The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-09-26

| lth, anu nominated Rev. Dr. Miner Tor TO "
ernor, Geo. e. Ewing for Lieutenant Cover
nor, d. B. Quincy for Secretary of State, j.
II. II. Orne for Auditor, d. N. Skcllings for
Treasurer, and o. T. Gray for Attorney Gen.
eral. The platform is strongly Prohibition
and declares for woman-suffrage and hard
money.
Cleopatra's Needle, the Egyptian OBJ
elisk, was successfully placed upon its ped
estal, on the bank of the River Thames, in
London, on the afternoon of the 18th.
| On the 18th, the bakers of Constan-
tinople discontinued the sale of bread, because
of the high price of wheat and the deprecia-
ton of the currency. The Sultan thereupon
RENTED the grair-tax, and appointed a COM
mission to devise means for retiring the paper
currency.
A report, received on the 18th, that
| Gen. Miles had been surrounded and cap
tured by body of Bannock Indians turns out
to have been unfounded, the facts being ex-
actly the reverse. On the 4th, he, with twen-
ty-seven men and thirty-five friendly Crow
Indians, surprised and attacked the Bannock
hostiles in the pass in the National Park, Wy.
T., and after desperate fight, of about two
| hours duration, captured thirty -four Ban
| nocks-men, women and children-and about
200 head of horses. Capt Bennett, French
| scout, and one Crow Indian were killed on
the side of the troops, and thirteen Bannock
Indians were slain. Not more than three or
four Bannock warriors escaped.
Frank A. McKeon is the Democratic
candidate for Governor of New Hampshire,
| on platform which declares in favor of a
''stabe currency, the just payment of the pub
lie debt, and one currency for the Govern
ment and people, the laborer and Office hold
err, pensioner and soldier, the producer and
bondnolder," and that such currency should
be issued for the benefit of the whole people,
and not for the benefit Of the capitalists at
the expense of the people.
A Portland (Me.) telegram of the
18th, recounting the results of the recent cleo
ton, says the figures first given of the Guber-
material vote had not been essentially modi-
fled. The House would have sixty-five Re-
pubicans, twenty-nine Democrats and fifty
seven Greenbackers.
A Belgrade dispatch of the 18th
says that forty-six Bosnians anc Servians and
more than 200 Mussulmans had been exc
cuted, at Seraievo and vicinity, during the
preceding fortnight. and that these seventies
deferred the insurgents from submitting.
A Berlin telegram of the 18th says
Wilhelm had been discovered, and that several
arrests had been made.
It is stated that the Austrians in
Bosnia lost, between the 4th and 9th of Sep
TENDER, 100 officers and 1000 men.
A Calcutta Qndia) dispatch of the
District of Punjaub had destroyed upward of
1000 houses.
A Vienna dispatch of the 10th an
nounces the capture of Samatz, on the River
Save, after vigorous bombardment.
Midhat Pasha, the distinguished
Crete.
Three Russian army corps have been
ordered to return to Eastern Rumelia.
The Sultan having decided to con-
cede nothing to Greece, the latter country has
decided to raise an army of 100, 900 nen to en-
force its demands.
The Louisiana Republican State Con-
vention met in New Orleans. on the 10th, with
no quorum present, and adjourned without
transacting any business, subject to the call
of the Chairman of the State Central Com
mittce.
THE YELLOw-FEvER sCOURGE.
Among the many sad cases reported,
on the 18th, was that of the family of Charles
Riddle, at Vicksburg. Mr.. 4. had taken his
boat to Haines' Bluff and there buried two
children. He had since died, and his body
was lying unburied on the floor of a negro
cabin, his wife and five children were all sick,
and had been taken to Vicksburg.
Fifteen to twenty cases of yellow
fever and seven deaths since the Sth were re-
ported in the vicinity of Gallipolis, Ohio, on
the 18th. The disease was brought there by
the plague ship John Porter, which was moored
within two miles of that city. Much excite
ment prevailed.
Tom Nally, editor of the Cairo only
Bulletin, died, in that city, on the 18th, of yell
low fever, and Ike Mulkey, working on the
same paper, was very low with the same dis
ease. No other cases were reported. The
Bulletin had suspended publication and peo-
pie were leaving the city. The weather was
cool for that latitude.
Gov. Stone, of Mississippi, issued a
proclamation, on the 18th, designating the
Both OF September as day of prayer through
out the State to God for His interposition in
behalf of the suffering people" that He
will withdraw from our people the terrible
affection; and that, in His infinite goodness
and mercy, He will restore them to health,
and bring peace to the mourning households. |"
The fever had appeared in previously exempt
localities in that State, and was still raging
with great violence at Vicksburg, Canton, etc.
Mr.. Mulkey died at Carlo, on the
18th. No other cases had been reported, and
the excitement in that city was subsidine.
Centralia, ILL.,, had quarantined against trains
from Cairo.
The 18th was observed in Ohio as q
day of prayer in behalf of the stricken South.
No new cases nor deaths occurred at or near
Gallipolis, on the 18th and 18th.
Ninety deaths were reported in Mem
phis, on the 18th, and it was thought many
others had occurred in the suburbs, which had
not been reported. OF the twenty -four origi-
nal Towards laboring in that city, only six
were still on their feet, all the others being
dead or sick. There was an apparent falling
of in new cases. Death was taking away many
more of the best citizens. Acting Postmaster
Col. L. s. Knowlton was among the victims
on the 18th.
F. A. Southmayd, of the New Or
leans City Howard Association, telcgraphed,
on the 18th, that the resolution of the Asso-
citation, adopted on the 18th, with regard to
the efficiency Of the relief, applied only to
themselves and their peculiar work, and not
to the Peabody Association, who were at
work to relieve the destitution which so
widely prevailed because of the epidemic.
The latter Association were doing . noble
| work, aside from that of the Howsrds, and
were worthy Of every encouragement
Specials from Grand Junction, Tenn,
and Hickman, KY, on the 18th, gave = dis
couraging account of affairs in those towns.
There was but one doctor in the former place,
and he would leave on the 10th, and nurses
were much needed. The Postmaster had left,