The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-05


called for additional troops. The disaffectcd
Indians numbered ! 800. Xii
A Constantinople telegram of the 21st
says the Turks had driven Russian Army
into Bayaxid, and had invested that place.
According to Vienna telegram of the
ylet, Ruesia had invited Austria to prevent
the Moutenegrins from beiLg utterly crushed.
A telegram from Constantlnople, pub.
liehed In 81. Petersburg ON the Slsts says
Layard, the British Ambassador, had cOun-
seled the Sultan to make peace Immediately.
An the Ministers favored peace, except the
Minister of War.
Citizens of Deadwood, d. T., tele-
graphed the Secretary Of War, ON the 2ist,
that the Indisns were raiding the Valleys OF
Bear Buttee, False Bottom and Whitewood,
killing the ranchmen and driving the settlers
to Deadwood fer safety. Military protec-
ton was demanded to protect the agricul-
tural interests of the Black Hills. 1t was
stated, in Washington, on the same day,
that Gen. Sherman would leave, on the 18th,
for the Black Hills and Yellowstone regions.
On the 21st, subscriptions were started
in the principal cities Of the country for the
relief of the suffering Inhabitants OF ST..
John, N. B. The entire business and large
part of the residence portion Of the city were
burned over, and thirty dead bodies had been
recovered from the ruins up to the morning
ct the I'D. As many more were still missing.
From 5000 to 70 600 were homeless and des-
titute, and there was great need Of immedi-
ate assistance.
On the 22d, the Russian Army effected
the passage Of the Danube at Galatz, Gy
means of pontoon bridges located at point
beyond the reach of Turkish batteries, and
secured and at last accounts were terrifying
q tete de pont on the Turkish shore.
A London telegram of the 22d says an
arrangement had been effected by which En-
gland, with the consent of the Khedive and
Sultan, would occupy Egypt-England to de-
termiue when the occupation should begin.
Dispatches from correspondents of
London papers, published on the I'D, say
the Turks had secured all the strategic posi-
tions in Montenegro, and that the war with
the Montenegrins was substantially closed.
On the 29d, the French Senate, by a vote
of $50 to 100, decided in favor of the Govern
ment's proposition for the dissolution of the
Chamber Of Deputies.
On the 22d, according to San Francisco
dispatches, the Indian situation in Northern
Idaho was exceedingly grave, and the set
Element of the difficulties would tax the best
resources of Government and people. The
citizens there ard in Oregon were organizing
volunteer companies and asking for Govern
ment arms. In the raid on Salmon Creek,
the Indians killed the men, but spared the
women and children, and sent them, under
the escort of friendly squaws, to State Creek,
where the whites had constructed stockadc.
London dispatches of the gath say the
crossing of the Danube at Galatz was in
tended as diversion merely, and that the
pestilential climate and the flooded condi-
ton Of the country forbid any extended
movement into the interior.
An official dispatch of the oath from Con-
stantinople announces the evacuation Of
Cettinje by the Montenegrins.
Constantinople kilograms of the 24th say
the Turkish Chamber of Deputies had voted
for the continuance of the war to the death,
even if all Europe combines against Turkey.
AMauch Chunk Pa) dispatch of the oath
says the Mollie Maguires had murdered VIM.
O'Connor near White Haven and John
Grady, Lchigh miner. James McDermott
and Michael O'Brien, who were the witnesses
against the executed Mollies, had also mys-
terIously disappeared and fears were enter
tanned that they had been foully dealt with.
A destructive wind-storm visited St. 10.
seph, No., on the night of the 2Sd. Several
buildings in the center of the city were I'M
rooted and several persons were more or less
injured.
On the 23d, near the Village of Gore,
Ohio, John Weldon, Mrs. McClurg, his sis
ter, and her daughter were foully murdered.
The object of the murder was plumber.
Joseph King and VIM. Terrell were arrested
for the deed and the latter confessed, throw
ing the burden of the crime on King. The
latter denied all knowledge Of the affair. 1t
horrible work.
Four men boarded train on the Lake
Shore Il Michigan Southern Railroad, near
Ligonier, Ind, on the night Of the 22d, and
attempted to rob the express car; but the
messenger, having been warned that such an
event would occur, had men sccrcted in the
ear, Who came TO his assistance, and the
would-bc robbers were captured, after des.
perate fight. Their names arc LallO, BiilIilan
Hathaway and Christy, all of Ligonier.
An unsuccessful attempt was made by
the Russians, on the S4th, to cross the Dan
ubc at Rustchuk, and %as followed by Sc
we're battle, which was still going on on the
25th.
A London telegram of the 25ih says the
English Cabinet had, after due deliberate n
disapproved of Gortschakoff's declaration q:
to the policy of Russia in the Eastern war
and the British Government had resolved moi
to allow even the temporary occupation o.
Constantinople by the Russians.
President Hayes and wife, together with
| several members of the Cabinet, left Wash
ington, on the 25th, for Boston.
The thriving manufacturing Town o.
Marblehead, Mass, suffered the loss of it.
entire business district by fire, at an earl,
hour on the morning of the 25th. Over sew
enty buildings were destroyed.
Two hundred Mormons from Europe
bound for Salt Lake City, arrived at New Yorl
few days ago.
Her Papa's Grave.
A LITTLE girl with tangled locks peep
ing from under q calico hood, clad in
dress of chintz that hung all awry, loiteret
behind as the great, dusty crowd movet