The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-03-04
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The National Grange adjourned on the 10th,
after instructing the Executive Committee to
make arrangements for holding the next ses-
sion at Chicago, providing the expense to
the Grange does not exceed the expense OF
meeting in st. Louis. Among other resolu-
| tions adopted was one indorsing and recon-
mending the resolutions adopted by the At
lanta Agricultural Congress last May, which
| resolutions ask for the construction by the
National Government of a system of water
| WAYS so that unrestricted channels of
trade shall be opened, and not only
brought the entire length of the Mis-
sissippi but connecting that great
river with the Atlantic Ocean by way of the
bv the Tennessee and Savannah Rivers.
The Missouri State Woman's Suffrage As
sociation held a largely attended meeting in
st. Louis on the evening of the 10th.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture has
located the State Fair for the next two years
at Ottawa.
Miss Doyle, young lady of Indianapolis,
was fatally burned on the 10th, while pouring
coal-oil over a sluggish fire. At West Jetfer-
son, Ohio, on the 18th, small child of Will
lam Stratton upset coal-oil lamp. Mrs. 8.
picked up the lamp, when it exploded in her
hand, throwing a flame of fire over her which
consumed her clothes and caused almost in
slant death.
Allen T. Caperton (Dem.) was elected
United States Senator by the West Virginia
Legislature on the 18th. The final vote stood:
Caperton, 6S; Berkshire, IA.
Congressman William 8. King, of Minne-
sofa, has written lengthy letter to the Leg
islature of his State in relation to the joint
resolution passed by that body calling on
him to appear before the Congressional Com
mittee and explain his connection with the
Pacific Mail subsidy business or to resign as
Representative. He cbaracterizes the resolu-
tons as Every extraordinary in so far as they
correctly illustrate your lack of knowledge of
the common proprieties and decencies of
official position, your painful disregard of
truth in your official action, and your false
and hypocritical pretenses of virtuous regard
for the honor of the State of Mime
sofa" He pronounces false the charge
that he had accepted money as considera-
ton for his services in behalf of the Subsidy
Ullls uLu cIupuiltiCd1y dSSC1 70, as AC says AC
stated under oath two years ago, that he never
accepted nor received a dollar in considera-
ton of such service, and that not one dollar
of the money received by him was ever in
tended or applied to influence a vote on such
bill.
The Minnesota Legislature, on the 10Th,
elected s. J. r. Mcmillan Republican, and
Chlef-Justice of the State Supreme Court to
succeed Mr.. Ramsay IN the United States
Senate. The vote was: Mcmillan, 81; Loeb
rem (Dem.), I'll.
The wife of scnator-elect Mcdonald, of In
diana, died suddenly few days ago. They
had been married only few months.
On the 18th a negro was admitted into the
senior class of the Boys High School in New
Orleans. Twenty out Of twenty-five in the
class left the school Immediately. No dis
turbancc.
Near Mingo Junction, Ohio, on the morn
ing of the 10th, a train on the Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati Il St. Louis Railroad ran on a
broken rail, and one baggage car, two pas
senger coaches, two sleeping-cars and one
special car were thrown over the embank-
ment and burned. The baggage was destroyed.
No one was killed, but several persons were
injured, among them J. N. Mccullough, First
President of the p, F. w. & C. Railroad
Company, who had three ribs broken and
was cut about the head.
Recent accounts say there were three feet
Of snow on the level at F. Sully. As trains
come in from the Northwest dismal tales of
accidents and death by storm and cold arc
brought from all sections
Reports recently received from the gold
mines of the Black Hills are of an encourag-
ing nature.
An accident occurred on the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad on the Goth near
Sheffield, caused by broken rail. A passen-
ger coach and a Pullman car were thrown
into culvert and several persons were in
jured, one passenger, F. L. Browning, of An
nawan, Ill.,, being fatally crushed under the
sleeping car, from which he had previously
jumped.
The extensive glue factory of VAIL Bros,
in Chicago, covering nearly eight acres of
ground, was recently destroyed by fire, in
velving a loss of over $3.50 900, on which there
was an insurance of $S6,5O0.
At Veedersburg, Ind, on the night of the
Goth, Mr.. Henry Eister and wife left their
three little children-two girls and boy
alone in their house, and during their alb
sence the building was burned down and the
little ones persisted in the flames. The parents
had previously, during the winter, lost one
child by suffocation, and this recent sad Attic.
ton completes the destruction of their little
family.