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


REDWOOD FALLS, MINNESOTA.
General News Summary.
Washington News.
jackson 8. Schultz, of New York, has been
appointed by the President Commissioner to
represent the United States at the Vienna Elk.
position, rice Gen. Van Buren,, suspended.
The Secretary of the Navy has recently stat
ed that from all he could learn the Polaris
would probably be able to reach some extreme
northern port, but if, after allowing her reas-
enable time, she should not do SO, vessel
would be dispatched in that direction, with the
object of her relief, or Of obtaining informa.
ton, if possible, concerning her.
President Grant left Washington on the
evening of the 18th to attend the army re-
union in Connecticut.
The remains of Chicf-Justice Chase have
been inferred in the lot Of Governor Cook in
Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, till next
fall, when they will he removed, it is under
stood, to Spring Grove, near Cincinnati.
General Van Buren,, the suspended Vienna
Commissioner, says: "For ten months have
spared no excrtion or expense to make our ex-
hibition q success, and am utterly unconscious
of doing, or authorizing to he done, single
wrong or unworthy thing, and the person who
says have is cowardly knavc and a liar"
The body of Captain Thomas, killed in the
ecent fight with the Modocs, arrived in Wash
ngton on the 18th.
The President has appointed William E.
Davis Assistant United States Treasurer at
Cincinnati.
The Secretary of State received information
that the Spanish Government had ordered the
Cuban authorities to send O'Kelly (thc Herald
correspondent to Spain.
Foreign Intelligence.
The coronation of Oscar II. King of Sweden,
and his Queen, Sophie Wilhcmine, took place
at Stockholm on the 18th.
The Car of Russia will visit the Vienna Ex-
position about the LIST of June and remain six
days.
A special dispatch to the London Daily T.le-
graph of the 18TH, reports that Khiva has been
captured by the Russian forces.
The shrinkagc in values on the Vienna
Bourse by recent panic is said to have been
100000, 600; in American values in Germany,
SlO,OOO,OOO.
A Republican conference vas recently held
at Birmingham, England, and a resolution was
adopted favoring the adoption of a federal re-
publican form of government for Great
Britain.
The Pope reached his S1st birthday on the
18th. His feebleness was increasing. On the
18th he tainted and remained unconscious for
an hour, and on his birthday was too unwcll to
receive the Populations which called to offer
their congratulations.
An explosion Of fire-damp occurred in a
coal mine at Westville, Pictou County, Nova
Scotia QOS miles from Halliday, on the 18th
There were about sixty men in the pit at the
time Of the accident, and it was thought i'm
possible that any of them had escaped death.
The news of the capture Of Khiva, reported
by telegram from London on the 18th, turns
out to have been premature, although the dis
position of the Russian forces was such that
its capture was said to be inevitable at an
early day.
One of the ablest and most successful Of
the Cuban insurgent leaders, General Agra
monte, was killed in recent battle, which
resulted in his death and the defeat of his
force with loss Of eighty.
The Federal Republicans in Spain have
elected large majority Of their deputies to
the Constituent Cortes, their numpcr being
$40, while the combined opposition have
only IS
The city of Mataro, Spain, fifteen miles
from Barcelona, has been captured by the
Carlists under Saballs. They were levying
contributions upon the inhabitants.
A dispatch from Westville, Nova Scotia, the
scene of the terrible mine accident which oc.
Cured on the 18th, gives the following addi-
tional particulars:
The sky in the vicinity of the calamity was
illuminated with flames issuing from the air.
shaft to the height of nearly one hundred feet.
All through the night there were explosions at
intervals. These were preceded by a rumbling
noise resembling thunder. The weary watch
ers who remained around the pits mouth and
air-shaft, and labored to subdue the flames
were obliged to seek shelter in the adjoin-
ing wood, as the stone, debris, ETC.,
at each explosion were being scattered
around in oil directions, and threatened instant
destruction or injury to every one within
reach. About two o'clock this afternoon,
these explosions were followed by one which,
for terrific violence and destructive force,
dwarfed all the rest. All the wooden works in
and around the main slope were instantly
destroyed Stones, wood and burning embers
were driven high into the air, smoke, flame and
terrible noises accompanying the explosion,
giving the beholder vivid idea of volcanic
eruption. The earth for miles around was
The scenes in and around the villages are
saddening. Westville and the villages at the
Drummond colliery are in mourning. The
shops are closed, and men and women wander
about in groups, their saddened cOuntenances
bctOkening the great grief that has befallen
rowing scenes Of yesterday, when the terrible
truth was conveyed to the mourning wives,
sisters and friends of those who were sudden.
ly hurled into eternity. The utmost excite
ment prevailed, and for hours it was impossi-
Ole to ascertain who were or who were not in
bands, brothers and sons working in the col
liery, made the air dismal with their crying.
One Of the rescuing party, killed by the explo-
sion yesterday, was driven into the air q dis
lance of q hundred feet, and fell into the wood
near by, where his dead body was picked up
this morning.
ried, all of whom leave families to mourn
their sad fate. Nearly every family here lost
some relation or friend by this terrible calam-
ity.
There are many reasons to account for the
disaster, but the direct cause is attributable to
the stoppage of work at the mines and rapid
accumulation Of gas
The testimony so FAR elected points to some
mismanagenlent in permitting the miners to
use powder for blasting in the upper level
where the fire first broke out, thus cndanger-
ing the lives of those who were at work in the
levels below. The number known to have
been killed now reaches fiftv-nine.
In Hong Kong, China, forty flour acres COW
cred by houses were swept by fire on the 22d
Of March. Five thousand people were rendered
homeless. There was also terrible fire at
Osaka ON the 18th Of March. Many lives were
lost. 1t ragged all day and night. There were
two violent shocks Of earthquake at the same
place on the 18th of March.
The news from Vienna on the 18th was to