The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-17
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,

NEOWOOO FALLS. MlNNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,
Condensed Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Cholera has made it's appearance in
Jeddah and Mecca.
Fifty-two colored emigrants recently
sailed from New York for Liberia.
There were S,O26 deaths in Chicago
last year, being 81 less than in 1876. i
On the coast of Maine, on the morn
ing Of the It'll, the thermometer marked a
degrees below zero.
The debt of New York City was re-
Gently stated to be sl11,141 $50. That of
Boston is s43, 1854, "A.
Jacob Bum, the well-known banker
of Springfield, H., has made an assignment.
His liabilities aggregate about 100000.
At Bethlehem. Pa, on the I'd, Miss
Lizzie Davis was murdered by her lover, John
Haddock, who subsequently committed sui
eide.
The Presidents receptions, as an
nounced on the eth, will be held on the eve
nings of Jan. Is Feb. and Feb. &c, from eight
till ten o'clock.
Official information has been received
at st. Petersburg that the Chinese massacred
$1,000 men. women and children at the Kash-
garian Town of Manas.
The number of marriages in New
York City. in 1877, was 1923: births, p, $50;
deaths. ". 1874. The number of deaths of chill
drcn under five years of age was 1884, being
1,Si less than in 1876
On the Sd. Samuel H. White, Il FORM
er Vice President of the Charter Oak Life In
surance Company, of Hartford, Conn.,, was,
with other ex-otfcials, indicted for conspiracy
to defraud the policy-holders.
Cardinal Manning has proposed to
the College Of Cardinals that, ON the death Of
the Pope, the Conclave assemble at the Island
of Malta. The proposition was being consid-
cred on the 4th, but no decision was reached
The weather. in many portions of the
South. has been recently very cold for that
region. The mercury in some parts of vir-
gina ranged below zero, and at Memphis,
Tenn, was down to IA degs above zero, on
the It'll.
The public-debt statement for De-
eember places the total amount of the debt at
253 SO2, 692. Cash in Treasury, slS7 81, $50
Debt, less cash in Treasury, S2,O45, 955, AZ.
Decrease during the month, 1924. Decrease
since June 30, 1877, S14.2G2,1SO.
Among the suspensions announced
ON the morning of the Sd was that of the
State Savings Bank of Indianapolis, Ind. The
Bank Examiner reports deposits of $S4, $50. IS
and assets of Ss5.5l3.6S. 1t was believed that
depostors would be paid in full.
On the 9TH, the Secretary of War
fantry, and Lieut.-Col. Wm II. Young, of the
Nineteenth Infantry, to serve with the citizens
of Texas appointed by Gov Hubbard to in
vestigate the Ell Paso disturbances.
The Solicitor of the Treasury Depart
ment has decided that goods manufactured in
bonded warehouses may be transported to and
exported from other ports, provided that the
transportation to ports of actual expectation
is performed by regularly bonded carriers.
A box filled with nitro-glycerine ex-
ploded at Negaunee, Mich, on the I'd, instant
ly killing seven men and entirely demolishing
the car on which it was being transported.
The locomotive to which the car was attached
was lifted and thrown bodily distance of fifty
feet.
On the 2d. DR.. L. S. Lambert, ex-
President of the American Popular Life In
surance Company, of New York. was sem
fenced to five years imprisonment in the State
Penitentiary. He had been convicted of
swearing to false statements of the condition
Of his company.
Considerable excitement has lately
been caused in Eastern society circles by the
marriage of Mrs. Hicks to Thomas Lord the
latter an octogenarian millionaire of New York
City. On application Of the relatives of Mr..
Lord, acommission of lunacy had been ordered.
A New York dispatch of the 9TH says the rea-
son why Mrs. Hicks married him was because
she was indebted to him in the sum of about
$4,000.
During 1877, the yield of the precious
metals in the States and Territories, west of
the Missouri River, including British Column
hia and the West Coast of Mexico, was $685.
$4,000, being 81, 600 in excess of the yield
of 1876. California gave 15,25O,OOO in gold
and q, 900 in silver; Nevada, $4,000 in
gold and s44, 900 in silver-this being
silver bullion containing, it is said, about IS
per cent. of gold; Arizona yielded g., go OOO
INDICTMENTS have been found in
Chicago against A. W. Edwards, John Reid,
l.. P. billiard. j.. H. Kellogg, Martin Ryan
and r. NJ. Woods, for conspiracy and obtain
ing money under false pretenses, in connec-
ton with the late Protection Life Insurance
Company. Mr.. Kellogg is accused, when act
ing as agent of the company, of representing
that corporation as solvent, when he must
have known to the contrary Mr. Woods is