The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-05-20
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statcs tnaJ hon. -. ID. Pratt, eX-Unlted STATES
Senator, had accepted the position of Com
missioner of Internal Revenue, rendered him
by President Grant the day before.
THE Ohio State Democratic Convention is
to.be held at Columbus on the 18th of June
JOHN SHERIDAN, the father OF Lieut.-Gen
Sheridan, died at his residence In Somerset,
Ohio, on the 9th.
A DARING attempt to rob an express car on
the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rail-
road was made early on the morning Of the
It'll. A recently discharged railroad con-
ductor by the name of Binkley boarded the
eastern bound express train on that road, at
Lima, Ohio, and effected an entrance into the
Adams Express car by saving out the panels
of the door. He wore mask, and on enter
ing the car fired two shots at the express
messenger, Geo. H. Price, wounding him
slightly. Price succeeded in securing his
pistol in time to shoot the would be murderer
and robber through the head, killing him in
stantly.
Ex-STATE TREASURER RANKIN, of Iowa, on
trial at Des Moines on the charge of embez-
element, has been acquitted.
1T is reported that an attempt was made by
miners, on the night of the It'll, to burn the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad bridge
above Locust Gap.
THE motion for new trial in the case of
Early Us. Storey, of the Chicago Times, has
been denied, the plaintiff agreeing to accept
$4,000 in lieu of the 900 awarded by the
jury. The defense took an appeal. In an.
other libel suit against Mr.. Storey for stig-
matizing Chicago lawyer as "shyster" the
jury have returned verdict for $500. The
plaintiff asked for $4,000.
JOHN BENDER, the Kansas murderer, re-
Gently in custody at Florence, Arizona, has
again escaped and is supposed to have reached
Mexico.
The captive Cheyenne, Arapahoe, and
kiowa Indians from the Cheyenne Agency
arrived at Fort Leavenworth on the Sth, and
were placed in the guard-house, where they
will remain until their trial takes place.
THE average condition of the winter whea
crop in about 800 counties in the valleys Of
the Ohio and Missouri is, according to a
Washington dispatch of the 10th, 6 pei
cent, indicating only ive-eighths of full
crop if no improvement occurred; in Ken
tueky the yield would be IS per cent; Ohio
81; Michigan, So; Indiana, sc; Illinois, g
Missouri, SO; Kansas, 81. The condition was
better in Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir.
ginia, though below an average.
A NUMBER of prominent distilleries at Chi
cage, St. Louis, Milwaukee and other points
in the West have been seized by Government
detectives on the charge of gross violation o.
the Revenue law. A Washington telegram
of the 10th says this result had been attained
after nearly nine weeks work performed by
the Secretary of the Treasury, through the
Solicitor of the Treasury, no other officer o
the department being intrusted with the Sc
cret.
IN the case of Ann Eliza rs. Brigham Young
Chief-Justice Lowe on the 10th denied the
motion for an attachment compelling Brig
ham to pay alimony, on the ground that tn,
alleged marriage was bigamous or polyga
nous, and therefore illegal.
RED CLOUD, Spotted Tail and number O
other Sioux Indian chiefs left Cheyenne on tn,
18th for Washington, to treat with the Govern
ment for the sale of the Black Hills.
IN Chicago, on the 10th, spring wheat, No
2, ruled weaker, closing at sl.00(91.01A
cash. Cash corn closed at 7211c for new No
2 and 6S1ac for rejected. Cash oats sold al
6l15@6211c; June options were sold at 631lc
Rye brought $lO6@1.O7. Barley, No. 2
$133@1.35. Cash mess pork closed a
s2l.15@21.25 Lard, s15.O5@l5.1O Choice te
fancy graded steers brought s640@7.OO
prime to choice native stock, s5.4O@6.12]5
Texans, s2.5O@5.5O; scalawags, s3.OO@4OO
Hogs brought s7.30@s.25 for good to choice
and SS3O9s.5O for extra.
THE SOUTH.
JUDGE MoRR1ELEs, of the United States
District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in 8
recent charge to the Grand Jury, reviewed
the Civil-Rights law, and expressed the opin
ion that all persons have legalrigh to equa.
privileges in hotels, public conveyances and
other institutions of public nature, while
they do not thereby acquire any social rights
He views the act in question as not intended
to affect social rights, but civil and lega
rights, and he would instruct the Grand j ry
to find true bill against any person violating
its provisions.
In his recent tour through some of the
Southern States Vice-President Wilson was
entertained by several prominent ex-Confed
crates, among them ex-Vice- President John
c. Breckenridge, at whose house in Lexington
Ky, he made brief visit.
PRESIDENT GRANT has signed the commits.
sion of J. NJ. G. Parker to be Postmaster Of
New Orleans.
BEN HILL has been elected to Congress
from the Ninth Georgia District, to take the
place Of Garnet Mcmillan, deceased.
ANOTHER cyclone visited Middle Georgia
on the LIST, causing the killing of fifty persons,
the wounding of maBy more, the destruction
ola great quantity of live stock and numerous
dwellings,. This is the fifth tornado that has
visited that section since the Goth of March,
The ravages of the cyclone were confined
mainly to Harris, Talbot, Henry and Calhoun
Counties.
VIcE-PREsIDENT WILSON was at Nashville,
Tenn, on the 9TH, and a brilliant entertain
ment was given in the evening, in his honor,
at the residence of Gen. E. w. Cole, at which
many of the most distinguished men of the
State were present.
The Kentucky Democratic State Conven.
ton completed its nominations on the 9TH.
The full ticket is composed as follows: For
Governor, James B. McCreery; Lieutenant
Governor, John c. Underwood; Attorney
General, Thomas E. Moss; Auditor, D. How
ard Smith; Treasurer, j. w. Tate.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
A LONDON dispatch of the 4th says Moody
and sankey, the Chicago evangelists, were
listened to by over 100000 persons every
week. The Moderator of the British Presby-
terrain Synod, at its session in London on the
18th, expressed his cordial sympathy with
them in their religious work.
THE Berlin North German Gazette of the 4th
denies the truth Of the statement in the
American papers that company had been
organized to facilitate the return to Germany
of emigrants to the United States.
THE Paris correspondent of the London
Times, in dispatch published on the 5th,
hat