The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-06-12

pcf10eo00006 OF 1U0uc 4uotEUG0O0e 30 ~ YAM
Of Polk County. - ~
AT Bakersfield, Cal, 81 he morning
Of the ssth, . band Of. masksa men entered
the County JAN, ovsrl6wefs1 Ne jaIlss, ana
hanged 10 the gratings in their cells Thomas
and William Yoakum, brothers, confined on
the charge OF murder.
HENRY ACnHY, twelve years old.
committed suicide IN the Philadelphia House
Of Refuge, on the 27th. He was locked up in
| dark cell - punishment for some slAht
p3lnaeA He VA frightened and killed him
6elK
I'm Warrington House in Hagers-
town, Nd, burned early On the morning of
the seth. Many Of the terrified guests es-
capped BY means Of the porch pillars but
eight persons burned to death and thirty-6ve
were moro or less injured.
The ffty-ffth anniversary of the
American Baptist Publication Society was
hsld q eAraAoga, n. r, on the afternoon Of
the 28th. The total receipts fer the year
were stated to b esq, AS. The total issues
Of the Society aimee 1924 footed up 107, 500 O00
books. tracts and periodicals.
THREE seamsn died Of yellow fever
on the schooner Mary A. Witham, which ar
rived In New Yosh, on the 2Sth, during the
run from Miragoane. Sra
The statement that the President
had advised the sending Of boats down the
Mississippi to bring North the negro refugees
said 70 b waiting ON the river banks for
transportation, was denied in . Warrington
dispatch Of the 2Ssh.
An address has been issued by Car
dinal NcCloskey and the prelates recently
assembled in New York City to participate in
the dedication Of st. Patrick's Cathedral. call
ing upon the faithful to contribute to the fund
for the payment OF the debts of Archbishop
Purcell, OF Cincinnati. II is said that . sum
Of e1OQ,O00 has been privately donated by
New York bankers - send-o6. }t&G
MISS DELLA WHEELER, only sister of
Vice President Wheeler, died at Malone, N.
r, on the evening Of the 18th. She was six
ty-fve years old. -t
A WARRINGTON telegram of the 18th
says It was authoritatively denied that the
President had decided not to approve the
findings Of the Court Of Inquiry in the Fitz-
DURING . recent raid on the South
Fork Of the Salmon River, 10 Oregon, by MEM
bers Of what IL known q the Sheep Eaters
tribe Of Indians, two white men, named Hugh
johnson and PASCAL Dawson. were killed.
/ FUNERAL services were held over the
remains of William Lloyd Garrison, at Rox-
bury, Mass, on the 18th. Eloquent eulogies
were pronounced BY Mrs. Lucy Stone Black
well, Rev. Samuel johnson, Theodore d. Weld
and Wendell Phillips, after which the body
was followed by large number Of people to
ito last resting place. ~.
The President on the goth, vetoed
the act making appropriations for the Legis.
lative, Executive and Judicial expenses Of the
Government for thu fiscal year ending June
50, 1880.
ON the evening Of the 29th ult., q cy-
clone swept over portions Of Holt and Mods
way Counties, Mo-. near Barnard and
Bolckow, about twenty-five miles north of St.
Joseph. It moved ct velocity of sixty miles
an hour, demolishing houses, uprooting and
twisting OF trees, and destroying property of
al descriptions. It moved in . northeasterly
direction, and, when several miles east Of
Barnard, suddenly disappeared. Its track,
covering territory half . mile wide, was .
scene Of desolation. A number Of casualties
occurred.
THE Kinds Temperance bill," that
allowing women to vote on the question of
license was killed I'm the Illinois House Of
Representatives, ON the 9Oth ult., by vote Of
50 to Sc
An Island Pond Vt) telegram of tho
S0th nit says there had 20 far been eleven
deaths Of the children who drank from the
poisoned brook in that vicinity few days be-
fore. OF these, i've were the children Of John
Aldrich This entire family. Edward Moore
lost two; Fred Simpson, one; L. Wilson,
one; John Cole, one, and Mr.. Park, one.
Others could not live. Twenty-seven chill
dren were poisoned by drinking from the
brook. Potato tops poisoned BY Paris-green,
which we're thrown into the stream, were re-
garded a. the cause Of the poisoning, rather
than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible
distress prevailed In the town, and work was
suspended. The farmer who allowed the car
casses to be thrown into the water would be
arrested.
DECORATION DAY (30th ult) was
very generally and appropriately observed
throughout the entire West and East and
many portions Of the South. The exercises
mainly consisted, Is usual, Of professions,
addresses and the strewing Of flowers on the
soldiers graves.
AT the session. at Saratoga, N. Y,
on the S0tn ult., Of the Women's Home Mis-
zion Society of the West, resolutions were
adopted instructinx the Executive Board,
whenever the new organization authorized BY
the American Baptist Home Mission Society
should be properly formed, to transfer the
works, assets and papers to such organiza-
ton, and also instructing such Board to sffec-
tionately invite their auxiliaries and branches
to transfer their relations to the society in
New York. In the meantime full Get of Of
6cers were chosen to keep up the old organ
N. Grouse, OF Chicago. was elected President.
THE Joint Democratic Caucus Com
mittees were in session at Washington, on the
31st ult-, and after q long discussion, agreed
to present the Army ard Legislative bills
Invested Of the political sections, and that the
latter should b presented - Independent
measured. Il was also agreed that the
Army bill should contain . provision for
bidding the transportation Of troops
in amy State for election purposes, and that
the Legislative bill should. not provide for
the payment OF Deputy Marshals and Super
visors appointed to act in elections. The
drawing Of these bills was committed to .
Sub Committee consisting of Senators Thur
man, EaDu, Vance and Bailey, and Repre-
sentatives Springer, Ewing and Reagan.
DuRMa May there were coined at
the United States Mint l. 795, 900 pieces, valued
1t s2,oel,5 sos, .p -
UP to the evening Of the S1st ult. the
subscriptions for 4-per-cent refunding Ger
ti1cates aggregated e83, Sz, $40 The last of
the issue had been sent 70 the Postmasters in
various sections Of the country for distribu-
ton, and tie Secretary announces that NO
further bonds or securities WIN be issued BY
tho Department under existing laws except
those Subscribed for On or before the 18th Of
April last. .asf.gs.
TIE United States currency outstand-
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