The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28

witnesses were examined, who traversed the
entire range of grievances which the mining
and laboring classes are suffering under.
Hickey, a prominent Labor eformer, attribu
| ted the hard times to several causes-amons
them, freight discrimination, coal combina-
ton and Over-populati0n; ho would have
Congress take up the matter Of railroads; they
should be compelled to relinquish their min
ing business. After more testimony of a sim
liar character, the committee adjourned size.
lie.
A New York telegram of the 18th
says one of the chief operators concerned in
the Manhattan Savings Bank robbery was in
custody, and that other arrests would soon be
made.
The New Brunswick Railroad cars
ran off the track near Florenceville, N. B., on
the night of the 18th. The passenger car con
tanning twenty persons was burned. One
child was burned to death, one person was
killed, and about fifteen were more or less in.
jured.
The Florida Supreme Court, on the
| 10th, granted an alternative mandamus
against the Canvassing Board of Alachus
County, returnablc on the 10th, in response to
a petition asking that the Board be compelled
to make a canvass of all the returns of the
county, three precincts having been thrown
out. Bisbce claimed that If the votes of Ala
chua County were all counted. he would have
200 majority, without the vote of Precinct No.
in Madison County, which had not been re-
turned by the Inspectors.
As King Humbert was entering Ma
pies, Italy, in state, on the 18th. an attempt
was made to assassinate him with q poniard.
The King escaped with slight scratches, and
the would-be assassin, whose name Is GiOvan-
nj Passauante, was hurried to prison. He said
he was poor and hated Kings.
A London dispatch of the 18th says
the Russians had demanded as a condition
precedent to the evacuation of ROumania the
right to occupy and fortify certain strate-
gical points in that country, and to maintain a
military route through Roumaaia.
The reports concerning the alleged
finding Of the body of the late A. T. Stewart,
of New York, were numerous and conflicting
up to the night of the 18th. At that time it
was positively asserted that the body was in
Judge Hilton's possession and the robbers ar
rested. The.Associated Press report, on the
morning of the 18th, declared that the author
tiles had obtained no clue to its whereabouts.
Norwich, in Norfolk County, Eng,
was inundated, on the 18th, by freshet, the
result of a fortnight's continuous rain. Two
of the most densely populous districts were
several feet under water, and 1900 dwellings
made uninhabitable. Several persons were
drowned.
A Pesth dispatch of the 18th says
the River Save, in Bosnia, had overfowed its
banks, causing serious loss of life and i'm
mense destruction of military stores.
Owing to competition between
Eastern-bound railroad lines, tickets were SELL
ing in Cincinnati, a few days ago, at the un.
precedentsdly low rates of one dollar for Phila-
delphia and New York; Pittsburgh. $2.75, and
at merely nominal rates for some common
points in Ohio.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
in Memphis, Tenn, on the night of the 18th.
st. Louis experienced the same shock. The
oscillations of the earth were very pronounced.
No damage was done in either city.
THE YELLOw.FEvER SCOUkGE.
A Jackson (Miss.) telegram of the
14th says no new cases and no deaths from
yellow fever had occurred there within forty
eight hours. The Howard Association an
nounced that they had ample means to meet
all claims upon them, and that no more con-
tributions for that locality were needed.
The members of the National yell
low-Fever Commission left Memphis, on the
night of the 18th, for Richmond, Va. In their
forthcoming report, they will advocate sys-
TEN of National quarantine under the direc-
ton of the United States Government. The
Commissioners arc convinced, from their in
vestigatiOn, that the fever at New Orleans
was caused by importation, and was carried
from there to every other point. Under
favorable circumstances, the disease might
prevail in any part of the United States.
From the experiences of the past, the Commits
sion are of the opinion that the only reason
able means to keep yellow fever from this
country is a strict National quarantine.
Seven deaths from yellow fever &C.
Cured in New Orleans during the twenty
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Most Of them we're cases Of relapse, some aft
er one or two months recovery. Five of
them were children. Total deaths to date,
4OO3.
Two new cases were reported at
Vicksburg, on the 18th, and three at Delta, La.
The total number of deaths from yell
low fever at the South, up to the 18th, was re-
ported at nearly $4,000.
The Health Officer of Vicksburg an
nounced, in an official order, on the 18th, that
it was then considered safe for absentees to
return to that city, provided their houses had
been thoroughly ventilated and fumigated.
Two yellow-fever deaths were re-
ported at New Orleans, on the 10th. A child
died of the fever at Chattanooga, Tenn, on
the night of the 18th, and the mother was sick
with the same disease; they were recently re-
turned refugees, having fed to Alabama at
the outbreak of the plague.
During forty-eight hours, ending at 6
p. m, on the 18th, there we're ten deaths in New
Orleans, as reported to the Board of Health.
No new cases reported on the 18th.
During the prevalence of the epidem-
ic at Memphis, the Appeal lost q book-keeper,
eight compositors and ten men from the press
room, while sixteen members of the fami-
lies of its workmen died. The Avalanche lost
its business manager, two editors, five COM
positors, two pressmen, q porter and two car.
riers, and the Ledger four compositors.
Resolutions Adopted by the National
Commercial Convention.
The following are the resolutions in
full adopted by the National and In
ternational Convention recently held