The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1874-12-31
Foreign Intelligence.

MAJ ENnlhitlon Al Philadelphia has already
been appointed. Dr.. Jacob is made Presi-
dent.
\ special to the London Times of the 18th
says storm had been raging in the Bav of
bi>cay for eight days, and showed no signs
IF abatement. The loss of vessel property
and human life had been immense. From
the portsof Santander alone several boats and
seventy persons were known to have been
lost.
y special to the London Morning Post of
the 18Th says that Bismarck, weary of the OPP
position he had encountered in the Reichstag,
had rendered his resignation a Chancellor of
the Empire. which the Emperor refused to
receive. He aftcrwara conferred with the
leaders OF the ltramontane party regarding
.h f',.,rre errauet If tlt lis "a .
and an understanding was secured.
The roof of the market hall in Angcs, France
fell on the 10Th, in consequence of the weight
ct snow upon it, and several persons were
Killed and injured.
Late accounts Of the famine in Asia Minor
say the prospect was appalling. Many were
dying and thousands more would die unless
help reached them
Count Won Arnim has been sentenced to
three months imprisonment. A Berlin dis
patch OF the Goth says both the Government
and Count Won Arnm had appealed the case
TO higher court.
1t is reported that Bismarck has received
from the police information Of fresh plo,
against his life
The London -Norn;rg Standard of the 2lst
has dispatch from Spain reporting the total
defeat and routing of the Republican Gen
Lopez DomonIuez, in Catalonia, by the Car.
lists under Tristany, with heavy loss in killed
and wounded
The iron-works Of the Great Western Rail
way Company at Reading, England, were
burned on the 10Th. Four hundred persons
were thus thrown out of employment
The East.
y little before midnight on the 14th fire
broke ut in Plympton street, Boston, which
was not subducd until several large ware.
houses and their contents were burned
About four O'clock on the morning of the
18th three other alarms were sounded in the
immediate ncighborhood, in Wareham street
where sparks from the previous fire had
lodged unpcrccivcd by the tiremen Owing
to the combustiblc nature Of the building in
which this last fire started the flames spread
in all directions, and in short time
Narcham street was almost entirely
devastated, everything being swept away that
lay in the path of the fire between the point
OF starting and the wharf, except large
piano factory. The loss from both fires is
variously estimated from 100000 to $50, OOO
During the progress of the Boston fire, on
the morning Of the 18th, the neighboring
city Of Charlcstown suffered a loss Of $15O,OOO
from fire
Two men, named Moshcr and Douglass,
were shot on the 18th at Bay Ridge, on Long
Island, while committing a burglary at Judge
Van Brunt's residence. Mosher was instantly
killed. Before he died Douglass made state.
ment that Mosher was concerned in the alb
duction of little Charlie Ross. The two burg
lars have since been identified, and there
seems no doubt that they knew of the where
abouts of the stolen child
Mayor Cobb, Of Boston, was reelected on
the 18th by $4,000 majority.
large silk factory at Hartford, Conn, was
destroyed by fire on the 10th. Loss 500, GOO
VIM. NJ. Tweed was before the New York
Oyer and Tcrmincr Court on writ of habeas
corpus on the 18th, and the questions were
considered as to the expiration of his first
sentence, the illcgality of the subsequent SEN
fences, the want of jurisdiction of the court
which tried him, and that the jury was not
impanelcd according to law. The case was
finally adjourned to the ed, and Tweed was
rcmanded to prison.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the nth
says gentleman attending the spiritual
seance of Mr.. Holmes and his wife, at which
the noted spirit Katie King was wont to ap.
pear, had traced the supposed Katie to a
boarding. house, and, after long continued
effort, persuaded her to confess the deception
che had been practicing and to produce the
gauzy dresses she wore at the mani
festations. The production of a letter
with large quantities of jewelry, ETC.,
that had been presented 10 Katie at seanccs
induced Robert Dale Owen and Dr. Childs,
two leading Spiritualists of that city, to pub
ish and repudiate the swindle.
The new mill-dam recently constructed at
Haydensville, Mass, to take the place of the
reservoir which broke and devastated that
valley last spring, gave way on the morning
Of the 10th, the rushing water sweeping
everything before it. 1t is thought no lives
were lost