The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-09-27

and nominated VIM. CASTOR for Governor;
W. r. Plunket for Lieutenant Governort w.
Rowland for Secretary Of State: D. N. Skill
ing for Treasurers John E. Fitzgerald for
Auditor, and z. P. Thompson for Attorney
General. The resolutions reaff1rm the Ma
tional Democratic platform of 1876: declare
the belief that Tilden and Hendricks were
fairly elected by the people; congratulate
the country upon the happy results follow
Ing the adoption Of Democratic principles
and measures by the Executive in reference
to the Southern States." and oppose the re-
enactment of the State Prohibitory Liquor
law.
The Bankers Convention, in session at
New York City, adjourned sine die on the
14th. Resolutions were adopted protesting
against Federal taxation of National Banks,
except on circulation, and demanding that
National Bank property shall be assessed
for State purposes on the same basis as
other taxable values; favoring the early
resumption Of specie payments; de-
claring that the general use of coin, the
measure of value, will alone secure certain
rewards to labor and impart that steadiness
to the value of property which are required
to stimulate enterprise and give proper en-
couragement to industry; favoring the use
of subsidiary silver coin:.as q factor toward
the restoration of the value of paper cur
rency, ETC.. etc.
The statement was made, on the 18th,
that the defalcations of Parsons, the alb.
sconding Mayor of Burlington, Iowa, would
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was Assistant Cashier would lose $4,000;
the School District fund, of which he was
Treasurer, &S6,00O, and numerous other in
terests the remainder.
The London Telegraph of the morning
of the 18th published dispatch from STAN
ley, the African explorer, dated Embomma,
In Congo, on the west coast of Africa, Aug.
10. He stated that he had completely navi-
gated the Lualaba and proved it to be identi-
cal with the Congo.
Thirty new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Fernandina, Fla, on tie evening
Of the 18th. In some instances entire fami-
lies were sick. Many citizens were leaving
the place. Aid in the persons of physicians
and nurses arrived on the 10th from Savan-
nah, Ga.
WIN. NJ. Tweed appeared before New
York Aldermanic Investigating Committee,
on the 18th, and stated the action of the
Tammany Ring in respect to the charter of
1870 He detailed the circumstances attend
ing its passage and gave the names of sundry
Senators to whom he paid money for votes.
1t was understood by the Ring that they
were to be reimbursed for the sums they had
expended to pass the charter.
The strike of the Hazleton Pa.) miners
ended on the 10th, the demands of the strik-
ers being substantially acceded to.
At their recent session at Indianapolis,
the National Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers elected F. B. Allen, of Louisville,
KY, Grand Master for the ensuing year, and
W. N. sayre, of Indianapolis. Grand secre-
tary and Treasurer.
A monument to the memory of the
Union soldiers who fell in the late war was
dedicated in Boston, on the 18th. A pro-
cession numbering 10000 passed through the
streets, and an assemblage said to have
numbered 100000 gathered at night on the
Common. During the dedicatory services
several tiers of seats fell, and hundreds of
people went down in the ruins. About thirty
persons were injured, some of them quite
seriously.
President Hayes was enthusiastically
received at Louisville, KY, ON the 18th. A
reception speech was made by Mayor Jacobs
and an address of welcome by Rev. Stuart
Robinson, to which the President responded
at some length, returning thanks for the
welcome extended to him and his Cabinet.
Sec'y Evarts, Gen. Wade Hampton. Gov. Van
Zandt, Postmaster. Gen. Key, Sec'y McCrary,
Sec'y Thompson and Sec'y Schurz also made
short addresses.
A Bozeman MONTY special of the
18th says Gen. Sturgis, assisted by Howard's
Cavalry, under Sanford, fought the Nez
Perces Indians, on Canon Creek, on the 14th.
Ten Indians were killed and about 500 ponies
captured. In two battles the Crow Indians
and soldiers had captured about l 600 horses.
Three hundred Crows were to join Gen.
Sturgis on the evening of the 14th, when he
would again pursue the fleeing hostiles.
Gen. Howard was twenty. five miles in the
rear.
The Bible thrown from q car on the
Illinois Central Railroad, by Father Grogan,
a Chicago Catholic Priest, was picked up by
some section hands and returned to the Chi
cago railroad headquarters on the 18th. It
is said there was no sign of skeleton or
improper mark in the book, as alleged by
Father Grogan when called upon to explain
why he threw the book out Of the window.