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

THE Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton, to appoint delegates to the National
Convention, is to be held on the Oath of May.
10Th, from the Texas State election indicated
the success of the entire Democratic State
ticket.
CHlEF-JUsT1CE RYAN, of the Wisconsin
Supreme Court, rendered decision on the
18th, denying the application of Miss Good
ell, of GAINESVILLE, to practice in that court
He holds that there is no Wisconsin statute
authorizing the admission of females to legal
practice in the State courts, from which the
common law always excluded them.
The Illinois Independent State Convention
was held at Decatur on the 10th, and full
State ticket was nominated, as follows: For
Governor, Louis Stewart, of Kendall County;
Lieutenant Governor, J. H. Pickerell, of Ma
con; Secretary of State, DR.. M. M. Hooton, Of
Marion; State Auditor, John Hise, of Chi
cago; State Treasurer, Henry 7. Aspern, of
Champaign: Attorney General, w. 8. Coy, OF
Mclean. Delegates to the National Con-
vention were also chosen. The platform
adopted demands the repeal of the Specie
Resumption and National Bank acts, and the
substitution of legal-tender paper money
for the National Bank circulation; the per-
fecting of monetary system based upon the
faith and resources of the nation, and adapt
ed to the demands of legitimate business,
which money shall be legal tender in pay
ment Of all debts, public and private, duties
en- imports included, except that portion Of
the interest and principal of the present pub
lie debt that is, by the express terms of the
law creating it, made payable in metallic
money, this money to be interchangeable at
the option Of the holders, with registered
Government bonds bearing a rate of interest
not exceeding 3.65 per cent per annum.
TIE Independent Greenback Convention
of Indiana met at Indianapolis on the 10th,
and nominated the following ticket: For
Governor, Franklin Landers, present member
of Congress from the Indianapolis District;
Lieutenant Governor, Arson Wolcott, of
White County; Secretary OF State, Leroy
Tcmpleton. of Benton; State Auditor, Morris
N. Bundy, of Henry; State Treasurer, John
Q. A. Newson, of Bartholomew; Attorney
General, w. A. Upton, of Fountain; Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction, Rev. r. 8.
Blount, Of Green; Reporter of Supreme Court,
Charles A. knight, of Clay; Judges Of Supreme
Court, William F. Barnett, Of vanderburg;
John B. Haines, of Delaware; H. G. New
comb, of Marion; Judge Lindsay, of How
ard The resolutions demand the immediate
and unconditional repeal of the Specie Re-
sumption act and are also in other respects,
on the financial question, similar in substance
to those adopted by the Illinois State Con-
vention at Decatur.
The Associated Press Agent at Omaha
says, in dispatch of the 18th, that he had
most competent and reliable official authori-
ty for the statement that the Sioux, Cheyenne
and Arrapahoe Indians had been and were
yet making the most extensive preparations
possible for an outbreak in . very few weeks.
They had been purchasing large quantities
OF ammunition and arms wherever they
could get them, going as far south as the
Indian Territory for that purpose. It had
been known for some time that the best fight
ing men had deserted the agencies and were
rowing in the Big Horn, Powder River and
Tongue River countries, concentrating and
arranging forces for this war.
Sioux C1rr and Council Bluffs Uowa) dis.
patches Of the nth state that the rush for the
Black Hills continued, miners arriving at
those points daily, en route for the Hills.
ANTONIO CATALANo, Dominica Damina
and Bastesno Lombardo; three Italians were
hung in st. Louis on the 18th, for the
murder OF Palermo, countryman, in
March last.
GEORGE G. Smith, formerly President Of
the defunct Chicago State Insurance Com
pany, was arrested In New Jersey, recently,
at the instance Of the assignee, on the charge
Of swindling, and held to bail in the sum Of
100000. s.ss S.
The Vance Railroad bill, which repeals
many Of the distinctive features OF the Potter
law, has passed both houses Of the Wisconsin
Legislature. The vote on it, passage In tho
Senate ON the 10th stood: ayes 20; noes Z.
A pIsrArcH from Cheyenne, dated the 2lst,
says large parties were arriving ct that point
from the East and West and departing for
the Black HIlls daily. Yankten (Dakota)