The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-04-24
republicans in all the boards of local govern


THE Kentucky State Republican Con.
vention met at Louisville, on the 10th. Wal
ter Evans was nominated for Governor, o. 8
Deming for Lieutenant Governor, w. O.
Bradley for Attorney General, Richard p
Stall for Treasurer, John A. Williamson fol
Auditor, N. O'Dougherty for Register, and
NJ. Mcintyre for State Superintendent. The
resolutions affirm the platform of 1876; favor
education; advise the calling of Convention
to amend the Constitution; condemn the
Democratic mismanagement of affairs in the
State, ETC., etc.
THE United States Senate, on the
10th, decided, by a vote of IS to g, that
Charles II. Bell was entitled to seat in that
body by virtue of appointment of the Gov
ernor of New Hampshire. Mr.. Bell was con-
sequently sworn in to fill the vacancy from
that State.
THE Massachusetts, House of Repre-
sentatives, on the 10th, rejected a bill to
secure women the right to vote on municipal
affairs in cities and towns. A bill to give
women the right to vote for members of
School Committees was passed.
JOHN TAYLOR has been reelected
President of the Twelve Apostles and Trustee
of the Mormon Church. No successor to
Brigham Young, as President OF the Church,
has been elected.
THE Fidelity Bank building, the FL
deity Safe Deposit Vaults and Hooley's
Theater. property belonging to the defunct
Fidelity Savings Bank of Chicago, were sold
at au ction, on the 10th, for the sum of $780,
400
JOHN P. PHAIR, the Vermont MUIR
derer, who had been three times reprieved,
was hanged, on the 10th, at the State Peniten
tiary in Windsor.
The New Orleans authorities have
determined to quarantine for twenty days all
vessels arriving from ports in the West In
dies, the Gulf of Mexico south of Texas, and
South America, after the LIST of May, with the
object of preventing the introduction of yell
low fever.
AT the rolling-mill in Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 10th, bar of iron being run
through the rollers encircled boy in its fan
tastic folds, and literally burned his body in
two.
SEVEN Indians attacked Serg't
Kennedy and his escort consisting of one
private soldier, at Mizpah, forty-five miles
from Fort keogh, D. T., on the 10th, killing
the escort and badly wounding the Sergeant.
Kennedy was, until lately, the signal observer
at Deadwood.
DURING a recent thunderstorm in
Chicago, meteor burst, from which as much
as two bushels of fragments were secured.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 10th
says the National Executive Committee of the
Colored Emigration Society had adopted res
olutions requesting Government aid, through
the Quartermaster's and Commissary Depart
ments, to the destitute colored emigrants ar
irving at st. Louis and other points on the
Mississippi River.
AT well-attended caucus of the Re-
publican Senators, on the afternoon of the
18th, it was agreed that every possible effort
should be made to defeat the passage of the
Army Appropriation bill in its present shape,
for the reason mainly that the enactment of
the sixth section would prevent the use of the
posse comitdtus on election days for the exc
cution of civil processes Of any and all de-
scriptions issued by United States authority.
This was the position taken by ex-Sec'y
Robson in his recent speech in the House.
The caucus unanimously agreed to disregard
the position of MIR. Garfield, that the legisla-
ton would be accepted if presented as sep
arate measure.
GEN. RICHARD TAYLOR, late of the
Confederate Army, a son of the late President
Taylor, died in New York, on the 18th.
ALFRED A. BURNHAM, former Men,
Der of Congress from Connecticut, died at
Hartford, on the 18th.
f. H. Brown, the Manager of the
Western Union Telegraph Company, at St.
Louis, refused to produce certain kilograms
before the Grand Jury, on the 18th, and was
ordered into the custody of the City Marshal,
for contempt of court.
A SAILOR, named Peter Smell, died at
Milwaukee, on the 18th, from hydrophobia.
THE Executive Committee of the
National Emigration Aid Society have COM
pleted their organization by electing Senator
Window President, E. NJ. Mcpherson Treas
urer, and Prof. Richard Greener Secretary
Arrangements will also be completed for per-
fecting local organizations. The officers of
appeals for aid had met with favorable re-
sponses from philanthropic persons. North
and South, irrespective of party.
PROF. KING, the Philadelphia aero
naut, has made announcement through news
paper reporters that he intends making an at
tempt, within few months, to cross the At
lantic in balloon.
THE Providence Savings Bank and
Trust Company, of Providence, Pa, has
being unable to meet its obliea-
lions, after having taken advantage of the
law. Liabilities, $75,OOO; nomi-
nal assets, 100000.
FORTS STEVENSON and Lincoln re-
Gently both came very near being destroyed
by prairie fires. In each case, the garrison
turned out, and, by working desperately, man.
aged to save the forts.
ON the afternoon of the 4th, the lit
tie Town of Collinsville, in Madison County,
ILL.,, was visited by cyclone, which conferred
in the village. Fifty houses were Frustrated,
and every structure in the town more or less
injured. Three persons were killed outright,
and several more or less hurt. The cemetery,
just outside Of the village, was laid waste,
and every tombstone in it leveled to the
ground.
The mercantile agency of r. G. Dun
4 70. gives the number of failures in the
States and Territories during the quarter end
ing March 81, 1879, at 1884, with liabilities of
$43. ll2,665. For the same time last year the
failures numbered 1885, and the liabilities
amounted to $S2,O7S, S26
CONGRESSIONAL.
sENArE.-The Army Appropriation