The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-17

IHE LOUISIANA CO00lCuuOQM VO0s
veutiou has adopted an article prohibiting the
sale of alcoholic and malt liquors on Sundays,
and providing that the next Legislature shall
pass law for the punishment Of violators Of
the provision.
The Chicago Tribune Of . recent
date published an account of an interview had
by . correspondent of that paper with Sitting
Bull, in which the noted Indian Chief said he
only went to war with the whites to defend
his women and children, and al he wants now
is to be let alone and allowed to hunt. He
would never consent to 20 on . reservation
and become . farmer. Other leading Sioux
Indians expressed similar views.
SEVERE wind and rain storms visited
portions Of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Dakota
and Iowa, on the night Of the I'd and morn
ing of the Sd, by which much damage was
done to building and other property, and sew
eral lives were lost. The town of Vasa, near
Rcd Wing, Mimi, was one Of the severest
sufferers, the Orphan Asylum in that place
being blown down and three of the inmates
being killed and seventeen others injured.
Other buildings were destroyed, and nine
lives were lost in the town, and four other
persons were, it was thought, fatally, and
about thirty more or less seriously injured.
The aggregate loss of life in the State by dis
asters connected with the storm was about
twenty.
Up to the 4th, of the Government
refunding certificates issued (440. 00O, OO0)
SCI, 1OO, 900 had been exchanged for four-per-
cent. bonds, there still remaining outstand-
ing Sl2,9)O,OOO. The large amount still
outstanding induced the belief in Washing
ton that much larger proportion had gone
into the hands of small investors than had
really been supposed.
H. P. PEER, the man who once be-
fore leaped from the Suspension Bridge at
Niagara Falls into the foaming waters two
hundred feet below, advertised that the feat
y .OfU.S1~ 1.i Ii,c T Vul v~,y. An
immense crowd gathered, but Peer became
gloriously drunk and his friends would not
allow him to jump.
ATLake Quinsigamond, near Worces-
ter, Mass, on the afternoon of the 4th, the
steamer Isaac Davis, returning from an
excursion, was boarded by an immense crowd
just as she touched the wharf and before
those on board could be discharged. The
boat careened, and the hurricane deck, laden
with dense mass of humanity, was broken
down and its occupants thrown into the
water. About fifteen persons were killed,
and a great many were more or less seriously
hurt.
JOHN F. SEYMOUR, cousin of Bishop
Seymour, of the Diocese of Springfield, ILL.,,
in the grounds of the Theological Seminary of
the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York
City, on the night of the Sd.
DISPATCHES from Northern Vermont
on the 9Th say considerable excitement
existed along the border because of the
alleged discovery, at East Farnham. Que
bee, of Charley Ross. The boy answered the
lost child's description, and says his name 10
Charley Ross, and that he was brought there
from New York by two men, a long time ago.
A dispatch had been sent to Mr.. Ross, and
parties were expected there to investigate the
matter.
The number of marriages in New
York City during the year ending on the Both
ult was 1863. OF this number, 7,435 were white
msles and 7,447 white females, and 1914
colored males and 1S2 colorcd females
Seveuty-one males and tkirty-three females
were married for the third time, and two
males for the fourth time. Ten males and
seventy and eighty years. and one male be-
tween eighty and ninety wears. The number
of marriages between bachelors and spinsters
was $3.50, and 4S4 bachelors married widows.
There were 704 marriages to every 10000 of
population.
A STRIKE among the printers of In
dianapolis, Ind, was ended on the 9th by the
newspaper publishers acceding TO the demand
for thirty three and third cents per thousand
ems.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the 9Th
of the failure of the Semple s. Birge Manu-
featuring Company of st. Louis, Mo.
A PARTY of six young men left Port
Colborne, Ont, in a boat for Buffalo the night
before the 4tn, 10 witness the celebration OF an
American Independence day. On the voyage
over the boat capsized, and all were drowned.
AT Lanesboro, Mimi, on the 4th,
seventeen persons were poisoned by some sub
stance, supposed to be tartar-emetic, in
lemonade at picnic.
In New York City on the 9th, Mary
Anderson and her infant child were burned
to death. Cause, starting a fire with kero-
sene.
ADJUTANT-GENERAL TOWNSEND has
been placed in charge of the work of codify-
ing the army regulations, under the late act
of Congress.
A WASHINGTON special of the 9TH
says reports that the President had any
thought of calling Congress together in anp
other special session before its regular time
Of meeting in December next were untrue.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has recently
issued a circular to Collectors of Customs and
Internal Revenue, Assistant Treasurers and
all the principal officers of the Treasury De-
partment, instructing them, when submitting
nominations for appointments to subordinate
positions, to state, in addition to the other
information required. the service of the NOM
inee in the Union army or navy during the
late civil war.
In the Circuit Court at San Fran
cisco on the 7th, Judge Field, of the Supreme
Court of the United States, decided what is
known as the Queue-cutting ordinance to be
invalid, being in conflict with the Fourteenth
Amendment The ordinance prescribed that
the queues of all Cinnamon in the County
Jail for petty offenses should be cut of, and
1t was expected to be q strong deterrent to
that class of criminals.
Two men named James III. Holland
and Charles G. Wobroth, who had confessed
to the murder Of man in New Mexico few
DAYS before, were recently hanged by a mob
of citizens at Denver. Col.
Four Cheyenne Indians were hanged
at Miles City, D. T., on the 7th, having been
tried and convicted on the charge of wound
ing Sergeant Kennedy, of the Signal Service,
and killing private who accompanied him.
An old man named Joseph Atkins,
aged seventv-one years, living near Green's
burg. Pa, recently shot and instantly killed
his wife, aged seventy-three, and, after tell
ing his nearest neighbor that he had killed
the "old woman" placed the muzsle Of the
gun under his chin and deliberately fired and
killed himself. The trouble leading to this
tragedy is believed to have arisen from a
quarrel about little piece Of property where
they lived.
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