The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-30
EPlTOME Of THE WEEK.

EPITOME Of THE WEEK.
CURRENT PAkAGRAPMs.
Prince Milan, of Servia, has par
doned the Topola conspirators.
Okubo. the Japanese Minister of the
Interior, was recently assassinated.
The Ohio Legislature has passed q
bill to admit women to the practice of law.
The Ohio Democratic State COnven-
ton is to be held at Columbus, ON the 26th of
June.
A call has been issued for q Demo-
cratic State Convention to meet at Pueblo,
Col, on the 18th Of July.
The Ohio and New York Legislatures
have adjourned, the former until January
next and the latter sine die.
A recent earthquake at Qua, in Vene-
zuela, caused the loss of 600 lives, beside the
destruction of great quantity of property.
Spencer +. Baird, Assistant Secretary
Of the Smithsonian Institute, has been elected
Secretary in place of Prof. Henry, deceased.
The recent drought in Demerara, a
district of British Guiana, entails direct loss
to the planters of between s3,OOO,OOO and
100000.
Mrs. Lydia Sherman, the Derby
poisoner, died in the Connecticut State Prison
at Hartford, few days ago. She was serving
life sentence.
r. f. Hoyt. Chairman of the Michi-
gan National Greenback organization, has
called State Nominating Convention to
meet at Grand Rapids, on the 5th of June.
The New York Syndicate, which re-
Gently contracted with the Secretary of the
Treasury to dispose of $5OOOO,OOO of 411-per-
cent bonds by Jan. l, 1879, has taken the en-
tire amount.
Annie Farrell, eighteen years old, a
servant girl in the employ of 8. j. Moe, Of
Chicago, was burned to death few mornings
ago by the explosion of q can of kerosene oil.
She was building fire in the kitchen stove.
JEFF Davids, a negro murderer, who
was to have been hung at Abbeville, 8. e., on
the 18th, was respited by the Governor at the
last moment, until June IA. The knot had
been adjusted and the prayers finished, and
preparations were making to swing him of,
when the reprieve was read to the condemned
man.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has
recently decided that, when an insured person
is in such state of mental incapacity as to be
unconscious of the consequence Of hts acts,
suicide by him falls without the provisions
against self-slaughter in his policy, and does
not absolve the insurance company from liza
hility.
A great excitement prevails through
out the western portion of North Carolina,
particularly along the ridge of Bald Mountain.
On the 18th, rumbling sounds were heard in
the bowels of the Bald Mountain, similar to
those heard two years ago, the origin of which
proved SO much of an enigma to scientists.
On the 10Th, the mountain range began to
yield. and on the Goth it was literally split in
twain, leaving a chasm 300 feet long and twen-
ty feet wide, and apparently bottomless.
The Republicans of Pennsylvania
held their State Convention on the 18th. Gen.
Harry NJ. Hoyt was nominated for Governor;
Chas. w. Stone for Lieutenant Governor;
James P. Sterrett for Supreme Judge; Aaron
n. Dunkle for Secretary of Internal Affairs.
The platform adopted declares opposition to
free trade, in whatever form presented; favors
protection to home industry, that labor and
capital may both be protitably Employed" de-
clares that American commerce should be fos-
tered. and home enterprise developed by the
National Government; that the public lands
should be reserved exclusively for actual
settlers; declares opposition to the payment
OF claims from the National Treasury to those
lately engaged in, or sympathizing with, the
rebellion; expresses sympathy with the South
ern Republicans Gin the unequal contest to
which they are subjected for civil liberty and
the maintenance of their Constitutional privi-
leges," ETC., etc.