The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-05-22

| The Farmer Convention, in session in New
York onsshe To- elcctcd sJosilA Q11cXsoi
Boston, pems ent Plsstaent largS Sum
In of Weep idents were ch6 In, nedrly al
Tie States beil represented ON be list. Aftell
speech by p sidcnt Quincy, tieetioi
aed bylaws WEE reported, prd ding ths 9TH,
Organization shsafUe known al safne Nat{6n1
American Cheap Transportation Association
whose object shall be the cheapenins ani
equalization of railroad Transportation rates
throughout the United States, and to max,
provisions also for subordinate associations il
each, and regulate minor matters for guidanc,
and government Of National and State associa
| lions.
The Maine Republican State Convention Il
| called to meet of Bangor on the 10Th nf Lnne
governor lngcrsoll, of Connecticut, was in
augurated at Hartford, on the 7th, with i'm
posing ceremonies.
The Farmers Convention recently held IL
New York City adjourned to meet in Washing
| ton, January, 1874, at the call of the Exccu
tive Committee. The following committe,
was appointed to draft an address to the pco
pie: The Hon. Josiah Quincy, Boston; NJ. D.
Wilbur, Michigan; Horace H. Day, New York
City; Il. II. Ferguson, Troy, N. Y; Henry
Bronson, Kansas; j. A. Noonin, Milwaukee,:
and w. II. G. Price, New York.
A New York dispatch Of the eth gives the
following account of the death of Chief.
Justice Chase:
The Chief-Justicc came here on Saturday
morning to visit Mrs. w. 8. Hoyt, his daughter.
He was in unusually good health and spirits.
This favorable state Of things continued until
yesterday morning, when at ten o'clock servant
sent to call him to breakfast, on entering his
room, found Mr.. Chase lying in state Of un.
conscious stupor. His daughter was summoned,
and servants were dispatched for medical aid.
When the physicians arrived, the unconscious.
currence of paralysis, Of which he has had
several strokes. All efforts to relieve him
proved unavailing, and it was evident that his
vitality was cbbing away. Governor Sprague
and his wife, daughter of Judge Chase, were
summoned, and arrived in the city last even.
side until, at 1880 this morning, he breathed
his last He remained totally unconscious
from the time his condition was discovered un-
til the end.
The courts throughout the country general
ly adjourned on the Sth out of respect to the
memory Of the late Chief-Justice Chase.
Congressman Cakes Ames died at Easton,
Mass, on the Sth.
At the recent annual meeting of the Nation
al Temperance Society, held in New York City,
VIM. E. Dodge, Of the firm of Phelps, Dodge
i Co., was elected President, and j. N. Stearns
Corresponding and Recording Secretary. The
receipts for the past year were $50, $50, and ex-
penses S53,S42. Resolutions were adopted ap-
pealing to Congress to appoint a Commission
to inquire into the liquor traffic throughout
the country, and to pass general law prohib-
iting the manufacture and sale of Intoxicating
liquors in the United States.
DR.. I. ]. Hayes, the Arctic explorer. is of the
opinion that Captain Hall succeeded in reach
ing the farthest northern point ever penetrated
to by any vessel. DR.. Kane's nearest approach
to the North Pole was to within $40 miles,
Captain Hall reached point 464 from the pole.
Professor Baird, of the Smithsonian Institute,
regards the expedition as having been far from
failure. An impression seems to prevail in
some quarters that Captain Hall did not die
of apoplcxy, but that he was murdered in a
mutiny.