The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-08-27
'rnor, Benjamin Rush; Judge of the Supreme


An Omaha (Neb.) dispatch of the 10Th says
that on the 9th company of strolling In
dams eamped near a remote farm house in Col
| fax County, Neb. Two squaws searched the
house for food and beat the farmers wife over
| the head for objecting. The man came home,
and, seeing his wife wounded, shot one of the
squaws. The other reported the fact and
twelve Indians came to the house, skinned
the farmer, and cut his hands Off and heart
out in the presence of his wife.
| The Wisconsin Supreme Court adjourned
| on the Eth for two weeks, when 1t was eX-
| pected the decision in the railroad injunction
case would be rendered.
| An lndepcndcnt Mass Convention was held
at Indianapolis, Ind, on the 18th, for the pur-
pose Of filling vacancies on the State ticket.
| \ resolution was adopted to declare vacant
the places on the ticket filled by Ebenczcr
| Henderson, for Auditor, and James Mitchell,
for Attorney General, who had not accepted
the nominations rendered them, and who
| were acting in harmony with one of the other
political parties of the State. Nominations
| were then made to fill vacancies, as
follows: For Secretary of State, L..
Bowles; Auditor, d. j. Prescott; Attorney
| General. VIM. \. Pcclc; Superintendent Of
Public Instruction, Andrew II. Graham. \
resolution was passed adopting and reatiirm-
in" the platform of June 10, and the Central
Committee was instructed to fill the vacancies
| in their own number, and to correspond with
independent organizations in other States
with Il view to the organization of Il national
party.
An Ant-Prohibitionist State Convention was
held at Detroit, Mich, on the 18th. A plat
form was adoptcd-oprosing prohibition as
wrong in principle, and declaring that it had
proved practical failure, and advocating
the license system, and declaring that eve
will not vote at the polls for any
candidate for the Legislature who
of IL license law \ State Central Commit
tee of two from each Congressional dis
trict was appointed, with power to select an
Executive Committee.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 18th: Independent Reform
Eleventh Illinois District, j. P Dimmitt
Thirteenth Illinois, A. f. Stephenson; Four
tcenth Illinois, J. II. Pickercll; Nineteenth
| Illinois, W. B. Anderson. Republican-Flrst
Vermont, G. H. Joyce: Second Vermont, L. p
! Poland, rcnominated; Fifth New Jersey, w.
W. Phelps: Second Florida, w. J. Purman,
! renominated; Sixth Georgia, J. \. Blount, re-
nominat"d; Seventh Ohio, 7. W. Gordon.
| Congressional nominations on the 18th: Re-
publiran-Ninth Indiana District, Thos. J.
| Ca>on rcnominatcd; Ninth Ohio J. NJ. Rob-
inson, rcnominatcd; Eighteenth Illinois !;
Isaac Clements, rcnominated; Nineteenth
Ias Cor ti..lI tad
cratic-Eighth Tennessee, j. d. c. Atkins, re-
nominatcd: Tenth Indiana, VIM. s. Hoy
mond.
The Nebraska Democratic Central Com
mittcc have issued Il call for a straight out
Democratic Convention. to meet in Lincoln
Sept 10, to nominate State officers.
The funeral of the late Bishop Whitehouse
took place in Chicago on the 18th, and was
very largely attended. The remains We're
taken to New York, to be inferred in Green
wood Cemetery.
The Arkansas Democratic State Convention
is to be held on the Sth of September.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 14th: Democratic
Ninth Tennessee District, W. p Caldwell
Republican-First Alabama, jeremiah Haral-
son (cOlorcd).
\ Memphis dispatch Of the 18th says tch
recent trouble in Austin. Miss was a triiny
affair During the entire disturbance only
one negro was killed. and no white man was
even wounded. The colored men of Mem
phis held Il mass-mccting on the night of the
18th and passed resolutions dcprecatins all
violence and conflicts between the races.
The Chicago Tribune of the 18th has a re-
port of an interview between Theodore Titon
and the special correspondent Of that paper,
in which Mr.. TitOn is represented as firmly
insisting on the truth Of his charges against
Mr. Beccher. He furnished the correspond
ent with Il card on which was written: His
sworn statement was never thought of by T.
I. till after Bcecher had originated the Com
mittec Of Inquiry, and after Elizabeth had de-
serted her house and Mr.. Ovington had pub
lished card in her behalf, announcing that
that she had gone from him forever. Mr..
Bcccher's apology was made six months be-
fore I. 7. ever saw Mrs. Woodruff"
Earl uuitcrin. Governor-Gcncral of Canada,
arrived in Chicago on the 18th, and was re-
ceived and entertained by the city officials.
A decision has been rendered by Judge
Cheney case, the effect of which is to put the
bill of complainants out of court, and to declare
that the Rev. Mr.. Cheney was not lawfully
dcposed from the Episcopal ministry.
4 very brilliant meteor, described to be as
large as the full moon, and almost as bright
as the sun, exploded near Cairo, ILL.,, about one
o'clock on the morning Of the 18th. The eX-
plosion shook the earth and houses in the city
and made the windows rattle. For nearly a
halfminutc the streets were light enough to
read.
The ProhibitiOnists have nominated Rev.
James Campbell for Congress in the Fourth
and d. w. Goldman in the Twentieth Ohio
Districts.
A Charleston Is. c. dispatch of the 10th
says that Georgetown, in that State, was the
scene OF dangerous contest between negro
factions led by Bowlcy and Jones, negro
members of the Legislature, each of whom
seeks to control the county, in which the
negroes have large majority. Meetings
held by one faction had been broken up by
the other, and there was general feeling of
insecurity. On the 18th the town was filled
with armed negroes, and the excitement was
intense and liable to break out in deeds of
violence at any moment
One Charles Levy, a Prussian Jew, twenty
two years old, has given himself up to the
authorities at Bloomington, Ill.,, claiming to
be one of the murderers of the New York
banker, Nathan, in 1870. In his con-
fession he says he had partner
who instigated the crime, but that
he Icvy) killed the victim with stonema-
sons tool, sharp at one end and round and
heavy at the other, while his accomplice COM
mitted the robbery, securing between 5000
and 500 in money and a large amount of
bonds, the greater part of the latter having
since been destroyed. But little credence
is given to this confession, although Levy is
said to be in his right mind. He says he
knows the consequences of his crime, but is
prepared for the worst.
William Moran was visiting friend
at the Eaddy Creek coal mine in Oily
miami pa tho ntbor Iax, ,,~xl <1,o <,.-