The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-10-24
EPITOME OF FHE WEEK.


ETllUME VI fnE WEEK.
CURRENT PAxAaRAPns.
Bishop Dupanloup, of Orleans, and
member of the French Senate, died on the
12th.
The Cashier of the Bank of Com.
mercc, Of Odessa, Russia, is defaultcr in tn,
sum of $4,000.
Eugene A. Cronin, who enjoyed some
notoricty during the Presidential count, dicd
at Portland, Ore, on the 10Th.
Hugh Balfour 4 Co., of Manchester,
Eng. one of the oldest shipping houses Of
that city, have failed for $s.5OOOOO.
Germany has notified the Porte that
its recent note in relation to the Austrian oc
cupation of Bosnia was offensive to all the
Powers.
The Russian evacuation of Turkey
has been stopped for the present in conse.
quence Of the murder of Christians in the dis.
trcts evacuated
Twcnty-threc stone houses, thirty-One
wooden ones and seventy warehouses, the
whole valued at oo,0OO,OW roublcs, were burned
At Riazin, near Moscow, on the 10th.
The New York State Democratic
Committee met, on the 9Th, and elected VIM.
Purcell, of Rochester, Chairman. The candi-
date of the Tilden men was Gen. Faulkner.
1t was reported at Burlington, on
the 18th. that the Greenbackers and Demo-
Gratis in Iowa would combine together and
nominate candidates for Congress, to he voted
for in November.
The German Socialist journals advise
their followers, in the event that the Anti-So-
ciali>t bill. now pending before the German
Parliament, passes, to emigratc to the United
States or Asia Minor.
Gen. ID. ID. Cotton, Vice. President of
the Southern Pacific Railroad and President
of the Occidental and Oriental Steamship
Company. died recently, at San Francisco. He
leaves a very large estate.
The Thornburg expedition, which
had been in pursuit of the fleeing Cheyennes,
reached Camp Robinson, Neb., on the 10th.
The pursuit, owing to the incapacity of the
scouts, was an utter failure.
Harland, the attorney for Mr.. Tilden,
has been held to bail in the sum of $4,000, to
answer to the charge Of stealing the books of
the New York Mine, at Marquette, some days
ago. The books have been returned.
Gen. Gideon j. Pillow, of Mexican
War notoriety and Brgadcr-Gcneral in the
lara Had I, <hn
mouth of the st. Francis River, in Arkansas,
on the Sth, of congestion of the liver.
The United States Treasury held, on
the 18th, s34S, ;l6,i5O in Government bonds
10 secure National Bank circulation; $l3,SOS,-
400 to secure public deposits, and a, SGO, 600
to secure subscriptions to the 4-per-cent. loan.
The Town of Edinburg, Pa, was al
most entirely destroyed by fire, on the morn
ing of the 18th. About IL buildings were
burned, involving loss of from $35O,OOO to
100000. Many families were rendered home
less, aud much suffering existed.
The house of John Conquest, about
two miles south of Clio, Mich, was burned,
few days ago, and the charrcd remains of
Conquest, his wife aud child We're subsequent
~ found in the ruins. 1t was thought they
We're murdered aud then the house set on fire.
During performance at the Col
iseum Theatre, in Liverpool, on the night of
the 18th, some one raised the cry of fire. A
terrible panic cnsued, and in the stampede
which followed thirty-fve men aud boys and
two women were suffocated and many others
severely injured.
On the Chicago Jockey Club Race
Course, on the 10th, Rarus Ito wagon), Hope
full lin harncss) and Great Eastern (under
saddle trotted Il race in which Hopeful won
the three straight heats, Rarus being second.
The time was Alta, 2:l1 and 2:l6. Rarus'
time was 2:lsla, 2:lS and 2:l7.
An Indian Council was held at Camp
Sheridan, Neb., on the 18th, between Col.
Thornburg and Red Clouds band, at which it
was agreed that the latter would detain and
surrender the fugitive Cheyennes il they came
to them. 1t has been asccrtained that the
total number Of whites killed by the Chey-
ennes who crossed the Union Pacific, on the
4th, was cighty-seycn.
Inc MISSOURI Republican State Con-
vcntion met at st. Louis, on the 9th, and
nominated candidates for State Offices as fol-
lows: Judge Of Supreme Court, Alex F.
Denny: Superintendent of Public instruction,
Eoderick Baldwin: Land Register w. T. Nor
deli: Railroad Commissioner, John b. Tracy.
The resolutions favor the payment of bonds
and lcgal-tender notes in gold and silver, ETC.,
etc.
The Woman's Congress, in session
at Providence, r. l., on the 18th, elected Mrs.
Kate y. Doggett Of Chicago President for
the ensuing year. Among the Vicc-Presi-
dents are Finnette s. Seelye, of Ohio; Martha
W. Mckay, Of Indiana; Ellen Mitchell, of
Illinois; Lucinda IL. Stone, Of Michigan:
Emma <. Bascom, of Wisconsin; Julia NJ.
Hunting, Of Iowa. Among the Auditors
chosen was I.avina Gondcli, of Wisconsin.
and among the Directors were FraLces f.
Willard and Caroline NJ. Brown, of Illinois:
Margaret I. Lonely and d. H. Beckwith, Of
Ohio, and Sarah B. Stearns, of Minnesota.
GEN ERAL.
The Colonial Trust Corporation. of
London, defaultel i'm its pavments nm thu s<l,