The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-10-01
The East.

On the 18th B. r. Curtis, distinguished
juri>t and formerly one of the Associate
Justices of the Supreme Court, died at New
port, r. /.
New York dispatch of the 10th says
Edna Dean Proctor, the authoress, had com
menccd suit for libel against Francis d.
Noulton, for the reference made to her in his
recent reply to the statement of Mr.. Beecher
She claims 100000 damages.
\ Weilsboro (Pa.) dispatcl. of the 18th says
the bank in that place had been robbed by
five men. who hound and gagged the Cashier
and his family and then forced him to open
the safe, from which they took $4,000
The New York Democratic State Conven-
ton on the 18th, at Syracuse, nominated s. J.
Tilden for Governor; William Dorsheimer for
Observation-Disclosures Adm Thayer for Canal
Commissioner: Geo. W. Wagner for Inspector
Of State Prisons; Theodore Miller for Judge
OF the Court OF Appeals. The resolutions de-
mand: Gold and silver and no currency incon-
vertible with coin; steady steps toward specie
payments: honest payment of the public debt
in coin; revenue reform; federal taxation for
revenue only; no Government partnership
with protected monopolies; home rule and no
Capitalization; equal and exact justice to all
men; no gag laws; uniform excise, but no
sumptuary laws; no third term, etc.
terrible calamity has occurred at Fall
River, Mass. One of the buildings of the
Granite Mills at that place was burned on the
morning Of the 10Th, the fire breaking out
after the operatives in the mill-over 400 in
numbcr-had commenced work. MANY of
the operatives lost their lives either by suffo-
cation or jumping from the windows, and
many others were injured. The loss by the
fire is over S300OOO
Mr.. Moulton appeared at the United States
Marshals office in Bro' klyn on the 2lst and
accepted the service of The capias in the Proc
tor libel suit.
West and South.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin on the
18th rendered a decision in the Injunction
suits brought by the Attorney General against
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroads. The
court maintains its original jurisdiction in
cases brought by the State, but holds that it
would not extend to private suits; afirms the
constifutionality Of the Potter law; rejects the
theory that this law was repealed by the act of
March IL, prescribing that the railroads shall
make reasonable rates; and, finally, grants
the injunction asked for the State compelling
these two railroads to comply with the pro-
visions OF the Potter law. The roads are
given till Oct. to make arrangements to this
end. 1t is said Mr.. Keep, President of the
Northwestern, has stated that compliance
with the law will necessitate reduction of
expenses on all sides, that fewer trains
and second-class coaches will be run, that
work will be suspended in the shops, and
that the number of employees will be
reduced. Mr.. Mitchell, President of the Mil.
waukee & st. Paul, says that trains will be
run on his road as usual, and only cut off as
1t becomes obvious that they are unprofita-
BILE.
The thirty-seventh Annual Diocesan Con-
vention Of the Episcopal Diocese of Illinois,
session at Chicago on the 10th, elected
Rev. George F. Seymour, Professor of Eccle.
siastical History in the General Seminary of
New York, Bishop of the diocese to succeed
the late Bishop Whitehouse.
The Arkansas State Republican Convention
met at Little Rock on the 10th and adjourned
without making any nominations. The rsso-
lutions strongly denounce the Constitution
recently framed, and declare that the oonsti-
tutional Convention was q conspiracy of
White League, Ku-Klux and leaders of the
late rebels to overthrow the reconstructed