The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-05-22
THE NEW WORLD.

In the Mics polygamy case, at Salt
Lake, on The 9th, the jury found verdict of
guilty. Defendant apre lied and was held to
b il in the sum of 5000.
In Philadelphia. on the 9Th, Edward
parr, a graduate OF the Illinois State Peniten-
iiary, butchered his daughter, Mrs. Susan
Erwin, by stsbbiug her in the breast with q
huge knife.
ALIEN. COHEN, the fugacious Milwau-
kcc insurance agent and forger, was arrested
at Ri, hmOnd, Va, on the 9th.
john DOBBs, alias Kerrigan, a no
Iprous bank rohber, attempted to sell some
of the bonds stolen from the Manhattan
Savings nix, Of New. York, some months
ago. in Philadelphia, on the 5th. They were
rcccgn zsd and Kerrigan was arrested and
taken to New York on the 9th.
TIE National COlored Conference
met at Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th, aud or.
canizc by the election of J. r. Lynch, of
Mississippi, as Chairman; Robert Nichols, of
Indiana, as Vice Chairman, ard the usual
numb,r of Secretaries.
A MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Labor Con.
vcn'i"n-compreed of planters, leading
G" orcd men and Others was hell at vicks-
iurg, Miss, on tie 9Th. A series of resolutions
WIS adop' Ell, to the effect that the interests of
plsn'c 5, labOrcrs, landlords and tenants are
identical; that the colored race are, BY the
Constitution and laws Of the land, placed on
an al solute legal equality with the whites, and
shall be accorded the practical enjoyment of
their civil and political rights; that it is the
on.titutional right Of the colored people to
emigrate when and to what State they please,
ut that the Convention urges them to pro-
Gee in their movement toward emigration as
reasonable human beings, provided in advance
with the necessary means for the successful
carrying out OF their efforts to secure homes
elsewhere, ETC., etc. Only the white members
OF the Convention voted on the adoption of
the resolution, the negroes, underinstructions
from their leaders, refraining from giving an
expression either pro or con.
A ST.. Louis dispatch of the 9Th saws
about 14O Southern refugees-men, women
and chill iren-arrived there that day and left
on steamer for their former homes In War.
rem County, Mics. They gave an unfavorable
account of their reception and treatment in
able TO rctarn to the South. They were
abuniantIy supplied, by parties in st. Louis,
with all nccessaries for their trip down the
riv.r
WHlTTEMORE, PEET, Posi- & Co.,
wooden aud dry-goods commission merchants
Of New York, one of the largest in the line
failed on the eth. Liabilities variously ca
timated At from $500DOO to $750,OCO.
On the 9TH, the Secretary of Wa,
instructed Gen. Sherman to remove the tres
paseers in the Indian Territory, by force Il
necessary. The proper Instructions wer.
forwarded tDGeA Sheridan.
ANexpl6sioff 6f gas in the Stanton
Shaft OF q coal mine - Wukesbarre, Pa, on
the night Of the 9th; fatally burned from 81,
to eight of the miners.
The National Woman's Suffrage As.
sociation met in st. Louis, on the 7th, and or
ganized by the election OF the following Of
ficers: President Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stan
ton; Secretary, Mrs. 8. A. Spencer; Treas
urer, Mrs J. G. spo9ord. z.1..: .,4
In the Cox-Alston murder case .,
Atlanta. Ca, ON the 7th. Cox, the prisoner,
was found guilty, and sentenced to imprison.
ment for life. a.. - lSSy
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention IL to te held on the 10th Of July
The American TRcs Society held it.
annual meeting in New York, ON the 7th. Thu
available resources during 1878 were e410. 600
and the expenditures during the sS1ne time
100000. On the same day, In Ne same citv