The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-08-16

check only. The Russian advance guard
was within six miles Of the late battle. field,
and achievements were pouring In with
great rapidly The Turkish forces at Plevna
had also been reinforced, and division had
occupied Selvi.
An important decree has been issued
by the Sultan, reducing the salaries Of oil
Government officials fifty per cent. until the
end of the war.
The Porte, on the 5th. made public IN.
nouncement that the Russians had sus.
tained . crushing defeat at Ycni-Saghra-
south Of the Balkans.
An official dispatch, published in st.
Petersburg on the 9th, admits the loss Of
upward Of 5000 men at P1evna, including
one Colonel killed and MajOr-G General and
two Colonies wounded. The dispatch also
admits that Gen. G0urk0, south Of the Bal.
kans, had been Obliged to retreat.
A Bucharest telegram of the 9Th an.
nounces that Mehemet Ali and Osmau Pasha
had defeated the Russians at Tirnova, with
loss of Is 900 killed and wounded.
Orders have been issued for the imme.
date mobilization of the Scrvian Army.
The Russians have again commenced
forward movement in Armenia.
GENERAL.
At Chicago, on the 31st ult., eight of
the rioters engaged in stopping trains ON the
Toledo, Peoria 4 Warsaw Railroad were
tried before Judge Drummond, of the United
States Circuit Court. That road being In
possession of a receiver appointed by the
Court, they were adjudged guilty of con-
tempt, and sentenced to pay fine Of fifty
dollars and costs of court each, and to be i'm
prisoned in the County Jail from two to four
months-thc leader (Mack) receiving the
longer term-thc imprisonment to be con-
tinued until the fines be paid.
Several of the leaders in the recent dis.
turbances at Columbus, Ohio, were tried, on
the 3lst ult., and assessed heavy fines or
given long sentences in the County Jail.
The military had been recalled, and trains
would commence to run on all the roads
there at once.
Trains were running ON all the roads
leading from st. Louis, on the Slst ult., and
men were working as usual. There was
still trouble at various points on the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern, Pittsburgh,
Fort Wayne 4 Chicago, baltimore & Ohio,
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati & st. Louis, and the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroads.
All the other roads centering in Chicago
were running and doing large business.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
met at Cleveland, on the LIST, and nominated
w. H. West, for Governor; Fcrd. Vogeler,
for Lieutenant Governor; w. H. johnson,
for Supreme Judge; Geo. X. Nash, for At.
torney-General; D. c. Rowell, for Clerk OF
the Supreme Court; ]. T. Lukens, for
School Commissioner, and A. w. Luck
ey, for Member of the Board of Pub.
lie Works. The resolutions reafYlrm
the declarations of the last Republican Ma
tional Convention; express unfaltering conf
dence in President Hayes as a statesman,
patriot and Republican, and cordially ap.
prove "h;s efforts for the pacification of the
country and the establishment of it's civil
service upon o basis of purity and efiicien-
cy;" declare the unalterable purpose of the
Republican party to maintain and enforce
the Constitutional amendments; favor silver
and gold rs legal tender and the remonetiza-
ton of silver; oppose any further grants Of
public lands and subsidies to railroads; ap-
prove the action of the National and State
authorities in their efforts, during the late
disturbances, to enforce the supremacy of
the law, but declare sympathy with the con.
dition of the honest and industrious labor
ers who are willing to work but remain un.
employed, but whose wages are inadequate
to their necessities, and recommend the
establishment of National Bureau of In.
dustry, and that Congress shall exercise
such authority as shall be necessary to ade.
quately protect the interests Of labor and
capital alike, and demand statutory arbitra.
tons to adjust differences and controversies
between employers and employed.
On the LIST. at Wiikesbarre, Pa, q crowd
numbering between 6, 900 and Z, 600 assembled
at the Lehigh Valley Depot to witness the
arrival of the mail train. A Constable and
United States detective standing on tie
platform next the engine were stoned, and
the engineer was compelled to give up his
place to some Of the strikers, who cut the
engine loose and run it off. Additional
troubles also occurred at Scranton, Pa, on
the LIST, and q company of volunteers fired
into and dispersed . large mob, killing four
and wounding several others. All business
places in the town were closed and addition.
al volunteer companies were being organized.
Further troubles were feared.
A large number of State troops were
quartered in the Wyoming (Pa.) coal region.
on the I'd, under the immediate command Of
the Governor. They were making wholesale
arrests of strikers and rioters. The labor
ers still persisted in their determination to
prevent the resumption of work, and out
RACES were frequent.
On the I'd, Capt. Howgate's schooner
Florence sailed from New London, Conn
for the Arctic Ocean, under command Of
Capt. Tyson, to establish Capt. Howgatc',
polar colony 1t . point ON the coast ON thu
north side of Cumberland, there to store tn,
supplies upon which the main exploring OK
petition, which will sail in July, 1873, undel
Capt. Howgate, is to subsist
On the morning of the I'd, while pass
ing through Exchange place, in New York
Jay Gould was accOstcd by Maj. A. Sclover
Californian. Words were exchanged
when SelOvcr struck Gould one or tw,
blows, and then threw him down an area
way, . distance Of eight feet Gould wa,
only slightly injured. The trouble is sal,
to have arisen from Gould's alleged betrsys
of = combination to put up the price of LAX,
Shore stocks in which Selover and Keene
the California operator, were interested
Selover says Gould tried to have him sci
his stock when he Gould Was buying, an,
In doing SO tried to overreach him.
On the Sd, . cigar.box factory in Gin
cinnati was burned and six persons arc be
lieved to have persisted in the flames.
An awful accident occurred 1t Pitt
burgh, Pa, on the Sd. Seven men were en-
gagged In lining furnace ON . scafold sun
ported BY ropes. These caught fre and IL
scafFold was precipitated into the furnace
Two were instantly killed and i've 60 badl.
burned that their lives are despaired Of.
The schooner Grace A. Channon wa
run down and sunk, in Lake Michigan, b,
the propeller Favorite at . point midwa,
between Milwaukee and Racine, on tn
night Of the I'd. All on board were save