The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-05-02
EPITOME Of THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.

JuOc.
The Michigan Republican State Con
vention has been called to meet at Detroit OF
the 18th of June.
The funeral of the late VIM. NJ
Tweed occurred in New York City, on tn.
18TH 1t was quiet affair.
William Orion, President of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, died in
New York City, on the I'D, of apoplexy.
A plot has been discovered at Con.
stantinople to deposc the present Sultan and
restore ex-Sultan Murad to the throne.
Many of the National Banks in Chi
cago. Cincinnati and other portions Of the
West are redeeming their bills in specie.
At a baseball game in Cleveland,
Ohio. on the aOth Albert Walker was struck
in the head by the batter and fatally injured.
Extensive Nihilist riots have lately
occurred at Moscow and other cities in Rus
STA The fuu details have not been allowed to
transpire.
The operatives in the cotton mills at
l.ongridgc. Eng, to the number Of 10000.
have struck because of 4 reduction of 10 ger
cent. in wages.
The Canadian Government has de-
cdcd to impose a duty of 111s per cent, al
,ulortn.. upon all United States silver-coin
shipped into that country.
The Governor of Rhode Island has
consider the lnsolvent laws, in view of the
impending repeal of the National Bankruptcy
laws
Al Aiken. S. c., a few days ago,
Robert McEvoy was executed for the murder,
in April, lS'6, Of Capt. J. J. Gregg. Before
his death he confessed to the commission of
several crimes.
The United States Senate in Execu-
tive session. on the 10th, confirmed several
nominations made by the President, and re-
iected that of J. E. Colburn, of the New York
Times to be Consul General to Mexico.
At Franklin, La. on the 22d. three
negroes were hung, for murder. As the drop
fell, one of them fell to the ground, the rope
breaking. \ new rope was obtained and he
was again hung, this time successfully.
1t has turned out that j. w. Daniels,
recently hung at Warrensburg, Mo-, for MUIR
der. was entirely innocent. and proceedings
have been instituted against the parties con-
cerned in the judicial murder. 1t was a case
of circumstantial evidence purely.
\ Washington special of the 21st
states that up to that date, since the passage
of the Silver bill. there had been coined of the
silver dollar 81. 5SS of which Only
Si233l9 had been issued. the Secretary of the
Treasury refusing to exchange them for any
thing but gold.
Sam Steenburgh, a colored man, forty
five years of age, was recently hanged, at
Fonda. \. y, for the murder, last November,
of Jacob S. Parker. A few days before the
execution, Steenburgh confessed to having
killed eleven persons. the first murder being
committed when he was fourteen years of age
Two young ladies, named Effie Da-
Costra and Hattie Green, of Philadelphia,
were burned to death few days ago, the
clothes Of the former being set on fire by a
match which she stepped upon and ignited,
and the latter lost her life while attempting
to save her friend. Their ages were respect
lively twenty-one and twenty-six years.
Joseph Hartmann died the other day,
at his home in New York City, of trichinosi..
1t seems that his wife on last Christmas cooked
piece of shoulder. of which Hartmann ate.
On the 5th of January he was taken ill and 80
remained until the 18th Of April, when he died.
Pieces cut from the body of the deceased
showed unlcubted evidence Oftrichina spiralis.
His wife who partook slightly of the food was
i'll at last accounts.
Bishop McCoskrey, under date of New
York. April 70, says: Il give my unqualified
denial to the articles which have appeared in
different papers against me-" Mrs. Banister,
ne Richards whose name was connected with
the scandal, has declared, with the most
tragic indignation, that there is not a word of
truth in the story, and has sent a dispatch to
Mr.. McCoskrey, in New York, demanding his
immediate return to clear himself and her
from the vile charge.
The International Sunday-School
Convention, which had been in session at
Atlanta, Ga, during the three days pre-
ceding, adjourned sine die, on the evening of
the 10Th, having first selected the following
an International Lesson Committee for the
next seven years: Rev. John H. Vincent, D,
d., New Jersey, Methodist; Rev. John Hall,
New York, Presbyterian: b. F. Jacobs, ILL.,
nois, Baptist; Rev. Warren Randolph, Indi-
ana, Baptist: Prof. P. G. Gilbert, LID ILL.,
nois, Methodist; Rev. Richard Newton, DID,,
Pennsylvania, Protestant Episcopal; Rev. B.
NJ. Palmer, Louisiana, Presbyterian; Rev. w.
u. +. Cunningham. DID, Tennessee, Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South; Prof Austin
Phelps. DID, Massachusetts,, Congregation
alst: Rev. John A. Broaddus, d. D., Kentucky,
Baptist; Prof l.. Baugher, DID,, Pennsyl-
vana, Evangelical Lutheran; Rev. James A.
Warden. New Jersey, Presbyterian; Rev. d.
II. McVicar, LID, Quebec, Presbyterian;
Rev. John Potts, DID,, Ontario, Methodist.
THE EASTERN CONTROVERSY.
A Bucharest dispatch of the 10th
says the ill-fceling between Russia and Rou-
mania continued. The entire military force Of
the latter Power had been called out. The
Russians had stationed vessels laden with
stones ready to again close the Sulina mouth
Of the Danube. If necessary
a Constantinople dispatch of the 18th
says the Sultan had given orders to his forces
on the Bosphorus to fight, If an attempt be
made, by either Russian or English troops, to
occupy Constantinople.
The Roumanians, alarmed concern
ing the occupation of their territory and the
possibility Of Russian attempt to disarm
them, have withdrawn their army into Little
Walachia, where, they say, they will make
another Plcvna il the Russians attack them.
A London dispatch of the 18th says
that invitations had at last been issued for the
meeting of the European Congress.
A crisis has occurred in the Turkish
Cabinet, Venik Effendi, President of the Min
isterial Council, being dismissed, and Sadyk
Pasha being appointed his successor. The
overthrow OF Venik Effendi is claimed to be .
Russian triumph, but a dispatch from Con-