The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-05

UQre 70 be given IN the hall. Mrs. woodruff
immediately announced hef intention Of COM
mencing suit against the proprietors of the
hall, laying damages at o., 900.
A boy ban or twelve years old, the son Of T.
Jones, Of Windfall, Ind, while his parents
were ct church . few. nights ago, attcmptedIto
kindle . Ere With COL oil, with the usual re-
suit. The boy died the next morning.
The Missouri State Grange, on the 2lst,
adopted resolution requesting the Missouri
Senators and Representatives in Congress to
use their influence to secure the improvement
Of the Mississippi River and its tributaries.
The Kansas State Grange adjourned sine die
on the s1st.
Announcement has been made OF the death
at Galveston of ex-senator Wigfall, of Texas.
According to dispatches of the ed the
Women's Temperance movement was spread.
Ing In Iowa and Illinois. In Oswego, Lex
ington and many other places in Illinois, and
In Davenport, Dubuque and elsewhere in Iowa
organizations had been formed and prepara-
tions made for determined assault upon the
saloon.keepers and their patrons. The same
condition Of affairs prevailed in Indiana. In
Chicago praying band consisting of 5000
women was about to be organized, according
to the Times Of the ed. The city was to be
divided into districts and each district given
over to band Of fifty praying women.
call has been published for a convention
of delegates from the Northwestern States to
be held at Rock Island on Tuesday, March "a,
on the subject of cheap transportation. The
call is issued by Major James NJ. Allan, dele
gate from the Illinois Farmers State Associa-
ton to the late Cheap Transportation Conven-
ton at Washington, he having been appointed
by the Decatur Convention.
Judge Horton, Chairman of the COM
mittee appointed by the Kansas House Of
Representatives to investigate the charges
against State Treasurer Hayes, made lengthy
report ON the Dist, signed by all the members
OF the committee but one, reciting the irTcgu-
larities of that officer, and concluding by pre-
ferring articles Of impeachment against him.
The report states that the Treasurer had been
guilty of the practice of loaning the States
funds to individuals and banks, contrary
to law, and that there were then in
his hands, rs securities for some
such loans, bonds and other collaterals
OF doubtful value. The minority report justi-
fies the conduct of the Treasurer, and charges
that the investigation had been SO conducted
as to elicit such facts only as tended to be un.
favorable to the Treasurer.
Generals Sheridan and Ord were at Fort Lar
annie, Wyoming Territory, on the 2,d, and
were organizing forces to operate against the
hostile Sioux. General John E. Smith will be
in command Of the troops in the field. Nine
companies of infantry and seven of cavalry
left Fort Laramie on the ed for the vicinity of
the Red Cloud Agency.
| Three hundred men went adrift in East Sag.
inaw Bay on the morning of the ed on cake
OF ice, on which they had built fishing vii
lage, and which was driven away from the
shore by strong southwest wind. They were
carried out into the lake, when a change of
wind to the west brought them up to the eastern
shore OF the bay, where two hundred of them
managed to escape at different points. Two of
the men were drowned in attempting to reach
land. One hundred men were still on the ice
up to the night of the sd.
Steve Lowry, the last survivor of the notori.
Gus Robson County IN. CO. outlaws, was
recently killed in the upper part of that
county by three citizens. He was tuning
his banjo preparatory to playing for some
wagoners, when three shots were fired at him.
taking effect in his head and killing him in.
etantly.