The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-08-31
WEST AND SOUTH.

A CINCINNATI dispatch of the 18th states
that the brakemen's strike on the Ohio Il
Mississippi Railroad was over, and that
trains would be running as usual as soon as
the engines could be put in readiness. All
the strikers had been paid in full and dis
charged.
GUsTAvUs A. FINKELNBURG, the Repub-
ican nominee for Governor of Missouri, has
positively declined the candidacy, and call
was issued on the 10Th for meeting of the
State Central Committee, to be held on the
24th, t. fn the vacancy thus created in the
Soluble tin. ss S$fSsai.s'a -
,mocratic state Convention of
Sow lima has nominated Gen. Wade
Ham = Governor.
Exc aooKs has withdrawn from the
Republic State ticket Of Arkapsas, and
A. w. RisAqp. the candidate for Governor
on the Opposition Republican ticket, has ac-
cepted the same position on the regular
ticket, the Opposition ticket being withdrawn
from the field.
TIE Independent State Convention Of In
diana to I'LL vacancies on the State ticket
met ut Indianapolis ON the 18th. Resolu-
tons were adopted indorsing the platform
of the Independent State and National Con-
ventions. and denouncing the act Of 1878 by
which the silver dollar was dropped from
our list of coins, and demanding its
return; that free coinage should be en-
couraged to enable the Government to pay
Its obligations in silver, . II has a right to
do under original contract; that all values
should be taxed equally. including Govern
ment bonds and grecnbacls.a Nominations
were then made to al the yacasdes on the
State ticket. s "a .9E,
ADv1cIs from the hostile Indian country
up to the 18th were to the effect that Gen.
Terry's command met the head of Gen.
Crooks command early oh the 10th. The
latter were following large Indian trail in
the direction Of Powder River! Upon q
short consultation a01 Gems Terry and
Crook, the commands were united and pro-
ceeded on the trail Crook was, following.
Medicine Cloud, who hasrecently returned to
Bismarck from the hostile country, esti-
mates the forces of Sitting hull at from
5000 to 10000. The hostile camp was on
Tongue River, south of the Yellowstone.
The Indians we're reported as being in corr
slant state Of alarm. Capt. Collins, who ar
rived at Bismarck on thei l7sh, front Fort
Buford, failed to confirm the, squaw reports
OF recent battle between the Indians and
Terry's forces. ! -. ~ "a --s~4
Col. A. P. FIELD, Attorney General of
Louisiana, died at New Orleans on the 10th,
aged seventy-six years.
CAPT. GEORGE T. ANTHONY, OF Leaven-
worth, is the Republican candidate for Cover.
nor of Kansas, and not Col D. K. Anthony,
editor of the Leavenworth Times, as 1T frst
announced" The twogentlenen named are
cousins. -IGly.E 'i1H. 1sat1aq = u.
SPEAKER NJ. G. kerr. died at RockbYidre
Alum Springs, Vs.s at 7.2O on the. evening of
the 10th, after a prolonged illness during
which he suffered greatly. His last moments
are said to have been comparatively free
from pain. The news Of his death, cast q
gloom over the city Of Washington ana
other sections of the country. he was
forty.uipe years Of age, having been bori
ct Titusvihe, Pa, on the 18th OF March,
1897. 7amss, ii ssf9ai tlsf $50 bas Id
A Dss Nonua o(Iowa,r Telegram says the
grssshoppers came deyR On the Chicago,