The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-22

cred frauds in that department. J.J. Kinds,
the contractor implicated, had given bail.
Two clerks who confessed their participation
in the frauds were held as witnesses against
persons who persisted in denying their guilt.
Treasurer Spinner, on the 18th, received an
autograph letter from the President accepting
his resignation as Treasurer of the United
States. and expressing for him the warmest
sentiments of regard, personally, and high
appreciation of his probity, patriotism and
official integrity.
Foreign Intelligence.
A Rene correspondent of the Paris Journal
des Debats writes to that paper that the Pope
will take up his residence in the United States
If it should become impossible for him to re-
main in Rome, and it was with view to such
possible emergency that Archbishop McClos.
key was elevated to the Cardinalate.
On the 18th the public prosecutors at Liege,
Brussels, commenced an investigation into the
Duchesne plot for the assassination of Prince
Bismarck.
The bill to enable unmarried women to
vote for members of Parliament was refused
a second reading in the British House of
Commons on the It'll, by vote of 152 to 1877.
The Premier voted with the minority.
Berlin dispatches of the sth say that Herr
Sigl, editor of the ultramontsne paper Tater-
land, recently sentenced in contumacian, for
publishing an article offensive to Bismarck,
had been arrested by the Austrian authori-
ties at Salzburg on the application of the
German Government, and sent to Berlin. The
Bishop of Breslau had refused to resign his
see, and legal proceedings had been insti-
tuted to enforce compliance with the decree
of the court. The Government had announced
its intention to prosecute the German SUBJ
scribers to the Carlist fund, on the ground
that they were fomenting rebellion with q
friendly power.
Alarming rumors prevailed in Berlin, Vien-
ma, Paris and Rome on the Sth, which Berlin
Ministerial journal of that date says por:end.
ed war against Germany.
The Spanish Government has decided to
send 5000 more troops to Cuba. All of the
professors of the Madrid University who have
protested against the recent reactionary edu-
cational laws have been arrested and expatri-
ated.
The French Government has sent instruc.
tions to its Consuls to summon for the last
time French subjects abroad who are liable
to military service to have their names regis
tered at the Consulates.
Madrid dispatch of the 9th says that Gen.
Elio, a Carlist General of distinction, had
given in his adhesion to King Aphonso.
Paul Boynton, the American, started from
Dover, Eng. on the morning Of the 10th to
cross to France in his ife-preserving dress
and arrived at Boulogne in the evening. He
was obliged to leave the water about five
miles from France ON account of the darkness
and the boisterous weather.
A Madrid dispatch of the 10th says the
Presidency of the Madrid University had been
conferred upon LIE Fuente, the former editor
OF the Carlist newspaper. There was much
dissatisfaction at the appointment. An Es-
tella report is to the effect that the Carlists
had shot eight Alphonsist prisoners, on the
eth, in reprisal for the Carlists recently assas
sinated near Taffalaque
The Bessemer steamer constructed to over
come the motion of the sea has made salts
factory trial trip from Gravesend to Calais.
The Humane Society of Boulogne has voted
its gold medal to Paul Boynton.
Great loss of life was recently occasioned
at Shanghai by collision between two steam.
ers engaged in the local trade.
Official dispatches of the 18th report the
defeat Of Carlists at Tolosa, with 100 killed.
The East,
Gov. Tilden, of New York, has pardoned
james W. Ingersoll, sentenced in 1873 to five
years Imprisonment for forgery in the second
degree. He was tried in connection with the
Tweed case
In his testimony on the 9Th and 7th Mr..
Beecher continued his denials of the evidence
OF Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his
explanation of the letters which had passed be-
tween himself and Mrs. Tilton, DENYING that
they had any hidden meaning which would
warrant the construction put upon them by
the prosecution, and claiming that they re-
lated chiefly to Mrs. Tiltons domestic troubles
and the defendants sympathy for her as her
pastor and friend.
r. L. barnum, the great Snowman, was
elected Mayor of Bridgeport on the 5th John
Robinson, the well-known circus man, was
defeated on the same day for the same Office
in Cincinnati.
The Rhode Island State election was held
on the 18th. There were three candidates for
Governor and Lieutenant Governor, and the
vote was SO divided between them that no
choice resulted. The remainder of the Re-
publican ticket for State officers is elected
by between LOCO and $4,000. The candi-
dates for Governor were Henry Lippitt, regu-
lar Republicans; Rowland Hazard, independ-
ent Republican and Prohibitionist, and Charles
K. Cutler, Democrat. The choice for Gov
ernor will depend upon the complexion of
the Assembly, and will be between Hazard
and Lippitt.
A New York dispatch of the 9Th announces
a general reduction in passenger rates from
the East to Western points.
A new suit under recent act of the New
York Legislature has been begun against
William N. Tweed, to recover back %, 19S, 957
which was paid out under the Board of Audit
of 1870.
Further strikes in the Pennsylvania mining
regions were reported ON the 7th, and others
were expected. So many disturbances had
occurred In some sections that the troops had
oeen called on to assist in putting down any
further outbreaks that might take place.
The lockout of iron-workers 1t Pitts.
burgh, Pa, which had continued since last
fall, virtually ended ON the 7th, in favor Of
the workingmeu. Two mills resumed opera
lions on that day, and others were expected
to soon follow the example.
Count Marefaschi arrived In New York on
the 7th from Europe, and soon thereafter
fulfilled the mission intrusted to him by the
Holy See Of announcing officially to Arch.
bishop McCloskey that the Holy Father had
been pleased to confer on him the title and