in the Iowa Peniten-
tiary on the 3Oth of June.
Nine fatal cases of sunstroke occurred at St.
Louis on the 10th and 18th.
Governor Thos. A. Osborn has been chosen
to deliver the opening address at the coming
Kansas State Fair.
In the Industrial Congress at Cleveland on
the 18th, resolutions were adopted favorable
to the immigration of free labor, but demand
ing Governmental protection against the
competitor of labor imported under contract to
serve fixed period at certain wages; in
favor of the adoption of laws making arbitra-
ton q legal means of settling difficulties be-
tween employers and employees, and recon-
mending the miners of the country to organize
National Association.
Mrs. Jacob Scherfins, wife of hardware
merchant at Winona, MIMI, was burned to
death the other morning by an explosion Of
kerosene oil with which she was lighting a
fire. She died in about four hours after the
accident.
The Salt Lake Journal Of the 10th announces
that Ann Eliza Webb Young, seventeenth wife
Of Brigham Young, had forever left him, car
rying OF lot of furniture and personal ef-
fects. Her lawyers were about to institute q