The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-03-02

Der, mas been unseAteQ Tor sending letters Il
voters offering to pay their railway expenses
to the polling places. Judge Quain decided
that this was bribery, and declared the cleo
ton void.
The steamer Franconia ran Into thu
steamer strath Clyde, off Dover, England
on the afternoon of the 18th. The boiler o
the latter vessel exploded, and she sank i'm
mediately. Fifty-two of her passengers ant
crew were drowned.
THE London afternoon papers of the It'll
say that Gen. Schenck, the United States
Minister, had rendered his resignation, and
that it had been accepted. he intended t.
remain in London, for the present, to answer
any charge that might be brought against
him in regard to the affairs of the Emms
mine.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th says thai
information had just been received of the
capture of three Of the murderers of Mr.
Birch, the English resident at Perok.
A MADRID dispatch of the 18th says King
Alphonso had left for Vergara to assume per
sonal command of the army.
A BERLIN legal journal of the 18th states
that the State tribunal had indicted Count
Won Arnim for treason, and proposed to SEIZE
and sequestrate his estate. The announce
ment of this charge created intense excite
ment in the city.
AV1ENNA dispatch of the 18th says the
Danube had overfown its banks and inundat
ed the outlying suburbs of that city.
A DISPATCH was read in the Spanish Cortes
on the 10th, announcing that Estella. the
Carlist stronghold, had surrendered uncondi
tionaIly, and that the Carlists, routed at Pen
aplata and Vera, were fleeing to France.
st. Jean de Luz telegram of the same date
says Don Carlos had dismissed his ministers
and confined the direction of his affairs tc
the military authorities.
AN official ukase has been issued in Russis
forbidding women to exercise the functions
of barristers.
A LONDON telegram OF the 10th says Wins.
low, the Boston forger, had written to the
United States Legation, Offering TO return
with an officer to the United States if the
Legation would withdraw extradition pro-
ceedings. The proposition was declined
The American Consul at Rotterdam had re-
covered from Mrs. Winslow about 5000.
The election for members of the Chambe,
of Deputies was held throughout France or
the Goth.
A BERLIN telegram of the 20th says thu
Bishop Of Munster had been summoned t.
appear before the Ecclesiastical Court t.
answer to charges mich, if proven, would in
volve deposition from his see.
ACCORDING to Berlin dispatch of the 21st
Servia, despite the advice of the Great Pow
ers, continued belligerent, and threatened t.
declare war against Turkey when the proper
time arrived.
A MADRID telegram of the 21st says tn.
national army still continued its triumphant
progress. All the Carlist strongholds in Ma
varre had been taken possession of. Thu
Spanish Upper House had passed vote o
thanks to the army.
A VIENNA special reports that great flood.
had lately occurred in Upper Moravia, owe,
l2O houses having been washed away and de-
stroyed.
GEN. BABCOCK'S TRIAL.
EIGHTH DAY.
for the defense on the 10Th, and after he had
finished, Gen. A. A. Humphreys, Chief of En-
gineer Corps, United States army; David w
Mahon, first officer of the Treasury; jaime.
G. Berrett, ex-Mayor and ex-Postmaster Of
Washington, and Gen. N. P, Banks, all testi
fled as to Gen. Babcock's integrity and good
moral character.
Alex. P. Tuition testified that he is Super
visor of Internal Revenue of the States o
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Mary
land and the District of Columbia; remem
bered the order transferring the Supervisors
in January, 1875; had a conversation on the
subject with Sec'y Bristow, who told him
to call on the President, which witness
very inconvenient for him to go tc
St. Louis, and impossible If the
transfer was to continue any length o.
time. The President said he was sorry that
it would Inconvenience the witness, and
stated that it was thought that a great deal
If fraud was being committed in st. Louis
and Chicago. and this order was made to de.
the officers OF those places were involved he
did think the frauds were being committed
| and that change of officers was necessary in
order to suppress such frauds; that there had
been considerable political influence brought
to bear on him to revoke the order, but
he thought it necessary to carry it out to pre-.
vent these frauds. Witness then gave to the
order injudicious, and the President finally
said that the more information he received
the better he was satisfied that this order
would not accomplish the purpose intended
and he would revoke it that day (Feb. 81, and
did 60. On the cross-examination witness
said he saw Gen Babccck while in Washing.
ton, but the latter never said anything about
n hair En- hoxy In,
suspended; did not then have talking &C
quaintance with Gen. Babcock.
Eight letters were then submitted by the
defense and admitted by the court, the con.
tents of which show that ex- Revenue Agent
Hoge, now in Canada, supplied G. B. Bing.
ham, Of Indiana, steadily with information
from June, 1874, to the seizures in May, 1875
the defense claiming that Hoge became cor.
rupted several months before the prosecu.
tion's testimony showed 1t to have occurred
NINTH rAY.
Gen. W. T. Sherman, Gen. James H. Simp.
son (of the Corps of Engineersl Gen. w. 8
Harvey, Capt. L. s. Rabbit Commanding
the st. Louis Arsenal), Gen. 8. B. Sturgis Gin
command of the ST. Louis post), the Hon. E
A. Borie (ex-Secretary Of the Navy and Gen
J. L. Fullerton q lawyer of St Louis), testi
fed as to the good character of the defendant
from Babcock to Joyce as those placed in his
possession few weeks before by Mrs. Joyce
Letters were then introduced, dated re.
spectiyely March and March ~, 1875, to
show, as counsel said, that so late az the date
Of such letters there was no suspicion Of
Gen. Mcdonald either by Deputy Com. Rog.
ers or the Department..
Several letters written by Col. Joyce to Gen
Babcock, and answers to the same, were in.
troduced, all Of which were of social char.
acter, and indicated that the writers OF them
were on friendly terms, but such letters con.
tain no illusions whatever to ring matters OF
anything connected with revenue affairs.
The dispatch Of Dec. s, 1874, and signed o,
E. Babcock, saying "Cannot hear that any.
one has gone or is going" was ruled out BY
the court; but the one Of Dec. 8, 1874, to Gen
0. E. Babcock, from Ut. Louis, asking |" Has
the Secretary or Commissioner ordered any.
body here?" was admitted.
JAS. Magill, .. lelter.carrier in st. Louis,
testified that in the latter part Of February,
1876, Col. Joyce had accosted him ON the
street, and requested witness to assist him
In recovering two letters deposited In the let
ter-box on the corner Of Pine and Twelfth
streets. which he tJoyce) described - being
addressed, one to w. .. Avefy, Washington,
n n and The rskhap e. n p a. AL h.