The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-09


London, on the Goth ult.
A Copenhagen (Denmark) hotel
keeper has been arrested for threatening the
assassination of the King.
Rev. Leonard Woods, ex-President
OF Bowdoin (Me.) College, and author of sew
cral theological works, died, on the 18th.
Wall street On. w banks were, on
the 9th, paying out to their depositors what
ever gold coin was wanted by them at par.
The Empress of Germany has sent
an autograph letter of coincidence to the
widow of the late United States Minister Bay
ard Taylor.
Greece has announced that she in
tends to come 70 an understanding with
Turkey in respect to the frontier without the
mediation of the Powers.
The Great Council of Geneva has &C.
ccpted the principle Of the separation of
Church and State, and appointed q committee
to examine a bill for that purpose.
Ex-Congressman Owen Jones, of
Philadelphia, started from his residence on
Christmas night to visit neighbor, and WAS
found frozen to death by the roadside at mid
night.
The trial. in Chicago, of Mrs. Alviro
Clark and Joe St. Peters, for the murder of
Mr.. Clark, at Lagrange, a few months ago,
terminated, on the eth, in q verdict of ac-
quittal.
Suleiman Pasha, the distinguished
Turkish General, who was lately sentenced to
imprisonment for alleged misconduct during
the Turco-Russian War, has been pardoned by
the Sultan.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th
says Mr.. Tilden will be one of the first wit
nesses called before the Potter Committee,
when the House instructs it to investigate the
cipher kilograms.
A Washington dispatch of the 26th
says the Assistant Treasurers Of the United
States had been instructed to make no dis.
inction between coin and legal-tenders after
he LIST of January.
The Captain and officers .of the
steamer Pomerania have been acquitted of
blame, the inquiry deciding that they did all
that was possible to be done to avoid the col
lision and loss of life.
Peter Mcnamara, a well-known resi-
dent of Washington. d. c, died in that city,
few days ago, from the effects of bite in
ficted by another man with whom he had an
alteration over two months before.
The total amount contributed in Gin
cinnati for the relief OF sufferers in the South,
during the late yellow fever epidemic, is re-
ported at 500, 1868. exclusive of the inde-
pendent contribution Of the Catholic Church
An explosion of glycerine occurred
in the works at Upper Preakness, five miles
from Paterson, n. j., on the 2Sth ult., and
three men were torn into fragments, and
blown in every direction. The building and
an adjoining house were completely demol-
ished, and houses in Paterson were shattered
as if by an earthquake.
President Hayes stated. on the 27th,
that he WAS giving no attention to the collec-
ton of official reports showing intimidation
and fraud in the recent elections in the
Southern States, for the use of the Teller
Committee, as he had learned that the COM
mittce had formally refused to call upon him
for such information.
Mrs. Malinda Mack has been con-
victed, at GAINESVILLE, Wis, of the murder of
her husband, farmer residing near that city,
and sentenced to imprisonment for life. A
hired man named Dickerson, indicted with
her as an accomplice in the crime, testified that
she did the killing, and that he assisted her to
carry the dead body of the victim into the
stable, where it was placed, as found, at the
heels Of horse, to givc the appearance of
having been kicked aud trampled to death.
Dickcrson's trial will follow.
GENERAL.
a Berlin telegram of the oath says
he law against the Socialists was being
pressed with renewed vgor. Seventeen pub
locations had been supp. csscd in Lcipsic alone.
An Oswego On. W telegram of the
18th reported the snow to be four feet deep
on level in that vicinity, and all trains on
local railroads had been abandoned. The
news from other localities was that general
blockade OF trains existed on the New York
Central and Erie Roads west of Rochester,
the snow-drifts being from six to eight feet
deep.
A kuram dispatch of the 26th saws
an Afghan soldier, in the British service, had
been hanged for firing to warn his country
men of the advance on Pciwar Pass. Eighteen
others had been sentenced to from seven to
fourteen years penal servitudc for dcscrtion.
The steamer State of Louisiana, from
Glasgow for New York, ran on a rock in
Larne Tough, off the coast OF Scotland, on
the Goth. 1t was thought that she could not
be got off. No lives were lost.
A dispatch was received by the In
dian Bureau, in Washington, on the Goth,
from Yakima, W. T., to the effect that the
Indian Chief, Moses, and ten of his principal
men, had been captured, and that the other
Indians were getting on to the reservation as
fast as possible. Not gun had been fired
This news was regarded with crest sstisfac-
ton by the Bureau, as indicating that the re-
cent imminent danger of an Indian war in
Washington Territory had been averted by
the action of the agents of the Interior De-
partment and civil authorities.
Yakoob Khan, whom Shere Ali left.
in supreme command when he fed his co.
main. according to London dispatch of tse
9th, had ridden into the British .Quarters. at
Jelalabad and made bis submissicn.: 80:
A Tifiis telegram, published in 'Vien,
ma, on the 9th, says the Ameer of Afghanis
tan had arrived at Tashkend.
Abdin Palace, the winter residence
OF the Khedive Of Egypt, was nearly destroyed
BY fire on the 26th.
The steamer Emily B. Souder, from
New York for Puerto Plata, foundered at sea
when two days out. She carried nine passen-
gers and her officers and crew numbered
twenty-nine persons. OF these only two were
Known to be saved up to the 9th. The
scuder left New York on the Sth.
A report received in New York from
Porfde Pai1, Hayti, on the 9th, says the