The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-11-20
great loss Of life and property was occasioned

great loss Of life and property was occasioned
In consequence.
The Paris Press of the 9th says the Right
had not only agreed to limit MacMahon's term
of office to five years, but had consented that
he should be officially designated by the title,
president of the Republic" By these con-
cessions the Right gained enough Republican
members to give them majority in the COM
mittee on the prolongation of the Presidents
powers.
The following is the official announcement
OF the shooting in Cuba of the insurgent
leaders captured on board the steamer Vir-
ginius:
"sANrIAeo DE CUBA, Nov. 4.
| TO His Excellcncy the Captain-G General:
"At six O'Clock this morning were shot, in this
city for being traitors to their country and for be-
Ing ins9rgsnt chiefs the following persons styling
alias Bembetta, General OF Division; Pedro Ces-
pedcs, Commanding General Of Cienfuegos; Gen
ton Ryan. The execution took place in the pres.
| ence of the entire corps Of volunteers and the
force Of regular infantry and sailors from the feet
the act. The best OF order prevailed. The pris-
oners met their death with cOmposure.
BURR1EL.'
| telegram to Spanish paper in New York
City on the Sth says that five of those cap
tured on the Virginius were shot, and that the
nth was Santa Rosa, aged ffty-eight, whose
release from arrest on the charge of piracy
was obtained last summer by Secretary Fish.
He was engaged in the capture Of the Spanish
war vessel Commentators.
royal decree has been promulgated re-
lieving General Won Room of the Presidency
of the PrussIan Ministry, and appointing
Prince Bismarck in his place, and Herr Camp
hauser, Minister of Finance, Vice President.
In Paris, on the 10th, committee repre-
senting the French residents of San Francisco,
CAL, presented Theirs with an address. The
ex-President, in replying, said that the Mon
archists had suffered check, and that a con-
servative Republic was assured.
Mexico, ON the 10th, celebrated the adop-
ton OF the additional articles to the National
Constitution, among which are the abolition
Of peonage and the separation of Church and
State.
1t was reported in New York on the 10th
that an engagement had occurred few days
before near Puerto Principe, Cuba, in which
the Insurgents were severely beaten, losing
twenty killed and eighty taken prisoners. The
report says the Spanish commander caused all
the prisoners to be shot on the field of battle.
letter from Havana, dated the 5th, gives
the following account of the execution of the
Nirginius' prisoners at Santiago de Cuba:
1.-THE four prisoners were shot at A Mace made
| Famous by previous executions, and in the usual
manner.kneeling close to the siaughterhouse wall.
All marenea TO the spot with firmness. Bambetta
l showed marked ala
former was slightly affected toward the last. Two
DINERS quite broke down before they were band
moment. and died without fear or regret Ram.
BETA and Ryan were killed at the first discharge"
The East.
| The New York election has resulted in a
victory for the Democrats. The Tammany
Democracy carried the city by majority of
$4,000 to 10000. s. s. Cox is elected to Con.
gress to fill the unexpired term of the late
Congressman Brooks. The Democrats and
Liberals claimed the State on the night of the
election by 5000 to sc. 600 majority.
Returns received on the morning of the 9Th
Indicated that the Republicans would have
majority in the New York Legislature. The
Democratic State ticket is elected by decided
majority.
Mrs. l.. L. Stanton, mother of the late
Edwin NJ. Stanton, died on the 5th, after a
short illness, at the residence of her daughter
in New Brighton, Pa, aged eighty years.
| The New Jersey Senate stands IA Republic
cans and Democrats; the Assembly, SO Re-
publicans and . Democrats.
| All but twenty-four towns in Massachusetts
give Washbune Rep) for Governor, 7o,775
votes, and CASTOR Dem.) 57,912. Eleven
Democrats are elected to the Senate and sixty
to the House. N. p. Banks is elected State
Senator over his Republican competitor.
Laura Keene, the well-known actress, died
in New Jersey on the 9th, at an advanced age.
James D. Centre, the eighth juror in the
Stokes case, has been sentenced to thirty
days imprisonment and fine of $3.50, for a
too free use of his tongue while the trial was
progressing.
A convicted murderer named Wade was
hanged at Williamsport, Pa, on the 9th. Two
attempts at hanging were failures owing to
the rope being too long. During the delay
occasioned by these blunders on the part of
the Sheriff, the wretched victim uttered the
most horrible blasphemies, mingled with
prayers for mercy. The third effort was a sue
cess, the prisoners neck being finally broken.
At meeting in Philadelphia, on the 9TH, of
the Board of Directors of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, it was determined to declare a scrip
dividend of five per cent, payable in or before
fifteen months, the Company having the op-
ton to redeem it in cash, after the lapse of six
months. The scrip will be received at par in
payment of unpaid allotments. Col. Tom Scott
having rendered his resignation as Vice-Presi-
dent of the Company, the Board unanimously
refused to accept it. He gave as reason for
Offering to resign, the fact that his name was
on the paper of the Texas & Pacific Railroad,
recently failed.
There was intense excitement among the
Cubans in New York City on the 9th. The
Cuban Junta had announced that all means
possible would be used to form an expedition
to set out at once to Cuba to take revenge for
the execution of the patriots captured on the
Virginius, the corps being formed from Amer
leans alone. Already 1900 names had been
put upon the roll, many of them old, we'll
tried soldiers. mass-meeting of Cubans
was held, at which patriotic addresses were
made and resolutions adopted calling for
means to furnish out new expedition to the
island.
The total vote cast in New York City for
Sheriff at the late election was 1OO,7 S6, of
which Conner, the candidate Of the Tammany
Democracy, received Ga ,S72, and McCool, his
|opponent, 1914. Democratic majority, &c.
95S.
A New York dispatch Of the sth says the
week closed with an improved feeling. There
were no further suspensions, aud the banks
were growing stronger. Reports from the
West were encouraging, and cable kilograms
from London were much less dismal, though
not altogether as assuring as desired.
A Tammany Hall Committee has been in ses-
sion in New York City, inquiring into alleged
election frauds. Some witnesses testified to
inspectors tearing up or changing tickets;
| also, that inspectors and police had intimida-