The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-11-27

| feace COMMISSION, reached Los Pine
| Agency on the 18th. General Adams arrive,
there three or four days earlier. The hostil
chiefs, with the exception of Jack, wer
there and willing to surrender. Jack ha,
persistently refused to come to the agenc
land meststhe Oommission.a Il had. been de
| termined almost beyond doubt that he lie,
the hostiies In che Thornbargh fight. Uufa;
had, IN q conference on the nth, told tn,
hostiles they need expect no mercy.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the ISL
says Postmaster-Gener Key had arrived a
the conclusion that all lottery companies ant
lottery aeents are doing fraudulent bust
ness within the purview of his statutor,
powers, concerning schemes to defraud tn,
public" and he had commenced the issuanc,
of special orders to posimasters fOrbiddins
them to pay .iiy postal money-order or to de
liver any registered letter addressed to per
sons named in the orders as being concerned
in the lottery business Such letters are tt
be stamped fraudulent" and to be return
ed, as are also money orders, to the sehders
All ordinary mail matter addressed to name.
that are known to be fictitious are to be sent
to the Dead-Letter Office.
AT Paterson, N. j., on the 18th a
United States Deputy Marshal arrested
Charles H. Voorhis, member of Congress
from the Fifth District of New Jersey, on q
charge of abstracting from the First National
Bank Of Hackensack, of which he was Presi
dent, collaterals deposited to secure private
loan. The affidavit was made by Cashier
Bower and Vice. President De Groot.
A SPECIAL telegram from New York
on the 18th says exact results had been re.
ceived from forty-fve out of sixty counties,
which would insure tho election of the entire
Republican State ticket, except Soule (for
Engineer and Surveyor. The majorities
were estimated as follows: Hoskina, for
Lieutenant-Governo 2, l70; Carr, Secretary
of State, $500; Waisworth, Comptroller,
$500; Ward, Attorney General, 1900; Wen
dell, Treasurer, 1900; Seymour (Dem.), En-
ginecr and Surveyor, 5000. Cornell's plural
ity for Governor would reach nearly 1000.
THE Army of the Tennessee has
elected the following officers for the ensuing
year: President, General W. 7. Sherman
Recording Secretary, Colonel L. NJ. Dayton
Corresponding Secretary, General A. Hick-
enloper; Treasurer, General NJ. F. Force;
Vice Presidents, General j. s. Reynolds,
Illinois; General Ben. Spooner, Indiana
Colonel Frank Lynch, Ohio; Captain W. E.
Ware, Missouri; Captain c. G. Chadwick,
Michigan; Major NJ. A. Higley, Iowa; Gen
eral l.. T. Hubbard, Minnesota; Colonel
George E. Bryant, Wisconsin; Colonel w. j.
Landrum, Kentucky; General Amasa Cobb,
Nebraska; Captain j. B. Raymond, Dakota !;
General NJ. NJ. Bane, Utah. 10 81, aga -;
A NUMBER of the members of the
Army of the Potomac tiiet in Chicago on the
18th and voted to form permanent society.
The following officers were chosen: Presi-
dent, Lieutenant-GeneralP P. H. Sheridan;
Vicc-Presidents - General Juliue White,
Chicago, and R. q, Robinson, Fort Wayne;
Recording Secretary, j. 8. Erly; Core
spending Secretary, c. w. Dean; Treasurer,
E. B. Sherman; Executive Committee. Gen.
eral George A. Forsythe, Ex-Governor John
L. Beveridge, John W. Bennett, r. NJ. Ware
ham and Joseph c. Myers, The meetings
will be held on the second Thursday of April
and October-the latter to be the annual
gathering The next meeting will be held in
Chicago, in April, 1880.
A FIRE occurred on the second floor
of tenement house on Canon street, New
York City, early on the morning of the 18th,
and in trying to escape Mary Babiski, who oc-
cupied apartments on the third floor, leaped
from window to the street, and was fatally
injured. Joseph Botzkie, who lived ON the
fourth floor, also threw himself from win
dow and was killed, His entire family, con-
sisting of wife, two children and mother-in-
law, were suffocated.
CHARLES DREws and Franklin Stitch
Ter were hanged at Lebanon, Pa, on the 14th,
for the murder of Joseph Raber at Indian
town Gap in December last. On the same
day Young man named Myrnn BUELL. was
hanged at Cooperstown, N. Y, for the MUIR
der of young girl named May Richards in
June last. Buell. made full confession of
his brutal and fiendish crime.
The schooner c. G. Breed foundered
in squall ON Lake Erie on the 18th, and of
the eight men on board only two were saved
A TERRIFIC boiler explosion occurred
in shinglc mill near East Saginaw, Mich,
on the afternoon of the 18th. Three men
were fatally and one slightly injured.
SECRETARY EvARTs has rendered to
Colonel John Hay, and the latter has accept
ed, the position of First Assistant Secretary
of State, rice F. W. Seward, resigned.
DURING the last fiscal year the
Agents of the Post Office Department arrest
ed $50 persons for offenses against the Postal
laws.
THE shore end of the new French
cable was landed from the steamer Faraday,
at North Eastman, Mass, on the evening of
the 10Th.
The Cuban instruction having broken
out again, the Captain-General has tele-
graphed the mother country for troops to put
1t down. ...-.,r ....-...s4 7"
A DISPATCH of the 10th says the Com
mission to investigate the recent troubles at
the White River Agency had commenced its
duties. Chiefs Douglass and Johnson testi-
fed that they had nothing to do with the mas
sacre, and substantially that they didn't know
who did. =
On the 18th General Grant received
the public school children of Chicago in the
building. There were $1,000 of
them. In the evening he was banqueted and
received by the Calumet Club.
ALBERT GILBERT, Assistant Appraiser
in the New York Custom House, was sus-
pended from duty on the 18th, by an order
from Washington. Frederick Snyder, an Ex-
aminer in the same department, was suspend
ed several days before. The Appraiser said
they were not charged with the same offense,
but declined making public the charges pend
ing an investigation.
TIE number of vessels arriving at
the port of New York from foreign ports
during the week ending on the 18th was 800,
being greater than was ever before recorded
in the Custom-House books.
GENERAL GRANT has accepted an in
vitation of the Grand Army of the Republic
Post of Harrisburg, Pa, to visit that city on
the 18th of December. ss2's.s'A
JUDGE +. G. BEAMAN has declined,
on account of the state of his health, the ap-
pointment rendered him by Governor Cros-
well to fill the vacancy in the United States
Senate caused by the death of Mr.. Chandler.
The Governor, on the 18th, appointed ex-
Governor Baldwin, of Detroit, to the position.
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