The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-31

glnl8 was wrecked ON SaOle 1Sl0nO, on the
coast Of Nova Scotia, on the 18th. The pas
sengers were taken ashore in the ships boats,
and all were saved except the occupants OF
one boat, which capsized near the shore. By
this accident nine persons lost their lives.
THE loss of life by the recent lorna
do in Boston harbor foots up twenty-three.
This includes those killed within q line drawn
twenty miles around Boston. Outside that
line there were . half dozen killed.
A FEW days ago, Mr.. Charles Leh-
mann, President of the Lumbermen's Union
Of Chicago. was engaged in examining his re-
volver to see II it was in working order. Sit
ting opposite to him in the house was his wife
playing with their child on her knee, when
little one fell dead on the mothers lap, with
bullet in it, brain. Both parents were nearly
crazed at the sad occurrence.
The trial of Chastine Cox (colored)
for the murder of Mrs. Hull in New York
City ended on the 18th in verdict of guilty
of murder in the first degree. The Judge
sentenced him to be hanged on the 18th of
August next.
THE New Hampshire House of Rep
resentatives on the 18th, BY q large majority,
indefinitely postponed bill for the abolition
of capital punishment.
FROM July to July II the Treasury
Department in Washington issued warrants
to the amount of $4.S40,0O0 on acquisitions
from the Secretary of the Interior for arrears
of pensions. OF the total amount appropri-
ated ($25.0OO, O0O) there had already been paid
SIC, 1000.
The Secretary of War, upon the rec
ommendation of General Schofeld, command.
ing at West Point, has recently dimissed six
cadets for hazing.
On the 10th, the New Hampshire
House of Representatives passed bill regu.
lating railway passenger and freight rates.
The Davenport Qowa) glucose fac.
tory burned on the morning of the 18th.
Loss, sl75,O00.
PROFESSOR CARPENTER, the nominee
of the Iowa Prohibitionists for Governor, has
declined the nomination.
A STATE Convention of the Union
Greenback-Labor Party Chartered Clubs of
Iowa has been called to meet at Marshalltown
on the 18th of August.
A PLEASURE yacht in the st. Law
renee River was capsized by a sudden squall
on the 18th, and of the twelve persons on
board, eight persisted. The victims were all
members of wealthy Canadian families. The
accident occurred at Point aux Trembles,
near Quebec.
The First National Bank of Butler,
Pa, failed on the 18th, and was placed in the
hands of . receiver.
ACCORDING to q Washington Asso-
ciated Press dispatch Of the 18th, ex-senator
Ramsey. of Minnesota, had been rendered and
had accepted the Office of Secretary of War.
The change would not be made until the pres
ent incumbent had been confirmed as the sue
cessor of Judge Dillon.
A CALL has been issued for a Con-
vention Of the Greenback-Labor party of New
York, to meet at Utica on the 10Th of August,
for the nomination of a State ticket.
JOHN HOPE, convicted of the rob-
berry of the Manhattan Savings Bank, Of New
York, of $780, 90 in securities and cash, has
been sentenced to the State Prison for twenty
years.
A WASHINGTON special of the Goth
says the demand for standard silver dollars
continued at the uniform rate of ABOUT
&55O,OOO monthly, little over one-fourth of
the coinage. Treasurer Gilfillan favored
paying them out on all Indebtedness of the
Government at the rate of five or ten dollars
on each hundred.
The Secretary of the Smithsonian
Institute has been informed by cable telegram
from Professor Forester, of Berlin, that the
supposed new planet discovered by Professor
Peters on the 18th of June is "Trigga."
VERY REV. FATHER JUENGER, Vicar
General of Nesqually, Washington Territory,
and Rev. Father Marty, of Dakota, have been
elevated to the Catholic Episcopatc.
In their quarterly circular recently
issued, r. G. Dun & Co. place the number Of
failures in the United States during the Sec
ond quarter of this year At with liabilities
aggregating 81, 666, rs. The figures for the
same quarter last year were 2,47O failures,
with liabilities Of $4s, 75S.94O. For the first
six months of this year the failures number
4,O5S, as against 5,S25 for the same time last
year, and the liabilities amount to about 1885,
100000, against about $50 COX, 900 for the first
six months of last year.
In the village of Hyde Park, near
Chicago, on the 2lst, two sisters, named Anna
and Emma Trowbridge, deliberately commit
ted suicide because they thought that they
were defrauded out of their rights in certain
property.
BETWEEN 200 and 800 railroad labor
ers, employed - warehousemen and freight
handlers ct the yards in East st. Louis,
struck on the 21st for IN increase of wages.
They had been receiving one dollar day,
and demanded $1.25
DURING the progress of the strike
among the spinners at Fall River, Mass. quite
serious disturbance occurred on the 2lst,
caused by demonstration on the part of the
wives of some Of the strikers az ainst the wife
Of weaver who had gone to work in one of
the mills. The latter's house was stoned and
several windows were broken. The police
ouelled the riotous proceedings
YELLOW.FEVER NEWS.
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