The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-10-30


and rescue the female members of the Meeker
family.
Two PERSONS were arrested at HOl-
den, Mo-, on the 14th, ON the charge Of being
implicated in the late train robbery at Glen
dale, Mo.
INsTnHoqaONs. have recently been is.
sued by the Post-ofiice Department at WASH
ington that all letters deposited in poet-ofiices
without having the official name of the post
office where they are desired to 60 given in
the address, together with the name, full or
abbreviated, of the State, must be forwarded
to the Dcad-Letter Office as unavailable mat
ter. - 81 8" Il q 05. - tee.. O. ..4 y 81,
A FEW days ago a hired man named
Robert Bricknell entered the park of General
Bull, ut Bulbs City, Kansas, for the purpose
of feeding the animals inclosed therein. One
of the elks showed belligerent disposition,
and the man hastily withdrew and informed
General Bull of the circumstance. Both men
then armed themselves with clubs and entered
the Enclosure together, when the elk charged
on Mr.. Bull, knocking him down and piercing
him through with his enters, killing him in
stantly. The Infatuated animal then turned
upon Bricknell and MORALLY wounded him.
George Nicholas and William Sherman rushed
to the rescue, and gave battle. Sherman was
caught and tossed over the fence, and Nicho-
las was thrown up, lodging on the fence. A,
number of farmers arrived, and the elk was
vanquished An examination of the body of
General Bull developed forty-four wounds.
The fatal one was by the antlers, which
pierced the chest through both lungs and the
heart, causing instant death. Bricknell re-
ceived thirty-two wounds, and George Nicho-
las sixty-four. later dispatch announces
the death Of Bricknell, and that Nicholas was
not expected to live. t
A RECENT statement Of the opera
tions of the Patent Office for the last fiscal
year shows that during the twelve months
ending June 30 last there were 19, 800 applica-
tions for patents received, 2,674 caveats filed,
Il, AL patents issued, 1,547 trade marks and
labels registered, and S2S patents granted
but withheld for payment of final fees The
total receipts of the office were sos, 146,
being $l54, 495 in excess Of its total expendi-
lures
ABOUT $50 delegates were present at
the Mississippi River Improvement Conven-
ton which met at Quincy, ILL.,, on the 18th.
A permanent organization was effected by
the election of E. q. Stanard, of st. Louis, as
President, several Vice Presidents, and J..
w. BurdAtte, Burlington, Iowa; H. A. Castle,
St. Paul, Mimi; Ellis B. Usher, La Crosse,
Wis, and ]. H. Waller, Quincy, ILL.,, as Secre-
taries. ~ . I'VE lhi 3-af-
The body of the late DIR. LIE Moyne
was cremat ed in the furnace erected by him
self at Washington, Pa, on the 10th, in ac-
cordance with the request he made in his
will. Brief religious services were first held
at the house, in the presence of the family
and a large number of citizens. The will of
the Doctor requires all his children to sign a
written agreement that their bodies shall be
cremated at death. If they refuse to comply
with this requirement their share of the
property shall be forfeited.
DISPATCHES from Silver City, New
Mexico, received in San Francisco on the 10th,
state that the Indians had been committing
terrible depredations in the Rio Grande Val
ley and southwest of Fort Cummings. The
people of the town of Colorado had been be-
sieged and applied for aid. A volunteer
company of thirty men started from Messil-
la to give them assistance, but met band of
one hundred Indians, and, after Sc
we're fight, were compelled to fall back
A number of settlers in different local
tiles had been murdered by the Indians
The Hanlan-Courtney sculling match,
which was to have been rowed at Chauta,l-
qua, N. Y, on the 10Th, terminated disgrace
fully. Early in the morning some one en-
tered Courtney's boat-house and sawed his
boats in two. Hanlan, under orders from the
referee, rowed over the course alone, and was
given the race. '.... ts.H4
THE returns received up to the morn
Ing VI the Ioun Irum the Chic election indi-
Gated Republican majority in the State of
about 10000. In the Legislature the Repub-
licans would have a majority of thirty-three
on joint ballOt-seven in the Senate and
twenty-six in the House.
The total expenses of the Post-office
Department for the next fiscal year are esti-
mated at $50, 92O, 900; its revenues at $32,-
1000, leaving deficiency to be provided
for out of the General Treasury of :7,71O,9OO
The amount SO provided for the current year
was 81, 451 $3.50. The estimate for inland
railroad transportation is $4,000, 900, an in
crease of 100000 above the appropriation
for the present year. That for the stage
routes, $3.50, 900, an increase of s1,475 600
over the current years appropriation.
THE gold coinage in the United
States minis during the last fiscal year was
as follows: Double eagles, s37, 234, $40;
eagles, 1901 40; half-eagles, 1,A2, 1870;
quarter-eagles, SLIGO, 500; three dollars,
S1O9, 1882; dollars, $3,O9O-making total of
$40, S6,9l2 The silver coinage shows the
following result: Dollars, s27, 81, 800; half
dollars, 2Sa5; quarter-dollars, $lIa5O;
dimes, $45-making total of S27, 227, 1872 50.
Minor coins, s97,79s. Grand total, SOS, 3D.
592.5O.
RI. REV. WILLIAM. WHIrTINGHAM,
Episcopal Bishop of Maryland, died at his
summer home in Orange, N. j., on the morn
ing of the 18th. He was seventy-four years
old, and had been ill for about year.
AN express train ran into freight
train on the Susquehanna Road, at Oneonta,
N. Y, on the 18th and both locomotives
were badly damaged and the engineer and
fireman of the express were killed. No pas
sengers were injured. "t9
PRESIDENT AND Mrs. HAYES were at
Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th, and were given
q reception at the Governors office, where
several thousand people called to pay their
respects. -
ACCORDING to a recent statement of
the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics the value
Of exports from the United States Of live ami
mails OF all kinds increased from 1854 1853
during the fiscal year Of 1873 to slf, Isl, 754
during 1879. Of the total exports of live ami
mails the last fiscal year eleven per cent. were
sent to Great Britain. The value of ,exnorts
of cattle increased from 81, $50, S1S during 1873
to q, 379, 200 in 1879.
IT was stated in Boston on the 18th
that James Redpath, the Lyceum man, was in
the Island of Jamaica, whittier he had gone in
a sort of dazed condition, being evidently
exhausted and worn out, both physically and
mentally. He had very little money with him,
and it was thought he would soon return and
settle up his affairs and resume business.
The Barnstable County (Mass.)
Grand Jury have indicted Charles Freeman
the Second Adventist who killed his child