The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-09-07
WEST AND SOUTH.

WEST AND SOUTH.
The Indian Commissioners at Washington
sent an order to nearly all the Indian agen-
cies, on the ED, prohibiting all sales of arms
or ammunition to either whites or Indians
by parties holding licenses as Indian traders.
A BISMARCK special of the 23d says a
large war party of Sioux appeared on the
opposite bank of the river from BerthOld
Agony few days previous and demanded
supplies. Upon being refused, they opened
fire for fifteen minutes when they withdrew
and moved south toward Fort Lincoln. A
white scout had just come in with dis
patches from the Rosebud, announcing that
Gems. Crook and Terry, after etfecting u
junction, had left their tents, ETC., behind,
and were in hot pursuit of the Sioux, ex-
pecting to come up with them before they
reached the Yellowstone.
The Republicans of the Nineteenth Ohio
District have renominated Hon. j. A. Garfield
for Congress.
THE Governor of Wisconsin, on the 23d,
issued requisition, on the application of
the Chief-of-Police of Milwaukee, for the ar.
rest of W. F. Storey, of the Chicago Times,
for SANDER.
THE Democratic State Convention of Kan.
sas was held at Topeka on the 23d. John
Martin was nominated for Governor. The
candidates on the Greenback ticket for
Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor
and Superintendent of Schools were nomi.
mated for the same offices on the Democratic
ticket.
A GREENBACK Mass Convention was held
in Chicago on the sd. Addresses were dc.
livered by Gen. Cary, candidate for Vice.
President, Sydney Myers and others, and a
letter from Peter Cooper, candidate for
President, was read. Resolutions were
adopted endorsing the action of the indie.
pendent National Conventions; providing
for the appointment of committee of TWEEN.
and Hayes asking of each whether, if elected
to the Presidency, and if Congress should
pass bill to rsmonetize silver coin
at it's former standard, he will, by his official
action, prevent such bill from becoming a
law; also if Congress should pass bill pro-
vding for Government paper currency and
the retirement of all other PAPER money, the
Government currency to be full legal
tender and interchangeable for Government
registered bonds at such rate Of gold in
terest as will make the currency of equal
value with coin he, as President, would sign
such bill, or would feel at liberty, as Presi-
dent, to veto the same.
A GENERAL order from the War Depart
ment, issued on the oath, directs Col. Ruger,
upon assuming command of the Department
of the South on or about Sept. l, to trans
fer the headquarters of the Department to
Atlanta, Ga. The companies of the Second
Infantry now in the Department of the Gulf
will be transferred to the Department of
the South, and the headquarters and CON-
panies OF the Sixteenth Infantry, now in that
partment of the Gulf.
The Hon. Joseph r. Underwood, ex-Unit-
ed States Senator from Kentucky, died at
his residence at Bowling Green. KY, on the
23d, in his eighty sixth year.
A GREENBAcK State Mass Convention was
held at Grand Rapids, Mich, on the oath,
and full State and electoral ticket was
nominated The State ticket is headed by
Chauncey X. Carpenter for Governor and
Levi Sparks for Lieutenant-Governor.
Hon. G. A. FINKELNBERG has withdrawn
his declination of the candidacy for Cover.
nor of Missouri on the Republican ticket,
and has formally accepted the nomination.
JOHN L. RoUErT, Territorial Governor of
Colorado, is the Republican candidate for
Governor of the new State, and Lafayette
Head for Lieutenant Governor
The final obsequies of the late Speaker
Kerr took place at New Albany, Ind, on the
25th. All the business houses in the city
were closed out of respect to the deceased,
and nearly the entire population turned out
to the funeral. The procession was one of
the largest ever witnessed in that section.
The funeral services were performed by the
Rev. s. Conn, of the First Presbyterian
Church. Among the attendants were Gov.
Hendricks and several other State officers.
A FIRE in Savannah, Ca, on the night of
the 18th destroyed a number of business
houses, involving loss of over 100000.
IN race on Lake Michigan, off Chicago,
on the 26th, between the Canadian yacht Ina
and the American yacht Frolic, the latter
onds, in a distance of thirty miles, which
was sailed by both boats in little less than
six hours. The Frolic is owned by Capt.
John Prindiville, of Chicago. The contest
was an exciting one from the beginning to
the end, and was witnessed by over 20, 600
people.
A HORRIBLE scene occurred at Dayton,
Ohio, on the 25th, the occasion of the hang
ing for murder of James Murphy. The rope
ground. He was again taken on to the
scaffold, and, the piece of rope being
doubled, was again swung off, and stran-
gled in something over quarter of an
hour.
GRAssHoPPERs were reported as being
very thick in the vicinity of Omaha, Neb.
on the 2Sth, and doing a good deal of dam.
age to- vegetables and late corn. Damage
was being done by the insects in other sec.
tions of the State.
In Chicago, on the 2sth, Spring wheat, No.
2, closed at 94@941c cash. Cash corn
closed at 43c for No. 2. Cash oats No. &
sold at S1@3lHc; September options
were sold at 317Sc. Rye No. 2, 56@56kc
Cash mess pork closed at s16.2s
@16.3o. Lard, s1o.OO@1O. OK. Good tc
choice beeves brought a. 5O@5. 10; medium
grades, 81. 1904. 40; butchers stock, 81. 81
@3.25; stock cattle, etc., 81. 75@3. Is
Hogs brought IS. 75@6.35 for good te
choice. Sheep sold at 50. 5O@4.5O for good
to choice.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
ACCORDING to Vienna kilograms of thu
2Sd, the Sublime Porte had signiied it.
readiness to treat with Servia upon the basis
of war indemnity and guarantees against
breaches of the peace for the future. The
Servians had been able to maintain their DO
sition at Alexinatz against the united ant
repeated attacks of the several Turkish di
visions. The war party in Servia had at las
succeeded in overcoming Prince Mi1an,s m