The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-06-07

RUDLSuID EVERY THURSDAY.
REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Famine is threatened in many districts
of Bosnia.
The Illinois Legislature adjourned ssn1
die on the oath.
The whole east coast of Atchin has Teen
ceded to the Dutch.
President MacMahon has required Don
Carlos to leave France.
The Car has issued IN Imperia, decree
forbidding the granting of letters Of marque.
Roumania has appropriated for the use
of her army the zoo, 900 francs tribute usually
paid to Turkey.
The Turkish troors which fed from
Arabian have been defeated in the mountain
passes near kars.
The Turkish Chamber Of Deputies has
adopted = resolution demanding the Inn
peachmeut Of Mahmoud Neddin Pasha,
W. II. &. Hosmer, well known as the
Bard Of Avon" died at Avon, N. T., ON the
years old.
The horse Ten Brock recently ran q
mile in 1894, in Louisville, Ky. This is two
seconds faster than the same distance had
been previously made.
A letter from Kossuth has been pub.
lished. in which he urges an alliance be-
tween Turkey and Hungary against their
common enemy, Russia.
On the night of the 26th, the dwelling
of Henry Tower, of North Clarendon, Mass,
was burned and two Of his children, aged
nine and eleven years respectively, persisted
in the flames.
The Circuit Court of Dearborn County,
Ind. has lately decided that the law courts OF
Utah have no jurisdiction in divorce cases
over residents of other States, and that such
divorces are illegal and void.
The Turkish Commander has notified
the inhabitants Of Rustchuk, Varna, Shumla
and Silcstria that all persons who have not
provisions for at least six months must leave
within twelve days from May q.
Secretary Thompson, of the Navy
Department, has transmitted orders to
United States Naval Commanders in foreign
waters to show suitable attention to ex-Pres-
ident Grant and facilitate in all regards his
tour of observation.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
by Mr.. P. T. Barnum for the restitution of
the stolen boy, Charley Ross. Immunity is
promised to the persons making the surren
der. The father OF the boy has, it is said,
sanctioned the arrangem-n
Simms, the fugitive slave, who was cap.
tured by Atty..Gen. Devens when he was
United States Marshal, at Boston, during
Filmore's administration, and turned over
TO the Savannah authorities, under the Fugi-
tive Slave law, has been appointed messenger
in Gen. Devens' Department
Au''ecs Aoin ASIA minor report that the
Mohammedan Instruction in the C.ncasus
had proved a serious check to the advance
of the Russian Army. The insurgents were
constantly harassing the Russian outposts.
A large force Of Circassians attacked the
Russians near the frontier, and compelled
them to retreat.
At Hartford, Conn.,, on the 25th, two
self-confessed guilty officers of the Farmers'
and Mechanics National Bank of Hartford
Jas. L. Chapman, Cashier. and John C. Tracy,
Preeldcnt-were sentenced to several years
hard labor in the State Prison. The crimes
were embezzlement and perjury, and the
amount embezzled $59S 900.
In the Rockford (In.) Court. House dis.
aster, the Coroner's Jury rendered verdict
finding that the falling of the building was
owing to the neglect of Henry L. Gay, the
architect. The Board Of Supervisors was
also censured for carelessncss in the exam.
nation of the plans and specifications, and
for employing An incompetent arci,i ect to
superintend the construction of the building.
The Chicago Common Council has
passed an ordinance requiring that all fresh
fruits and berries sold in that city shall be
sold in aliquot parts Of . bushel, according
to the table Of dry measures, and that all
fruit or berries, fresh or dried, shall be Of
equal goodness in every part of the package.
The penalty for q violation of the ordinance
Is fine Of not less than IS nor more than
SIS.
At recent session of the Grand Lodge
nj fho To- q
land, Me-, the following were elected officers
for the ensuing year: Theodore d. Kanouse,
OF Wisconsin, G. W. G. T.; Rev. Stephen
Todd. of England, r. W. G. C.; Mrs. A. H.
Brookbank, r. W. q. v. T.; w. g. Williams,
Of Napanee, Ont, r. W. G. g.; r. 8. Scott,
of St. Louis, Mo-, X. w. G. T.; Mrs. NJ. B.
ODonnell, Of Lowville, N. r., Chief Super.
intcndent of Juvenile Templars. The report
OF the Grand Secretary shows . membership
Of 100000
On the 25th, in an interview with a re.
porter Of the Memphis Avalanche, Gov.
Stone. of Mississippi, stated that he had re-
quested Judge HanOm, Circuit Judge, to call
an extra session Of his court for the purpose
Of bringing the guilty parties in the Kcmper
County tragedy to trial, and that % Governor
he had exhausted his authority. He had Wis
tied Dekaab a. soon a. he had heard Of the
riot, but found nothing to do ~ the rioters
had dispersed. He thought It exceedingly
doubtful il jury in Kempcr County would
convict the rioters, all Of whom resided there
and we're well known.
CONDENSED TeleeRAPnlc NEWS.
At Chester, Pa, ON the e2d, during the
launching Of an iron steamer, several work.
mon, who did not hear the warning and failed
to get out Of the way - the vessel started,
were killed, and others were seriously In.
jured. Those killed or fatally injured mum.