The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-03

Mason IN the United States, died at Hudson, N.
u, on the I'D.
A severe shock of earthquake occurred,
early ON the morning of the 2Sd, at Oban, Ar
gylshire, Scotland.
Hon. John A. Kasson has been appoint
cd United States Minister to Spain, to succeed
Hon. Caleb Gushing.
Hon. Geo. Schneider, of Chicago, has
been appointed United States Minister Resident
to the Republic of Switzerland.
The boiler of flour mill at Alexandria,
Egypt. exploded on the 23d killing sixteen per-
sons and injuring many Others.
Lockhart & Dempster and Glenn, Walk
er & Co., extensive shipping and commission
merchants of Liverpool, have failed.
The King of Abyssinia has released the
American Gen. Mitchell. At last accounts he
had reached Massowah in a pitiable condition.
The Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives has rejected the Prohibitory Liquor
bill passed by the Senate, by a vote of III to
LOG.
ACalcutta telegram of the 23d announces
serious outbreak of cholera in Akyab. Twenty
five per cent. of the European population had
died.
DURING the eighteen months ending
March last 81. 27Ss10 pounds of fresh beef were
shipped to Europe from this country. The value
was S3.026, 4S3.
Gen. VIM. E. Lathrop, Commander of
the Masonic Grand Commandery of the United
States. Mason for sixty years, died at Roches-
ter. N. u. on the I'D, aged eighty-th years.
The New York Assembly has lately
passed bill providing for electing Electors-at-
Large on the State ticket and other Electors on
the tickets in the several Congressional Districts
The Supreme Court of California has
issued a peremptory writ of mandamus to the
Secretary of State to issue to Pacheco, the Re
publican candidate for Congress in the Fourth
District, his certificate.
A decision in favor of Mrs. Gaines, in.
volving millions of dollars worth of property in
New Orleans, has been rendered by Judge Bill
lngs Of that city. The litigation has extended
over forty years. and it is stated that this decis-
ion ends the struggle in favor of the plucky lit
tie claimant.
Late intelligence received at the Treas.
ury Department is to the effect that the
counterfeiting of silver coin is rapidly increas-
ing. Reports from the Black Hills state that
attempts had been made to circulate counter
felt SIS coins there and that several arrests had
been made.
The Postmaster General has directed
that hereafter appointments of Postoffice clerks,
route-agents, mail-route messengers or local
agents. shall be made only for six months, and
that at the expiration of this period no reap
pointment will be made unless the appointee
pass satisfactory examination.
At Boston, on the 2lst, Dudley Kimble
Jagged four and half years. and Stephen Cox
(aged seven), sons of prominent business men,
quarreled at play. The younger, saying, II
will fix you" went home took his fathers re-
volver, and shot the elder through the temple,
inlicting injuries from which he died two hours
after.
An explosion at Poutypridd, Wales, on
the 18th of April, imprisoned nine men behind
column of coal forty yards thick. Con-
tinuous operations for their rescue resulted in
the opening of communication with them on
the 18th. Five were alive, but four had wan
dered to other parts Of the mine and, it is be-
ieved, persisted.
From reports published in the Chicago
InterOcsan, on the 2lst, from 459 counties in
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa, Michigan, Penn
sylvania, Kentucky. Tennessee and Maryland,
it appears that wheat is unusually promising.
Peaches are likely to prove partial failure.
Apples promise finely, and the smaller fruits
promise about an average crop.
A circular is extensively circulated
throughout the West announcing the distribution
of $4,000 600 worth of real estate and 81, 900,
600 in gold coin at +" Crosbyis Opera House, Chi
cago, June 18th, 1871" under the direction of
the Laramie City and Topeka lotteries-for
which Cox. 900 tickets are issued at $40 each.
The Chicago Journal of the 18th prooounces the
cheme an unmitigated swindle.
William NJ. Tweed the old.time
Boss" of the New York Tammany Ring has
made what purports to be a full confession, and
given a complete history of that cabal and the
means adopted to accomplish its ends. He has
also promised to furnish confrmatory docu-
mentary evidence of the truth of his Statements.
The names of several men prominent in politi-
cal and judicial circles are mentioned as the
recipients Of the Rings bounty.
CONDENSED TELEeRAPnlC NEWS.
A Constantinonle telegram of the 18th