The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-23
WEST AND SOUTH.

THE Iowa Republican State Convention has
been called to meet at Des Moines, Nav 81,
THE Michigan Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held at Lansing on the oath of
May.
The California Republican State Conven-
ton TO select delegates to the National Con-
vention will be held on the Goth of April
HEAVY SHOWS were reported on the 9th
along the line of the Central Pacific Railroad,
The track had been blocked for twenty seven
hours. The drifts in some places were one
hundred feet deep.
SEVERE storm, coming from the south.
west, struck Elizabethtown, Mo-, on the
evening of the 10th, and blew down some
seventeen houses, killed five persons and
severely wounded several others. At Has
sard three dwellings and the railroad depot
were blown down, and three persons killed.
Much damage to property was done at Cali
fornia and other points in the State.
IT was reported in San Francisco Oh the
18th that arrangements had been completed
for the Government to have the product of
the Virginia and California mines for the
year and apply it to the resumption of specie
sale was understood to have been consum-
mated, but all the details were not yet settled
THE Iowa Senate has for the second time
rejected the proposed Woman's suffrage
amendment to the State Constitution.
DURING a recent severe storm at DUBUQUE
Iowa, hailstones fell which are said to have
measured four inches in circumference A
large number of windows were broken.
GEN. SHERMAN is said to have recently
told st. Louis reporter that he would de.
cline nomination for the Presidency, "even
if it were unanimous and enthusiastic"
THE Senate of Mississippi have found
Leut..Gov. Davis guilty as charged in the
articles of impeachment.
GEN. J. D. WEBSTER, United States Col
lector of Internal Revenue at Chicago, died
On the morning of the 18th, after brief ill.,
Eess. He was sixty -four wears of age.
THE boiler of a locomotive exploded at the
Union depot, in Indianapolis, on the morn
ing of the 18th, and was completely wrecked,
at the same time demolishing another en-
CINE standing in the neighborhood. The en-
2ineer of the latter was instantly killed, and
the fireman severely injured. The engineer
and fireman Of the former were on their en-
CINE at the time, but were not injured. The
engineer was thrown twenty feet from the
engine into the street. The whole west end
wall of the depot and ten or fifteen feet of the
roof were completely demolished.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has recently
been caused in Bath County, KY, by the fall
from the sky of large quantity of what had
the appearance of being flesh in pieces from
the size of pea to that of human finger.
Specimens wereisubmittcd to scientist from
Louisville, who concluded that they were
probably the dried spawn of Batrachian rep
tiles, doubtless that of the frog. He thinks
they had been transported from ponds and
swampy grounds by currents of wind. and
had ultimately fallen on the spot where they
were found.
In Chicago, on the 18th, spring wheat, No.
2, closed at 99alc@sLOO]5 cash. Cash
corn closed at 1910 for No. 2 and
331Sc for new rejected. Cash osts, No. q,
sold at 32%@32Tc; April options were
sold at 32ssc. Rye, No. 2, 631f@64c Barley,
No. 2, 56@57c. Cash mess pork closed at
$22.0o@2215. Lard Sl3.2O@13.25. Good to
choice beeves brought s4.5c@565; medium
grades, $4.00@440; butchers stock, g. 25@
400; stock cattle, ETC., &3.25@3.75. Hogs
brought s7.50@S.5O for good to choice.
Sheep sold at s4.75@6Oo for good to choice.