The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-07-03

on railroads; opposing Chineee immigration;
ETC., etc. George q. Perkins Was nominated
for Governor.
The Workingmen's Convention has
nominated Rev. I. g. Kalloch. pastor of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church of San Francis
CO, Is their candidate for Mayor of that city.
ON the 10th, the National House of
Representatives passed . bill to provide for
the exchange of the trade dollars for the le-
CALENDER silver dollars. The text of the bill
IL as follows: as
That ths Secretary Of the Treasury shah cause
Trsssurss Of sSe United States. ieaal-tender sill
yer dolla!s fog taade dollars At par provided the
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the trade dollars recoined under this act shall
mot DO counted ~ part of the coinage IT silver
provided JSrtAsr. that trade dollars that have
been chopped" or restamped for CIRCULATION in
China or other foreign co9at!ies shall be exclu-
ded from the provisions OF this bill.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has given mo-
tice that he will redeem at once, without re-
bate Of interest, all the outstanding 5 81
bonds, consols OF 1867 and consols of 1868,
called to mature July and 4.
The ceremony of relaying the cor
ner-stone Of "Washipgton's Headquarters"
took place at Valley Forge, Pa, on the 10Th.
Ex-Governor Pollock delivered the address.
TIE National Association of Christ
ians met in Chicago on the 10th, and elected
the following officers for the ensuing year:
President Philo Carpenter; vice-President,
Samuel Plumb; Corresponding Secretary, j.
p. Stoddard; Treasurer, Edward Hildreth;
Recording Secretary, Thomas Hodge.
The Maryland State Democratic
S Ssass n Sc asfs s 81 August
A WASHINGTON special of the goth
says Senator Lamar, having become satisfied
that Senator Conkling would not send him
challenge, would leave for Mississippi ON the
2lst. This was regarded as the end of the
affair between TIE two Senators.
PRESIDENT HAYES has approved of
the Congressional joint resolution relating to
bridge across the Detroit River at or near
Detroit. s-Z,g
On the 21st, the President approved
the bill making appropriations for the Legis-
lative, Executive and Judicial expenses OF the
Government for the fiscal year ending June
80, 1850.
The President, on the 21st, sent q
message to the Senate withdrawing the nomi-
nation of Secretary McCraxy to be Judge Of
the United States Court for the Eighth Cir
cult. He says doubts as to the propriety of
appointing in advance of the actual vacancy
had suggested the withdrawal.
Ex-SECRErARY OF THE NAVY BoR1E,
. travelling companion of ex-President Grant,
reached Council Bluffs, Iowa, on the 2lst, and
informed . reporter that the ex-Prcsident
would reach San Francisco ON the 10Th oil,
September. a
AN engine-boiler in an iron mine
in Texas, l.ehigh County, Pa, exploded on
the 2lst. Four men were instantly killed,
three fatally injured, and several others badly
hurt The engine-house was leveled to the
ground, and . section of the boiler, twenty
feet long, was carried distance of two hum
bred feet.
On the 21st, Madame ROLAND, q
French lady visiting Niagara Fails, while in
the act of dipping up cup of water at the
foot Of Goat Island, lost her balance and fell
in, and was carried over the Falls. Sac Was
with her husband. Up to the morning of the
23d her body had not been recovered.
The Moosic Powder Company glaze
house, near Jermyn, Pa, exploded ON the
night of the 2Oth. The Waterman was blown
to atoms.
On the 21st, at Holyoke, Mass, a
German named John Kemmler deliberately
murdered his three children, aged six, four
and one years respectively. He was arrested
and acknowledged the crime.
DURING the progress of Bohemian
Sunday picnic at Silver Leaf Grove, in the
southwestern outskirts of Chicago, on the
22d, some disturbance occurred between one
of the visitors named Clark and Bohemian,
the latter striking the former over the head
with gun. Clark left the stand where the
trouble occurred and started for the gate,
when he was followed by several of the Be-
hemian sharpshooters present, who dubbed
everybody in the way with their guns. Oae
of the Bohemians was struck in the head with
stone, when some of their number fired into
the crowd outside the fence. A general melee
ensued, and the sharpshooters formed into
line and charged with fixed bayonets, and
several other shots were fired. A number of
persons were wounded. one probably fatally.
The sharpshooters claimed to be present
armed for the purpose Of doing police duty.
They we're put under arrest.
REV. ROBERT COLLYER, q distin-
guished Chicago clergyman, has resigned the
pastorate Of Unity Church in that city, to ac-
cept call from the Church of the Messiah, in
New York City.
THE dwelling house of j. F. Rey-
nolds, near Jonesboro, Ga, was burned on
the morning of the 23d, and in it persisted his
daughter and sister-in-law, young girls twelve
and sixteen years old, respectively. Reynolds
himself was fatally burned.
The Democratic members of the
United States Senate held a caucus on the
23d, at which, after speeches by several lead
ing Senators, q resolution was adopted-2O
to 7-directing the Caucus Advisory Commit
tee, in conjunction with the Advisory Com
mittee of the House Caucus, to prepare
bill for passage through Congress, maxi
ing appropriations for the Judiciary, in such
terms as would obviate the objections of the
President and secure its enactment into law.
A conference Of leading Republicans was held
on the same day, at which it was decided that
the Republican Members of Congress should
vote against any resolution fixing q day for
final adjournment before the Judicial Apprp.
priation bill should be disposed of, and that
they should also vote against any attempt to
extend the appropriations for Judicial ex-
penses; but In neither case would they resort
to parliamentary tactics to defeat the plans of
the majority.
PRESIDENT HAYES sent q message to
the House on the 23d, vetoing the Supple
mentary Judicial Appropriation bill, aud one
announcing his approval Of the Army Appro-
priation bill.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 23d
says the total sales OF refunding certificates
to that date amounted to $50 $50, go, leaving
but el9, 240 to be disposed Of ,f,e -ss'-
INFORMATION has been received at
the Department of State in Washington that
the period for receiving apple ations for space
in the Internati ma, Exhibition at M, lbourne.
Australia, has been ext nded to October 81,
1872
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