The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1875-02-25
General News Summary.


General News Summary.
Washington News.
The new Revenue bill reported to the Ma
tional House of Representatives from the
Ways and Means Committee on the 10th pro-
vides for an increase in the taxes on distilled
liquors, fixing the same at one dollar per
proof gallon, and making the tax ON all
brandy, gin, rum, and on all COM
pounds and preparations Of which distilled
spirits is component part Of chief value, en-
bracing all forms of distilled spirits imported
from foreign countries, $2.50 per proof gallon.
Ex-U. 8. Senator John N. Thayer, of Ne
braska, has been nominated BY the President
for Governor Of Wyoming.
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office has replied to request to permit the
Union Pacific Railroad Company to select
lands containing coal and iron in lieu Of the
agricultural lands, which latter the
company proposed to release in favor
of actual settlers, to the effect that
the company receives all its coal
and iron lands without any diminution
on account of the claim Of any settler, and to
allow it, in addition, to surrender agricultural
lands and take the reserved coal lands, of
greatly increased value, would be an enlarge.
ment of the grant and an express violation of
the act under which the claim was presented.
general order from the War Department
with reference to carrying out the provisions
of the act of Congress approved Feb. 10, 1875,
to provide for the relief Of persons suffering
from the ravages Of grasshoppers upon the
Western frontier, says:
1t is ordered by the President that the COM
manders Of the Departments Of the Platte, the
itants Of the States and Territories within these
tu.e by the ravases aforesaid. which en-
rollment will. go far practicable, group
ns. a ,Ss nnse, Of tw ssss
Years of age to be rated separately. Applicants
for supplies should make statements ON blanks
furnished them Of their We @
and the names of such persons As may be found
to have resources 30 convertible shall not be
placed on the rolls until such resources are ex-
hausted.
Representative Beck, of Kentucky, had his
wrist broken by q fall on the ice at Washing
ton on the evening of the 18th.
Hon. Samuel Hooper, Member of Congress
from the Fourth Massachusetts District, died
in Washington on the 18th, of pneumonia.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th states
that The Secretary Of War had directed that
the recent general order providing for fur
nishing supplies to grasshopper sufferers in
the West should be carried out with the ut
most dispatch.
Foreign Intelligence.
An "officiap dispatch from Madrid of the
9th admits that the Alphonsists had received
serious check in their advance on Estella,
and that military operations had been sus-
pended. The Carlists claimed to have won q
decided victory, declaring that Alphonso lost
1900 in killed and wounded and several pieces
of artillery. The Carlist chieftain Menderi
had been arrested and shot for treason, by
order of Don Carlos.
The Bishop of Strasburg having issued q
pastoral letter to his clergy in which he
alleges that the church is prosecuted, the
German authorities have seized the copies
and forbidden the PRONUNCIATION of the docu-
ment.
Whiting, who received $60, 600 of the Pacific
Mail Steamship subsidy, has been discovered
in Hamilton, Canada, ard q subpoena served
on him by telegraph.
Twenty-three German Catholic Bishops
have issued a protest in behalf of the entire
Roman Catholic Episcopate of Germany
against any such interference in the Papal
election as is implied in Bismarck's late cir.
cular dispatch.
kilograms Of a late date from shanghae and
other portions of China indicate that civil
war was imminent in that country.
King Alphonso has issued royal decree
calling for 10000 men to recruit his army.
Fifteen thousand OF these are to be sent to
Cuba.
Later advices from China are to the effect
that the widow If the late Emperor did not
commit suicide, as had been previously re-
ported.
The French Cabinet recently rendered their
designations in consequence of the opposition
in the Assembly to the constitutional bills,
which were made a Government measure.
The President, finding no French statesman
willing to undertake the formation Ct q new
Cabinet during the tendency Of these bills,
requested the old Cabinet to continue until
some one could be found.
telegram from Singapore reports a revolt
of Chinese prisoners in the jail there which
was not repressed until sixty seven persons
had been killed, including sixteen wardens.
Great Britain has recognized the new King
of Spain.
Archbishop Cullen, Of Dublin, in pastoral
letter condemns the mission in Great Britain
of Moody and Sankey (revival preachers of
Chicago), who, he says, "promise salvation
by foolish sensationalism, without requiring
repentance"
The East.
The first train was run through the Hoosac
Tunnel, in Massachusetts,, on the 9th. TWAS
composed Of three grsvel-cars and one box
car filed with 100 passengers. The passage
was made in thirty-fve minutes. The track
was not yet In condition 1T for running reg
ular trains.
The funeral of the late Senator Bucking-
ham, Of Connecticut, took place at Norwich
on the 9Th, and was largely attended. VIM.
w. Eaton, Senator-elect from Connecticut.
has been appointed to I'LL the vacancy caused
by the death of Mr.. Buckingham, the term
ending March 4.
The Bishops Of the African Methodist Epis.
copal Church have fixed upon Monday, March
l, as day Of fasting and prayer, and issued
an address to the American people pleading
for the enjoyment Of every civil and political
right.
The Supreme Court of Massachusetts, has
rendered q decision In the case Of Jesse h.
Pomeroy, the Boston boy.murderer, overruling
the exceptions and ordering Judgment on the
verdict. He win therefore be sentenced to
death. ~-
A New York dispatch Of the 18th says the
Pacific Mail Directors had approved the &C.
ton Of Rufus Hatch in ordering the institu-
ton Of suits against those parties alleged to