The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-01-20

General, II. H. Boone; State Treasurer, J
Dow; Chicf-Justice, o. NJ. Roberts.
AcoLoRED man named Frank Scott wa,
hanged at Memphis, Tenn, on the 7th, fo
the murder in Decembef, 1874, of an oil
negro for about ninety cents which the lattel
owed him. He made a short speech on thu
gallows, concluding by saying that the cords
were cutting his arms, and he would rather
be hanging. Bill Williams (also colored
was hanged at Bartlett, Tenn, ON the same
day, for murder, he denying the crime to thu
last. At jackson, Tenn, also on the 7th
Milton Mclean was hanged for the murde,
of man named Pope.
! Hon. j. Y. ScAMMoN, former President Of
the Mechanics National Bank; suspended
Chicago monetary institution, and j. 8. Reed
his cashier and son in Jaw, have been in.
cicted by a Chicago Grand Jury on the
charge of appropriating large amount Of
the funds of the bank for the private benefit
of Mr.. 8. In card dated Washington, Jan
s, Mr.. Scammon emphatically denies the al
legged embezzlement and any intention a
wrong in his actions "a President of the bank
AN interesting experiment was made in.
Milwaukee, on the Sth, by which it was
demonstrated that, by the use of new instru-
ments, eight messages can be simultaneously
! transmitted over single telegraph wire.
The transmitting instruments produce q
musical sound instead of click, and the
number Of dispatches which may be sent over
| the same wire at the same time is believed
to be limited only by the possibilities of
sound. The discoverer of this new system
Of telegraphy is Mr.. Elisha Gray, of Chicago.
FEW nights ago some burglars broke into
store In Osborn, Mo-, stole bottle of chic
reform, and then proceeded to drug all the
inhabitants Of the town. They went through
both hotels, all the stores and many of the
dwelling houses, securing several thousand
dollars, after which they made their ESCAPED
R. B. HAYES was inaugurated as Governor of
Ohio at Columbus on the 10th in the presence
of vast crowd Of people from all parts of
the State.
The Iowa Legislature convened at Des
Moines on the 10th.
In Chicago, on the 10th, spring wheat, No.
,, was higher, closing at 97@T1sc cash.
Cash corn weak; closing at 1910 for No. 2
and 3511fc for new rejected. Cash oats, No. 2,
sold at 3o7s@s01c; February options were
sold at 5O11c. Rye, No. 2, 66@661lc. Barley,
No. 2, SO1s@Slc. Cash mess pork closed at
s19.25@19.27]S. Lard, 12.3O@l2 3215. Good to
choice beeves brought $45O@6.OO; medium
grades, $4OO@4.25; butchers stock, $250@
3.75; scalawags, ETC., $l.75@2.25 Hogs
brought $7.Oo@7so for good to choice.
Sheep sold at $4.5O@5.25 for good to choice.
FOREIGN ENCR.
The section of the Brazilian telegraph
cable between Lisbon and Madeira is broken.
A VIENNA dispatch of the 5th says Count
Andrassy's project for reform in the insurrec-
tionary districts of Turkey had been assented
to by France and Italy. 1t was also reported
that the Porte had ordered all his iron.clads
to prepare for an expedition to the Black Sea
and the Albanian ports.
SPAIN has created commission to take
charge of Spanish products at the Philadel-
phia Exhibition.
ACCORDING to Vienna dispatch of the
9TH the Herzegovinian insurgents had lately
suffered disastrous defeat in the vicinity of
Nicisie and Duga, GEO being killed and mauy
wounded.
The Paris I'resse Of the 9th contains
an account OF terrible landslide in Isle Re-
union on the 18th Of December. Sixty-two
persons were killed and many injured. A
large number Of buildings and plantations
were destroyed.
A COLOSSAL statue of Grattan was unveiled
in front of the old Parliament House, in Dub
lin, on the 9th. The ceremonies were very
largely attended.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 5th says the
Prussian War Office have machine similar
to that used by Thomassen. It was offered
hem by man from New York in 1870 for the
destruction of the French fleet The offer
was declined. The maker appears to have
been an associate of Thomassen.
RI. Hon. SOUTHERN BucKNAL1 EsrEcouRr.
Secretary of the Home Department in 1860,
died, On his estate near London, on the 9th.
A CoNsrANTINoPLE dispatch of the It'll
says the Grand Vizier had rejected the scheme
of foreign mediation, and was reported to
have said to the Austrian representative who
presented it that the Sublime Porte would
give the peoples of the provinces all the nee
essary guarantees for reform. It was re.
ported that Montenegro had dispatched
troops to the frontier, had negotiated a loan
OF million dollars and had contracted with
an American firm to deliver 10000 rifles and
sixty cannon in March.
CHARLES SUFFERS, a cotton.spinper, at
Oldham, Lancashire, England, failed on the
7th for 100000.
A REPORT that Austria was preparing for
war was authoritatively denied on the Sth.
WHILE the Prince of Wales and his party
were pig-sticking near Lucknow, India, on
the Sth, Lord Darlington had his collar-bone
broken.
ACCORDING to a Madrid telegram of the
Sth there had been a heavy fall of snow in
the province of Guipuzcea, which had great
~ impeded military operations. The au-
tborities had issued a notice to mariners,
warning them not to approach the coast east
of Bilbao on account of the danger from
Carlist batteries.
The Belgrave cotton-mills at Oldham,
England, carrying $1,000 spindles, burned
on the 9Th, involving loss of $25O,OOO.
DIR. STRoUsBERG, the bankrupt railway
contractor, has been released from i'm
prisonment, on parole.
AN Odessa (Russia) telegram of the 9th
says that on the preceding day railway
train filed with military recruits ran off the
track near that place and plunged down
steep embankment. The wrecked cars caught
fire and many passengers were burned to
death before they could be extricated. The
number killed was slxty-eight and fifty -four
were injured, some Of them fatally.
A PARIS telegram of the 10th reports the
existence of Ministerial crisis in the French
Cabinet, arising from the fact that some of
the members were supporting candidates for
the Senate opposed to the Government