The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS,


The Pope had appointed Cardinal
di Pietro Pontifical Camerlengo.
The Pennsylvania Republican State
Convention will be held at Harrisburg on the
18th of May.
The Sixpenny Savings Bank of New
York City suspended on the eth. Liabilities,
Sl..oO, 900: assets, Sl,6O0,0OO.
At st. Adams. VT, on the eth, G.
+. Storrs, Of Bath, Me-, walked LOG miles in
twenty hours, three minutes and twenty sec
onds
The body of the late Congressman
Leonard. Of Louisiana, who died recently at
Havana, Cuba, arrived at Ncy York ON the
2Sth
Edward Z. Weston has challenged
OLeary, the victor in the late international
pedestrian contest. to walk with him six days
for the sum of $500.
The Iowa Legislature adjourned sine
,iit, on the Goth. .\mo. & the bills passed be-
fore adjournment. was one restoring capital
punishment in the State.
Madam Restell. of New York City,
under indictment for illegal practices. com
mitted suicide at her residence, on the LIST, by
cutting her throat with carving knife. She
was out on bail.
Up to the close of March, 100000
silver dollars of the new coin mad been struck
of Arrangements had been completed by
b. Ind, ON
el,,,o.0W during April.
Thomas Z. Fisher was hanged in the
Jail corridor at Mauch Chunk, Pa. on the 2Sth,
for completely in the murder of Morgan
Powell. a mine boss at Slmmit llill, Pa, on
the evening of March >, 1876.
The public-deht statement for March
shows total of debt and interest of S2.2l4-
O47.a1, cash in Treasury. SI14.3!!+. 459; debt.
less cash in Treasury. - U:Sl. s93,5,4: decrease
during March. s2.3l36l4 decrease since j une
~. 1871, so 434..oS
In the suit of the United States
against Samuel j. Tilden for S:i50,00O dclin-
4uent income tax. Judge Blatchford, of the
United States District Court. decided. on the
3i.h that defendant must submit to jury
trial on eleven OF the twelve counts of The in
dictment.
sherry and Connolly. the young men
convicted in Chicago of the murder of peace
able cit zen named McConyille. who sought to
protect his niece from insults offered by them
on the street. have been denied a new trial.
and are under sentence TO be hung on the Fist
of June
On the Goth. the President appointed
ex-Congressman Scho.ield, Of Pennsylvania.
Register of the Treasury. rice John Allison. de-
ceased. The Senate Finance Committee have
agreed to report tavorably on the nomination
of K. VI. Reynolds to be First Auditor of the
Treasury.
1t is reported that counterfeits of the
new silver dollar are already all, at in the
East. They are said to be an almost perfect
tlc >intile OF the genuine only little less
heavy. The Chicago TriJlWt of the 9th says
the first counterfeit of the new coin brought
to the notice of the Government is very poor
as regards color. but that in other respects it
is good imitation of the genuine.
On the lst, the House Committee on
Banking and Currency had a long conference
with Sre'y sherman. The latter reassert-
ed the facts aud arguments presented by him.
few days before. tn the Senate Finance Com
mittee. Iii respect To the statement. recently
made. that he would not be able to
resume at the date fixed by law, be-
cause the bankers would form pool and
buy up all the gold. Mr. Sherman said it would
be impossible for them to DO this: he would
have 81, N00oOin silver ready 10 issue in case.
any combination by bankers should be at
tempted aud, when they exhausted this he
did not think they would be in a condition to
cause him anxiety