The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-20

Washington a few days ago.
The American Women's Suffrage
Association, at its session in Cincinnati on
the 5th, elected the following officers to serve
for the ensuing year: President, Henry B.
Blackwell, Boston. Vice-Presidents, T. w.
Higginson, Rhode Island; Mrs. Hazard, St.
Louis; Mary A. Livemore, Illinois; George
William Curtis, New York; George w. Ju-
liam, Indiana; Theodore d. Weld, Massachu-
sets; Celia Burleigh, New York; Margaret
N. Longley, Cincinnati. Chairman Execu-
tive Committee, Mrs. Lucy Stone. Foreign
Corresponding Secretary, Julia Ward Howe.
Corresponding Secretary, Myra Bradwell,
Illinois. Recording Secretaries, Miss Ma
tilda Hindman, New Jersey; Amanda Way,
Indiana. Treasurer, Frank B. Sanborn, Mas
sachusctts.
MAJOR RENO, of the Seventh Cav
airy, is to be again tried by court-martial,
upon the charge of being guilty of conduct
unbccoming an officer and gentleman.
HENRY GREENEBAUM, late President
of the German National Bank of Chicago,
has been indicted by United States Grand
Jury, for abstracting valuable assets and
Incorporating its funds. The indictment
contains twenty-one counts. Mr.. Greene
baum has been arrested and held to bail for
trial in the sum Of $4,000.
A GREELEY (Col.) telegram of the 9Th
states that Edward Clark, who was employed
at White River Agency, says Chief Douglass,
the plotter of the Meeker massacre, was con-
cerned in the horrible Mountain Meadow
massacre, where SO many innocent women
and children were butchered by the Mormons
and Indians. Clark saws that one day this
summer Douglass and another Chief quar-
relied. The Chief in his anger said he could
ruin Douglass if he told the truth about him,
that he was bad man and had participated
in the crime at Mountain Meadows.
On the afternoon of the 9TH frail
building in Kansas City, occupied by j. f.
Corlis as candy and cracker factory, fell in
with tremendous crash, and in few Sec
onds flames sprang from the debris. In the
building about sixty persons were employed,
mainly girls and young boys, and the cries
and screams of these, as the fire spread with
frightful rapidity, were something horrible.
The flames were finally subdued, and from the
debris six corpses were recovered, and it
was believed more would be found when the
ruins were cleared up. Several were also res
cued, badly, and probably fatally, burned.
THE remains of the late Major-Gen-
eral Hooker reached Cincinnati on the even
ing of the 9th, and lay in state all night The
funeral ceremonies were performed on the
9TH, due civic and military honors being paid
to the departed hero.
HOUsE-to-house inspection was begun
in Memphis on he 9TH, under the auspices of
the National Board of Health, with a view to
ascertainipg what sanitary improvements arc
necessary for each dwelling within the cor
porate limits of the city.
The Commissioner of Pensions re-
Gently received a letter complaining that a
certain party had made demand upon a
female pensioner for SIS, for services in get
ting the Arrears of Pension bill through Con-
gross. With a view to expose this disrepu-
table scheme, Mr.. Bentley furnished tor pub
LEGATION his reply to the above letter, as fol-
lows:
"DEAR MADAM: In answer to your letter of
the I'd inst, you are informed that neither Mr..
demand pay Of you for any efforts they may
have put forth to secure the passage of the law
granting arrears. From the papers which you
inclosed, and which, with your consent, 1 will
a tax for his private use upon your credulity
and generosity"
REV. MATTHEW HALE SMITH, the
well-known author and lecturer, died few
days ago at his residence in South Brooklyn,
was sixty-three years old. Writing over the
nom de plume of Burleigh, he became widely
known in this country.
SINCE January 1, last, 1898 German
emigrants landed at Castle Garden, against
1918 during the corresponding period of
the previous year.
A Tucson telegram of the 7th re-
ports that the Arizona scouts and volunteers
had defeated Victoria's band of Apaches at a
line.
The Postmasters of all the prominent
cities of the country have sent their annual
reports to the Department for this fiscal year
ending June 30. These show that New York
staI.ds first in point of business done, and
Chicago second.
A LEwEs Oel.) telegram of the 9Th
says the steamer Champion, from New York
for Charleston, was run into the morning be-
fore by the ship Lady Octavia, off the capes,
and sank in five minutes after the collision.
The ship was badly damaged. OF those per-
sons on board the steamer thirty-two were
reported lost. Twenty-Five were saved.
SIDNEY A. GRANT, late of Cincinnati,
and A. F. Wilson were arrested at Denver,
COL, on the Sth on the charge of conducting
fraudulent scheme through the mails, un-
der the name of the Denver Land Company,
and taken before United States Commission
err. They waived examination and were COM
mitted. The lands dealt in are in the sand
hills, forty miles north of Denver, in another
county, and were plated and recorded as
North Denver Although known in Denver
but eight days, perfect avalanche of mail
was being received there for s. A. Grant and
the Denver Land Company. The Postmaster
had been ordered by the Department to de.
liver no registered letters and pay no money
orders to Grant.
Tie National Christian Temperance
Union of the United States and Canada closed
its session at Fort Wayne, Ind, on the Sth
Governor st. John, of Kansas, was elected
President, and Francis Murphy, first Vice
President for the ensuing year.
EIGHT deaths from yellow fever oc-
Cured in Memphis during the week ending
on the Sth, majority of which were linger-
ing cases.
The bark Petit Zodiac, which ar
rived at New York on the 9th from Glouces-
ter, had on board four of the passengers and
two of the crew of the steamship Champion,
which sank near the entrance of Delaware
Bay on the morning of the 9TH.
The National Republican Executive
Committee will meet in Washington on the
18th of December, for the purpose of electing
a Chairman in the place of Senator Chandler,
deceased, and also to determine the place of
holding the next Republican National Con-
ventiOn.
A PHILADELPHIA dispatch of the 9Th
states that, in spite of the high prices and
steadiness of the English market, there had
been sharp advance in steel rails during the
week just closed from fifty five to ifty-six dol
lars per ton up to sixty dollars, and even as
high AS sixty-five dollars, the latter price be-
ing paid for 1000 tons Western delivery in
the spring of 1880.