The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-01-01

nome.
In the Illinois Farmers Association on the
nth resolutions were adopted, demanding
that Congress grant no more Of our lands to
railways or any other corporations without
first obtaining permission by a popular vote Of
three-quarters of all the States in the Union;
that there shall be no building of the Texas
Pacific, or the Atlantic Pacific, or the issuing
of government bonds to them until the farm.
ers of the West, the planters of the south,
and the laboring men, manufacturers, mer-
chants and consumers Of the East have trans
portation facilities in the interest of the pro-
ductive consumers of those sections. President
Flagg delivered an address on State Railway
Legislation.
A Kansas City (Mo.) telegram of the 18th
says it was reported there that the Blenders
had been tracked to Northern Mexico. In
consequence of there being no extradition
treaty between the United States and Mexico,
they cannot be brought back except by kid.
mapping, and the present reward offer
ed is not sufficient to warrant the
undertaking. An effort, it is said, will be
made to capture them this winter, If the re-
ward is made sufficient to justify an attempt
to kidnap them.
Two-thirds of the business portion of Hud.
sonville, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire on the
night of the 18th. Loss about Sc, 900, with
little or no insurance.
The two houses of the California Legislature
met in joint session on the 18th and voted fol
Senator for the long term. The ballot result.
ed: Farley Dem.l Al; Booth Und.), 81
Shafter (Rep.), 81. On the 18Th another joint
ballot was had, with exactly the same result
except that one of the members who voted
for Booth was absent
The Illinois Farmers Association adjourned
on the 18th, after adopting Constitution and
bylaws and a series of resolutions. The res
o'ufions declare that every American voter
should do all in his power to secure the cleo.
ton of honest and competent men to Office;
that farmers are absolved from all allie.
glance to the old political parties; that the
repeal of the salary-grab law should be retro.
active; that large salaries are antagonistic to
republican principles; that the civil service
should be reformed; they favor improving the
navigation of lakes and rivers; oppose pro.
tective tariff; deprecate the system of subsi.
dies; favor legal-tender currency issued di.
rectly by the government, and interchangeable
for bonds bearing the lowest possible rate OF
interest; demand the revision of the
patent laws; insist upon biennial ses
sions of the Legislature; assert the
right OF the State Legislature to legislate fol
the control Of railroads and oppose any at.
tempt OF Congress to exercise such control
condemn the practice of public officials in re.
ceivins free passes from railway managers
demand reduction of taxation; declare that
since large number of pillow manufacturers Of
the West have thrown down the gauntlet we take
1t up and recommend the farmers of this State
to patronize none Of the said manufacturers
until they will sell to us direct at wholesale
rates." The election for officers resulted in
the choice of W. c. Flagg, President; 8. NJ,
Smith, Secretary +; and J. II. Pickrell, Treasu.
rer.
The Secretary of the Wisconsin State Grange
has issued an official call for a meeting OF the
State Grange at Janesville, to commence Janu.
airy 20. All masters installed for 1874 and their
wives are entitled to vote.
Pert Get (coloretD Chicago wife murderer,
was hanged at Joliet on the 10Th, he having
been respited for one week by the Governor.
The Alabama State Senate has unseatcd a
member of that body because while postmaster
he charged one of his clerks with abstracting
money from the mails and had him imprisoned,
but subsequently, when pressed closely by in
vestigation, confessed that he himself was the
guilty party.
At Lebanon, Tenn, few days ago, white
man named Saunders whipped the wife of a
colored man for having said something derog-
atory to his character, when her husband
swore out States warrant against Saunders,
and was with the Marshal when the latter
undertook to serve it. Saunders shot the
negro through the heart and threatened the
life of the Marshal unless he permitted him
to escape, and the Marshal being unarmed
was obliged to let the prisoner 60.
The time for holding the next annual State
Fair OF Michigan has been changed from Sep
tember q to September IA, 1874.
The annual report of the State Superinten-
dent of Schools in Nebraska, shows 63, los
scholars in the State.
The recent State Grange of Minnesota
adopted resolution that all members and
eAShoSAuS dSSuto VI tuc OlucE are instructed
not to purchase any machinery Of the pillow
firms entering into the agree
ment of October last, or of their agents, or of
the manufacturers and dealers in any other
farming implements who may open a like
warfare upon the farming interests of the
State.
The California Legislature, in joint conven-
ton on the Goth, elected Governor Booth Nn-
dependeuD to the United States Senate. The
vote stood: Farley (Dem.), IS; Booth; 81;
Shafter (Rep.), 20.
An immense mass meeting Of working-men
was held in Chicago on the evening of the
2lst, at which resolutions were adopted de-
handing that the city should furnish them
with work or aid through the winter.
Congressional.
In the Senate, on the 10th, bills were
Notwithstanding of the enrolment and
license laws; to establish an iron ship building
yard on the waters of the Atlantic and in the Mis-.
sssippi Valley, to afford facilities to the navy; to
facilitate the asserting and rcdeemng Of Ma
tiOnal Rank nOtp purrpncv oud ~ outbo,s,, -