The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-21

made receivable for all it, dues, and q legal
tender in the payn,entot alldebts, and con-
.ysrtible into bonds bearing an equable rate
81 interest, viii afford the hest circulating
nedium ever discovered; declare in favor
~ abolishiug all banks Of issue, favor the
characterization of the silver dollar and
making it legal.tender for the payment Of
all coin bonds, but oppose the issue OF bonds
for the purchase of silver bullion for COIN
age; favor the taxation OF United States
bonds, q re-enactment of the law taxing in
comes, and declare it to be the duty of tn.
Government to foster and encourage the de-
velopment of the resources Of the country,
that labor may be fully and probably en-
ployed, and the general welfare established
and secured. .f$,. .rl
On the 9Th, i've men were arrested,
charged with the recent attempt to wreck
and rob train ON the st. Louis 4 San Fran
cisco Railroad, near Wood End Station. One
Of the party confessed the crime, and said
the intention was to run the entire train of
the track, and then, under the guise Of assist
ing the wounded, rob the passengers and
plumber the train. Four Of the gang were
still at large. The prisoners are farmers and
live near kichland, Mo-, small town near
where the outrage occurred.
According to London dispatch of the
morning of the Sth, Russian Ambassador
had reached that city, bearing . letter from
Prince Gortschakoff to Lord Derby, In which
the former stated that Russia did not in
tend to interfere with the Suez Canal,
Egypt, the Dardanelles, or the Persian
N,,lf no Sukn 90
acquiring Constantinople, though che
would not consent to its possession by
any other Christian power. The letter con-
cludes by stating that Russia's sole object in
the conduct of the war is to improve the
condition of the Turkish Christians.
On the 9Th, the Russian official news
paper published a decree ordering new levy
of 21S, OOO men.
Several Turkish officers have been shot
for the surrender of Arabian.
A Therapis telegram of the 10th reports
naval battle Of not large proportions at the
Sulina mouth of the Danube, in which the
Russians lost three torpedo boats and some
prisoners and the Turks sustained the loss
of one iron-clad.
The five days. fight at Duga Pass, in
Montenegro, was ended on the 10th, and re
suited in the utter defeat of the Turks, who
lost over 1900 men and large quantities of
arms and ammunition, left on the field,
On the 9th, the Russians attempted to
cross 900 men over the Danube at Rutschuk
with pontoons, but were driven back by the
batteries with considerable loss. The attempt
was believed to be feint to develop the To-
cation Of the Turkish batteries.
A London dispatch of the 18th says the
instruction around Sukoum-Kale was
spreading.
A Bucharest telegram of the 18th says
there were 800 newspaper correspondents in
Roumania.
The Turkish Minister at Athens has
been instructed to demand of Greece the
reason for her extraordinary war prepara-
tiOns. A ConstantinOple dispatch of the
18th states that the insurrectionary move
ment in Crete, Epirus and Thessaly had
grown to large proportions.
The Russians began the bombardment
of Rutschuk on the evening of the 18th. The
Turks returned the fire.
Over thousand of the miners employed
by the Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Companies
struck, on the 18th, against a proposed re.
duction of wages.
Ex-Gov. Hendricks, of Indiana, reached
New York on the 11h, en- route for Europe
Previous to leaving Indianapolis he was
rendered reception by the citizens, which
was largely attended, and at which speeches
were made by Gov. Hendricks, Gov. Williams,
Senator Mcdonald, D. w. Voorhees, and
others.
Senator Ferry, of Michigan, who had
been seriously i'll at his home in Grand
Haven, was reported to be much better on
the 18th.