The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-10-04

ed the pndon press. the ssd, Zs7
Turks ID been altoge1er driveA out Of
Pr,ncipality. The Pri4 had es Alished
headquarters at Nicic4.
Osman Pasha, in command at Plevna,
was, on the sd, reinforced BY a0,0o0 men
under Chevket Pasha. He also received
q large quantity Of ammunition.
An assault upon Schipka, on the 21st
and ed, was Iegalsed, With eonsid enable lQaa
ON the part Of the Turks.
The armies of the Czarowitz and Me-
hemet Ali came together On tAc Rast 6nd .
battle epsued, which continued ,ust(t dark.
Both sidss seem ID hsNn fonghtswea IA the
relative positions Of both had not changed
when the fight ended.
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Some Cinnamon having, on the 18th,
brutally murdered Mr.. Sargent, his fore
man and the latter's wife, In Placer County,
CAL, the citizens drove the Cinnamon out
Of the Town Of Brockton and destroyed the
Chinese quarters. On the night of the nth,
the Chinese portion Of the Town of Grass
Valley was burned. On the morning Of the
18th, body of armed men left Roseville,
and proceeded up the Auburn road, warning
all Cinnamon to leave before midnight,
Under penalty Of death. Some sixty left.
An east bound passenger train on the
Union Pacific Railroad was stopped and
robbed by band Of thirteen masked men ut
Big Springs, Neb., on the night Of the 18th.
The robbers FIRST captured the station and
cut the telegraph wires, and forced the
agent to hang out red light When the
train stopped they took possession, putting
the train-men and passengers under guard.
The express car was broken into and the safe
robbed of 5000. The passengers were
also robbed. The Railroad Company has
offered reward Of e5,O00 for the arrest of
the robbers. @ -.e-.f ,a
The Mexican President having ordered
the Rio Grande jail-breakers to be surren-
dered to the United States authorities,
Canales and other Mexican Generals In the
Department of Matamoras have Indignantly
thrown up their commissions. 1t was
thought, on the 10th, that these officers were
meditating revolution against the Admins
tration of President Diaz.
The Merchants, Farmers s. Mechan !.
les Savings Bank, of Chicago, closed its
doors on the afternoon Of the 10th. The de-
positors number about 1850, and the aggre-
ate Of dep osit is about $500, 200.
Trains commenced crossing the Union
Pacific Railroad bridge at Omaha, on the
10th. the damage caused by the great storm,
. few weeks ago, having been repaired.
The steamer Grand Republic, the largest
craft which navigated the Mississippi, was
burned while tied to the bank, below st.
Louis, on the evening Of the 10th. Loss,
about eS5O,OO0 The steamer Carondelet, tied
alongside, was also burned, involving an ad-
ditional loss Of $4,000.
Spencer, the defaulting Chicago bank
President, had not been arrested up to the
morning of the 18th. It was believed that he
left the steamer Circassian at Neville, Ire.
land, from whence q passage to the Cont
nent was easy.
By sudden rise of the Black Warrior
River, Ala, on the 2lst, the entire crops in the
valley were swept away. The cotton de-
stroyed is estimated at $4,000 bales. Most
of the planters are ruined by the disaster,
and it was feared suffering would ensue, and
that the planters would be deprived of the
Of life. Merchants had advanced
heavily on the crops and would lose corre-
spondingly.
A furious snow storm prevailed at
Mount Washington, N. H., on the 21st
The western bound Chicago express
train on the New York Central Railroad col
lided with freight train, near Rome, N. T.,
on the 2lst, owing to the displacement Of q
switch. Both engines were wrecked and the
mail and baggage cars destroyed. A fire.
man, brakeman and . mail-agent were
killed and several other persons were severe
ly injured. Ia
The members of the Syndicate were in
with Sec'y Sherman, on the
evening Of the ed, and the ~ per cent. loan
account was closed. The amount subscribed
was 500, O00, 900, of which e1S5, O0O, 900, waa1
for refunding the debt and els, OO0, 900 for
purposes Of resumption. The 1 per cent
loan was being rapidly taken and would be
settled in October as the calls mature.
The President and his party reached
Atlantis, Ga, on the 22d. They were heart.
lily welcomed, the Governor of the State de-
livering the welcoming address. The Presi.
dent and members of his Cabinet made ap-
propriate responses.
Theirs manifesto, addressed to the Pa
risian electors. was published on the oath.
He justifes the late Chamber of Deputies,
and praises its moderation and wisdom; de-
clares monarchy impossible; proclaims
the sovereignty Of the Nation and its power
to rebuke the recent dissolution Of the Dep
uties' Chamber, aud that to resist its power
would be usurpation; demands the freedom
Of elections and the freedom Of the press,
etc., etc.
On the oath, fire broke out in the
model room of the Patent Office building in
Washington, and before 1t could be checked
the upper stories of the structure were de-
stroyed, involving loss variously estimated
1t from $500, 600 to 100000 About oO,OoO
models and other property belonging to the
Patent Office were burned. The water also
greatly damaged the books and records in
the lower rooms Of the building. It was be-
lteved that the fire originated from spon-
taneous combustion in the model room.
John s. Morton, the President of the
West Philadelphia Passenger Railway, waa
arrested, on the oath, upon the charge Of
having fraudulently issued 10000 shares Of
the cOmpany's stock. He states that he was
drawn into the Transaction by other parties
and had not realized dollar, personally, -
account q the fraudulent Issue.
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