The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-12-25

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Elizabeth, the Queen Dowagcr Of Prussia, 10
lead, aged seventy-two years.
The bombardmeat Of Cartagena was opened
again On the 18th with increased vigor.
Dr.. C. Schenck has been elected President,
and DR.. e. w. Elite, Vice. President, Of the
Swiss Confederation.
The East.
At the recent city election in Manchester, N.
H., the Democrats elected their Mayor by ill
plurality.
Four women were elected ON the school
Committee, at the late Boston City election.
Mr.. Samuel C. Goth was chosen Mayor Of the
city, receiving the largest vote ever cast for
one candidate for that Office.
j. T. Irving, the self-accused Nathan muir.
dcrer, has been sentenced to ssvcn years and
six months conGnefiient in the Sing Sing pris-
on on charge of burglary.
A mass meeting of workingmen, under the
auspices Of the lnternationalists, was held in
New York City ON the evening Of the 18th, and
was largely attended. Several hundred wo-
men were present. Around the platfortu were
numerous mottots, siach as!
1--WE demand a suspension Of rent for three
THE general that Commands this army lie General
Distress"
when workingmen begin to think, monopoly be.
gins to tremble,"
and others Of equally Significant character. A
hand.hill was circulated enumerating the high
ealarles paid officials, and demanding no more
salaries over 5000. The number of home
less men and women in the city was given
at 10000; those in the station-houses
every week $500, and cut OF eleven
tradcs-unicns q, 2aO men were idle, and only
$3.50 employed. 1t was also stated that there
were 10000 skilled workmen idle in the State,
and 10000 of all classes idle in the city, and
5000 women earning only an average of IA
per week. Resolutions were adopted demand
ing work, and declaring:
THAT we will In this, our time Of need. supply
Ourselves and our families with proper shelter and
nccesearies Of life, and will send all cur bills
until such time ~ We shall obtain wore, AHu pay
Another death from the administration of
mixed chloroform and ether has recently &C.
CURED in Boston, and the Dental Society of
that city has resolved that the use Of chloro-
form in dental operations is not advisable.
Samuel Nelson, ex-Judge of the United
States Supreme Court, died suddenly of apo
plexy, while sitting in his chair, at his resi-
dence in Cooperstown, N. T., on the 18th.
Professor Agassiz died at his residence in
Cambridge, Mass, on the night Of the 14th.
He was sixty-six years of age.
Tho West.
The second auntal meeting of the Illinois
State Grange convened at Bloomington on the
9th. Over six hundred delegates were In at.
tendance. Grand Master Colder called
the convention to order, and delivered some.
what lengthy address, after which the several
committees were announced.
The Iowa State Grange met at Dies Moines
on the 9th. Grand Master A. B. Smedley de-
livered the opening address, in which he stated
that the aggregate membership in the State is
nearly 100000. Referring to the suffering in
the northwest part of the State, he said the
Committee should adopt method for the re-
lief of their brethren.
In his recent address before the Illinois State
Grange, the Grand Master stated that the
present number of sub-Granges in the State is
about eight hundred, showing remarkable
growth of the Order during the past year.
The Iowa State Grange on the 10th elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
Grand Master, COL smedley, reelected; Over
seer, j. NJ. Dixon, Of Mahaska; Secretary. j.
G. Little, of Muscatine; Lecturer, j. Wilkin-
son, of Tama; Chaplain, William Duane Will
son, of Des Moincs; Steward, D. W. Prindle,
Of Fort Dodge; Assistant Steward, Jonathan
of Van Buren,; Treasurer, NJ. L.
Devlin, of Dies Moines; Executive Committee,
J. w. Whitman, of Dallas; E. r. Shankland
and Clark, of Pottawattomie; Mrs. Colonel
Mrs. Spencer Day, of Marshalltown;
Mrs. Cole, of Jasper, and Mrs. White, of How
ard, were elected the usual lady officers.
= The following is list of the officers elected
by the Illinois State Grange, at its recent ses-
sion: Master, A. Colder; Overseer, John
Downer, Of McDonough; Lecturer, B. J. Van
Court, of st. Clair; Steward, John Odell, Of
Champaign; Assistant Steward, j. A. Gram
mer. of Pike; Chaplain, A. p. Forsyth, of
Edgar; Treasurer, j. 8. Armstrong, of La
Sale; Secretary, o. E. Tanning, of White
side; Gatekeeper, ]. F. Randolph, of Fulton;
Ceres, Mrs. D. w. Dame, of Carroll; Pomona,
Mrs. o. E. Lovett; Flora, Mrs. W. F. Ran
dolph; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. p. L.
Myers, of Christian; Executive Committee,
d. N. Foster, of Whiteside, Joseph Burdett,
Of Peoria; b. Durham, of Dupage.
The State Agent of the Iowa Oranges has
reported a saving of 5000 in the purchases
made during the year, which amounted to
100000.
The Michigan State Grange is to meet on
the 18th of January. There are one hundred
and seventy-eight Oranges in the State.
The Illinois State Grange adjourned on the
18th. Resolutions were adopted-advising
their brethren not to deal with the combine
ton of plow-makers, embracing some twenty
firms, which, a short time ago, decided to sell
to Changers at nothing less than retail prices;
expressing the belief that the educa-
tional influence of the Grange is its
most valuable feature by intoxicating in the
minds Of members the rights and duties of
citizenship; condemuing the "salary grab;
the Legislature not to NEEDLE with
The present Temperance law of the State; affirm
Ing the right Of Congress to regulate inter-
State commerce, and calling on Congress to
exercise that right; declaring that the General
Government should open all the natural water
channels at its own expense, but that rail.
roads should be built with private capital un-
der restrictive charters, condemning the pres
ent Civil-Service Of the country as dangerous
to the integrity and perpetuity of republican
etc.
Donald Mckay, an employee in the Office
Of the Clerk of the Criminal Court of Chi.
cago, has been convicted of issuing fraudu-
lent naturalization papers, and sentenced
to three years. imprisonment in the Peniten.
tiary.
Recent intelligence from the Saginaw Bay is
TO the effect that the steamer City of Detroit
had foundered, and that all on board were
probably lost. Her officers and crew number
I'd twenty persons. There were no passengers
On board, 90 far a. known.
Rev. DR.. c. e. Cheney, of Christ Church,