The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-07-26
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed fSlsgrsphic News
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Potato-bugs have been, discovered

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The Senate of the University of London
has decided to admit women to degrees In
other departments rs we'll gas that Of medi-
cine. %
On the 18th. at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
Kate Wells, seven years old, was fatally
burned by the explosion Of can of kero-
sene oil, with which, she was kindling ire.
The official canvass of the vote Ia Min.
nesota, at the special election on the old
railroad.bond question, gives the following
result: Noes, Sc. 176; ayes, 7,S24. Majority
against the proposed plan of settlement,
4l,S5..
News has been received at the United
States Treasury in Washington to the effect
that elO2 is being paid in London for $500 Of
4per cent. U. =, bonds, thus showing that the
bonds are at par in England.
Four men were killed and eight injured
by the explosion Of boiler In Kecfer's ore
mills, at Millcrstown, Lehigh County, Pa,
on the 14th. Several horses and mules were
killed, and the engine house, boilers, ETC.,
utterly wrecked.
1t is stated that the sufferers by the fire
in st. John, n. B., have been amply provided
for by the donations received from other
cites, and that the insurance money received
for property DESTROYED will go far toward re-
building the town.
The subscription to the new Govern.
4 akoS4 10
900 up the evening of the 10th, of which
ssS,OCO,OOo were through the Syndicate. and
100000 through the Treasurer and Assist.
ant Treasurers of the United States.
The fifty-first call for the redemption of
$50 bonds of 1865, aud cousols of same year,
was issued by the Treasury Department on
the 10Th. 1t is for $4,000, QUO, of which
tered bonds, principal and interest to be paid
at the Treasury on and after the 10th of o.
tober next, interest to cease on that day.
President Hayes has, it is said. decided
tional Committee who are Federal office
holders do not come under the new rule that
Government officials shall not take an active
part in partisan campaign operations, for
the reason that they will have nothing to do,
as committeeman, for three years to come.
A scoundrel, calling himself o. L..
Evans, has flooded the West with circulars
proposing that the recipient purchase twelve
tickets in the Georgia Lottery, at a cost Of
$40, and agreeing to go manipulate tae num-
beers drawn from the wheel as to make one Of
the tickets draw q prize of $1,000. The
victims have been numerous. The New
York police force have called upon the ad.
dress named in the circular, but Evans could
not he found.
The State elections to be held this year
are as follows: Alabama, Aug. 6. Lcgisla-
tive; Kentucky, Aug. 6, Legislative and
County; California. Sept. S, Legislative;
Vermont, Sept. S, full ticket; Maine, Sept.
10, full ticket; Colorado, Oct. 2, Legislative;
Iowa, Oct. 2, full ticket; Ohio, Oct. 2, full
ticket; Louisiana, Nov. 6, Legislative; Massa-
chusetts, Nov. 6, full ticket; Minnesota, Nov.
6, full ticket; Mississippi, Nov. 8, Lcgisla-
tive; Nevada, Nov. 6, full ticket; New Jer-
sey, Nov. 6, Legislative and County; New
York, Nov. 6, Legislative and State; Penn
sylvania, Nov. 6, Legislative; South Carolina,
Nov. 6, Legislative; Tennessee, Nov. 6, full
ticket; Texas, Nov. 6, full ticket; Virginia,
Nov. 6, full ticket; Wisconsin, Nov. 6, full
ticket.
The Greenback State Convention of
Iowa was held at DcsMoines, ON the 10TH
Resolutions were adopted demanding the
unconditional repeal Of the Specie-Resump-
ton act Of Jan. IA, 1875; the abolition of
National Banks, and the issue of legal-t
der paper money by the Government, and
receivable for all dues, public and private;
the reconciliation of the silver dollar, max
ing it full legal tender; that all legal
means be exhausted to eradicate the traffic
in alcoholic liquors, and the abatement of
the evil Of intemperance; and commend ev-
cry honest effort for the furtherance of civil.
service reform. The following nominations
were made by reclamation: For Governor,
Daniel p. Stubbs, of jefferson County; Lieu
nant-Governor, A. H. McCready; Supreme
Judge, John Porter; Superintendent of Pub
lie Instruction, 8. T. Ballard.