The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-06-06

The Pennsylvania Legislature has ad-
burned size die.
Prince Milan, of Servia, has par
doncd the Topola conspirators.
The Russian Government has decided
IL abolish jury trials in political cases.
w. Il A. LaycOck, timber merchants,
of Yorkshire, Eng, have failed for s6OO,oOO.
The cholera has appeared at Moran,
in India. Of forty-onc Europeans attacked,
thirty died.
L. Milton Speer. Of Huntingdon, has
been chosen. Chairman of the Pennsylvania
Democratic State Central Committee
Judge Fighter, of the Sixth judicial
Court. at New Orleans, has lately refused a
moadamns to compel the School Board to all
NIT co!ured children to schools designated for
whites.
Miss Annie Garlic. of st. Louis, made
use OF kerosene to make the fire burn more
hri>kly, Il few nights ago The can exploded
and Miss Garlic was seriously and probably
fatally burned.
The steamer Empress of India, with
pleasure party on board. capsized over a
dam on Grand River, at Gait, Ont, on the
night of the 2ad. OF the passengers and
crew, eight We're drowned.
Judge Love, of the United States
District Court Of Iowa, has decided that the
blanket mortgage given by B. +. Allen, to Sc
Oak Life Insurance Company, is null and
void.
At Il Cabinet meeting, held on the
2lst Scc'y sherman submitted a statement
showing that the receipts of the present fiscal
YEAR were Sll,00O.0OI less than those for the
same period last year, and also that the ex-
pendtures were :S.0OO,OOO less.
Mcssrs. Shearer and Bentley having
declined the nomination of the PENNSYLVANIA
Nationals for Lieutcnant-t;o vcrnor and Su
preme Judge. respectively, the Executive
Committee have nominated Daniel NJ. Stcck
Tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENT and DAM eli Agncw
1or Supreme Judge.
The National Democratic Committee
met ut Washington on the 2:id, and passed
resolution declaring that the action of the
National House of Representatives in respect
10 the investigation of frauds alleged to have
hecn committed in the late Presidential cleo
ton met the approval of the committee.
Bishop McCoskry reached Detroit,
Mich, on the Did He announces that, hay
iu- withdrawn his resignation, he will resume
hi> duties Bishop of Michigan. lie says
little concerning the scandal recently asso-
ctatrd with his name, but intilnates that the
matter will take the shape of Il libel suit.
The Coroner's Jury has returned Il
verdict that the Minneapolis mill disaster was
the result of the explosion of mll-tlust, kin
died b. fire in the woodwork of the WASH |
burn Mill, originating in spark from the
stones running empty. The jury condemned
the open purifiers rs generating an excessive |
amount of dust.
The Chicago Board of Trade has
lately adopted resolution to memorabilia
Congress 10 provide Ivy law, for the increase
aud maintenance Of the Army to full 100 reg |
incnts of LOCO men each, SO as to furnish |
adequate protection from any outside or in.
tcrnal demonstrations of violence which NAV
arise III tLc future.
The Treasury Department has dis
continued the payment Of standard silver dol |
lars for Treasury notes at the New York Sub |
Treasury. because instead of going into gem !
cral circulation, as was expected or hoped |
nearly all issued appears to be returned in
payment of custom dues, saving thus to im-
purtcrs the gold premium.
The seventh annual meeting Of the |
Wonen's Baptist Missionary Society Of the !
Northwest was lately in session at Indianap-
oils, Ind. Encouraging reports were made
from the societies in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wisconsin
and Minnesota. Mrs. Robert Harris, of Chi
cago. was elected President, with one Vice.
President from each State: Mrs. j. A. Bray
man. of Chicago was chosen Recording Sec
rotary: Mrs. A. Bacon, of Dundee, ILL.,,
Corresponding Secretary, and Mrs. c. Blackall,
of Chicago, Treasurer.
The Fifty-fourth Anniversary of the
American Sunday-School Union was celebrated
in Philadelphia, on the evening of the 2lst
Addresses were delivered by Rev. Drs. VIM.
". Taylor, Of New York: Mitchell, of Chicago,
aud McVickar, of Philadelphia. The Secre-
tary's report showed that. during 1877, 1,147
new schools had been established, and 1856
other schools visited and aided. These had
an aggregate Of 23,O66 teachers and 2O1 900
scholars. More than 100, 26O Bibles and Tesla
nlents had been distributed, and $3.50, lob
scholars placed under Bible instruction, by the
lnion during the fifty-four years of its exist
cncc. The past year was stated to have been
one of the most successful of any.
The manufacturers of Chicago and
vicinity met in that city, on the 3d. and per-
fcctcd Manufacturers Association for the
Northwest Resolutions were adopted-call-
ing upon managers Of railways leading to the
South, West and Northwest to consider their
schedules OF freight rates and classification,
with a view to correct some of the evils exist.
ing in the matter of freight rates between the
East and points west Of Chicago; declaring
The interest OF capital and labor to he identi-
cal; advocating aid to transportation lines and
railways under proper restrictions; recommend.
ing the repeal Of the Bankrupt law; asking
Senators and Representatives in Congress to
unite in securing the defeat of the Tariff bill
now pending before Congress, ETC., etc.
THE EASTERN CONTROVERSY.
An cmeute took place in CONSTANT
noplc on the 10th. A body of refugees sur
rounded the palace inhabited by ex-Sultan
Murad, and raised shout of "Long live the
Sultan" The troop fired on them and twenty
one were killed and seventeen wounded.
A Constantinople special of the 22d
reports that the Russians had defeated the
insurgents near the sources of the River Artla.
Many Of them were killed and a large number
were taken prisoners.
A Cattaro telegram of the 22d says