The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-07-08

q dispatch from Omaha, signed by United
States Senators Hitchcock and Paddock,
which says the reports Of grasshopper raw
ages in Nebraska published in the Chicago
papers were greatly exaggerated. The grass.
hoppers had done but little damage, and only
in isolated cases. The crops promised splen-
didly.
JUDGE o. B. McFADDEN, Delegate to Con-
gress from Washington Territory, died at
Olympia on the 25th.
A TORNADO passed over the northwestern
part of Detroit city on the evening of the 9th.
Its path was about 500 feet wide, and thirty
houses, besides outbuildings, etc, were de-
stroyed. Four persons were killed and many
Others injured, some seriously.
SEVERAL. Cincinnati water works collectors
and an ex-Trustee have been indicted for en-
bezzlemcnt of the public funds and for NAL
feasance in Office
In Chicago, on the 2Sth, spring wheat,
No. 3, was stronger, closing at $1.0O@1 .OO115,
cash. Cash corn, No.2, closed at Csc for No.
and 6514c for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2, sold
at 5115@5l11c; July options were sold at
SOC. Rye, No. ?, brought $4,000. Barley,
No. 2, $l.19@1.30. Cash mess pork closed at
s19.371z@19.40. Lard, $13. So@13.4O Choice to
extra bceves brought s6.25@675; medium to
good, $5259600; butchers stock, $4,000
$5.25; scalawags, etc., $2.5O@3.25. Hogs
brought E.OO@7.15 for good to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
IT is reported that the Marquis of Lorne
and the Princess Louise intend making tour
of the United States.
COUNT Won ARNIN has been found guilty
of sbstracting public documents from the
archives of the Paris Legation, and sentenced
to nine months imprisonment.
INTELLIGENCE from France, dated mid
night, June Is, represents that the loss Of life
by the flood in the Garonnc had been appall-
ing. Over 500 houses had fallen in Toulouse,
and it was reported that over 1000 lives had
been lost In the st. Cyprien quarter 213
corpses had already been recovered. More
than 10000 persons in Toulouse alone were
deprived of the means of subsistence. At
Tremouillet five houses only remained stand
ing out of 400. In the district of Folk two
villages had been entirely submerged and
many dead bodies had been found. The
crops of all kinds throughout the inundated
districts were altogether destroyed.
A LETTER received in New York on the 25th
gives an account of the great earthquake at
Circuta, South America, on the 18th of May.
The first shock levclcd every wall in the city,
burying, in single instant, 5000 people out
of population of 10000. Several who were
not killed subsequently died of their injuries,
and many were murdered by robbers, who
plundered in bands. Reports from San Cay
ctono, Santiago, Grarulata, Arbalcda, Gu
cstclla and San Cristahcl, all aggregating q
population of 10000, confirm the previous
account of the destruction of life and prop
crty in those places.
GARCIA, the Spaniard who stole portion
of Murillo's famous picture from the Seville
Cathedral, and who was kidnapped in Cuba
and subsequently sent to Spain, is reported
to have been shot at Madrid without trial.
The important Carlist fortress of Misayct, on
the river Ebra, is officially reported to have
surrendered.
a BERLIN dispatch Of the 25th says Count
Won Arnim would appeal from the late de-
cisior of the Kammergcricht in his case.
PROF. DONALDSON and three members of
the press made a balloon ascension from
Toronto on tie 23d, and were picked up the
Peters, on Lake Ontario. They report having
suffered great hardships, being in the water
four hours, clinging to the basket of the bal
loon, which was dragged through the water
at aifearful speed.
THE total damage by the late inundation
of the Garonne region was estimated, ON the
2Sth, at about e15,OOO,OOO. The lowest csti-
mate of deaths in the flooded districts was
1900.
FEARFUL foundations have recently &C.
cured in Bohemia, Moravia, Corinthia, Tyrol
and Beriat, with considerable loss of life and
immense destruction of property.
THE court of inquiry appointed to invcsti-
gate concerning the loss of the Schiller made
their report to the British authorities on the
2Sth, sttributing the loss of that steamer to
the neglect of the officers in not using the
lead as they were directed in thick weather.
EDMUND JONES Il Co., London agents of
the Burmese Government, failed on the 2sth
for nearly million dollars,
A FURIOUS thunderstorm passed over
Buda, Hungary, on the 2Sth, accompanied by
hail in immense quantities. The dispatch
says the surrounding hills and the roofs of
the houses we're covered with ice two feet
thick. Everything movable was swept from
the streets into the river. Over 500 persons
were missing, of whom at least 100 were
thought to have been killed.
A LONDON dispatch announces the re-
cent death of the United States Consul at
Zanzibar.