The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-12-18

nomination during November, and the de-
mand still continues.
The flooring of grain and flour
mill at Brookton, Mass, gave way ON the
night of the 5th, precipitating three men and
about 5000 bushels of corn into the cellar
beneath. The men were buried up in the
grain and suffocated. Their bodies were re-
covered in the course of the night.
In his testimony before the Commits
sion on the 9Th Jack claimed that the removal
of the agency was the eoihfheneement of the
recent troubles; that, at an elevation of $500
feet, with frost every month in the year, farm
ing was impossible; that he and his band re-
ceived no rations for year, which he claimed
was q violation of the treaty of 1888; that his
engagement with the troops was fair fight.
He called Douglas a squaw-man for having
attacked the agency, and insisted that white
man would, under the same circumstances,
have fought Thornburgh.
The Board of Managers of the
New York Produce Exchange have recently
issued an order that the GENITAL system, SO
far as it relates to grain, shall go into effect
on the 31st inst.
A COMMITTEE of Republican Senators
appointed to decide upon financial policy
for the party during the present session Of
Congress came to an almost unanimous de-
cision on the 5th to recommend that MO action
whatever be taken affecting paper money.
The Secretary of the Interior has re-
Gently decided that the benefits of the Tim
ber-culture law may be secured by planting
cottonwood trees. This decision reverses
the former rulings of the Department.
ONE of the buildings attached to the
Bellevue Hospital in New York was destroyed
by fire on the night of the 9th, and three
children were burned to death and several fe-
male patients were severely injured by the
flames.
DISPATCHES of the 9Th announce that
Secretary Sherman's proposal to purchase
81 ,000, 900 of the bonds known as 6's of 1881
for the sinking fund had elected offers of
81, 900. at prices ranging from 1O6.35 to
1861.
SEVERAL shirt and collar factories at
Troy, N. Y, We're burned on the 9TH, causing
a loss of about $3.50, 900, and throwing nearly
1900 men and women out of employment.
OVER two thousand packages of oleo-
margarine are said to be sold as dairy butter
in the New York market.
JUDGE KETcHAM, of the United States
District Court of the Western District of
Pennsylvania, died in Pittsburgh few days
ago, of apo2lexy.
Cincinnati on the night of the 7th by the &C
ton Of the Police Commissioners in closing
the Sunday theaters and other places of
amusement. The question of the constitu-
tionality of the action of the police authori-
ties is to be tested in the courts.
CONGRESSMAN ALFRED NJ. LAY, of
the Seventh Missouri District, died at his
hotel in Washington, on the morning of the
Sth, Of paralysis.
The Commission appointed by Presi-
dent Hayes to investigate the yellow-fever
scourge in Cuba have made preliminary re-
port to the National Board of Health, in
which they state that the fever prevails in all
places in that island from which reports had
been received, provided those places are of
any commercial Importance and contain any
considerable number of unacclimated persons
to furnish food for the disease.
SPECIALS received in Denver on the
Sth from Los Pinos say that some decidedly
animating episodes distinguished the meet
ing of the White River Commissioners on the
9Th. The Commissioners demanded the sur
render of twelve Utes who had been proved
to have been concerned in the agency mas
sacre. These. after consultation, the Indians
refused to accede to, and Ouray, in an AFRO
CANT speech, declared that he would surren-
der them provided they could be taken to
Washington for trial.
DE LEssEPs, the promoter of the
Panama Ship-Canal scheme, sailed for Aspin-
wall on the Sth.