The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-17

whether the fear that his mothers life was m
danger did not give point to the fear which, he
entertained Tor his own life on the eeting d
the warming of the Sd of June. TIE jury re-.
tired NE4:SO p. M, and at S:25 came intNg
court md announed their verdlnt to b.
equity of murdG In the second degrees. =
n Court aanous1ed that 4 would suspend
sentence until the following Saturday.
There were three deaths from the effects of
excessive heat in New York City on the I'd.
William J. Sharkey has been sentenced to be
hung in New York City, August IS, for the
murder of Robert 8. Dunn.
Philadelphia celebrated the Fourth by form
ally transferring to the Centennial Commission
the site granted it by the City of Philadelphia,
and by other exercises intended to inaugurate
the preparations for the celebration in 1876 of
the completion of the first century of Ameri-
can Independence. A proclamation was made
public by the President reciting the Act Of
Congress under which the Exposition was to
be held, and inviting the people of other
nations to take part.
Commodore Vanderbilt has been elected
President of the Lake Shore & Michigan
Southern Railway, In place of the late Horace
F. Clark.
The Excise Commissioners of New York
City have resolved to strictly enforce the law
against selling intoxicating beverages Qager
included) on Sunday, and also not to grant any
license hereafter to any place where music is
introduced.
The Connecticut State Senate has passed
resolutions condemning the Back-Pay bill of
Congress, and commencing the Senators and
Representatives in Congress from that State
for opposing it.
The Postmaster at New York City says that
under the new Postal law there has been a
falling of for the first week Of about u, 900
free newspaper exchanges at that Office.
Frank H. Walworth has been sentenced to
Imprisonment in the State Prison for life.
Judge Davis, before passing sentence. said
that the evidence, in his opinion, justified the
verdict (murder in the second degree), and he
was not sure but it would have justified a
verdict of murder in the first degree. The
prisoner heard his sentence apparently un-
moved, and at the close retired from the
court room accompanied by his mother. Upon
being taken to his cell he parted cheerfully
from the Sheriff, saying that his was case
that he thoroughly understood, but did not
blame the world for not understanding.
A young man aud . woman, named John
Elliott and Margaret Rollinston, accompanied
by child, attempted to cross the Niagara
<p~n a &,
on the 4th, but were caught in the rapids aud
carried over the Falls. The young man and
the girl were from Cincinnati, and were to
have been married on the following day..
A French woman and child in Dudley, Mass,
were so badly burned by an explosion of
kerosene oil, few nights ago, that both died.
Another child could not recover. .s.,tS ~
Buffalo had three slight shocks of earth
quake on the evening of the 9Th, and another
on the morning of the It'll. The only damage
done was the throwing down of a chimney in
the center Of the city. :" ~,
~. The West.
The National Camp Meeting, for the pro-
motion of holiness, opened at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, on the 26th. There were over hun.
dred tents on the ground, and representatives
from many Of the States. '@-. H. ~w
BY the accidental explosion of powder in q
building at Virginia City, Nevada, on the
3Oth, ten or twelve persons were killed.
The Laramie wv. T.) Sentinel says that thu
Ute Indians encamped in and about Rawlins
Springs haye been accused of committing
various depredations recently, and on the 2Stf
party of citizens from Rawlins went to on,
of the Ute camps, when a quarrel ensued, il
which the citizens killed ten or twelve Indians
and took sixteen ponies, lot Of blankets, sad
dies, ETC., and returned to Rawlins. The Sen
tinel adds: '"rhe Indians are very much ex
cited, and a general Ute war is feared in con
sequence, which will seriously interfere witt
the timber, mining and other interests through
out this region"
Thirteen deaths from cholera in Cincinnati
oo.A.. night Ia, N~-a~ii,s. >~.,r,
reports of the cholera in st. Louis, but all tn
cases resembling that disease could be trace
to the use Of impure well water, impruden
diet, or dissipation. There was no alarm il
the city, nor was there any apprehension.
A special dispatch from Des Moines says
was rumored there that lone of the highe
courts of Iowa will announce an opinion tina
will overthrow, so far as Iowa shippers ar,
concerned, the present Illinois tariff law. Tn
Judge holds that contract with a railwa,
company operating line in both Iowa and II
linois, the contract being made in Iowa fo
through shipments to any point in Illinois
will be good, even at less rates than allowed b,
the Illinois law"
There were seven deaths from cholera il
Cincinnati on the LIST.
The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
missioners have delivered a long written opin
ion upon the new Railroad law and the cues
tons which have been raised by the railroads
First-Through freight is subject to the law o.
the State so far as the restrictions set forth il
be made, based upon the quantity shipped
Third-The rates for freight going over two
connecting roads may be made as If on ONT
continuous line, and need not necessarily bt
the sum Of the locals. Fourth-Excursion
Communication and thousand-mil tickets ma,
ISSUE
Indianapolis and vicinity were visited by ar
extraordinary thunder storm on the night Of
the LIST, which did considerable damage to the
crops. Four houses in the city were struck
by lightning, and in one of them two girls
were seriously, and perhaps fatally, injured.
A heavy storm passed over portion Of
Preble County, Ohio, on the morning of the
I'd, doing considerable damage to the wheat
crop. At Camden, that county, it assumed
the proportion Of tornado. It was fifty feet
in width and came from southwesterly direc-
ton. Houses, stables, trees and fences were
demolished. o.. .-.5 ..-,a.s
Neosho County, Kansas, was visited by an.
other destructive tornado ON the night of the
LIST. A fearful storm prevailed, the heavens
being filed with flame, while the rain fell In
torrents. The tornado came from the south
west. It first struck the stone house of Mr..
Giddens, half mile south of Galesburg,
blowing it down and burying three children
and Mrs. Giddens In the ruins. The children,
aged fourteen, twelve, and ten years, were in
stantly killed, and Mrs. Giddens seri.
ously injured. The gale next
struck Mr.. Rogers house, southeast OF