The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-03-12

loss Of q, 0UO In killed, wounded and prisoner
Dispatches received In London on the q
from India state that over ,O00, 900 people wer
starving to death In the famine-stricken dis
tricts Of India.
A boiler exploded in Blackburn, England
ON the ID, killing twenty persons and wound
ing thirty, some of them fatally.
British journals generally approve the yer
dict in the Tichborne case. A dispatch Of tn,
I'd says that his counsel had entered motion
for new trial and in the event of the failur'
Of the motion would appeal to the House o.
Lords.
AIRY Tortugas dispatch of the I'd state'
that steamer had just made that island from
Havana, and reported great excitement in thai
city owing to the alleged departure from Bal
timore of the steamer Edgar Stuart on 9
filibustering expedition, and that the Spanish
naval officers had determined to sink her, witt
all on board, if she was found near the Cuban
coast.
The East.
The Rhode Island State Prohibitory Conven
ton, recently in session at Providence, made
the following nominations: For Governor
Henry Howard, present incumbent; Lieuten.
ant-Governor, w. F. Sayles; Secretary Of
State, J. NJ. Alderman, present incumbent;
Attorney General, Edwin Metcalf; General
Treasurer, Henry Gan.
The Boston School Committee on the even.
ing Of the cath again discussed the question
of permitting women to occupy seats, and,
Notwithstanding the decision of the Supreme
Court, they voted by A to 40 not to recon-
slider their former action.
The Maine House of Representatives has re-
fused to pass the bill abolishing the death
penalty, the vote being 81 to q.
At q meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, held at Cleveland on the
25th, Grand Chief Engineer Wilson was in
vited to resign, and complied with the re.
quest.
Seven hundred people applied for food in
one day at one Of the four soup houses re.
Gently opened in New York city by the mu-
nificence Of Mr.. James Gordon Bennett,
Most of the applicants were women and chill
dren, who, but for this timely relief, might
have been reduced to extreme want.
A Hornellsville IN. w. dispatch of the 26th
announces the end of strike of the brakemen
on the Erie Railway, and that all trains were
again running regularly. About 1000 pas
sengers were detained at Hornellsville because
of the strike on the oath and 25th.
The Locomotive Engineers adjourned their
convention at Cleveland on the 18th ult. It
was stated that there was good reason for be.
lieving that large majority of the conven.
ton voted against ordering new strike.
West and South.
A State Temperance Mass Convention, com.
posed of women and men engaged in the tenn
perance crusade in Ohio, was held at Colum.
bus on the oath. Dio Lewis was made Presi
dent. The proceedings consisted of speeches,
one of which was made by Van Pelt, "the
reformed saloon-keeper," singing of hymns,
reading letters from sympathizers, and the
formation of State Bureau, which shall send
speakers and workers to any place in need OF
them. The convention formed a permanent
organization to be known as the Woman.
Temperance Association of Ohio.
Thirty-six valuable circus horses and othe]
property of Montgomery Queens circus were
consumed by fire at Morris, ILL.,, a few morn
ings ago.
The temperance excitement in Valparaiso
Ind, on the oath, was at fever heat. For sew
eral days before the ladies had besieged thu
leading saloons after the style of their Ohio
sisters. Their services were largely attended
On that day the Mayor issued his proclama
ton ordering them to desist The ladies re-
piled with counter proclamation, in which
was embodied the following extracts from thu
Scriptures: Psalms ii. IA; Acts iv. Is, 10
Acts v. %, and short address to the public
The Grand Jury was in session and had found
large number of indictments against the liz
uor-sellers. At one saloon in the afternoon
while the ladies were conducting a prayer
meeting on the sidewalk, bucket of dirt,
water was thrown upon them from the balloon,
above, completely running the dress of on,
lady, and thoroughly sprinkling the rest. tn,
ladies of Richmond, Ind, visited about thirty
saloons, but their efforts were not crowned
with success up to the oath. The movement
had developed to considerable extent in variou.
towns in Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Nebraska
A Detroit dispatch of the 25th says no def
mite information had been received in regard
to the ice-aoe at Bay City, but the genera
opinion was that all had escaped.
The Iowa Autobiography Convention met al
Des Moines on the 25th, with sixty-four coun
ties represented. Thomas Mitchell was elected
President and J. NJ. Weart Secretary. Reso
buttons were adopted favoring the faithful ad
ministration of law; demanding honesty
economy and purity in official life; favoring &
true system Of civil-service reform; opposing
a protective tariff; declaring that all corpora
tions are subject to legislative control favor
ing modification of the banking system; CD
posing grants Of public lands to railways; de-
claring that the pretended repeal of the bach
salary law is gross fraud upon the people, and
demanding its unqualified repeal; demanding
that all public work, including printing, bt
let to the lowest responsible bidder, and in
viting all men, regardless of past political
views, to unite with them in RENE.
dying the evils from which the PEG.
pie 60 generally suffer. The following State
Central Committee was chosen: J. Harten.
bower, O'Brien County: Frank Brown, Wash.
ington; J. Weaver, Cedar; j. M. Weart,
Buchanan ]. o. Crosby, Blackhawk L. B.
Nelson, Tama E. N. Gates, Jasper; G. F.
Parker, Warren; j. F. Bishop, Onion II.
Jackson, Greene.
The Ohio Prohibition State Convention met
at Mount Vernon on the 26th and placed in
nomination the following State ticket for next
fall:. For Secretary Of State, John R. Buchel,
OF Summit County; Clerk of the Supreme
Court, B. Foster, Of Logan; School Commits.
sioner, B. M. Weddell, Of Montgomery; Mem.
Der of the Board of Public Works, E. G. Col.
Inns, of Hooking; Supreme Judge, G. J. Stew.
art.
The Executive Committee Of the Northern
Wisconsin Agricultural Association have de.