The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-07


tary and ]. O. Griffith, Of Nashville. Treas
urer. Resolutions were adopted commend
ing the completion Of the four great waite
routes recommended by the United State
Senate, moro especially the central one, AM
recommending the reduction of the tax o.
tobacco to ten cents per pound. The Con
gress is to meet next year in Philadelphia.
PRESIDENT GRANT and wife, accompanied
by ex-Secretary Borie and wife, Gen. Babcocl
and Col. Fred. Grant, arrived at st. Louis OF
the oath.
The Hcrndon House, in Marshall, Mich
was destroyed by fire early-on the mornin!
| OF the oath, and Claude G. Avery, Antoin
Gruber, Eliza King and Martha Varsden wer
either burned to death or fatally injured il
trying to escape from the building. Severa
other persons received serious injuries.
GEO. w. GAGE, prominent citizen of Chi
cago, and well known to the travelling pub
times with several OF the leading hotels of tn
city, died on the Oath, aged sixty three years
REV. Fl. c. TILroN has declined the nomi
nation for Governor of Wisconsin on the TEN
perance ticket.
THE report of the board appointed to in
vestigatc the Chicago Custom. House buildin:
was made public on the Goth. and is to tn,
effect that some of the material used in tn,
structure SO far should be rejected and some
other notifications made in the work, ant
that then the structure may safely be pro
ceeded with. The Secretary Of the Trcasur,
iniorses the report an d work on the building
is to be resumed in the spring in accordanc,
with the suggestions made by the commits
sion.
The commissioners at the Red Clout
Agency TO treat with the Indians for thu
Black Hills were considerably alarmed
on the oath by the warlikc attitude assumed
by several "bad" Indians who had put in ar
appearance under the lead of Little BAG
Man" A fight seemed inevitable at one
time, but the Indians were finally pacified
But little hopes Of negotiating satisfactory
treaty were entertained by the commission.
horrible murder was committed neal
Belle Center, Ohio, on the 22d, the victim
being young girl named Allie Laughlin
daughter of respectable farmer. The per
petrator OF the crime was James w. Shell
who, according to the testimony of his wife
enticed the girl away into the woods while
out riding, and after desperate struggle with
her killed her with knife. On his return tc
his wife Shell told her what he had done
and threatened to kill her should she reveal
the story. The wife said he had made prcvi.
Gus threats to her against the person and
life of Miss Laughlin. Great excitement was
caused in Bellefontaine when the terrible
crime became known, and on the night of the
sd Shell was taken from the Jail, where he
had been confined, by an cxasperated crowd
and hanged to a tree. He protested his limo.
cence to the last :.nd charged his wife with
the murder Of the girl. Mrs. Shell was
lodged in Jail at Bellefontainc on the 18th, as
an accomplish, she having confessed to pre-.
vious knowledge OF her husbands intention
to commit the horrible outrage and murder
TEE Fourth National Bank of Chicago sus
pended on the 25th. There was no excite
ment and no run. The business was simply
Improbable and SO the institution shut down
The statement is made that no one will lose
anything unless it be the Stockholders.
THE clergy and business men of Chicago
have recently held meetings and appointed
committees to take preliminary steps toward
inaugurating great religious revival this
fall and coming winter. Efforts arc to be made
to secure the personal attendance and services
of Mcssrs. Moody and Sankey, but in any
event a revival is determined on. One report
has it that Moody and Sankcy are to remain
and prosecute their religious labors in New
York city.
Ex-senator CARL sCHUKz delivered q
lengthy hard money speech at Cincinnati on
TIE 9th.
G. II. HAM, of the Inter- Ocean, has been re
moved from the Office of United States Ap
praiser of Merchandise at Chicago, and K
c. Feldkamp has been appointed as his sue.
ccssor.
A BURLINGTON Qowa) special of the 9th
reports a serious accident as having occurred
on the Burlington Il Missouri Railroad, near
WOODBURY.. Three passcnger.c were
thrown from the track and one person was
killed and about thirty others were injured.
In Chicago, on the 9th, spring wheat, No
2, was higher, closing at $l.l001.10x cash
Cash corn quiet; closing at Soc for No.
and SAC for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2
sold at 36@36Ac; October options were
sold at S2hc. Rye, No, 2. 731I@74c. Barley,
No. 2, $lO9@1.1O. Cash mess pork closed al
$23.35@2337k. Lard, $134O0l345. Choice
to extra beeves brought $5.75@6.5O; medium
to good, $4.25@5.5O; butchers stock, $2.50@
400; scalawags, etc, $l75@2.5O. Hogs
brought $7.sO@s20 for good to choice. Sheer
sold at $4.50@5.0O for good to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A RAGUsA dispatch of the ed confirms
previous reports of insurgent victories and
says that everything between Novowarsct
and Vishegrad had been burned. Ire
bigne had been again surrounded.
A BELGRADE dispatch of the 23d says the
Servian Minister of War had ordered large
force to the Bosnian frontier as an army of OBJ
servation.
THE text of the circular addressed by
the Papal Nuncio to the Spanish Bishops
was published in Madrid on the Oath. The
Nuncio says he has been directed to com
municate to the Bishops the substance of the
protest sent by the Cardinal Secretary OF
State of the Holy See to the Spanish Govern
ment upon the Pope's attention being called
to the federation clauses in the new Con
stitution proposed for Spain. The Ministerial
papers say that no concessions will be made
to the Pope tending to prejudice the indie
pendencc of the magistrates in dealing with
the Bishops, and especially the Bishop o.
SEQ d'Urgel. The Papal Nuncio was recalled
on the oath.
A SPECIAL telegram from Berlin of the 25th
says the Sublime Porte had declined to make
any concession to the insurgents until they
have made full and complete submission
Constantinoplc dispatch Of the same date
says the Consular mediation had failed.
A PARIS dispatch Of the 18th says Bona.
partist council had been recently held III
Arenberg, Switzerland, at the chateau OF OK.
Empress Eugene, at which it was resolved
that the Empress, who was, unpopular In
France because Of her pronounced ultramon.
tanism, should resign the regency, and that
the Prince Imperial, guided by NJ. Rouhcr,
should have supreme direction Of affairs.