The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-01-02


REDWOOD FALLS MINNESOTA.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Several heavy failures at Stockholm,
Sweden, were announced, on the 18th.
The banking house Of c. F. Adae &
Co., Cincinnati, failed, ON the 18th. Liabili-
ties, $4,000.
William Anderson, Superintendent
Of the Eastern Telegraph Company, at Gambia,
In Crete, was murdered few days ago.
The German Tobacco Inquiry Com
mission has rejected the Government propo-
sition to create . monopoly in that article.
The ST. Louis bridge was sold at auc-.
ton, on the 2Oth, to a gentleman represent.
ing the English bondholders, for $4,000. 900.
Patrick Rourke and his family of
five children were burned to death, in his
house, at Cohoes, N. T., on the night of tho
18th.
Representatives of the National party
in New England have called q conference,
which is to be held in Boston, ON the I'd OF
January.
The Princess Thyra, daughter of the
King of Denmark, was married to the Duke Of
Cumberland and hereditary King Of Hanover,
on the evening OF the 2lst.
Constantinople dispatches of the Goth
ay that the steamer which run down the
steamer Byzantine succeeded in saving ninety
OF the passengers on the latter steamer.
The funeral obsequies of the late
United States Minister Bayard Taylor were
solemnized at Berlin, on the 22d. The foreign
Ministers we're present, aud representatives
OF the Royal family.
A call has been issued by the Secre-
tsry of the Treasury for $40, 9aSl lou, being the
rest aud residue Of the bonds outstanding
under the act of March 3, 1885, consols of rs,
not included in previous calls.
Jack kehoe, the liking of the Mollie
Maquires" was hung at Pottsville, Pa, on the
18th, for murder committed in 1862 when
he belonged to an infamous organization
known as the "Buckshots." His death
struggles were violent and terrible.
Ex-President Morton, of the Phila-
delphis Market Street Railway, and Sam R.
HUM, Secretary, were, on the 18th, sentenced
to the Eastern Pennsylvania. Penitentiary for
ten years each, having pleaded guilty to the
charge Of over-issuing the stock of the COM
psny.
A Berlin telegram of the 10Th an
nounces the death of Bayard Taylor, United
States Minister. The fatal symptoms came
on suddenly. Mr.. Taylor had been iudisposed
for several days, but was out of bed and was
transscting business with the officials of the
American Legation, on the 18th. His death
was peaceful and painless.
The jury in the United States Dis
trict Court at New York City, before whom
was tried the case OF James E. Whalen Is.
Gen. Sheridan, brought in a verdict for the
defendant, on the evening Of the 20th. The
suit was for the recovery of over s4OO. 900 for
the seizure OF the Kelona Plantation, st.
Charles Parish, La, in August, 1857, and the
eiectment of Whalen, by the military order Of
Gen. Sheridan, who was then Military Gov
ernor. A melton will be made for . new trial.
Gold opened at par with greenbacks
in New York, on the 18th. On being in.
formed Of this fact, Sec'y Sherman remarked
to a newspaper correspondent that this was
as be expected, aud said he did not believe
gold would again be above par with the
amount of gold on hand and the near ap.
proach Of the time for paying it out, and he
thought it impossible for a premium, how
ever small, TO exist. He thought that, with
in short time, greenbacks would be at q very
slight premium above gold, owing to their
greater convenience.
The Select Committee of the Senate.
appointed in pursuance of the Blaine resolu.
ton calling for an inquiry as to whether the
Constitutional rights of citizens in any States
OF the Union had been violated at the recent
elections. held meeting in Washington, on
the afternoon of the Goth. Present-Teller,
Cameron (Wis.), Kirkwood, Bayard, Bailey
and Garland. A resolution requesting of the
President copies Of documents and names of
witnesses upon which he based his reference
to the alleged election frauds mentioned in
his annual message, was lost by a strict party
votes to- 3. A resolution was then adopted
calling on Mr.. Blaine to furnish specifications
upon which the committee might base its in
quiry and carry out the instructions embraced
in the resolution offered by that gentleman.
The following is the vote on the reso-
tuition of Senator Blaine, which passed the
Senate, On the 18th, providing for an investi-
CATION as to whether, at the recent elections,
the Constitutional rights of any citizens were
violated in any State:
Banum. Bayard, Beck, Blaine, Booth Burn.
s sldss Butler CamesSn pa. Cameron (WAl.
& Dsyy: C ~ Gss cGnna2s Davis
Ferry. Garland. Gordon, Hamlin, Harris. Here.
ford. HoaE; Howe. Ing.lls Jopes !F.;l Kellogg.
Pherson. Matthews. MaSey, Merrimon, Mitchell,
Merrill, Oglesby, Paddock. Patterson. Randolph.
Ransom. Rollins. Saunders, Spencer, Teller,
Neys,Eaton, Hill, McCreery, Morgan. WAL
Me.s q Glover and saul.bury said they were
questions. but did not say how they would have
voted on this resolution. Mr.. Davis (nl) an
nOunced that II the Senator from Ohio Thur
mani were present. he would vote aye.
0ENRRAL.
The British Parliament adjourned,
on the 18th, until the 18th Of February, 1872
after the House Of Commons had adopted.
without division, q resolution declaring the
expenses OF the Afghan War q charge upon
the Indian revenues.
A Peshawur telegram of the 18th
says it was reported there that Gen. MacPher-
sons brigade had occupied Jelalabad.
Daniel McElroy. sixty-four years old,
living in East Cambridge, Mass, ended .
quarrel with his wife, on the 18th, by beating
out her brains with an AZ
A FIRE broke out in the business CEN
ter OF st. Louis, on the night Of the 18th;
which was not subdued until nesTirs quarter
OF million dollars worth Of pyopGfty VS.
destroyed. Jaccard's jewelrv store, PoWeiiS