The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-07-10

missine steamer folariA The Juniata ~
accompanied BY Two launches, and carried -
men, and provisions enough for herself, II
Tgress (which l. soon to follow and Ii
Polaris, e found.
The tziAl Of young Walworth for shooting
his father commenced In the New York Cour
Of Oyer and Terminer on the e4th. Tn
courtroom was crowded. The mother an,
two younger brothers Of the defendant %
near him, and number Of other friends wer
present.
The Connecticut Senate has elected Georg
G. Woodruff, Sidney d. Beardsley, and JOIN
J. Penrose, Judges Of the Superior Court
The House elected Judges Dwight, W. Pardee
and James Phelps Of the Superior Court, Il
the Supreme Court Bench.
Washington's headquarters At Morristown
N. J., was recently sold at anction and bough
for presentation to the State for S25, 600. Tn
sash worn by Washington when he wa
Grand Master Of the Masonic Lodge sold TO
$1,000.
In the Walworth trial in New York on tn,
28th, the prisoner was given . good character
by his uncle, brother Of the murdered man
and other witnesses. His mothers testimon,
was principally devoted to the story Of he
married life with Mr.. Walworth and the man
ner Of their separation. Her husband wa.
always in the habit, she says, of carrying pts
tol. Two letters were submitted by the de
tense, one from Frank to his uncle, the last h
wrote before the murder, and the other, Mr.
Walworth's last letter to his wife. The lattel
is an appeal and demand to be allowed to sex
his children, written in a style of high tragedy
and interspersed with threats of killing hi!
wife and himself in case she had taught hi.
children to hate him. It warns Mrs. Walwortf
to keep Frank out Of his way. This lette1
never reached Mrs. Walworth. It was inter
cepted by Frank, and was the occasion of hi
last journey to New York. Before leaving, HI
wrote his uncle, inclosing the intercepted let
ter, and stating that he was about to 60 to hi
father in New York; but there is little, II
anything, in his letter indicating an intention
Of taking his fathers life.
Albert H. Smith was executed at Springfield
Mass, on the eth, for the murder, in Novem
Der last, Of Charles H. Sackett, of Westfeld
A joint resolution, censuring the recent Con
gress for its action in raising the salaries Of
its own members, has been passed by the
Lower House Of the New Hampshire Legisla
ture.
The jury in the Woodruff Claflin- Blood
case, under the instructions of Judge Batch
ford, have returned verdict of mot guilty.
The Judge decided that newspapers were moi
included in "obscenc publications" in the
act of 1872, under which the indictment was
drawn.
In the Walworth trial, on the 9th, letter
was produced in evidence and read, from the
senior Walworth to his wife, traducing in the
strongest terms the memory of his father, as
sailing vilely his brother and sister and wife
and in awful language threatening, in case his
wife would not see that he had something
for his entire life, to kill Frank and
Tracy, and wipe out the name of Wal
worth for ever. The closing portion Of
the letter was characterized in o special
manner by obscenity and blasphcmy. Mrs
Walworth then testified that, after reading this
letter, Frank fell into fit, which lasted for an
hour. She further testified that when Frank
was seven or eight years old he fell on the
hearth and fractured his skull. On two occa.
sions he received injuries on a baseball
ground, and complained of his head for some
months afterwards.
The Brooklyn Eagle of the 2sth says: "The
Examining Committee of Plymouth Church
has received from F. West specific charge OF
SANDER against Henry C. Bowen. 1t is charged
he has circulated ISLANDERS against Henry Ward
Beecher, which are false, and his (Bowen's)
expulsion is called for. An investigation is to
be made Immediately. Mr.. Beecher is desir-
GUS that the investigation should be made at
once. The matter is referred to the following
named Deacons and members of the Examin-
ing Committee: Elmer II. Garbut, D. II.
Hawkins, H. B. White, Lysander w. Manches.
ter, George H. Day, Daniel W. Talmadge, R.
W. Ropes, j. T. Howard, C. c. Duncan, NJ. K.
Moody, R. D. Benedict, Samuel E. Belcher, c.
H. Morton, Thomas J. Tilney, George W.
Brush, H. w. Beecher, 8. B. Halliday, er oficio.
Four Deaconesses are members of this Exam.
lining Committee"
The books of Duden, Freezes & Co. have
been seized by the Custom-House officers in
New York, on the charge that the firm has,
during series of years, carried on syste-
matte course of swindling on the Revenue
Department. The principal house of the firm
is in Brussels, and they have branch Offices in
Nottingham, London, st. Petersburg, San
Francisco and New York.
The West.
Nearly all the Illinois railroads have adopted
new schedules of rates under the law taking
effect July l.
A proposed amendment to the Ohio Consti-
tuition, forbid ding the Legislature to pass any
usury laws, has been indefinitely postponed by
the State Constitutional Convention.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has decided
that the School Boards have the right to ex.
clu1e the Bible from the schools, to exclude
singing and religious exercises, and that the
Court has no authority to interfere with their
in the exercise of this power. The
judgment Of the Superior Court is therefore
A dispatch from Green Bay. Wis, Esd; says
that the forest fires in Northern Michigan had