The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-10-09

--..;
Federal, State, county or municipal govern
nents; opposes the present tszias; favoss
taxing solvent debts; ,hAvors tho eight.hou
Law; opposed to Chinese immigration, and
albo opposed to the eIpstion Of tho President
for more than one term Of four years. The
Last resolution indorses the stand taken
by Governor Booth in behalf of popular
rights against the encroachments Of politi-
clans and railway corporations.
A dispatch from Denver, COL, states that
over two-thirds of the mining town Of Fair
play, Col, had been consumed ON the 26th.
All the stores, printing Offices, the United
States land Office, post Office, express Office,
hotels and other business places, with two or
three exceptions, had been utterly destroyed.
The Right Rev. Geo. M. Randall, Episcopal
Bishop Of Colorado, New Mexico and Wyom-
ing, died at Denver, Colorado, on the 2Sth, of
typhoid pneumonia.
The Third National Bank, of Chicago, closed
its doors on the 9th. The Cook County Ma
tional, one of the suspended banks of THAI
city, had announced its resumption. The
Manufacturer and Second National banks had
decided to go into liquidation. The Union
National, the first of the Chicago banks that
closed its doors, had announced its assets at
COZ, 600, and its liabilities at 300, 0OO and
given notice of its speedy resumption of bust
ness. The Clearing House Association met
on the evening of the 9th, and after an ami
mated discussion resolved not to issue Clear
ing House certificates.
A dispatch from st. Louis of the 9th says
that the rear wall Of the dve-story warehouse,
on the corner of Second and Chestnut streets,
had fallen, opening gap in the building fifty
feet wide from the ground to the roof. One
man had been killed and two seriously injured.
In Chicago, on the 10th, business had re-
sumed very nearly its normal condition.
Three Of the suspended banks had resumed
business and were receiving deposits and pay
ing out on checks as before the panic. Over
8, O00, 600 currency had been received during
the preceding forty-eight hours. Traffic had
fallen OF ON the various lines of railroad, and
large number of trains had been drawn of,
and many men discharged.
A st. Louis dispatch of the 10Th says that
while Joseph H. Fore, who attempted to kill
his wife, on the 4th of June last, was being
tried in that city on the 10Th for that offense,
he threw heavy cut glass inkstand at his wife
as she was giving in her testimony. The
missile missed her, but struck her counsel full
in the forehead, INJECTING an ugly and danger
GUS wound.
At late hour on the night Of the 10Th the
Union National Bank Of Chicago, which had
resumed business on that morning, and
during the day had paid out $4,000, de-
cided to 60 into liquidation, under the pro-
visions of Sec. AZ of the National Currency
Act.
A call has been issued for Northwestern
Farmers Convention, to meet at Chicago on
the ed of October, to consist of delegates
from Oranges and farmers organizations.
The South.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, of the sd,
says that the Merchants National, the Plan
ters', the Mechanics, the Peoples, the First
National, and the Citizens banks, of Peters,
burg, had suspended.
A Baltimore telegram of the Oath announced
that all the banks of that city had stopped
currency payment. Brown, Lancaster &
Cowell, agents of the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railway, having houses in Baltimore, New
Little Rock, Ark, dispatch of the oath
says the money panic in that city continued,
caused not so much by Eastern financial COM
plications as by the refusal of the city banks
to take the shinplasters that have been current
there.
A dispatch from Richmond, Va, says that
the Richmond Dollar Savings Bank had sus-
pended, and that Taylor & Williams, bankers,
had failed.
A dispatch to the Associated Press, from
Brownsville, Texas, of September "a, says that
| q series of butcheries and robberies had re-
Gently been committed in Mexico, the victims
in every case being Americans. The perpe-
traitors ofthese crimes were arrested, and their
guilt fully established, yet not one of them
had been punished, the authorities being
either Indifferent or powerless. The facts
had been reported by the Consuls to Washing
| ton, in the hopes that redress would be de-
manded.
A Memphis dispatch of the 25th says that
the First National and De Soto banks, of that
city, had closed their doors.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn, says that
the National Banks of that city had suspended
currency payments on all balances exceeding
$500.
A dispatch from Selma, kla., of the 25th,
says the Savings Bank of Selma had suspend
ed in consequence Of an extraordinary run by
depositors.
All the banks of New Orleans partially
suspended payment on the 25th, according to
a dispatch from that city. The suspension
was to remain in force for thirty days.
kilograms from various cities in Georgia, Of
the 25th, say the following banks had sus-
pended: National Exchange, the Merchants
and Planters National, the Planters Loan
and Savings Banks, of Augusta, Ga; the
Dollar Savings Bank, of Atlanta, Ca; Savan-
nah Bank and Trust Company, and the South
ern Bank of Georgia.
A dispatch from Shreveport, La, of the
25th, says the fever, which seemed to have
abated on the preceding day, had broken out
with renewed violence. The interments num-
bered twenty-five.
A dispatch from Shreveport, La, of the
10Th says that within the last four days sever
al of the most prominent and useful citizens
of that city had fallen victims to the epidemic
The dispatch adds: 1.-THE population has been
fearfully thinned out by sickness and death.
We no longer have funerals. The hearses,
followed by one or two carriages, dash
through the streets like q section of artillery
in battle seeking position. A few men are
drummed up, the collins showed into the
hearse, and driven rapidly to the cemetery.
This is the case even with the most prominent
citizens. The Towards have opened an orphan
asylum, and are feeding about two-thirds Of
the resident population. There are fewer
deaths and new cases, because there are fewer
people,"
A jackson, Miss, dispatch Of the 10th says
Governor Powers, acting under the advice Of
Attorney General Morris, had issued q procla-
nation postponing the State election. The
Governor says that he will convene the Legis-
lature in extraordinary session as soon
as possible. The Pilot, the State organ, has
pronounced the Governors movement incen-
diary, and calculated to lead to revolution and
anarchy.