The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
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rians had attacked eight Mussulman village,
and committed great outrages.
A Vienna telegram of the 10th says
the Grand Duke Nicholas, In command Of tn,
Russian forces in Turkey, had been relieved
by Gen. Todleben.
The British House of Commons ad
journed on the 10th until the 9Th Ct May, and
the House Of Lords until the 18th.
A special from Widdin of tho 10TH
saws an Imperial ukase had been issued direct
ing the speedy establishment of the new con
tition of things ia Bulgaria. The Bulgarian
Assembly had been called to meet on the 15tl
Of June.
Prince Milan, of Servia, has approved
the sentence of death recently passed upon M
for completely in the late military conspiracy
Fifty others have been condemned to penal
servitude.
A terrific tornado struck the Town OF
Cottonwood Ram, on the afternoon of the
18th, destroying large amount Of property,
killing several persons and seriously injuring
many others. In Emporia the Normal School
building was unroofcd and great damage
done to other buildings in the town.
Right Rev. Samuel A. McCoskry,
who recently resigned the Episcopal Bishopric
of Michigan, under the plea Of age and in
creasing infirmities, has been shown to have
resigned under compulsfon and to have left
the country to avoid meeting those of his CO.
religionists whom he had disgraced. The
statement was made, ON the 18th, that he had
been charged with maintaining improper rcla-
tions with Detroit woman, and that, when
he was confronted with the charge and shown
the letters he had written to the woman in
question, he acknowledged his guilt and at
once departed for Europe.
Intelligence was received at Vienna,
on the Sth, that the Turks and Montenegrins
had come in collision, near Podgeroitza. The
Turks violated the line of demarcation, aud
the Montenegrins attacked some Turkish vii
lagos.
At Toledo, Ohio, on the morning of
the 18th, Henry Rudolph, ten years old, shot
and killed Freddy Benning, also ten years old.
They had had a schoolboy quarrel the day be
fore, and on the morning in question Rudolph
procured revolver and shot Benning as he
entered the school grounds. The youthful
assassin was arrested.
The Oregon Republican State Con-
vention met at Salem, on the 18th, and adopt
ed a platform declaring for sound money and
for the maintenance of public faith; sup
porting the National Administration and de-
handing reform in State affairs. H. X.
Hines was nominated for Congress-, and c. C.
Beekman for Governor.
An Athens dispatch of the 10th says
truce had been arranged with the Thessa-
liam insurgents through the efforts of Great
Britain.
An English surgeon, just returned
from Erzeroum, states that IL, 900 Turkish SOL
diers have died since the evacuation of that
city, and that the Russians have lost q, 1000
men from sickness since they entered the plain
of Erzeroum.
A Blackburn (Eng.) dispatch of the
10Th, says 10000 operatives were ON strike at
that point, and that none of the cotton mills
were running.
A heavy gale prevailed along the
northern coast of Spain, on the 3Oth and 21st.
A large number of fishing vessels were lost,
and about $50 fishermen drowned.
Storm Lake, Iowa, and vicinity were
visited by tornado, on the evening Of the
2lst, and many dwellings and other buildings
were blown down. Six persons were reported
killed, and number Of others more or less
injured.
A Deadwood Cd. T.) dispatch of the
2lst says the severest storm ever known in the
Hills has been raging since the night of the
10th, the heavy snow, rain and hail doing
much damage to the placer mines and shafts
in the gulches by flooding. Operations in
the quartz mills were almost entirely suspend
ed, and the roads were impossible
Col. Salisbury, of the Enqwirer-Sun
published in Columbus, Ca, was fatally shot
in the back by DR.. r. NJ. Palmer, while enter
ing car at Scale, Ala, on the Goth.
A Galveston (Tex.) dispatch of the
I'D says news had been received that Indian
raiders from Mexico had crossed the border,
killed several Of the ranchmen and carried OF
two boys named Taylor. The mail-carrier, who
left Fort Davis on the Goth, was murdered
within twenty miles of the post.
1t has transpired that Geo. T. Hatha-
way. Treasurer of the Bordeg City T. Sycamore
Mills, at Fall River, Mass, is a defaulter to
those corporations in large sum-how much
had not been ascertained on the 22d-but
was believed to be from GOO, 900 to 500, 900.
His methods were similar to those of L. A.
Chace, the defaulting Treasurer of another
Fall River corporation.