The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-11-05
West and South.


West and South.
The failure Of E. E. Morgan's Sons, San
Francisco, is announced; liability over $780,.
ooo. They have been acting as shipping
agents for the California and Oregon Grans-
ers, though one report says the Changers
will not &c sufferers by the failure.
A meeting of the National Executive Com
mittee of the Union League of America was
held at Baltimore on the Goth. Provision was
made for meeting of the National Council
OF the Union League ut Cincinnati in January
next. A committee was appointed to prepare
an address to the Union Leagues of the
United States. President Grant and his Ad-
ministration were Endorsed.
Eighteen Mormons were indicted for polyg-
amy by the Grand jury at Salt Lake City on
the Goth.
Judge Hiram Barber has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the Fifth
Wisconsin District in place of Col. Cochrane,
declined.
The Republicans of the Third Illinois Dis
trict have renominatcd Charles B. Farwell for
Congress. Sidney Smith is the Republican
candidate for Congress from the First Illinois
District.
Eighty-cight men were recently arrested
for attempting to cut the Sny Lcvce, below
Quincy, III. Had the attempt succeeded the
expenditures of the Commissioners, which
have aggregated 100000, would have been
for naught. The cmbankmcnt was threatened
because it cut Off the supply of water from
the mill of Rupert i Shaw, who claim that
the Sny is a navigablc stream, and tina: the
Commissioners were not authorized to OBJ
struct it. The parties waived an examina.
ton, and on the 10th were held to bail in the
sum of $500 each for their appearance at the
December term Of the Circuit Court.
The railroad war in Porter County, Ind,
was terminated on the Goth without the she'd
ding of blood. \ company of militia consisting
of l2O men, armed with breech-l Leaders and
backed by two Calling guns, had prepared to
make bayonct charge, when Mr.. Gardner,
the Chief Engineer of the Michigan Central,
asked for parlcy. He then listened to the
reading of the warrant, and was arrested. to-
gcthcr with all his men. The mass of
the employees were subsequently discharged,
but the leaders were taken to Valparaiso
After the dispensing of the crowd the Balti-
more & Ohio construction corps proceeded to
lay the crossing under the protection of the
militia, who remained over night.
Licut-Col F. D. Grant, son of the President,
and Miss Ida Maria, daughter of II. IL.
Honorc, Esq, of Chicago, were married at
the residence Of the brides parents, in Chicago,
on the GOTH Among other noted personages
present on the occasion were: President and
Mrs. Grant, and several distinguished officers
of the United States army. The wedding
ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr.
ciples. The wedding presents were numerous
and costly.
A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the 10Th
says large numbers of men had been sum-
moncd to appear before the United States
Court in Huntsville, on the extreme northern
border of the State, early in November.
George Q. Cannon, Delegate to Congress
from Utah, has been indicted at Salt Lake
City for polygamy, and held for trial in bonds
of 5000
Sam. Rindskopf, the Reform candidate for
Congress in the Fourth Wisconsin District,
rendered his resignation on the 10Th, and w.
T. Lynde has been nominated in his stead
Maj. George B. Chamberlain, United States
Marshal at Atlanta, Ga, has been offered and
has accepted the position of Chief of the
southern branch of the Secret Service De-
partment
The steamer Brooklyn, of the Northern
Transportation Line, exploded her boiler near
Fighting Island, ten miles below Detroit, on
Z has Gv,nx 1,l
had nine passengers, and was manned by
crew of twenty-one The explosion tore her
apart and she sank instantly. Five passcn-
gers and eight of the crew were killed and
four passengers and seven of the crew
wounded. The Captain, Harry Brown, at
tributes the explosion to low water in the
boiler, but one account says the Brooklyn
was racing with the steamer Cuba and was
carrying a tremendous head of steam when
the catastrophe occurred.
convention assembled at Atlanta, Ga, on
the I'D, composed of Southern and South.
western railway and other transportation
officials, Mayors of Southern cities and repre-
sentativcs Of commercial bodies, the object
being to complete arrangements for direct
trade between the South and Europe ria the
projected line of steamers between Savannah
and Liverpool.
A Shreveport (La.l telegram of the ed
says papers were being prepared for the ar
rest, under the Enforcement act, Of sixty
nine merchants who had pledged themselves
not to retain in their employ persons who
would support the Radical party in the
pending election contest. Much feeling was
caused by the announcement of this purpose
on the part of the Federal authorities, and
the pledge was again put in circulation and
received nearly 200 additional signatures.
Planters in the country were also signing
similar pledges. Leading attorneys had ex-
pressed the opinion that the signing of such
pledge is not violation of the Enforcement
act.
Full official returns of the State election in
Ohio show that 23S, 4O6 votes were cast for
William Bell, Democrat, for Secretary of State;
22l ,2O4 votes for Allen 7. Wikoff, Republican,
and 1915 for John R. Buchtel, Prohibitionist,
for the same position. Bells official majority
over Wikof is 1902 votes.
According to recent dispatch from To-
pcka, Kan, adviccs from the Indian country
were very encouraging, the Indians being
thoroughly disorganized and fleeing to their
agencies, leaving behind them everything cx-
cept their ponies, arms and clothing. Gen.
Miles was on Wolf Creek, making for the
headquarters of that stream.
The Missouri State Grange, in session at
Kansas City on the 22d, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year: T. X. Allen,
Master; John NJ. Oldham, Ovcrsccr; w. Jack
son, Lecturer; w. Cochrane, Steward; DR.. 7.
B. Turnbaugh, Assistant Steward; G. T. Bray
ton, Chaplain; C.. T Quicsberry, Treasurer;
A. NJ. Coffee, Secretary; A. j. McCraynor,
A New Orleans dispatch of the 23d says
1900 registration frauds had been discovered.
The investigation was still going on.
The Presbyterian Synod Of Illinois, at its