The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-12-09
Adams, Of Minnesota; Assistant Steward,
Miss Carrie Hall, of Louisville: >

inserted an article in his paper Offensive to
her. She subsequently assailed him on the
street with a cowhfae, which he attempted
to take from her, and in the scutfle which
ensued she was thrown to the ground. JUS
tice William Palmer took sides with the girl,
and Murray also assaulted him editorially,
for which Mr.. Palmer, on the. I'D, shot Muir
ray, the ball taking effect in his lungs, in
ficting severe and dangerous wound.
THE Indiana Republican State Convention
has been called, to meet at Indianapolis on
the ed of next February, to nominate State
ticket, including candidates for Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
and to elect delegates to the next National
Republican Convention and nominate fifteen
candidates for Presidential Electors to be
chosen at the general election in November
next. The State election will occur on the
second Tuesday in October.
A COMMITTEE appointed by the National
Grange to arrange marriage ceremonial re-
ported adversely and were sustained.
In the cases of Leopold Wirth and Robert
Kiewert, on trial at Milwaukee for whisky
frauds, the jury on the 25:h rendered YER
dict acquitting the former and disagreed as
to the latter, standing, it is said, eight Tor
conviction to four for acquittal. ..,
The Southern Pacific Railroad Convention
was recently held in St. Louis, at which del
egates were in attendance from twenty seven
States and Territories. Resolutions were
adopted to the effect that Southern trans
continental railway from the Mississippi, ala
Ell Paso, is imperatively demanded, and Civ
ing the several reasons why such a road
should be constructed; that extensions of,
and connections with, the Texas Il Pacific
Road should be built from the most
eligible points to New Orleans, Memphis
and Vicksburg; that the construction of
such line and branches can be best
secured by the extension of Government aid
to such line and branches in the form of
a guarantee of interest, not principal,
on limited amount Of 5 per cent. construc-
ton bonds, payable in fifty years, so that the
entire liability assumed shall not in any event
exceed $4,000 per mile per annum, nor the
interest on the actual cost of the line and said
branches. Provisions were made by the
convention for an address in this behalf to the
people of the United States and to the Presi
dent and Congress.
The Indiana Supreme Court has recently
decided, in the case of an attorney who brough
suit to recover for services in procuring
divorce, that promise made by married
woman to pay, after she is divorced, for serv
ices rendered her by an attorney during he
coyerture is void, and promise made aftel
she is divorced to pay the same is invalid fo
| want of consideration
Mr.. BEEcuER was on the 9th subpenaet
as witness in the libel suit of Mr.. Bower
against the Brooklyn Union.
The official majority for the new Constitu
ton in Missouri is 76,23S. Tie Constitution
went into effect Nov. 80.
TIE Cherokee National Council of the In
dian Territory on the 9th counted the vote
cast at the election last August, and declared
Charles Thompson elected Principal Chief b.
eleven majority over Ross. The Ross mel
have a majority in both houses of the Coun
Gill;
ALFRED BEv1s, distiller and one Of tn
witnesses in the trial at St. Louis of VIM. c
Avery, having mentioned, in giving his evi
dence, a rumor that Secretary Bristow wa
interested in distillery or iquor-housc a
Louisville, Ky, the Secretary on the 27t
sent telegram to the United States District
Attorney at st. Louis emphatically denyfn
the rumor, and stating that he did nc
desire the matter to rest upon his denia
but requested that "every person who's
name has been or can be given yo
as having knowledge of such allege
facts shall be brought before the Grand Jur
and subjected to the most rigid examine
ton" The Secretary further says: II be
to repeat the request heretofore commun
Gated to you, that these frauds on the Go,
crnment shall be probed to the yer
bottom; that every ramlfeation of tn
ring shall be followed in every pal
from beginning to end, and that n
one having connection with or guilt
knowledge of its operations shall be permi
ted to escape. So far as this department
concerned, ask that every allegation agains
any officer of it, from its head to its humble
employee be thoroughly investigated and viz
orously prosecuted, if any ground exists Their
for. / have read this to the President, VIII
repeats his injunction: Let no guilty ma
escape"
ISAAC WEIGH, State Treasurer of Obi
died at his home near st. Clairsville on tt
Goth ult, aged sixty-five years.
EVIDENCE was adduced in the Avery tris
at st. Louis, on the goth ult., tending to in
plicate Gen. Babcock in the whisky fraud
, Several telegraphic dispatches sent to him
Washington by members of the ring WEI
produced in court, and the original copy of
telegram signed "sylph," dated Washington
Nov. IL, 1874, and directed to Gen. McDona
: at st. Louis, saying: 81 succeeded. The
will not go. I will write you," was also pr
duced and compared with letter of simil
import, and several witnesses identified Il
| handwriting as that of Gen. Babcock.
, In Chicago, on the Goth, spring wheat, N
} 2, was weak, closing at s1o21S@1.02s cas-
, Cash corn heavy; closing at 4Sc for No.
and $3.50 for new rejected. Cash oats, No.
sold at 30@304c; December options we
sold at s0Ac. Rye, No. 2, 6s@6s16c. Barle
No. 2, S4@S5c. Cash mess pork closed
$19.90@2OO0. Lard, $12.30@1235. Good
choice beeves brought a 50@61O mediul
grades, $4.0O@4.5O; butchers stock, $2.75,
400; scalawags, etc., $2.O0@2.5O. Hos
brought $7.15@7.5O for good to extr
oACCp eoAN dI Co.COyf.OO ROOu " CuOlC
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
, Tai Mercantile Bank of Leeds, Englan
suspended on the Oath with liabilities est
mated at $35O, 900.
The London Times of the 26th says IL
British Government had bought of tt
Khedive of Egypt 81 ,ooo, 600 worth of Sue
Canal shares and that the latter had bee
authorized to draw on the Rothschilds
, sight for the amount.
The French newspaper LIE Pays was seize
on the 18th for reproducing M. de Cassagnac
speech to the Bonapartists of Bellville.
MADRID dispatch of the 18th announc,
that Gen. Quesada had captured San Crist'
bal with all the Carlist positions in the neigl
borhood of Pampeluna.
The American residents and visitors in Be
lin appropriately celebrated Thanksgivin
; Day. A sermon was preached by Rev. D
Thompson. At the close of the religio,
services resolutions were adopted expressi,
| Of sorroxv al tho death of Woo pro,;don4 VIZ;