The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-05-24

The @edwasd 6azette,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
The expectation of corn ftom Servia has
been prohibited.
Defense works are being constructed
around Constantinople.
A Polish legion has been formed in
Austria to aid the Turks.
The Atlantic Mutual Life Insurance
Company, Of Albany, N. Y, has failed
Only one man escaped from the Turk
ish monitor which exploded near 1beail.
The Minnesota Stste Fair is to be held
at Minneapolis during the FIRST week in Sep
tember.
Prince Milan and his Cabinet have
formally assured Austria that Servia will not
disturb the peace.
The village of Eyschoff in Vslois has
been destroyed BY fire. Over 100 people were
rendered homeless.
The President has signed q convention
between the Postoffice Department Of the United
States and that of Italy.
The Governor of New York has vetoed
bill which passed the Legislature authorizing
the election of women to school offices.
d.. Taylor Lewis, President of Union
College died at Schenectady. N. Y, on the night
of the 18th. He was seventy-fve years old.
A recent flood has overflOwed both
banks of the Tigris, completely blockading tho
City of Bagdad, and sweeping away 200 houses
in Kiamize.
The Iowa State Temperance Convention
has been called to meet in DesMoinss ON the
10Th. The State Temperance Alliance meets on
the preceding day.
An Albany IN. " special of the Sth
says Acknowledgement Fairchild had returned
the document to Tweed known ashis confession,
and declined to order his release.
A ST. Petersburg letter of q late date
says the Russian troops under Gen. Kaufman
will cross the Pamir into India in the event Of
England taking part in the Turkish war.
Foreign papers were received in New
York, on the 18th, which report the capture of
the veritable sea-serpent at Oban, Scotland.
The specimen was l0l feet long and eleven feet
around the body.
The sentence of Mai. Reno of dismissal
from the army for indignities offered the wife
Of brother officer has been commuted by the
President to suspension from office without rank
OF pay for two years.
Owing to the sudden fall of the water in
the Danube making it impossible to get out the
Turkish monitors in the old bed of the river op.
posite Ibrail, the Porte has ordered that they b.
abandoned or DESTROYED.
Two Deputy United States Marshals and
two special United States Bailiffs have been ar
rested at Glasgow, KY, on a charge of shooting
with intent to kill. The trouble arose from an
attempt to arrest illicit distillers.
The Russian Minister, Count Shiskin
has formally notified the Secretary of State, Al
Washington, that a state of war exists between
Russia and Turkey. Similar notice was given
by the Turkish Minister some time ago.
The Delaware e. Hudson Canal Compa.
ny issued circular. on the 18th, stating that, on
account of the unusual competition, prices fol-
coal would be made from day to day. This wa,
understood by the New York coal men to mean
war and low prices.
The New York Senate Committee OF
Investigation have made a report, stating tina,
they have been unable to find any testimony to
sub ,tantiate the charges against Senator Woodin
preferred or stated in Tweed's confession
The Senate unanimously adopted the report.
The fifty second anniversary of the
American Tract Society was celebrated in New
York ON the evening Of the 18th. The receipt
for last year, according to the annual report
were S44l, 1885, and the expenditures, eA4l, ll9
About Zoo, 900 copies of the Society's pubica
tons were circulated during 1876-77.
POindexter Edmondson, who WIS tt
have been hanged at Bloomfield, NO., ON tn,
18th, has been reapited by the Governor unit
July Is. He was convicted solely on circum
stantial evidence, and dying man is said t,
have lately confessed that he committed tn,
murder for which Edmondson was found guilty
CONDENSED TElEeRAPnIc NEWS.
The London Globe of the 9th publishes
Pera dispatch in which it il stated that tn,
Russians bad gained an important victory be
tween Kars and Erzcroum and that the Turk
had retreated upon the latter place. It WA
rumored that the latter had lost II, 900 men.
A Constantinople telegram of the Oh
says the Sultan had resolved to proclaim hol,
war.
A Bucharest special of the 9th say.
Roumania had decided to proclaim her indie
pendence and issue declaration of war.
A st. Petersburg dispatch of the 9th
says 4 fanatical rising had taken place in tn,
Tchetchensi country. One hand of 500 insur