The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-11-04

al OeuVer, CoA.s ON the Slst, Q policeman
discovered in the cellar of small tenement
house recently vacated by some italian
musicians the dead bodies of an old mar
and three boys, all Italians, who had beer
murdered, the Threats Of al having beer
cut
Ar the election in California, on the 10th
Prof. Carr, the Republican candidate for Su
perintendent Of Public Instruction, was elect
ed. All the Judges but one in Office in sar
Francisco, both Democratic and Republican
were reelected.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court has decided
the action of the Wood County canvassere
In throwing out the vote Of the town of Lin
coin at the election last year to be illegal
The decision was made on contest over the
county offices, but the counting of the vote
of Lincoln will elect Alexander 8. McDilI
(Rep) to Congress, instead of Geo. w. Cate
The certificate of election had been given to
the latter. A fine of $500 was imposed on the
leading canvasser who threw out the votes.
The watch factory at Freeport, Ill.,, was de.
stroyed by fire on the night of the 21st Loss
$50 1000. The fire was the work of an incen-
diary.
| A CINCINNATI dispatch of the cad says of.
fetal returns from seventy-six counties in
Ohio, and what were deemed authentic re-
turns from the remaining twelve, show Hayes
majority to be $50.
ATTY.-GEN. PIERREpONT received q letter
from Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, on the I'D,
| in which the latter states that all the threat
ened troubles in his State had subsided. He
had disbanded the militia on the assurance of
his political opponents that there should
be fair election, and peace prevailed over
the entire State, with no prospect of further
outbreaks.
FRITZ KAIzER, twenty.one years of age.
jumped from the tower of the Chicago Water
Works on the afternoon of the I'D, and fell a
distance of nearly 200 feet, and was dashed to
pieces on the turrets at the base. He was de-
ranged, and had recently been an inmate of
an insane asylum.
Dun, BARLOW & Co.'s New York Mercantile
Agency has issued statement of business
failures in the United States during this
year up to the list of October, which shows a
total OF failures during nine months of s, 1874;
liabilities, 1871, IT., sos. The greatest number
occurred in the last three months, involving
liabilities estimated at s., 32s ,237.
HENRY BROWN (colored) was hanged at st.
Louis on the ed for the brutal murder in
May last of farmer named Philip Pfarr.
The town of Vermillion, near Sandusky,
Ohio, was almost wholly destroyed by fire on
the I'D. Eleven business blocks in the heart
of the town were burned. Loss estimated at
$4,000; insurance light. Two men were
arrested, charged with setting the place on
fire.
MRS. D. L. MURDEN, of New Orleans, was
burned to death on the 22d by the explosion
of coal-oil lamp, and her husband was &c.
verely burned in attempting to extinguish
the flames.
PROF. ATCHINsoN, the aeronaut, attempted
balloon ascension at the recent Elkhorn
(ky.) Fair, but when several hundred feet
high the balloon took fire and was burned,
and he was precipitated to the earth and so
badly injured that his recovery was consid-
cred doubtful.
THE Charlottesville (va.) National Bank
suspended on the 23d. Several business firms
in that section closely connected with the
bank were also forced to suspend.
The trial of Col. John A. Joyce for conspir-
acy to defraud the Government revenues was
concluded in the United States District Court
for the Western District of Missouri on the
23d. and the jury returned a verdict OF guilty
on all four counts of the indictment.
MCDONALD & Co., of Wooster, Ohio, man.
ufacturers of agricultural implements, have
made an assignment. Their liabilities are
stated to be $500, 900. Their failure throws
200 men out Of employment.
RETURNS received at Denver. on the 25th
from the Colorado election indicated that the
Republicans had carried the Territory and
would have majority in the Constitutional
Convention.
ALL the counties of Iowa were heard from
on the oath, sixteen of them unofficial. Ac.
cording to these returns Kirkwood's majority
Is s1,925.
In Chicago, on the 25th, spring wheat, No.
2, was active, closing at $1.l0k@1.11 cash.
Cash corn active; closing at SIC for No.
and 5lAc for rejected. Cash oats, No. 2,
sold at 33@35asc; November options were
sold at 3l%c. Rye, No. 2, 70@701c Barley,
No. 2, S5@S6c. Cash mess pork closed at
s2l75@s2O0. Lard, $137O@1375 Good
to choice beeves brought $4.75@6 90; medium
grades, $4.25@475; butchers stock, $25O@
375; scalawags, etc., $2Oo@2.25 Hogs
brought $7.25@7 so for good to choice. Sheep
sold at $4.25@45O for good to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A BERLIN telegram to the London Morning
Post of the 10th says it had been decided to