The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-23
THE NEW WORLD.

Convention met at Boston on the 1th and
nominated John Quincy Adams for Governor.
by reclamation. The rest of the ticket was
constituted as follows: Lieutenant Gov
crnor, W. z. Plunkctt; Secretary of State,
General NJ. 7. Donohoc; Treasurer, David N.
Skillings: Auditor, VIM X. Field; Attorney
General, Richard Olncy The platform
cnunciates the doctrines of Statcs-riyhts and
hard-money; rchukcs the Republican party
for destroying the commerce of the country
and for paying the fishery awards to Great
Britain, and calls upon Congress to rescue
the freedom of elections undetcrred by Re-
publican clamor or Presidential vctocs.
GENERAL GRANT and party returned
to San Francisco on the 9TH from their trim to
the Yosemite Valley
HE Louisiana Democratic State
Convention, at Baton Rouge on the 7th, NOM
mated l.. a. Wilt for Governor.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean of the Sth
says a balloon, supposed to be the missing
Pathfinder" (Wisc's balcony, was seen on
the night of the 2Sth ult. to pass over Miller
Station thirty miles distant from Chicago, by
Louis Fabcr, an engineer on the Lake Shore
" Michigan Southern Railroad He and the
operator at the depot saw the balloon quite
distinctly about midnight, the moon shining
brightly. The air-ship was less than a mile
away, and appeared to be sailing i'm north
eastcrly direction very rapidly toward the
lake, which is only about half a mile from
Miller Station. A fireman on Mr.. Fabcr's en-
CINE also saw the balloon, and corroboratcs
the above statement
AT Bradford, Pa, on the 9TH Robert
Butler deliberately shot and killed his brother
Henry. Both were intoxicated
The Humane Association of the
United States met in annual Convention at
Chicago on the Sth. "A lengthy report was
made on the treatment of dumb animals
when shipped by rail, and the alleged abuses
OF animals in transit were largely dwelt upop.
a missionary fund of 5000 was recommend
ed, to be expended in the formation of Socie
ties Tor the Prevention of Cruelties to Ami
mails in States where live organizations did
not already exist.
The Fall River (Mass.) strike COL
lapscd on the 9TH, the strikers voting at a
largely attended meeting, to return to work.
A CANADIAN Grand Jury has indicted
the President, Vice President, Directors and
Gcneral Manager of the Consolidated Bank of
Montreal, on the charge of making and pub
fishing willfully false and fraudulent state
ment of the banks affairs in January and
February last.
RETURNS from the Colorado election.
received on the night Of the Sth, indicate the
election OF Beck, the Republican candidate
Tor Supreme Judge, by about 5000 majority.
1HE Subcommittee to investigate the
charges against Senator ingalls, concluded
their labors on the Sth. The report will ~.
made to the committee in Washington next
winter
PETER MCMANUs, Mollie Mcguire.
was hanged at Sunbury, Pa, on the 9th, for
the murder of Coroner Hcsser, in 1874
AT the session of the Humane Asso-
citation in Chicago on the 9th it was resolved
to ask Congress to charter the organization.
under the name of the "American Humane
Association" Edwin Lee Brown was re-
elected President. Thirty Vicc-Presilents
were chosen, among whom were Henry Bcr,h.
of New York; Thco. F. Gatchcil. Des
Moines, Iowa; J. W. Fitch, Cleveland. Ohio:
y. q. shortall, Mrs. F.. W. Peck, Chicago;
i. W. Palmer, Detroit; d. Il, Noyes, Jr., st.
fauI, Minn.; \. G. Stcbbins, Toledo, Ohio:
Dr. j. NJ. Castor, indianapolis, Ind. Elihu
Enos. Waukesha. Wis. Secretary, Abraham
Firth, Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Levi
knowles, Philadelphia, Pa
HE Land Office at Washington has
recently made out statement for the fiscal
year ending July last, from which it appears
that S'0',OOO acres were taken up during that
year. In 1877 the number of acres taken was
o'4So,WU The amount taken up during the
first three months of the presant fiscal wear
Indicates total for the year of nearly 10, OOO.-
UO acres. Texas is not included in this state
ment, as all public lands there belong to the
State.
The Chief Of the Bureau of Statis-
tics at Washington reports that the exports
OF petroleum and petroleum products, during
August, 1873, amounted to Al, 397, 776 gallons,
valued at $780, 12.
UP to the 9th the silver dollars coined
aggregated az, Isl, $50, of which $l1,O54. O7O
were in circulation.
IHE Treasury Department has ar
ranged with express companies to transport
all shipments of fractional silver coins to
parties ordering them at Government con-
tract rates.
On the 10th the Legislature of Wash
ington Territory by joint resolution took
recess, for the purpose of visiting General
Grant at Portland. A resolution was also
adopted inviting the General to visit Seattle
during his visit north.
A FRIGHTFUL accident occurred on
the Michigan Central Railroad, near jackson,
Mich, on the morning of the 10th. The Pa
chic express train, bound west, consisting of
seven sleepers, four passenger coaches, and
mail and baggage cars, was forty minutes be-
hind time, and on arriving at the switch, q
quarter OF mile east Of the jackson juno
ton, 1t collided with switch engine which
had been left on the main track Both en-
gines were completely demolished, and the
baggage and passenger cars were piled upon
each other in q terrible wreck. Fifteen per-
sons were killed and about thirty others more
or less seriously injured. The engineer and