The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-08-05
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

FktUIN W
WASHINGTON, dispatches of the 22d state
that at a Cabinet meeting held the day be-
fore the subject of Dist Atty. Fishers official
conduct was under discussion, and the conclu-
sion was unanimously reached thashe should
be requested to resign after he had been al
lowed sufficient time to complete the business
then pending in his Office 1t is said the Presi.
dent in asking the Attorney General to sus-
pend his request for Fishers resignation had
merely desired to afford the latter an op.
portunity to reply to the complaints against
him. The charges against the Interior
Department were also, it is stated, fully dis
cussed, the President expressing in strong
terms his confidence in Secretary Delano's
capacity, integrity and faithfulness as an
officer, and assuring the Cabinet that he
would not allow the attacks on Delano to in
jure him the least in his opinion until the
charges of dishonesty should be fully proven.
The President returned to Long Branch on
the evening of the 2lst
JUDGE FISHER, Attorney of the District of
Columbia, sent his resignation to President
Grant at Long Branch on the Esd.
RETURNS of the Department Of Agrieult-
ure for July show the condition of spring
and winter wheat together at about 50 per
cent. of an average. Winter wheat, includ-
ing California, averages "A, and spring wheat
96. Spring wheat States in the Northeast
and Northwest are generally in high condi-
ton. OF the winter wheat area the
South Atlantic and Gulf States are generally
above the average, but in the Middle States
the condition is very low, New York ranging
- {Lo
prospect is better, the State averages being
between II in Ohio and 95 in Iowa. Califor-
MIA reports winter wheat at IS and spring
wheat at IS.
THB Postof1ice Department has sent to the
Department Of Justice the names of thirty
nine mail contractors who are to be prosecut-
ed for failure to perform service after their
bids were accepted. The contracts were
reet bv the Government, and the difference
between the amount paid and the bids, for the
thirty nine routes, was S4l7,0S7, which is the
amount Of damages claimed against the de-
linquent bidders.
The statements to the effect that the Presi
dent had, in June last, addressed letter to
Secretary Delano requesting his resignation,
ard that the latter had besought the Presi-
dent to retain him in the Cabinet, are pro-
nounced by Washington Associated Press
dispatch of the Goth to be without any foun-
dation in fact.
AVERY, Chief Clerk Of the Treasury De-
partment at Washington, indicted by the
Grand Jury at St Louis for completely in the
whisky frauds, was requested to resign on the
Goth, and did SO at once.
ATTY.-GEN. PIERREroNT has decided
against the Chorpenning claim.
THE EAST.
\ BosroN dispatch of the 2lst says that
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer, had been
surprised in a cunning and desperate attempt
to cut his way out of Charles Street Jail. His
arrangements were made for escape on the
evening of that day.
AT Bankers Convention recently held at
Saratoga, n. Y, resolutions were adopted
favoring immediate specie resumption, and
calling upon every citizen to hasten the day
when every promise of the Government to
pay a dollar should be redeemed in coin
calling for repeal of the war tax on banks
urging Congress to issue coupon bonds in
exchange for registered bonds; demanding
the adjustment of the two cent stamp tax on
checks and vouchers; favorng a permanent
organization of national bankers. A resOlu-
ton opposed to the Usury laws was also
adopted by close vote.
THE New York Tribune of the Goth an
nounces that the Postmaster General had
set the new route along the shores of the
lakes for the fast mail to the West, expected
to begin to run by the LIST Of October. II
will make the distance from New York tc
Chicago in not more than twcnty-six hours
and it it hoped to reduce the time to twenty
four gain of twelve hours over the present
mail and express train
HUGH DoNAHUE has recently completed, il
Boston, the task of walking LOO miles il
100 consecutive hours. He was in good
condition at the close.
GOLD closed in New York on the 26th a
1929. The following were the closing quo
tations for produce: No. 2 Chicago Spring
Wheat, sl.33@l35: No. 2 Milwaukee, $1.3
@14o; No. 2 Northwestern, s1.35@l3s
Barley, sl25@1.30; Oats, Western Mixed
62@65c; Corn, Western Mixed, s50S9c
Pork, Mess, s21.25; Dressed Hogs, 1890
Lard, l314c. Flour, good to choice
s6.25@6 IS; White Winter Extra, s6S5@7.5t
The cattle market was unchanged; 12c t.
13c for good to extra. Hogs were dull
at s7.5o(97 621a. Sheep, clipped, brough
41a@61ac.
AT East Liberty, Pa, on the Goth, cattl
brought: Best, s7.oo@725; medium, 500
@6.25; common, s4.25@. $50. Hogs sold
Workers, s7.75@7.95; Philadelphia, s7.75@
500 Sheep brought s4.5o@5.5O, accordin,
to quality.