The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-11-21
EPITOME OF THE WEEK,

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CURRENT PARAaRARRD.
The Treasury Department purchased
$4,000 ounces Of silver. on the III.
Thomas Ahern, the last of the En-
glish Fenian prisoners. has been released from
custody.
The Hungarian Diet has rejected the
motion for the impeachment Of the Ministry,
BY vote Of 170 to IS.
Nearly one-half of the cotton mills in
Ashton-under-Lyu district have stopped
work.
The Benhar Coal Company, of Edin-
burgh, Scotland, has failed. Liabilities,
$S,615,OOO
Austria has granted q general am
nesty to the Bosnian and Herzovinan insur-
gents.
Over 100000 have been subscribed
In London for the relief of the shareholders Of
the City of Glasgow Bank.
The Paris Exposition was formally
since the opening, ta,530.749
At a fire in a St. Louis tenement
house, on the 9th, Christ Mueller and Mrs.
Referring were fatally bnrned.
A Lisbon dispatch announces that
Portugal, France and England had formed an
alliance to punish the King of Dahomey.
Capt Condor, the released Fenian,
called upon the President, on the 7th, and
warmly thanked him for securing his release
from prison.
Knight & Son. Liverpool merchants,
have failed for 100000. Robert Forester, q |
large Glasgow colliery proprietor, has also
failed, owing $2,5oo,0oO.
Anew York dispatch of the 9Th
states that the liabilities of Dodd, Brown 4
Co, Of St. Louis, were $1,7OO, ITO. Actual |
available assest, $3.50, 800.
The negotiations between the Vati- |
can and Russia have been broken OF, the at |
'itude Of the latter Power, it is said, afford |
ing no hope Of satisfactory results.
John Gray & Co., iron founders, in |
Scotland. have failed for large amount. w.
Wilson & Co., printers, of Alexandria, Eng,
have also failed. Liabilities, 100000.
At the Cabinet meeting in Washing
ton, on the Sth, sec'y McCrary submitted re- |
ports showing that peace and quiet prevailed |
on the Rio Grsnde, with a fair prospect Of |
continuance.
Mrs. A. T. Stewart, on the 9th, Of |
fered a reward of $4,000 for the recovery of |
the stolen body Of her late husband and the I
conviction Of the thieves. A proportionate |
sum would be paid for the recovery of the |
body.
Ex-Congressman Norman B. Judd |
died quite suddenly Of apoplexy, in Chicago, |
few days ago, aged sixty-three years. He |
was q Member of the Fortieth and Forty-irst |
Congresses, and was Minister from this coun-
toy to Berlin from 1861 to 1865.
Not many minutes after being in
formed of his election on the evening Of the |
18th, Alexander Smith (Rep), Congressman
elect from the Twelfth IN. ~ District, died |
from acute gastritis, occasioned by overwork /
and exposure during his canvass.
At Chenango, N. Y, three brothers,
James. David aud John Tabor. run and owned |
farm jointly. James and David disagreed |
as to how 1t should be run A few days ago, |
David killed James with pitchfork, and then /
blew out his own brains with shotgun.
While Gov. Hampton, of South Caro-
lima, was hunting, a few days ago, his mule |
became frightened, and, the bride breaking,
he leaped from the saddle. BY the fall the |
Governors right leg was broken In two places, |
the bones protruding, and his ankle was bad. /
ly hurt.
From the report of the Second As
sistant Postmaster-General, it appears that |
the cost OF inland mail transportation for the |
fiscal year ending June 80 was SIG, O34, O2l. |
Cost of railway mail transportation, 90, $685.
5s5 Estimate for the next year for inland |
mail transportation is $50, 1900.
On the Sth, Henry Greenebaum,
formerly President Of the German American |
Savings Bank, of Chicago, was held to bail in /
the sum OF $4,000 to await an Indictment |
upon the charge of embezxling the funds of |
that institution. The amount he is alleged /
to have taken is $4,000.
The following are the Republican |
majorities In Iowa at the October election, on |
the State ticket: For Secretary of State, TO-
:S1; Auditor, 1854; Treasurer, IL, 73S; Regis
ter of Land Office, 9,945; Attorney General, |
1915; Supreme Judge, S,74; Supreme |
Clerk, 1l,s4s; Reporter of Supreme Court, |
1896.
A recent telegram from Pembina,
d. T., says that Sheriff W. H. Anderson, of |
Dallas, Tex, who was in pursuit of William |
Collins, of the famous band of train robbers,
found him In the former place, and attempted |
to arrest him. Collins resisted, and the men /
exchanged fire with fatal effect, both dropping
dead I'm two minutes
Johnson's jewelry store. in Eighth
avenue, New York City, was robbed on the |
evening of the 9TH, in the presence of large
number OF spectators. About six o'clock two |
men entered the store, one Of which closed |
the door aud the other stood guard over the |
proprietor and his clerks with drawn pistols.
Two confederates stood outside, and ordered
the crowd away, while another broke the cases
and gathered up = bagful of watches and
chains. The thieves escaped with their plum
der.
Cape May, the famous watering
place, was the scene Of most destructive
fire on the morning of the 9th. 1t commenced
in the attic of the Ocean House, and spread
thence to the Merchants' Hotel, the Center
House, the Atlantic, Knickerbocker and other
hotels, and destroyed them all, - we'll %
most of the adjacent cottages. About forty
acres were burned over, and the loss aggre-
gated about 500, 900. The fire Is believed to
have been incendiary in it's origin.
The United States Treasury held, on
the 9th, &34S, 506, 700 in Government bonds to
secure bank circulation, and Ola, 60S, 400 Sc
cure public deposits It was stated, unof-
6cially, that after the LIST Of January next, Is
an aid to the resumption Of specie payments