The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-06-03
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON

THE Sioux Indian delegation was received
by President Grant on the 10th.
SECRETARY CowAN and Commissioner Smith
had council with the Sioux Indian delega
ton in Washington on the 21st; but little wa:
accomplished Red Cloud and Spotted Tai
had expressed wish to change hotels, a!
they were stopping at a temperance house
which did not suit them. The COMMISSIONS
refused to make the change.
PosrMAsTER-GEN.J JEWELL has ordered tn,
reletting of the mail contracts in which
frauds were discovered.
SOME of the Sioux Indians. including Rec
Cloud and Spotted Tail, left the hotel quar-
tiers assigned them by the Commissioners IN
Washington, on the Esd, and went 10 the
Washington House. This step on the part OF
the Indians is considered a bold one. 1t was
thought in Washington on the Esd that the
proposed negotiation with the indian dele.
gates would not be accomplished so easily as
the Government had anticipated.
THE Commissioner of the General Land
Office in Washington has decided that bene.
fits extended by law to pre-emptors who, by
reason of the ravages of grasshoppers, are
compelled to leave and be absent from their
lands may also be extended to pre-e mptorv
whose crops have in like manner been
destroyed, but who have nevertheless
continued their residence upon their
respective claims. Those whose crops were
destroyed or seriously injured in 1874 will be
entitled to an extension of one year from and
after July /, 1875, and where injury occurs in
1875 an extension will date from July l., 1876
THE EAST.
THE arguments of counsel in the Tilton-
Beecher suit were begun on the 10Th, Judge
Porter opening in behalf of the defense, He
was very severe in his denunciations of Mess-s.
Tilton and Moulton, the former of whom was
present during the entire days proceedings.
CARDINAL MCCLoskEY has been presented
with $4,000 diamond cross by the young
lady pupils of st. Nincent's Institute, in New
York City.
THE United States Centennial Commission
met in Philadelphia on the 21st, and elected
the following officers: President, Gen. Joseph
K. Hawley, Connecticut; First Vice. Presi-
dent, Orestcs Cleveland, New Jersey; Second
Vice PRESIDENT John D. Creigh, California
Third Vice President, Robert Sowry, Iowa;
Fourth Vice President, Thomas H. Caldwell,
Tennessee; Fifth Vice President, John Nc
Neil, Missouri; Sixth Vice President, Will
lam Quincy, South Carolina; John L.
Campbell, Secretary; John L. Shoemaker,
Counselor and Commissioner. Executive
Committee-Danicl j. Morrell, Pennsylva-
mia; Alfred T. Goshorn, Ohio; N NJ. Beck
with, New York; Alexander r. Boteler, West
Virginia; Richard G. Mccormick, Arizona;
John Lynch, Louisiana; Charles P. kimball,
Maine; Samuel F. Phillips, North Carolina
Frederick L. Matthews, Illinois; William
Phipps Blake, Connecticut; James E. Dexter,
District Of Columbia; J. T. Bernard, Flor
ida; George B. Lorng, Massachusetts.
THE news from Osceola, Pa, on the 21st
was to the effect that fires We're still prevail
ing in the woods in that neighborhood. About
go buildings in the town were consumed and
400 families rendered homeless. Relief was
greatly needed. Houtzdale a town of about
900 inhabitants, six miles from Osceola, is
reported entirely destroyed and the woods in
that neighborhood on fire.
THE New York Legislature adjourned sine
die on the 22d.
A TYRONE (Pa.) dispatch of the Esd says
the destruction and desolation caused by the
fire at Osceola and in the woods in that re-
gion were very much greater than previously
reported. Sine-tenths of the town was
burned, leaving scarce enough ashes to mark
where the buildings had stood.
A LARGE number of Republicans assem-
bled together in Manchester, N. H., on the
evening of the 24th, to demonstrate against
the recent action Of the Governor and Coun-
Gil Of the State in the contested election cases
in Senatorial Districts Two and Four. Reso-
buttons were passed denouncing such action,
and pledging resistance by al lawful means
Several speeches were made, very severe in
tone, ore speaker declaring that the opin-
ions in favor of the Democratic candidates
delivered by Judges Sawyer and Fowler were
purchased opinions, and another asserting
that the Republicans had sense enough to
find a remedy and strong arms en- ought to en-
force it.
A LITTLE girl named Mabel Young, aged
about five years, was found in the bclfry of
the Warren Avenue Church, in Boston, on
the 23d, little after church services, in a
horribly mutilated condition. She died on
the oath. The sexton of the church, a man
named Piper, was arrested under suspicion
OF being the murderer of the child, and the
evidence against him is quite strong.
GOLD closed in New York on the oath at
1858. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spriag
Wheat, s1.15@1.16: No. Milwaukee, s1.1sI
@119; No. Northwestern, S1.16@117;
Barley, $l.40@1.45; Oats, Western Mixed,
76@Wc; Corn, Western Mixed, SO1S4c;
Pork, New Mess, $21621a; Dressed Hogs,
92c; Lard, 15Ac. Flour, good to choice,
S5.4aa575; White Winter Extra, S5.75@6 Co.
The cattle market ruled steady, ranging
from 11Ic to 1870 for common to extra.
Sheep, clipped, brought 51l@6ssc, and un-
shorn 619@sAc.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 24th, cattle
brought: Best, s6.75@7.25; medium, 1925
@650; common, S5.5O@5.75. Hogs sold
Workers, S7.25@7.50; Philadelphia, S.. 500
$50. Sheep brought $4.25@5.5O according
to quality.
THE WEST.
IN Chicago, on the 10Th, several criminal
prosecutions against persons implicated in
the whisky frauds were tried before United
States Commissioner Hoyne. Two gaugers,
bail in the sum CT 5000 each. Messrs Col
son d Eastman, rectifiers, were each held in
the sum of $4,000.
Mrs. LINCOLN, widow of the late President
Lincoln, has been adjudged insane by jury
i'll the Cook County Court at Chicago, and
was, on the Goth, removed to private insane
asylum at Batavia, Ill. The Chicago Tribune
says the long years of painful brooding
over the dreadful homicide Of her hus-
band had gradually produced the ne
cessity for the action now TAKEN. That
paper also says: "As will be seen from
the evidence, Mrs. Lincoln's mind has been
for ten years the prey to growing madness,
and this fact, now made public, will east
new light on many of her past actions, which
were harshly criticised by those who did not
know her, and which, while understood by
her persona! friends, could not be explained