The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-09-04
Foreign Intelligenca,

Charles Frederick August William, Duke of
Brunswick, Germany, died recently, of apo.
pleNy, aged 60 years. By his will he leaves
the whole of his landed and personal estate to
the city of Geneva.
Vienna special Of the 10th says: "The
distribution of the prizes was a very tame af-
TAR. There We're only about 5000 persons
present. Archduke Charles Louis made a
congratulatory address on the successful ter.
mnation of the Exposition, after which the
list of successful competitors was read"
y battle was fought, on the 18th, between
force OF Carlists and three columns of Spanish
Republicans, i'll which the former were VIC
torious. The engagement occurred in the
open country between the towns of Berga and
Caseras.
A cable telegram Of the 18th says that so far
this month twenty newspapers in the French
provinces had been suppressed by the Govern
ment.
portion of passenger train going East
over the Great Western (Canada) Railway,
plunged into the Welland Canal on the 10Th.
the draw-bridge being open. Fortunately no
lives were lost
The International Patent Rights Congress
recently in session at Vienna, adopted resolu-
tions to the effect that only the inventor him
self or his legal successors shall obtain a
patent; the granting of patent cannot be re-
fused TO foreigners; the duration of a patent
Tor an invention to be for fifteen years, or for
shorter term, with the option of extending it
to that period the complete publication Of
patent to be obligatory; the expense of grant
ing patent to be established on a moderate
but progressive scale; specification of all
patents in force must be accessible to the pub.
lic
kenealey, the leading counsel for the de-
Tense in the trial of the Tichborne claimant.
concluded his address to the jury on the 2lst.
lie commenced to speak on the Esd of july,
and occupied the attention of the court every
day with the exception of the usual adjourn
ment from Saturday to Monday and an extra
adjournment from the 3lst of July to the 5th
OF August in consequence of the illness of a
juror.
Dispatches were received at Madrid on the
2lst announcing that battle had taken place
near Berga, between the Republicans and the
Carist insurrectionists, in which the former
were victorious, the Carlists having ninety
killed and three hundred wounded. The siege
OF Berga had been raised, and the Insurgents
were in full retreat.
The Turkish troops have succeeded in can
turing and killing the Carayanny brigands.
who were implicated in the brutal massacre at
Marathon. The brigands made q desperate
but futile resistance, and were finally over.
powered. G4Fsf' IE3.
frlnce Napoleon has been elected President
OF the Council General of Corsica by q major.
ity of thirty.
Advices from the north of Spain, received
in Madrid on the ed, and which were deemed
trustworthy, report the Carlist troops as being
discouraged and insubordinate. The Republi.
can army, under command Of General sanchez
Bregua, numbering $4,000 men, had entered
Bllboa. The Carlist forces occupying the city
withdrew without Offering battle. rH
collision occurred on the Great Northern
Railway, at Retford, England, on the 2sd, be-
tween freight and an excursion train. Both
were badly wrecked, and four persons were
killed and fifteen badly injured, several fthem
beyond hope of recovery.
Vienna dispatch of the sd says the chol-
era in that city was ON the increase.
Advices from Carlist sources on the 2ad
state that Berga had been invested again nv
the Carlist army. Both sides claimed akietory
in the recent battle before that town.
The East.
The Massachusetts Republican State Central
Committee have decided to change the time of
holding the State Convention at Worcester to
September 10th, as the hall was engaged from
the 18th to the oath.
J. c. Abbott, General Deputyof the Patrons
of Husbandry, who has been engaged Tor some
time past in orgnizi6g lssnges gthtnpgiort
New England, addressed q public meeting at
Boston, on the evening Of the 10th, on the OBJ.
jects of the Order, and then established o
Grange IN that city. " FS&ssSE-1. -
Rev. Gardiner Spring, for sixty-three years
the pastor of the Brick Church (Presbyterian)
congregation, in New York City, died at his
residence in that city on the 18th, aged 50
years. I'M,
Mrs. Schmidt, Of Long Island City, has
pleaded guilty to an Indictment which charges
her with attempting to strangle to death q
child that had been placed In her care, and for
whose maintenance she was paid $40 month.
The sentence imposed was $125 fine and ak
months imprisonment
The New York Republican State Convention
has been called to meet at Utica on Wednes-
day, September "a, to nominate candidates for
State officers. "
Vice-President Wilson has been elected
President Of the New York Cuban League,
An examination into the altered aervifsda