The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-07-27
General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.

General News Summary.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th says
President Grant had stated to P. NJ Gen.
Jewell that his resignation would be ac-
cepted, aud the latter had thereupon ten
dercd the same to the President. The AS
sociated Press says the most intimate friends
OF Mr. Jewell were unable to account for
this action of the President, except on the
grounds of political considerations. The
President on the same day appointed Second
Assist P. NJ. Gen. James n. Tyner, of Indiana,
to succeed Mr.. Jewell. Mr.. Pratt, Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, also resigned his
position on the 18th, to take effect on the LIST
of August. This action is said to have
grown out of his opposition to the dismis-
sal of Special Revenue-Agent Clarke and
other revenue officials.
On the 18th President Grant sent letter
to ex-Sec'y Bri>tow stating that he had
learned that he had declined to testify be-
fore the Congressional Committee invcsti
eating the whisky frauds, claiming that what
occurred in the Cabinet was of privileged
character, and that a committee of Congress
While approving of the propriety of this ac
ton on the part of Mr.. Bristow the President
hegs to release him from all obligation of
secrecy on the subject and adds that he
desires mot only that you may answer all
questions asked relating to it, but wish that
all members of my Cabinet and cx-mcmbcrs
of the Cabinet since have been President
may also be called upon to testify in regard
to the same matters"
THE official reports received at the War
Department in Washington on the 18th state
that Gen. Clusters body was not mutilated in
the least but that Capt. Tom Clusters heart
was cut out and carried away.
THE Postmaster General received letters
from Mcssrs. Vanderbilt and Thomas A.
Scott, on the 18th, notifying the Department
that, owing to the reduction in the compen-
sation for the transportation of the ordinary
mails, the fast-mail service would be discon-
tinued on and after the 22d inst. They state
that at the time the fast mail trains were in
augurated it was thought Congress would
pay for this extra service.
THE EAST.
THE petition of James Baglcy and others
"
been dismissed by Surrogate Colvin This
dismissal of the petition does not prevent
proceedings to break the will in other courts,
and counsel for the claimants say they will
press the matter.
BAND of 500 Mormons, who recently ar
rived from Europe, started frcm New York
ON the 18th for Utah Some of the men have
as many as eight wives.
The committee appointed by the ST. Louis
Convention to inform Gov. Tiden of his
nomination for the Presidency by the DEM
0cratic party waited on the Governor at his
residence in New York on the evening of the
18th, and formally notified him of such
action on the part of the Convention. The
Governor replied, accepting the nomination,
and said he would transmit to the committee
formal letter Of acceptance
ABOUT sixty fatal cases Of sunstrokc oc-
Cured in New York city on the 10th, ex-
cceding in number those of any previous
day for thirty-tvc years, except July2, 1872,
when siXty-eight were reported. A number
of fatal cases are reported from other East
ern and Southern cities. In PHILADELPHIA
the thermometer indicated 1922 in the shade,
and the number of deaths from sunstroke
was fifteen.
DURING the two months ending on the
evening of the 10th, 2,016,1Q6 persons has
visited the Centennial Exposition at Phila-
delphia, and the total cash receipts were
S6S4,53O.
Dom PEDRO, the Emperor of Brazil, and
his party sailed from New York on the 18th
for Europe, in the steamship Russia.
The famous building in New York CITY
known as Castle Garden, has been DESTROYED
by fire. 1t had been in use for Il number of
years as an immigrant depot.
A PHILADELPHIA special telegram to the
Chicago Journal, says that on the Exposition
grounds, on the 18th, sevcnty-one persons
were overcome by the intense heat and had
to be carried to the hospital in the Lands
downe valley. Several similar cases oc-
Cured on the 18th, and the thermometer
stood at 104 degrees in the shade
AN Augusta (Me.) Telegram of the 18th
says, owing to the excessive heat of the pre-
vious few days Mr.. Blaines condition had
not improved, and his physician was conf
dent in the belief that the original trouble
was of the nature of sunstroke. A sea yoy-
age would be urged as soon as Mr. Blainc's
strength would bear it.
Gov. HENDRICKS was at Saratoga, N. Y,
on the 18th, when he was presented with
formal notification of his nomination for the
Eice-Presidency. He said he would reply in
few days. 1t was understood that he ac-
ceptcd.
A FEARFUL tragedy was enacted at New
ark, n. j., on the 18th. Three brothers,
named Thielhorn, notorious as bad and des-
perate men, in resisting an attempt to arrest
them, shot and killed one police-officcr and
fatally wounded another. After seriously
wounding another man, the bloodthirsty trio
charged upon tannery near by, in which
they used to work, where they killed two
workmen. The tannery operatives, recov-
ering from the first shock of terror and
CONSERVATION and, armed with their curry
ing-knivcs, drove the murderers from the
factory and pursued them some distance to
the bank Ct the Passaic River, into which
the hunted men plunged in the hope of es
cape. There the Infatuated populace assaulted
them with stones and other missiles and the
three men were killed in the river. The
tragedy thus resulted in the death of seven
men and the serious injury of another.
THE Executive Committee of the New
York Liberal Republican State Committee
have called State Convention, to meet at
Saratoga on the 23d of August.
THE sentence of Mrs. Wilhelmila Speech,
who was to have been hanged at Buffalo, n
Y, on the 21st, has been committed to i'm
prisonment for life.
THERE were ,293 deaths in New York
City during the week ending on the 18th
being an increase of 40 over the previous
week. The extreme hot weather was the
cause Of the increase. .-t tE.'Ee 4;
ACCORDING to the circular of Dun, Barlow
& Co. the failures in this country for the
last three months have amounted, to S43,
100000. During the corresponding period
last year they amounted to S33 OO0, 900.
During the first six months of 1875 the fail
b 4.