The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-01-03
EPITOME OF THE WEEK
CONDENSED Telegraphic News.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.


Henry NJ. Stanley, the African cx-
rcrr. reached Alden, Arabia, on the .:si
The Springfield (Ill.) Savings Bank
has suspended. Liabilities to dcpostors about
S1;5tOU.
The United States Supreme Court
adjourned, on the 2lst, to meet again, on the
:th OF January.
The Woman's National Suffrage
Association will meet in Washington, ID. e.,
on the 9TH of January.
The calling together of the British
Parliament is considered in st. Petersburg as
tantanount to declaration Of war.
Flora Temple. the famous trotting
mare, died recently, on farm near Philalcl-
;'hia, in the th:rty-thirl year Of her age.
\ call has been issued for Demo-
cratic State Convention. to meet at Iniianap-
oils Ind, on the 10th If February next.
John Van Hocsen. the reputcd ring
leader of the Albany (N.Y. railroad rioters in
July last, has been found guilty, and sentenced
Ia seven years Imprisonment.
Rev. G. +. Seymour was. on the 10Th,
elected Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of
Springfield. Ill. Bishop Seymour is brother
of linratio Seymour. Of New York.
John \. Joyce, convicted ut st. Louis
nj vnnsprins tn defraud the Government Of
taxes distilled spirits. has been fully and
Internationally pardoned 10y the President.
+. :. Lambert. President of the Amer
lean Popular Life Insurance Company. of New
York. has been found guilty of swearing to
false statements in regard to the condition of
the company.
Two hundred delegates to the Ma
ti"ual Reform Convention. to secure the OK
press acknowledgment of God in the Consti-
tuition of the United States. assembled at Roch-
ester. " y, on the 18th.
The Legislature of South Carolina
hs- ratified, by over two-thir,ls vote, the
amendment tn the State Constitution levying
an annual tax of two mills upon all the taxa
Bile property in the State, for the support Of
free schools.
The United States Treasury held, on
tie 2.i. S:a6.2., $50 to secure the National
Bank circulation. and Ala, .OOO to secure
the public deposits, National Bank circula-
ton outstanding: Currency notes, $500 253,-
.,%, gold notes, II. 49,, 100.
\ few nights since the children of
,>'lfT,rated by coal gas, and also Mary f. Bur-
IN, N1,., Il
Mrs. Syan herself was alive when discovered,
hut was not expected to recover.
Thomas ROoney's house at West
Point, y. Y. was buried, a few days ago, and
two children. agcdthrce and five years. persisted
in III, flames. They were locked in the house
curing the absence of their parents, and were
found lifeless and charred. claspcd in each
others arms.
W. +. Endicott, President of the late
central National Bank of Chicago, is found to
h. dctaultcr and has left that city for parts
unknown. 1t seems that. like Spencer. he un-
loaded by selling to the bank his capital stock
for cash, leaving behind worthless notes. 1t
was thought, on the 18th, that stockholders
would realize nothing and depositors in the
suspended concern little.
a boy named Willie Hopkins, ten
Years old. was recently abducted from his
home at Biaddock's Fields, near Pittsburgh,
Pa. by man supposed to bc a tramp. He is
said to he pretty boy, with full face. light
complexion and hair. and rather stoutly built.
The atpiuctor is tall man. with face pittel
with smallpox. The parents Of the boy are in
great distress over his disappearance, the
mother being almost insane from grief.
The troubles in Ell Paso County,
Tex. are said to have grown out Of dispute
" to the ownership of extensive salt mines in
that section, at which the people of the sur.
rounding country have obtained salt from time
immemorial. free Of cost. number of
American SPECTATORS Judge Howard among
them, set up title to the mines. In attempt
ing to maintain this title, Judge Howard quar-
relied with the people in the neighbOrhood,
and, at last, shot and killed man who es
poused the cause of the resident Mexicans.
He then fled the country. but recently returned,
and was captured, with his adherents, and
three of them, including the Judge, were
killed. as already announced.