The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-10-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE Minnesota Anti Monopoly State Con-
vcntion met at Owatonna on the 22d and
made up a State ticket by selecting the can
didates for Governor, Secretary of State,
State Auditor and ChiefJustcc from the
and Attorney General from the Temperance
ticket, nominating E. W. Dixie, the present
incumbent, for State Treasurer; "A. J. Edger-
ton, the late incumbent, for Railroad Com
missioner, and Sherwood Horgh, the present
incumbent, for Clerk of the Supreme
Court The convention also declared in favor
OF Treasury notes as legal tender for
all public or private obligations; the substitu
ton Of such currency in place of the National
Bank notes, and that the Governments
bonded debt should be bought in with 1855
convertible bonds, payable in specie or cur
rency at the option of the Government.
THE news received on the ed from the re-
cent food disasters on the coast of Texas
shows that the storm had swept over the
whole line Of the coast, and, in addition to
the damage done at Galveston, that at least
nine towns had been nearly or quite oblitcr-
ated, namely: Indianola, on the west shore
of Matagorda Bay, having about 1900 inhab-
itants, where but three houses were left
standing and from $50 to 200 lives were lost !;
Saluria, on the Matagorda Island; Sabine
Pass; Calcasien; San Bernsrdino; Buffalo
Bayou; Lynchburg, town Of about 1900
inhabitants; Matagorda, the capital Of Mata-
gorda County, and Cedar Lake. A large
number Of lives must have been lost, and the
destitution and suffering Of the survivors were
very great. One dispatch to New Orleans
from Indlanola says: "scnd us help, for
Gods sake" Aid was being rendered to the
sufferers by the people OF New Orleans and
Galveston. Acting. Mayor Davis, Of Calves
ton, telcgraphcd to the Mayor Of 81. Louis
on the ed, appealing for aid and saying
the survivors In the towns destroyed had
lost everything, and that provisions, clothing
and every necessary OF life were needed
These floods were caused by steady, heavy
winds blowing the waters OF the gulf In huge
waves upon the coast.
MAIL accounts received on the ed OF the
recent storm and food disaster at Galycston.
Tex, represent the loss Of property as far
exceeding In amount that given by previous
telegraphic reports. Three hundred houses
were swept away, and the destruction to rail-
road bridges and other improvements would
run the aggregate loss up to between 81, COO.
600 and 81, 100000. II was thought, on the
23d, that the total number Of lives lost along
the coast by the storm would reach, II not
exceed, 400, and several small towns back
from the coast are reported to have been
!. swept away.
NEARLY-COMPLETE returns from the cleo.
ton In New Mexico place Elkins' rep, ma
jority for Delegate to Congress at 1900. In
Wyoming the Legislature is divided pollti.
cally as follows: Council, two Republicans
and eleven Democrats; House, nine RepublI.
cans and eighteen Democrats.
The announcement was made on the ed
that J.. Russell Jones had been appointed
Collector OF Customs at Chicago. vice N. B.
Judd, resigned. .. --4....- 30 r...,= q
THE National Agricultural Congress held ita
annual session ct Cincinnati on the ed, 2Sd