The Grange advance., 1874-09-16
FAITH, HOPE,
4 in UNION STRENGTHEN KNOWLEDGE POWER.
Mt PAUL AND RED WING MINNESOTA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

.OA AMI hGO WxNV
Democratic State Convention meets today
at Worcester. They are united upon Mr..
CASTOR, OF Boston, tor the first placs on the
ticket .... Tie Nebraska Independent State
Convention met at Lincoln yesterday.
The second annual interstate exposition
at Chicago opens tonight with fattt ring
prospects Of success. -. Champion ship
base ball match at New York yesterday :
Mutuals 6, Chicagos /. The running ra-
ces at Buffalo were inaugurated yesterday.
The first race was hurdle race, 2 miles,
over hurdles !; purse $500, 1t was won
by George West, beating Frank Owen,
Mitchell, Smiths Helen, Bennett, Gaff-
ney's Gafney, and McDan-
iel's Granger. Time $50 14....
The second race, handicap sweepstakes,
all ages, $500 added; mile and quarter,
was won by McDaniel's Red Dick flly,
beating Major Mason and Mary Buckley.
Time PA. The third race, purse $500, all
ages, was won by Katie Pease, beating
Gadney's Scratch and Pendereast's Tar
River. Time l:42 "a. The command
IF Gen. Miles met four or five hundred
Cheyenne Indians, twelve miles from Red
River, Texas, on Aug. 80, and after a
sharp engagement, lasting five hours,
drove them over l3 miles Of high hills and
almost impossible canons, with loss to
them of 25 or 80 killed and wounded.
Our casualties are three badly wounded.
....A party Of negroes entered q house
near Memphis, Tenn, on Monday, and
beat a woman so badly that she will die OF
ier injuries. 90. The body Of woman
supposed to be Nellie G. Pickering, or Lake,
was found on Monday. night near Omaha,
Neb in an advanced state of decomposi-
ton, with package containing morphine
in her pocket Jas. A. Coe, a Boston
broker, was yesterday convicted of for
gerry and sentenced to eight years impris-
onment.. "A meeting Of the creditors Of
Jay Cooke s. Co. was held at Washington
last might, whereat the question was con-
sidered whether legal process cannot be
had to compel the trustee Of the firm to
make statement Of the condition of its
assets, and declare such dividends as the
funds, if any, will warrant.
THURSDAY, Sept. l0.-The convention OF
western manufacturers of iron at Pitts
burgh yesterday decided not to advance
prices at present above the three per cent.
card. 900 The Arkansas Democratic State
Convention nominated Gov. Elisha Baxter
for reelection. In New York William
Alien has Withdrawn from the canvass for
the Democratic and Liberal Nomination
for Governor. -. Dispatches received at
the executive Office at New Orleans state
that the parish officers of Blenville parish
have been wAited. upon by the White
League. aud have resigned in conse-
qnenoe. ..... Three refugees from Conshatta
arrived in New Orleans yesterday, two
white and one colored, and report trouble
still prevailing in that section. -. Judge
Poaand'of Vermont publishes letter in
the Rutland Herald to-day, Withdrawing
his name from the contest Cor Congress in
the Second District. He denies emphati-
cally the use Of improper influences to &C.
cure his election, and says that his course
uponthe matters stignatized as salary
grab, Credit Msbilier, wlitewashing, and
press-gagging will bear the closest scruti-
ny and be has 10 desire to change it.....
The reparts of:yellow fever in New Orleans
and Galveston ane denied .--- The Nation
al Convention Of Pork Packers and Pro-
vision Dealers met in Louisville, KY, yes
terday, two hundred delegates, REPRESENT
ingtwelve States, heing present. :. . It is re-
ported upon good authority that Mr.;
Beecher arrived in Boston Tuesday even
ing, and yesterday had consultation with
B. F. Butler and Frank Moulton. There
has probably been an attempt to patch up
the matter and stop the publication %of the
second statement. It will appear in the
Graphic to-day or Tomorrow. "A eoliis-
sion occurred in the Nersey At Liverpool
yesterday between the Spanish steamer.
Tomas and the Anchor Liner Alexandra.
The Latter was sunk, and the Tomas bad
!, damaged. stsss II s*,ss.,<s s,sy
FalDAY, Sept. ll.-The liberal Demo-
cratic Coplstre ,sioual Convention fof tie