The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-02-14
EPITOME Of THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.

CURRENT PARAGRAPH.
George Cruikshank, the well-known
English caricaturist, is dead
The Cretan insurgents have declared
that island annexed to Greece.
There were 100 failures in New York
City during January. Liabilities, Ss,ll3, 0S9
assets. Sl,4;ss.S39
The failures in Chicago during JAN
uary numbered forty-two. with secured liabili-
ties of $50, l96, and unsecured, :l,S4l,>75.
The Pope has ratified the plans for
the reconstruction of the Scottish hierarchy,
appointed two Archbishops and four Suffra-
gans.
Thomas Lord, Sr., of New York
City, the husband of Mrs. Hicks, has recently
come out from his retiracy and proposes holly
to contest the suit brought to establish his
lunacy.
The New York Postmaster has been
notified by the postoffce authorities that the
trade-dollars not being legal-tender he is not
obliged to receive them in payment Of postage
stamps.
\ New York dispatch of the 4th an
nounces that ex-State Senator Harry Genet.
one of the Tammany Ring fugitives, had Civ
en- himself up and was placed under bonds Of
$4,000
A Washington dispatch of the LIST
says that the Secretary OF the Treasury de-
IL. F. Il.
ton to the 4-per-cent. loan be drawn payable
TO his order; otherwise they cannot be re-
ceivcd.
On the complaint of an English
stakeholder. Mr.. Hugh j. Jewett, Receiver of
the Erie Railroad Of New York, has been held
to bail in the sum of 10000 to answer to the
charge of perjury. in swearing to alleged false
statements of The condition of the road.
On the 3Oth ult., the President APP
pointed Alex. Mcleod, OF Delaware: j. e.
Thorpe aud K. y. Baker. of Wisconsin, and
John W. Nsclev and W. s. Keys, of Nevada,
rs Honora y Commissioners to the Paris In
du>trial Exhibition.
The public-debt statement for Janu-
Guiding interest. at S,.2l5. 4,5, S45 Cash in
Treasury, slsl.l6>,4,?. Debt, less cash in
Treasury. s20A. Isl 800. Decrease during the
month. Sl,tiS,O'6. Decrease since June 30,
ISL. sl5.>.0,Sj1.
Three murderers were hanged on the
LIST. one at ST. Louis. named William Weiners,
for killing a salocn-kecpcr, named a. V. Law
renee. about year ago: one at Moline, n. Y.
named Joseph Woods for killing Stephen
Woods. and colored man at Covington. N.Y.,
for the murder of his wife, last fall.
Arrangements We're concluded, on
the ID. to reopen the Topeka (kan.) Bank
and Savings Institution, the depOsitors agree
ing to give six months time. all deposits
under 800 to be paid 80 per cent on the re-
opening. An examination showed liabilities
acgre-ating $40, 600. and assets. s:5S,ooO.
Announcement was made, on the
Both ult. that the Secretary of the Treasury
had arranged to receive in payment of sub
scriptions to the 4-per-cent. loan, coin or cur
rcncv checks drawn on banks or bankers in
New York. The currency checks will be con-
vcrted into coin at current rates. without ex-
pense to the owner, and any excess over the
amount due on the subscription returned to
the subscriber. Similar arrangements would
be made in other cities having Sub-Treasury
offices.
Norfolk (Va.) dispatches of the Sd
declare that the steamer Metropolis, which
Recently went ashore on the coast of North
Carolina, was in every respect an unseaworthy
craft: that its timbers We're as rotten as punk,
and that it was veritable death-trap. The
statement is made that an attempt would be
made to hold the owners, contractors and in
spectorS to a strict account. The Metropolis
had on board large South American mail
the most OF which was plundered by wreckers
living in the vicinity. These human ghonls
rified the corpses that Were thrown upon the
beach. of all vauables, and even stripped the
dead Of their clothing