The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-05


mania is estimated at 4l7,OO0.
Alex. Barclay 4 Co., of Gottenburg
Sweden, have failed for 81 $40, 600.
The passage of the Danube has
strengthened the war party in Greece.
A fire at Burlington, Iowa, on the morn.
ing Of the 10th, destroyed property valued
at $l9O,OOO
Robert Dale Owen. the Spiritualist
aud an eminent author, died few days
ago at Lake George, N. Y. He was seventy
six years old.
Less than one.third of the amount Of
property destroyed by the fire in st. John,
n. b., is covered by insurance, the amount
of the latter being about 5000, Geo.
Orders have been gwen by the Ord.
nance Bureau for the issue of 1000 stand Of
arms to the State Of Oregon, 500 to the Ter.
ritory of Idaho and 500 to Washington Ter.
ritory.
Austria has formally refused to inter.
vene in behalf of Montenegro, unless the
latter acknowledges herself hopelessly pros
trate. and makes direct application for as.
sistance.
At Bridgeport, Pa, few nights ago.
five tramps were sleeping on the furnaces of
an abandoned lime kiln, when the walls gave
way, and four of the men were killed and
one fatally injured.
Eleven of the Mollle Mcguire consplra-
tors of the Pennsylvania coal region, con-
victed Of murder, were hanged on the 21st-
six at Pottsvillc, four at Mauch Chunk and
one at Wilkes barre.
Secretary Sherman has written letter,
Endorsed by the Cabinet, in which he ex-
presses the opinion that the new per cent.
Government bonds, principal and interest,
will have to be paid in gold, according to
the laws in force on the 14th of July, 1870,
when the bonds were authorized.
Nearly year ago young lady named
Mary Ella Harrington was abducted from
East Boston. Mass, and her body was re-
Gently found in the Merrimack River, six
miles from Lowell. The body was bound
with ropes aid compressed into the smallest
possible compass, sewed in sacks and
weighted down.
large number of Jewish firms in Gin
cinnati have signed a pledge not to have
hereafter anything to do with the firm of
A. T. Stewart 4 Co., of which Judge Hilton,
of New York, is the acknowledged head.
This action is taken in view Of the discrim-
ination made. by order Of Mr.. Hilton,
aiv.t Tsra aaf ha nj
Of Saratoga.
On the 21st, the Secretary of State of
New York, in defending the action in
Tweed's case, said that, while the matter was
under consideration by the Attorney. Gener-
al, information reached him that Tweed had
s2,OOO,OOO to his credit in Europe, and that
he desired his discharge only to enable him
to embark with confederates in large street
railway enterprise in Madrid.
According to the Washington Daily
. Nation of the 2lst, dispatches had been re-
ceived there gravely limiting that the Roth
schilds might withdraw from the Syndicate
and oppose American credit in Europe, in
consequence of the action of Mr.. Hilton to-
ward Mr.. Scligman. The course of Judge
of the Treasury as unwarranted.
An old man named Patrick Golden,
aged eighty. three years, was brutally muir.
dered at his own house in Nicholson, Wy.
oming County, few days ago. He was sit.
ting with his wife in the parlor, when q
masked man ente red and shot him twice, in
fcting wounds of which he died in few
minutes. The murderer then escaped. This
occurred the day after the Molly Mcguire ex
ccution in the State.
A large section of country in Northern
Missouri, Iowa, Northern and Central iii
nois and Southern Wisconsin was visited by
heavy wind and rain storms on the 25th
Considerable damage was done in some To-
calities. passenger train from Chicago fol
Cincinnati was blown from the track neal
Kankakee, H., one of the seven cars beini
lifted on to an embankment six feet high
Fortunately no one was fatally injured BY
the accident, though six of the $50 peopl,
on hoard the train were somewhat seriously
hurt. .'
Great excitement has been recently
caused in the East, because of the exclusion
of Joseph Seligman, prominent New YOrl
banker, from the Grand Union Hotel, a
Saratoga Springs, on the ground that he wa
an Israelite. 1t was stated, on behalf of Mr.
seligman, that it was unlikely that proceed
ings would be commenced against Judy
Hilton, under the Civil Rights act, as ha,
been strongly advised. Judge Hilton state,
that he had done what he conceived to b.
his duty, in the protection of the interest
of the property placed in his charge; Their
was class of people whom he would no
have in his hotel, and he had q right T.
say SO.
Ex-Prcsident Grant, writing to G.. w
Chlds, Of Philadelphia, under date London
June 9th, says: i appreciate the fact, an
am proud of it, that the attentions am r.
eeiving are intended more for our countr
than for me personally. love to see gu
country honorcd and respected abroad, and
am proud to believe that it is by most q
Nations, and by some even loved. It ha
always been my desire to see all jealous
between England and the United States aba,
ed, and every sore healed. Together the
are more powerful for the spread of commerc
and civilization than all the others combined
and can do more to remove the causes
wars by creating mutual interests that woul
I've 30 much endangered by war"
On the 23d, the President addressed
circular to all prominent Federal officer,
calling attention to . paragraph in . pr,
vious letter to the Secretary of the Trea
ury on the conduct of Govcrnmel
officers in respect to elections, as follow
"NO officer should be required or permi
ted to take part in the management of p,
litical organizations, caucuses, convention
or election campaigns. Their right to vol
and to express their views on public que
tions, either orally or through the press,
not denied, provided it does not interfeI
with the discharge of their official d,
ties. No assessment for political pu
poses Of officers or sub0rdinates shout
be allowed" The President adds: 18th
rule is applicable to every departmel
of the Civil Service It should he n,