The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-03-22

REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
BARONESS NATHANIEL MAYER DE Rorns
CHILD is dead.
THE Wisconsin Legislature adjourned sine
die, on the Sth.
CnIEr-JUsricE MOSES, of the South Caro-.
lima Supreme Court, died at Columbia on
the 9th.
MATILDA HERON, the celebrated actress,
died in New York few days ago. She was
forty eight years old.
An Egyptian man-of-war, cruising in the
Gulf OF Suez, recently took fire and was de-
stroyed. Twenty persons persisted.
SENATOR BARNUM, Of Connecticut, has
been appointed Chairman of the Democratic
National Committee, rice Hewitt. resigned.
SECRETARY EvARTs has appointed Frederick
W. Seward, son Of the late Secretary Vim.
II. Seward, to be First Assistant Secretary of
State.
JOE CoBURN, the New York pugilist, con-
victcd Of shooting two New York City po-
licemeu, has been sentenced to IN years in
the State Prison.
THE Khedive Of Egypt has promised to
place 80, OCO troops and four men-of-war at
the disposal Of the Sultan in the event of
war with Russia.
A FEW days ago, at Oweneboro, n.y., Ben
Triplct', nine years old, committed suicide,
by hanging, because his mother wouldn't
give him an apple.
ALETrER has been received from Stanley,
the African explorer, announcing, under date
of Aug. ID, that he had completely surveyed
Lake Tanganyika.
JoHN Q HORT. heavy stock and railroad
speculator, has failed, with liabilities aggre-
gating 1888 900, and assets about one
quarter of that sum.
THE National Butter, Cheese and Egg
Convention, lately in session in Chicago, has
reelected Geo. E. Gooch as President and
Col. Littler as Secretary.
A LATE fire in St. Johns, n. B.. destroyed
property valued at 100000. Eight persons
were known to have been killed, being buried
beneath fallen buildings.
THREE of the victims of the recent panic
in the St. Francis Navier Church, New York
City, are said by the examining physician to
have died from shock or fright.
THE Matamoras Military Court, before
which Gen. Cortina was tried, have found
him guilty of kidnapping, the penalty at
tachtd to which in Mexico is death.
JAMES kINGAN, New York Spectator in
lard and other provisions, and an occasional
operator in stocks, has recently failed, with
liabilities estimated at 81 100000.
\ CITIZEN of Hoboken, n. j., named 10.
seph II. Lewis, has bequeathed his entire es-
tate, amounting to over $l,OoO.OOO, to the
National Government, to help pay the Ma
tional debt.
AT a recent meeting of the Cabinet in
Washington, Messrs. Evarts and Schurz
were appointed a committee to frame civil
service rules for adoption by the different
departments.
AN explosion took place, on the sth, in the
Worcester Colliery, near Swans, England.
The number lost was not known at last ac-
C;,,%. l1.l l.
cen recovered.
A DELEGATION of colored ministers re.
Gently called on the President, at the Exec
utve Mansion, congratulated him on his
election, and babe him God-speed in the
work before him.
THE Waltham Building in New York City,
was recently burned. The loss, including
the goods in the various safes which had
not been opened at last accounts, was esti-
mated at about So 100000.
BOARDS OF DIRECTORS, favorable to the
interest of Jay Gould and the Union Pacific
Railroad Company, have been recently elect
ed for the Chicago & Northwestern and
Chicago, Rock Island Il Pacific Railroads.
THE Postmaster-G General of Germany has
proposed to the International Postal Union
the PRODUCTION of a postal-card which shall
serve for all the countries belonging to the
Union at uniform rate of one penny each.
The second trial of Alexander Sullivan
for the murder of Francis Hanford, in August
last, was concluded in Chicago, on the 9th,
by verdict of mot guilty" The jury was
out five hours. Mr.. Sullivan was discharged
from custody.
THE Treasury Department has lately is-
sued the forty-second call for the redemp-
ton Of ) 20 bonds of 1865 The amount
called in was $4,000, OOO-s7 ,OO).O coupon
and So, coo COO registered. Interest and prin-
cipal payable June 10.
THE Butter, Egg and Cheese Association,
lately in session at Chicago, adopted resolu.
tons denouncing the product known IS
oleo-margarne, and recommending that its
sale be discountenanced by all dealers. The
resolutions also recommend that State Leg
islatures he petitioned to pass laws against
its manufacture, the object being to prevent
its sailing under false colors as genuine
butter.
A Screw In q Boys Lungs for Five
Months.
In the Smiths Grove section there re-
sides the family of Mr.. w. J. Dickerson.
gentleman we'll and favorably known in
the county. In the family there is a
bright, manly little boy, nine years old,
named James, who is quite pet Last
August he and his mother were pairing ap-
pies for drying purposes with an ordinary
machine used for that purpose. A three
eighths inch screw dropped from the ma
chine, and James, child-like, put the
screw in his mouth, and accidentally
sucked it down his windpipe. Violent
coughing followed without eiectinp tle