The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-06
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CQJRRENT PARAeRAPsaN.

CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The Polish authorities have forbidden
the sale of arms to the Inhabitants Of War
saw.
The plague having broken out in Rus
sian Poland. the German frontier has been
closed by strong military guard.
The famine in India has already cost
the Government eS,OOO,O O0, and 10 now caus-
ing an expenditure of $500, 600 per month.
The Army and Macy Journal says o.
man Pasha, the victor In the Battle Of Plev-
M, is no other than cx-Marshal Bazainc, of
France.
Charles A Minnie (cOlorcd) has won the
West Point appointment in Congressman
Miller's On. w. District, his average being
nincty-cight
On the Goth and 21st, Frederick Cavill
swan across the English Channel, starting
from Cape Grizncz at $40 r. IN. on the 10th,
and reaching Dover ut 3:45 a. m. on the 2lst.
On the Goth, while testing the new Edi-
son telephone, music was transmitted from
New York to Hartford and back, q distance
of 240 miles. 1t was heard distinctly at each
end Of the wire.
The mystery surrounding the disappear
ancc of the young daughter Of Mr.. Rose, Of
Washington County, Ncb., has boon lately
olvcd by finding her dead body in q creek
about two miles from her fathers house.
Ex-GOv. Wells and Gen. Anderson, of
the Louisiana Returning Board, were in
Washington on the 25th. They stated that
their visit had no connection with the In.
formation recently filed against them In New
Orleans.
An error has been discovered in the
election return of Kern County for Congress.
man from the Fourth California District,
the erection Of which gives the scat to
Wigginton instead of Pachcco, the latter's
majority, previously claimed, being only one.
1t seems three votes had been enormously
given to Pachcco instead Of WiggintOn.
Parties having claims for goods de-
s,roycd during the riots in Pittsburgh have
been notified by the General Freight Agent
OF the Pennsylvania Railroad to put euch
claims into the hands of the attorneys of the
Company, and they will be presented to the
authorities of Allegheny County without ex-
pcnse to the claimants, the county being re-
sponsiblc for the losses.
In New York City, on the 23d, at a
meeting of the Cuban League, an address to
the people of the United States was adopted,
together with a resolution that the inhabit-
ants of the larger cities form Cuban Leagues
for the purpose of exercising moral influence
upon our own and other civilized Govern
ments in favor of the suppression of the in
human war wagcd against Cuba during the
last eight years, and asking the influence Of
the press to demand Cuba's recognition as
bclligcrent.
Three persons were recently arrested in
Chicago, who are supposed to be members of
gang Of forgers which has, within the past
year or two, ewindled banks and bankers in
various parts of the country out of i'm mensc
sums Of money. Among the victims were
the Third National Bank Of New York, which
was swindled out of - 200, and Winslow,
Lancr Il CO., of New York, who contributed
$4,000 upon a forged check for $64 ,OOO, pur-
porting to have been drawn by the New
York Life Insurance Company. The names
OF the persons arrested are N. A. Gcsner, E.
b. Weston and man named Stevens.