The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-04-29
General News Summary.

General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.
ACCORDING to Washington dispatches Of
the 18th the Postoffice Department was in
receipt of information that parties who had
secured contracts for . large number of
mail.routes in the Western States were sys-
tematicaly offering to sub-let them, thereby
assuming in effect the position Of mail-route
brokers.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th says
the Secretary of the Treasury had finally de-
cided that the examination of banks for un-
stamped checks must be made by the regular
Bank Examiners.
IT has been recently reported that secre-
tary Delano is to retire from the Interior
Department at the request of the PRESIDENT
GEN. Ross, who attacked with hammer
and nearly killed a comradc in Washington
recently, has been declared insane, and COM
mitted to an asylum.
THE EAST.
Mr. BEEcHER' direct examination was con-
cluded on the 18th, the witness making .
broad and emphatic denial of ever having
committed, or proposed to commit, the
crime charged against him. Mr.. Fullerton
then began the cross-examination.
A W1LKEsBARRE (Pa.) dispatch Of the 18th
says the miners of the Lehigh 4 Wilkesbarrc
Company, of whom 10000 were idle, were
fully determined not to resume work unless
their demand for an advance of 10 per cent
was granted. No outrages had been COM
mittcd by these men. Business was badly
Frustrated throughout the valley on account
of the long-continued strike.
OWING to the illness of Mr.. Fullerton the
Beecher trial was on the morning of the 18th
postponed until the 10Th.
THE Tooth anniversary of the Pennsylvania
Society for the Abolition of Slavery was held
in Philadelphia on the 14th. Among the
prominent representatives present were Hon.
Henry Wilson, c. c. Burleigh and Frederick
Douglass.
FOOT and half of snow fell throughout
New England on the 14th, obstructing the
railroads.
A SECOND trial was had in Providence, r. l.,
on the 10th to elect Senator and nine Rep
rescntatives in the General Assembly, and
resulted in choice of the regular Republi-
can ticket, supported by the liquor interest,
by $50 majority. This probably secures the
election of Henry Hppitt for Governor and
the repeal of the Probationary and State
Constabulary law.
ADAM at the head Of Mill River, q little
stream emptying into Charles River at Med
way, Mass, gave way on the evening of the
18th, and let loose a large pond of water,
flooding the country below and sweeping
away mills, bridges, roads and dams in its
course, and inflicting loss of from $1OO, 600
to 100000. No lives are reported lost.
THE cross-examination of Mr.. Beecher
was resumed on the 10th, and continued
throughout the days session of the court,
Mr.. Fullerton endeavoring to get an inter-
probation by the witness of the meaning Of
certain phrases in letters between himself,
Mrs. Morse and Mrs. Tilton. Mr.. Beecher's
explanations did not differ materially from
those given on the direct examination.
The father of Charlie Ross is now said to
be a monomaniac, the many disappoint-
ments he has met with in the search for his
lost child having diseased his brain.
The centennial celebrations at Concord and
Lexington of the first shots fired in the War
of American Independence took place on
the 10th. The day was ushered in with
the firing of cannon, and then fol-
lowed civic and military professions,
in which President Grant, Vice-Presi-
dent Wilson, several Cabinet officers,
the Governor and other distinguished men
participated. French's statue of the min
ute-man' was unveiled, and orations appro-
pirate to the occasion were delivered.
SAMUEL r. WELLS, the well-known phre.
nologist and publisher of the chronological
Journal, died recently of typhoid fever. He
was tifty-fve years of age.
GOLD closed in New York on the 10Th at
115k. Bonds were quiet and firm, and in
good demand. The following were the clos
ing quotations for produce: No. 2 Chicago
Spring Wheat, $11s; No. Milwaukee, $121
@l22; No. Minnesota, 1.27@1. %; Barley,
sl.4o@l.45; Oats, Western Mixed, 7511 976c;
Corn, Western Mixed, s9@91c; Pork, New
Mess, s22.25; Dressed Hogs, 10@10xc; Lard,
1515@l6c. Flour closed stronger on choice
family grades, but without quotable change
in prices. The cattle market was firm and
active, ranging from II 4 to 14c for common
to extra. Sheep, clipped, brought 51@6Ac,
and unshorn 6s4@sAc. There were no live
hogs offered.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the 10Th, one lot
of cattle, averaging 1910 pounds, brought
$40. Very few other sales were made.
Hogs stockholders, $S.OO@s.15; Philadel-
phias, $9.20@935. Sheep brought 5000
$50 according to quality.
THE WEST.
A sIvENTEEN-YEAR-OLDg girl named Katie
Hess, living about eight miles north of Kirby,
Ohio, few evenings ago hurried up the fire
in the cook-stove by pouring kerosene oil
upon it, when the inevitable explosion fol-
lowed, and she was SO badly burned that she
died in about two hours. The building and
contents were entirely destroyed.
COMMANDER LEROY FITCH, of the United
States navy, died at his residence in Logans-
port, Ind, on the 18th.
YOUNG man named Fred Brandenburgh,
aged about eighteen years, was found dying
from starvation and exhaustion under pile
of lumber in San Francisco, on the morning
of the 18th. He stated before his death that
he crawled under the lumber nine days be-
fore. Other lumber was piled around, stop
ping his egress.
THE Industrial Congress in session at In
dianapolis adopted a declaration of principles
on the 14th, and also unanimously passed
resolutions condemning the lockout of the
men employed in the mining regions of Penn
sylvania, "by combination of six monster
coal-mining and carrying corporations, be-
cause unwilling to accept reduction of 30
or 40 per cent. of their wages, for which re-
duction there is no real Justification" and