The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-09

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPEas.
Gen. Grant reached Berne, Switzerland,
on the oath.
George Ward Hunt, First Lord of the
British Admiralty, died on the 18th.
The French Bishop of Movers died, on
the I'D, while ministering at the altar.
Several arrests of rioters were made al
different points throughout the country on
the SOth ult.
A quantity Of shell exploded in Fort
Valeriau, near London, on the 10Th. Seve-
raj soldiers were killed.
Ex-King Amadeus, of Spain, was fatal.
ly injured at Turin, Italy, on the 10Th, by
being thrown from his carriage.
Woods, Weeks & Co., rroprietors Of
the Baltimore Sugar Refinery, failed, on the
cath, showing assets aggregating $5OO.OOO,
and liabilities aggregating t75O,OOO
Six mills Ct the American Powder Com.
pauy, at Acton, Mass, exploded on the
morning of the oath. Phineas Keefe was
killed, and Hiram Drey MORALLY wounded.
The Ohio Democratic State Executive
Committee has organized by electing John
G. Thompson, Chairman; j. F. Mckinney,
Eice-Chairman; Jacob Reinhsrd, Treasurer,
and William Bell, Secretary.
The Secretary of the Treasury, on the
9th, issued the fifty-thild call for the re-
demption of $40 bonds of 1865. The call
was for slO,OOO,OOO, interest and principal
payable Oct. %.
In a recent conversation, the Secretary
of the United States Treasury stated thatths
new per cent. bonds having been issued in
exchange for gold coin, they cannot be re-
deemed by anything but gold coin or its full
equivalent.
The damage done to railroads and other
property in Pittsburgh, during the recent
riots, according to the Pittsburgh Commer-
cial Gazette, reaches from sSOOO,OOO to &c.
100000, which sum will have to be paid by
the county. Several suits have already been
commenced. Another Pittsburgh paper says
the amount to be paid will be $11S for each
taxable person in the county.
A. o. Jones (colored), former Clerk of
the South Carolina House Of Representa-
tivcs, was brought to Columbia, S. c., under
arrest, on the 26th, upon the charge of hav-
ing defrauded the State of g., 225O.7O, and of
participating in the offenses charged against
Moses snd Lee. He was held to bail in the
sum of SIS, 900, in default of which he was
locked up. Montgomery, the ex-Speaker
pro ten. of the Senate, was also committed to
Jail in default of $1,000 bail upon similar
charges.
In the Postal Convention, at Fortress
Monroe, on the a6th, resolutions were
adopted demanding additional appropria-
tons for the postal service; favoring steam
communication between Southern ports and
Rio Janeiro, Havana and Aspinwall, and de-
handing Congressional aid therefor; asking
greater speed in the transmission of mails
and promptness in delivery; recommending
the establishment of fast-mail communica-
ton between the chief points of the coun-
try, etc, etc. A committee was appointed
to present the resolutions to Congress.
A meeting of representatives of the poll
cy.holders of the Charter Oak Life Insurance
Company from Illinois, Ohio, Indiana and
other States, was held in Hartford on the
24th at which resolutions were adopted
strongly urging policy holders not to let
their policies lapse on account of the as
sumed insolvency Of the Company, and ex-
pressing the conviction that the concern
would be committed to the management of
an entirely new set of men, in whose hands
the interest of the policy-holders would be
safe. 1t was stated that those who had per-
United their policies to lapse since July Is,
inst, might restore them to the full force if
payment of premiums due were made on or
before Aug. next, as consented to by the
Company and ordered by the Court.
THE TURCO.RUsSIAN WAR.