The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-29

SUOkes case mas been taken to the Court OF
Appeals on writ Of error from the decision
Of the Supreme Court refusing him q new
trial.
The bill for abolishing the Usury law has
failed in the New York Legislature
The New York canals open for navigation on
the 18th.
At the meeting of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the reunion of the Army of the
Potomacat New Haven on the 14th, President
Grant, Generals Sherman, Sheridan, Hancock,
Burnside, Mcdowell, and other noted officers,
were present.
Lusignani, wife-murderer, was hanged at
Morristown, N. j., Oh the 18th.
Michael Nixon, who shot Charles A. Pfeiffer
few months ago, was hanged in the Tombs,
in New York, on the 18th.
The recent municipal election in Providence,
r. l., resulted in the reelection of the present
general officers of the city. Thomas A.
Doyle, for Mayor, had 9, III votes; William G.
r. Mowry, Democrat and Prohibition, 1,OO6.
The new Board of Aldermen elected will favor
the granting of liquor licenses, reversing the
policy Of the late Board.
| Henry Bergh has been reelected President,
and Henry Clews, Treasurer, of the New York
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ami
mails. The society is reported to be in -four
ishng condition.
| The West.
The bodies Of two more of the victims of
the Dixon bridge disaster have been recovered.
Their names are Frank Hamilton and Miss
Petcrberger.
The Congressional Convention which assem-
bled at st. Louis on the 18th was largely at
tended, and a welcoming address was delivered
by Mayor Brown.
| Details received on the 18th of the recent
fight between Hasbrouck's command and the
Modocs are to the effect that on the morning
of the 18th Captain Jacks band rode within
100 yards of the camp, all dismounted, and
charged on the camp, firing into the herd and
guard. The first vOlley stampeded the herd.
While the men were getting under arms the
Modocs gave volley after volley, killing four
soldiers and one Warm Spring Indian. A rally
was made and the charge sounded. This time
Mckay and some Of his men united and drove
the Modocs into the timber, capturing twenty
one ponies, three pack mules, one Modoc who
was left on the field and nineteen mules. They
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The trail was covered with gore and the In
dians beat hasty retreat toward the McLodc
range of mountains. In this fight the Modocs
lost their entire stock of ammunition, except
what they had in their pouches.
The remains of General Candy arrived at
San Francisco on the 18th.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention met at
Columbus on the 18th and elected NJ. r.
Waite, of Toledo, President, on the fifth bal.
lot, and Dudley NJ. Rhodes, of Delaware,
Secretary. James B. Wilbur, of Cleveland,
was chosen Scrgeant-at-Arms.
A Representative Convention of Trades
Unions has been called to meet at Cleveland on
the 18th Of July, to organize an Industrial
Congress or National Trades Assembly.
| The bodies of Lizzie Mackcy, Mrs. Kentncr
and the child of Mrs. Hendricks, victims of the
Dixon disaster, have been recovered. NJ
more bodies are missing.
The Boescl Railroad law of Ohio, empower
ing communities to levy taxes for the con-
struction of railroads, has been pronounced
unconstitutional by unanimous decision of
the Supreme Court of the State. The grounds
of the decision are, that such taxation is not
for public purposes, for which alone taxes can
be constitutionally levied, and that the State
Legislature is forbidden by the Constitution to
! authorize any community to engage in this
way in private enterprises, directly or indi-
rectly.
| Yrcka dispatches of the 18th state that the
Modocs had made stand in a rocky fortress
which was still stronger than the last one and
about twenty miles south Of it, Bogus Char
ley, who had been seen on the upper Klamath,
but not captured, reported that there were
thirty of them, and that they would fight un-
til the last man is killed. Lieutenant Harris
who was wounded in the battle of the 26th of
April, died in camp May IL.
| A report was brought to Kansas City, Mo-,
on the l4th, Ivy citizen of Cherokee County,
that the Bender family, the Kansas assassins,
had been captured thirteen miles north OF
Dallas, Tex.
| Charles Mortimer was executed at Sacra.
mento on the 18th, for the murder of Mary
Gibson, and on the same day Joseph O'Neil
was hanged at Mt. Carroll, ILL.,, for the muir.
der, in September last, of Hiram Rexford.
A city ordinance compelling the closing OF
liquor saloons at eleven o'clock at night is he.
ing rigidly enforced in Chicago. 4 prominent
firm has resisted the law and been put under
arrest, and will carry the matter to the
Supreme Court for final decision.
A series of resolutions prepared by the Mer
chants Exchange of st. Louis, was presented
to the Congressional Convention in session in
that city on the l4th, which declare:
That the deepening Of the mouths Of the Missis
sippi River is of the very first importance to the
of great moment to the whole country; that ex
Controlling the Currents Of the Mississippi kive1
jetties, and that by such means jadicousy applied
its channel can be permanently located and CON
fined and that by this method any depth required
tanned from the Balize to ST. Louis at cost Of q
few millions Of dollars; that the system Of i'm
provements suggested for the river below st. Louis
Missoui, Illinois, Arkansas, Red, Ohio, Tennessee,
Cumberland. and many other important streams
in this valley, on each of which it should
| be applied on q scale commensurate with the
volume Of the river and the demands Of its COM
merce; that every practicable water route to the
Gulf to the Atlantic Ocean, and to the Great Lakes
ent at a reasonable cost, when compared to the
benefits to result from it in lessening the expense
Of transporting the products Of this valley to
favor from the General Government, and re.
ceive the unanimous support Of every representa-
tive Of this valley in Congress- in favor Of bridge
/ low " NOHSIceS ASSul0luS VIC lCllStlAss AclSntS.
location and construction of bridges over the
navigable streams, with view to prevent unneces.
sary injury to the navigation Of such rivers; that
the revenue laws should be so amended as to per.
init shipmasters to purchase ships wherever they
can be most cheaply procured; condemning the
revenue law which forbids registry to the ship Of
an American citizen, simply because she was built
In foreign land, etc.. etc.
| Eight of the car-shops Of the Chicago, Bur.
lington & Quincy Railroad, at Aurora, ILL.,,
were destroyed by fire on the 18th, together
with much valuable machinery, four palace
cars, and other property. Loss about $500, 600;
covered by insurance
A rock estimated to weigh 10000 to $4,000
tons fell upon and killed about dozen men
at work in the New York Iron Mine near
Negaunee, Mich, few days ago.
The South.
Washington special Of the 18th says Mar
shall Packard had telegraphed from New Or
leans that the city was perfectly quiet. KEEL
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