The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-06-13
EPIT0ME Of THE WEEK,

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CURRENT PAkAGRAPms.
The Massachusetts Prohibitory State
Convention is to be held on the 18th of Sep
TENDER.
During the first three weeks Of the
Paris Exposition, Isl, 400 admission tickets
were sold.
Chief-Justice Gault. of the Nebraska
Supreme Court, died, few days ago. at Ne
braska City, Of dropsy.
Earl Russell died ut his home, near
London, on the night of tho 18th. He was
nearly eighty years old.
Of the $4,000 looms in Fall River,
Mass, l:,OCO were idle. on the 18th, and 1900
operatives out Of employment.
The National Grccnback Labor Re-
form party Of New York will hold a State
Convention at Syracuse, on the I'D of July.
The Democrats of Georgia have
nominated X. W. Cobb for Governor, W. W.
Screws for Secretary Of State, and j. II. Vim
cent for Treasurer.
The four desperadocs who recently
robbed the passengers on the Union Pacific
Railroad have been captured, and the stolen
valuahlcs recovered.
The weavers and spinners Of Mac
olesticld, Eng, have agreed, Internationally,
to return tn work at the lO-per-ce reduction
demanded by the masters.
The Cretan insurgents have refused
the amnesty offered them ny the Turks,
through the British Consul, but have offered
TO accept regular armistice.
The editor of the Lcrdnt Herald, an
Englishman. has been ordered to leave Tur
key for publishing a letter which the authori-
ties affect to consider seditious.
The next Republican State Convcn-
ton of Maine is to be held at Portland, on the
lst of August. Senator Blaine has been elect.
ed Chairman of the State Committee.
The Pennsylvania Prohibition State
ticket is as follows: For Governor, F. II.
Lane: Lieutenant Governor, John Shallcross:
Secretary of Internal Affairs, Calvin Parsons;
Supreme Judge, Daniel Agncw.
\ Rome Qtaly) telegram of the jlst
ult. saws the Pope was i'll in body and dis
trcs>ed in mind by the plots and cabals Or
ganized Ia defeat his promised reforms, and
manifested a desire to abdicate the Papacy.
The public-dcbt statement for MAY
shows total Of debt and interest of -.
1929; cash i'm Treasury, $a:3S. 5O7, 100: debt
less cash in Treasury. s., O33, 631 $50; decrease
during MAY. 5000 1873: decrease since June
80. 1877 $a6.5a0,:s2.
Both the Philadelphia Commercial
Exchange and the Cincinnati Board of Trade
have adopted resolutions declaring against the
proposed reduction If the United States Ar
my, hut favoring an increase in its numerical
strength and efficiency.
An Evansville Qnd.) telegram of the
Ri states that President Hayes and the men,
hers of his Cabinet who were expected there
July 1, had notitiedthc authorities that in view
of the existing political complications the
President will not leave Washington.
While the Emperor of Germany was
taking drive in the Avenue Inter den Lin
den, In Berlin. on the afternoon of the 2,l, a
pr. Modelling fired at him with shotgun,
the charge taking effect in one arm and in the
face. The Emperor was not dangerously
hurt The wouldbe assassin was arrested.
The Rhode Island Senate has unani-
mously passed resolution declaring the title
III Mr. Hayes to the Presidency to have been
settled beyond all question by the Electoral
Commission, and deprccating all proceedings
looking to any question of such title. The
House subsequently concurrcd in this action
of the Senate, by . vote of ~ to III.
The main features of the Army bill.
as it passed the House, on the 18th, are as
follows: Fixing the strength of the army at
1000 men: reducing the force of various
staff departments, and providing for a board
10 rcorganzc these departments; fixing the
number OF Major-Generals ut one, and of Brig
ader-Generals at three; reducing the number
and rank of aides-de-camps; reducing the
pay and emoluments Of officers; transferring
the Indian Bureau to the War Department,
and prohibiting the employment of troops for
civil purposes, unless specially authorized by
act of Congress.