The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-08-01

L ssAC DCIAIu AtC3Cys
The Servian authorities have abol-
ished the state of siege which has prevailed
since the beginning of the Turco-Russian
War.
The boiler In planing-mill, at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio. exploded on the morning Of
the 18th, destroying the building and killing
three persons outright. Three men were ia
tally, and several others badly. injured.
The monument and statue erected to
the memory of the late stephen A. Douglas,
in Chicago, were formally unveiled, on the
morning Of the 18th. About 1000 persons
witnessed the ceremony. Ex-ChiefJustice
Cation delivered . short address.
Representatives of the State Green
back Clubs of Illinois met in Chicago, on the
18th, and adopted series of resolutions Tin
troduced by "Brick" Pomeroy, Chairman Of
the Committee on Resolutions), declaring that
| a conspiracy exists in the country, under the
leadership Of the leaders and chiefs Of the
Democratic and Republican parties, including
the present National Administration, to estab-
fish financial despotism over the commercial
and working classes of the country; that the
Greenback and Labor party will fight such
movement to the bitter end; that the Green
back must be a full legal-tender; money to be
alone issued by the General Government: that
the National bonds must be Immediately called
in and paid in grecnbacks; that the Resumption
act must be Internationally repealed; that
the public lands must be reserved to actual
settlers; deprecating all efforts to redress
wrongs by violation of law, and looking to
the ballot-box alon. for justice; favoring a
general system of internal Improvements by
the General Government; calling for Ma
tional Greenback Labor Convention to be
called by the duly chartered National Green
back Clubs Of the United States, etc.
About twenty deaths from sun
stroke occurred in St. Louis, on the 18th,
thirty-one in Chicago, fourteen in Milwaukee,
and several in other localities The tempera.
ture in St. Louis ranged from 81 dogs. to 1O2
degs., in Chicago from Sc degs to 100 degs.,
and Milwaukee about the same.
A Boise City Odaho) telegram of
the 10th says it was not true that the Una
tillas had Joined the hostiles. One hundred
of their warriors had joined Col. Forsyth, and
after fight, ON the 18th, with the hostiles,
had brought in twenty-five sealps and 800
horses.
Hazard & Caldecott, wool-brokers,
of London, failed, on the 18th, for s., 500, OOO
The miners strike at Amin is one
of the most extensive ever known in France
Over 5000 operatives have left the pits, de-
handing higher wages and eight hours as .
days work.
New York, Boston and other Eastern
cities suffered from extreme heat, on the 18th,
the thermometer ranging from 80 to IS deg.
The weather throughout the West was gener-
ally more comfortable, and temperature much
lower than for several days.
The Umatilla Indians under FORSYTH,
in Oregon, killed seventeen hostile warriors,
on the night of the 18th, and captured seven
ty-five women and children, and about sixty
head of horses. The hosties were much de-
moralized. On the same evening a man
named Haines, Captain OF volunteer COM
pany, killed a friendly Neg Perces scout, and
MORALLY wounded another. The Nez Perccs
were much incensed at Haines, and would
scarcely continue longer in the service, and
it was also feared the friendly Umatillas
would abandon the field. Haines was under
guard.
Ed. Oakley, the ahsconding Cashier of
the New York Merchants Exchange National
Bank, who, in 1870, defaulted for something
like ssOO,OO returned to New York, on the
18th, and was lodged in Ludlow-Street Jail.
He declared that he was penniless.
A mass meeting was held in Rome,
on the 2lst, favoring the annexation of South
TyrOl to Italy. Twenty-Five thousand per-
sons participated. son of Gen. Garibaldi
presided.
According to a Washington dispatch
OF the Goth, the Mint at Philadelphia and the
Assay Office at New York had been directed
to purchase Mexican silvcr-dollars and United
States trade-dollars, as bullion, at an equiva-
lent of the London rate for silver on the day
of the purchase, less 4 per cent, per ounce,
payable in standard silver-dolars.
On the afternoon of the 22d, the en-
tire business portion Of Catlettsburg, KY,
was destroyed by fire, involving loss of about
S25O,OOO.
A Washington telegram of the 22d
states that the Treasury Department had re-
ceived from National Banks, since the notifi-
cation, on the 18th, that silver dollars could
be obtained for greenbacks, free Of transport
tation, orders for 1910, 900 in silver.
Gen. Sir Garnet Wolsely arrived at
Lanarca, Cyprus, on the 22d. He issued
proclamation stating that Her Majesty, the
Queen, was greatly interested in the prosperity
of the Cypriotes, and promising measures
calculated to promote agriculture and COM
merce.
The Queen has conferred the Order
of the Garter upon Lord Beaconstield The
investiture took place on the morning of
the 22d.
A Boston telegram of the 22d an
nounces the defalcation of Mr.. John g. Tap
pan, late President of the Boston Betting
Company. His shortage is stated to be over
half q million dollars, and the company has
suspended. Mr.. Tappan has turned over
property nominally valued at Sl,1OO,OOO to
make good the amount embezzled. Specula-
ton in outside enterprises is said to have led
to the defalcation.