The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-09-03
West and South.

venton called for that purpose in Ohio was
submitted to a vote Of the people of the State
on the 18th. The returns received up to the
morning of the 10Th indicated that the Con.
stitution had been rejected.
Twelve thousand dollars have recently been
drawn from the Iowa State Grange treasury
for the benefit of the grasshopper sufferers.
The Republican State Central Committee
of Arkansas has called a State Convention for
the 18th of September.
A man was arrested at Odcll, Ill.,, on the
18th on suspicion of being one of the abduc-
tors of the stolen Philadelphia boy, Charley
Ross
The Republicans of the Thirteenth Indiana
District have nominated John II. Baker for
Congress.
A"cloud burst occurred at Austin, New,
on the 18th. About SlO,ON damage was
done. The people were warned in time by a
messenger on horseback, and escaped to the
hills. The deluge was about ten feet deep as
it rushed down the canon. No lives were
lost.
Congressional nominations on the 10Th:
Anti-Monopoly-Third Iowa District, l.. l..
Ainsworth. Democratic-Sixth Indiana, Col.
Ed johnson.
The Tennessee Democratic and Conserva.
tive Convention met in Nashville on the 18th,
and nominated Judge James d. Porter for
Governor on the fourteenth ballot Resolu-
tons were adopted-favoring strict construc-
ton of the Constitution Of the United States,
and insisting that no power should be xer
cised by the General Government that is not
clearly delegated or clearly implied in the
necessary exercise of the power so delegated:
opposing all monopoles and combinations
formed for the oppression of the people; ad-
vleing the reduction of excessive salaries, and
rigid economy in the administration of affairs,
State and national; favoring the abolition of
the national banking system, the re-
peal Of the Federal tariff and the
enactment of a law solely with a
view to the collection of the necessary rev.
enue: denouncing all legislation seeking to
interfere with the individual rights of the
citizen in the selection of his own associates,
and particularly what is known as the Sup.
Elemental Civil-Rights bill pending before
the Federal Congress, as a palpable violation
| OF the Constitution, intended to vcx, harass,
oppress and degrade the people of the South.
| and political evils to both races.
Areport was received ut Sioux City, Iowa,
on the 10Th, from Fort Sully, to the effect that
| the Indians to the number of 1900 made an
| attack upon Clusters expedition on the 18th
and were repulsed with heavy loss. Clusters
loss was reported at fifty killed and wounded.
The news from the Ohio election received
on the 10th indicated that the majority against
the new Constitution would be over 10000
The following nominations for Congress
were made on the Goth: Democratic-Second
Virginia District, Chas. J. Faulkner; Fifth
Texas, John Hancock; Nineteenth Illinois, s.
s. Marshall, renominated. Republican-First
Kansas, W. A. Phillips, renominated Anti.
Monopoly-DakotaT Territory, w. A. Burleigh.
few evenings ago Amelia FOrndran, an
omaha girl eleven years Of age, attempted to
kindlc fire in u stove with kerosene, and was
horribly burned. The flesh dropped from her
feet and her body was burned to cinder from
head to foot. She could not long survive.
| In recent dispatches Gen. Custer gives a
glowing account Of the Black Hills country
visited by his expedition. Gold and other
valuable metals were found in large quaint.
ties. Building materials are abundant, and as
agrazing country the General says it is one of
extraordinary richness.
| Daniel OLeary, of Chicago, recently walked
lO5 miles in twenty.three hours seventeen
minutes and twenty eight seconds, and then
walked another mile " for fun" in nine min
utes thirty five and half seconds
The great Usage land cases have been de.
cided in the United States Circuit Court at
Parsons, Kan, in favor of the settlers.
-Four negroes and white man were
hanged in the parish of Assumption, in Louis.
| lana, on the same gallows on, the 21st, for
| the murder of Elisha Eastwood, an old fat.
boatman, in April last.
The Alabama Republican State Convention
has renominated Alexander White and c. G..
sheats for Congressmen-at-Large A full
State ticket was also nominated The resolu.
tions adopted declare mistaken confidence
and unalterable devotion to the great princi-
pies of human liberty, viz: the civil and
political equality Of all men, without distinc
ton OF race or color; disavow all claim or
desire for the social equality of the different
races, and reject the issue OF race against
race rendered by the Democratic party, and
which, ifpersisted in by that party, will plunge
us again into war with the Government of
the United states;" only equal advantages
for the colored race are asked for in matters
of public and common rights.
For several days previous to the sd. &C.
cording to dispatches from Louisville, Ky..
open war had been waged between two fac.
tons at Lancaster, KY, the one composed
of whites and the other of negroes, under the
command of one Sellers. On the 22d Sellers,
house, in which number of negroes were
stationed, was burned to the ground, and had
it not been for the presence of United States
troops all of the inmates would have been
burned to death. Several had been killed on
both sides. At last accounts, on the oath, the
militia from the neighboring towns had