The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-28
The American w oman's Suffrage As.

The American Woman's Suffrage As.
ISOLATION met in annual Convention ut In
diara2olis, few days ago. Reports of tn,
work in Kansas, Missouri, California, Ohio
ETC., claimed growth Of public sentiment II
favor of the equal rights of women; in Cali
fornia, the Constitutional Convention hat
adopted a section removing the restriction o
sex from the ballot. Mrs. Rebccca N. Haz
zard, of Missouri, was chosen President o
the Association for the ensuing year; Luc.
Stone, Chairman Of Executive Committee
Julia Ward Howe, Foreign Corresponding
Secretary; Henry b. Blacfw well, Home Cor
responding Secretary; Leila A. Partridge ant
Myra Bradwell, Recording Secretaries, and F
A. Hinckley, Of Rhode Island, Treasurer.
Sec'y Evarts has written another let
ter to Minister Welsh. on the subject of tn,
Halifax award, in which he takes direct issu,
with the finding of the Commission, both u
to the amount of the award and the manner
in which it was rendered, holding that tn,
sum Of IS, 500, 900 is an outrageous and utter
" indefensible price to place upon the benefits
of twelve years Of fishing in Canadian waters
and that, if paid at all by the United States
it must be regarded as covering the value d
those benefits in rerpetuity, and not for an,
term of years, and that the adoption Of this
or any other award by the Commission, by
bare majority, is not in accordance with the
terms of the treaty providing for the Commis
sion, and that the award is not, therefore
binding upon this Government.
GENERAL.
George Fessler, the defaulting Treas.
urer of Stark County, Ohio, who pleaded
guilty to charge of embezzlement, wac, on
the nth, sentenced to twelve years' imprisOn
ment in the Penitentiary and fined 100000.
At the meeting Of the Cabinet, in
Washington, on the 18th, an interchange OF
opinion took place concerning the alleged VIC
lations Of the Election laws, especially in
Louisiana, during the recent elections, the
United States Attorney for that State having
furnished y list of cases showing personal VIC
lcnce, intimidation, etc. The sentiment of
the Cabinet was that all such alleged viola
tions should be inquired into, with view 70
the punishment Of the offenders.
Three managers of election at one
of the polls in Charleston, s. C., were ar
rested, on the 10Th, under warrants from the
United States Commissioner, for obstructing
a Deputy Marshal at the recent election, and
refusing to publicly count the ballots. They
gave bail. Eighteen citizens of Orangeburg
had also been arrested and put under bail for
obstructing United States Marshals in the dis
charge Of their duties at the election.
Judge Witherspoon, of the Canvass
ing Board of Madison County, Fla, was ar
rested, on the 18th, by Deputy United States
Marshal, and held in $1,000 bail, ON a charge
of receiving and destroying one of the pre-
cinct returns which gave Bisbee (Rep.
for Congressman .ifty-seven majority. A
colored Inspector in the same county had
been committed to Jail, charged with not
doing his duty. The Canvassing Board of
Alachua County were also arrested ON the
same day, by Deputy United States Marshal.
1t is said they had thrown out three precincts,
one because the name of the voter was wrong
on one of the tickets, and two because the
duplicate precinct returns did not agree.
Should this action Of the Board be sustained,
Bisbee's majority in that county would be re-
duced from $50 to 81, and he would be de-
feated.
London dispatches of the 18th say
that Russian General, with 5000 men, had
marched from the shores Of the Caspian Sea
to point in Afghanistan, near Herat. A
Simla telegram of the same date says the AZ
CHAN priests were proclaiming holy crusade
against Great Britain.
According to Pera telegram of the
18th, the Porte had accepted the principle of
the rectitication of the Greek frontier.
A Rome Qtaly) telegram of the
18th says that McCabe, the Vicar General of
the late Cardinal Cullen, has been appointed
Archbishop of Dublin.
A Berlin telegram of the 18th an
nounces that Germany would occupy the
whole of the Samoan Archipelago.
Two additional arrests were made at
Charleston, 8. G., on the 18th, of persons
charged with offenses against United States
laws at the recent election. William l.. Dag
gctt, prominent Democrat, who was charged
specially with hallot-box stuffing. in letter of
Mackey, published in North
ern newspapers, had began proceedings against
Mackey for libel.
Col. Thomas B. Keogh, of North
Carolina, who was in Washington, on the
18th. stated that the Republicans would not
have single Representative in Congress from
his State, as Martin and O'Hara would be
counted out by the local Returning Boards,
and Russell, elected as Greenback Republi-
can, did not intend to act or vote with the
Republicans.
A London dispatch of the 18th de-
clares that the Russian Mission to Cabul had
not been withdrawn, as reported.
A serious instruction against the
Turks has broken out in the Nejd District, in
Arabia.
Snow-storms of exceptional severity
were prevailing in the north of England and
throughout Scotland. on the 18th.
The exiled German Bishops, in reply
to a request of the Vatican to state their views
concerning the pending negotiations with
Germany, have addressed a memorial to the
Pope, asking that an agreement be reached.
A Philippopoli dispatch of the 14th
says the International Commission had adopt
ed, with some slight notifications, the scheme
of reforms for Eastern Roumelia proposed by
the Porte.
The Tiber ovcrf1owed its banks, on
the 14th, and the entire lower portions of
Rome we're inundated.
A Rome telegram of the 14th says the
Vatican had decided upon complete separa-
ton from the Ultramontane party in the Ger.
man Reichstag.
Parties were arrested at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, on the 14th, charged with carrying on a
wholesale body-snatching business. In the
wagon driven by the culprits, four dead bodies
were found.
The United States Board of Trade,
in New York, on the 14th, adopted resolu-
tions recommending to Congress the mos,
liberal legislation upon the subject OF the
Postal Service consistent with the rapid trans.