The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-20

AL0Ab fcSAu0ASo~Ah-r " AWRa- ~. VI Jig Okn:
He was ninety-two yesrs old.
The little town ofeRockliae, Mat DIP.
1hque, 1owa,swas swept awek by suddtl
Iee of watertn Catfish CreSk on the nigtt
the 4th, assmill-dam haviAt given way
ma thirty-ntne lives were t. Av sc.
we're rain-storm prevailed the first part Of
the night, and at midnight the terrible food
burst upon the town, carrying before it the
houses and their sleeping occupants. Severe
tornadoes are reported from other sections
| of the State. The storm at Dubuque was
very severe, much property being destroyed.
All the wagon and railroad bridges in sthst
vicinity were carried away.
A LEAvENwoRTH dispatch of the 7th says
Gen. Pope had issued an order directing
Gen. Miles, with six companies of the Fifth
Infantry to report at once at the scene of
the Sioux war. The feeling over the massa-
ere of Gen. Custer and his men was intense
throughout the border States and the Terri
tories, and volunteers in largenumbers have
been offered the Government to avenge the
slaughter.
JACOB REHM, one of the leading members
of the Chicago whisky ring, and who was ac-
cepted by the Government counsel as wit
ness against his co-conspirators, and there
fore claimed and was granted immunity
from the scverest penalty of the law, was,
on the 7th, sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment in the County Jail and to pay a
fine of $4,000.
Gov. HAYES, in letter dated July 8, has
formally accepted the Republican nomina-
ton for President of the United States.
A TRAIN on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
was boarded by gang of robbers near o.
terville, in Western Missouri, on the night of
the 18th, and the express safes were robbed
of about SIG, O0O-$12,OOO from the United
States and a, $50 from the Adams Express
Companies. All the robbers wore masks
while on the train. Pursuit was at once in
departure.
IT is estimated that about fifty lives were
lost and about 81 ,OOO, 600 worth of property
was destroyed by the recent storms in Iowa.
GEN. SHERIDAN sent a dispatch to Gen
Sherman, on the Stb, in which he expressed
the opinion that there was no occasion to
call for volunteer cavalry for the campaign
against Sitting Bull. With the six COM
panies of the Twenty-Second Infantry, Gen.
Sheridan says Terry's forces will number
about 1900 men, and Crook, when Joined by
Merritt, will have about the same force,
which it is left to be implied will
be sufficient for the movement against
the Sioux. Gen. Tcrry's official re-
port OF the Little Big Horn fight
confirms the previous reports of the disas-
ter, and estimates the fighting force of the
Indians at 1850. A later dispatch from
Terry, received on the Sth, indicates that the
Indians had retreated, dividing into two par
ties, one of which was going toward the
Big Horn Mountains and the other eastward
A SPECIAL telegram received in New York
on the 9Th says Gen. Clusters body was not
mutilated when found, although the others
were. He lay as though asleep, his face
calm, a smile upon his lips.
IT was reported in Milwaukee, on the 10th,
that the propeller St. Clair was burned on
Lake Superior the night before, and that
twenty-six lives were lost
SENTENCES were pronounced on the 10th
against the Milwaukee whisky cons pirators,
the penalties inflicted ranging from one day
to six months Imprisonment and from $500
to 81 900 in fines.
AN Omaha di-patch of the 10th says two
well-known citizens of that city had Just
returned from Deadwood, in the Black Hills,
bringi. g with them dust to the amount of
over $500.
The Chicago papers of the sth announce
an unusually brilliant meteor as having
passed over the city on the evening previous,
which lighted up the ground ten or twelve
times more than it is illuminated by the full
moon, and leaving very bright track, which
was visible for fully four minutes. The same
meteor was observed from several other
localities.
In Chicago, on the 10th, Spring wheat, No.
2, closed at 99c@s1.OO cash. Cash corn
closed at 46]sc for No. 2. Cash oats No.
sold at 2sN@29c; August options were sold
at 29c. Rye No. 2, 64@65c. Barley, No. 2
57@5Sc. Cash mess pork closed at 1880
@l9.6O. Lard, s1O.s5@1O.9O Good to
choice beeves brought s4.5o@5OO; medium
grades, s4.25@4.5O; butchers stock, 5000
400; stock cattle, ETC., s3.O0@3.75. Hogs
brought s6.2O@6.6O for good to choice
Sheep (shorn) sold at So. 75@4.5O for good
to choice.