The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-11-08

che &edpuud Gazette,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Samuel j. Tilden returned from Eu-
rope, on the 25th, in the steamer Scythia.
The Chicago Savings Institution and
Trust Company closed its doors on the 18th.
The Erie Canal is to be closed on the
1th of December, unless sooner closed by ice.
The great eN-Confedcratc cavalry
officer, Gen. Bedford Forrest, died. few days
ago, at Memphis, Tenn.
Edwin Adams. the distinguished tra-
gcdan. died at Philadelphia, on the morning
of the 18th. He was forty-thrce years old.
The marriage Of the King of Spain
with the daughter Of the Duke lie Montpcnsicr
has been fixed for the 2;sd of January next.
Complete access to both pits Of the
coal mine near Glasgow, Scot, has shown that
30 persons persisted in the recent explosion.
\ hurricane recently swept over the
Island Of Curacao. which caused the destruc
tjon Of property worth sa.OO,OOO. Many lives
were lost.
Don Thomas Estrada, President of
the Cuban Republic. and several other Repub-
lican leaders. were recently captured on the
Cuban Coast.
The President. on the Doth. issued 4
proclamation. appointing Thursday, the Goth
of November next. to be observed as a day of
Thanksgiving and PRAYER.
Official dispatches received in WASH
ington confirm the reports previously received
in regard to the refusal of Sitting Bull to ac
cept the proposition of the United States Com
mi>>iuusr>.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
eclarc,l dividends of 10 per cent. in favor of
the creditors of the National Bank of the State
of Missouri, at St Louis, and Of the First Ma
tional Bank of Duluth Mimi.
AT Ipswich. Mass, on the evening of
the 18th. Mrs GARRISON. on retiring for the
night. blew down the chimney of a kerosene
lamp Ia cNingui>h the light. An explosion
followed, and Mrs. {. fatally burned.
John S. Morton and four other par
ties have been indicted by the Philadelphia
Grand Jury on charges of conspiracy to de
fraud and of cmbezzling S2OO0O belonging to
the Narket-Street Railway Company, Of Phila-
dclphia.
An indianapolis telegram of the 2Sth
states that the condition of Senator Morton
was less hopeful. His stomach could retain
no nourishment. and it was feared that he
must soon die from starvation unless some
means could be devised to enable him to take
aud retain food.
The Cincinnati Enquirer gives the
following as the correct statement of the vote
east for Governor. at the recent Ohio election,
according to the official count. 1t differs from
tn. reports previously made: Total vote cast.
'Nsi5oi: Bishops Dem.) vote, 213.2l3: West
Rep.t. 2i?.o3l: johnson (Grcenback). .1U3:
Bond (Workingman), 12.5l5: Thompson
trcmpcrance). 1886: scattering. 1S3.
According to the Philadelphia Bulletin
OF Il recent date. q thorough investigation Of
the merits and dement's of the Kelley motor,
hy intelligent men who formerly had faith in
the value of the invention. had resulted in the
formulation of the opinion that Mr.. Kelley
had made discovery that possesses a scien-
title value. hut that it is practically worthless;
mat. in urging it upon the public Mr.. X. has
not been guilty of fraud hut simply laboring
under delu>ion. His motor was practically
useless. for various reasons not the least i'm
lortant of which was its excessive cost in COM
Iarison with steam.
Secy Schurz is reported to have lately said
that ii was Il mistake to consider that the Sit
ting Bull Commission was not Il success. The
result. he said, was what the Administration
wanted. 1t was never desired that Sitting
Bull should return to the United States, but it
was courteous to the Dominion Government
that steps should be taken to secure his return
fugitive. The British officers are said to
have told Sitting Bull that if he considered
himself a subject Of Queen Victoria, he was
greatly mistaken: that he was fugitive from
the United States: that if he wanted to remain
in Canada he must behave himself, and that
he would not be permitted to send expeditions
To trouble United States settlers: that should
lie do 50, he would have to fight the soldiers of
the White Mother AS well as those of the Great
Father
The propositions made to Sitting Bull
10y the Commission on the part Of the United
states, and which he scornfully rejected, were
that the Sioux should surrender their arms
ammunition and horses, and go to some mill
tary post in submissive. obetlient spirit,
where they would be exempt from punish
incnt. They were also promised full compcn-
sa'ion for their property. Sitting Bull is rep
resented as replying to these propositions:
Il did not give YOU any country, but you took
it away from us. | am, if you think l am,
fool. You are bigger fools than /.
This house is medicine house. You
come here to tell lies, but we don't
want to hear them. don't want any such Ian
giiage used to me, that is to tell me such lies
in my Great Mothers Queen Victoria 81
house. Don't YOU say two more words. Go
back home where YOU came from. This coun-
Try is mine. and intend to stay here. l wish
You to 90 back, and to take it easy going back. -
THE TURCO.RUSSIAN WAR.
The Turks have bcrun the lombard