The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-18

| u. WcHucls aIIoTucy -0cueI2is a8WIltOl
Ward; State Engineer and Surveyor
Howard Soule. The platform adopted
declares the United States to be 9
nation, and not league. and to be supreme
within its own Constitutional sphere; de.
nounces the doctrine of State sovereignty as
being the baleful mother of notification,
secession and anarchy; arraigns the Demo
cratic party for its policy during and since
the war; declares that the Republican party
neither justifies nor tolerates military inter.
! ference with elections, but seeks only to pro.
tect the ballot-box from the interference OF
force and fraud; that the successful resump
| ton of specie payment is the browning ele-
ment of Republican financial policy; that II
lie the province and plain duty of the State to
supervise and regulate moneyed and transpor-
tation corporations so as to secure just and
impartial treatment of all interested; etc., etc.
The Chicago Interstate Exposition
was formally opened on the night of the Sd.
1t will continue six weeks.
The st. Louis Colored Refugee Board
held q meeting on the night of the 4th, at
which reports were made going to show that
there had been little falling off in the negro
emigration northward, and that the number
might be expected to increase after the crop
was gathered. It was stated that better
class of people was coming, and that the de-
| mand for assistance was not SO pressing and
general as it had been.
AT Smith family reunion held in
Peapack, N. j., on the 4th, there were present
| $500 Smiths from various sections of the
Union, East, West and South.
CHARLES DEMOND, late Treasurer of
the Massachusetts Home Missionary Society,
was arrested in Boston on the 4th, charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT. The amount of his de.
falcation was placed at over $4,000.
The excursion-steamer Alaska ex-
ploded the dome of her boiler in Lake Erie,
on the 5th. Both engineers and one deck
hand were killed, aud ten deck-hands seri-
ously scalded-some fatally. Only one of
the passengers was scalded, and he slightly.
A KINGSTON (R. I.) dispatch to the
| New York World of the 9TH says that Mrs.
| Kate Sprague was then at Jamaica Plains,
Mass, where some cousins of hers were
spending the summer. In a conversation
with a DR.. Perry, of New York, she had led
him to believe that her departure from her
husbands residence was solely in consequence
of the inability of her counsel to get Mr..
Sprague to come to an understanding about
the disposal to be made of the children. A
Providence telegram of the 5th says Mrs.
Sprague had filed a petition in the Superior
Court asking for the appointment of a trustee
of her property and estate in South Kingston.
The wife of ex-Sheriff William H.
Kerns. of Philadelphia, died few days ago,
of hydrophobia, the effects of a bite by a
small black-and-tan terrier dog, about six
weeks before,
A FAMILY at Linden, N. j., was re-
Gently poisoned by eating toadstools in mis-
take for mushrooms. Two children died
from the effects OF the poison, and several
other members of the family had a narrow
escape from death.
A CALL has been issued for a Con-
vention of Croquet Players, to be held at the
Palmer House in Chicago, on the 23d inst, at
two o'clock p M, for the purpose of estat-
fishing National Rules by which all players
may be governed. Several distinguished
players will be in attendance. All organized
clubs are invited to send delegates, and skilled
players generally are invited to attend. Those
intending to be present are requested to send
their names and addresses to j. A. Stoddard,
III Madison street, Chicago, Illinois.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 9th
states that of the ten-dollar refunding GER
tifcates there had been sold by the Treas
ury Department s40,0l2, $50. For the purpose
of making the sale 799 Government officers,
mostly Postmasters, were designated by
the Secretary of the Treasury as deposita-
ries. But 500 of that number, however,
qualified by filing bonds, and through them
sales were made to the amount of S., sex. 200,
Seventy-six National Banks sold 81 ,l97, go.
The balance-S!0, PAS, sSo-were sold by the
United States Treasurer and Assistant Treas
urers. Not cent had been lost to the Gov
eminent in the trans actions. There had been
up to date SIS, $50, $50 of refunding certfi-
Gates presented for conversion into four-per-
cent. bonds.
The celebrated Oneida Community,
located near Utica, N. Y, have recently taken
new and wide departure, by declaring az
abandonment of what is known as the com.
pick marriage system. They claim to have
taken this action in Difference to the popular
sentiment which was evidently rising against
their peculiar practices.
SEVERAL days ago discovery was
made of triple murder which had been CON-
mitted at Waynesville, Ohio, the dead bodies
OF Mrs. HATTIE, her sister Mrs. Clementine
Weeks and the daughter of the latter, aged
eleven years, being found in the dwelling of
Mrs. HATTIE, where they had evidently lain
for some time after the preparation OF the
crime. Suspicion fell on William E. Ander
son, eighteen years Of age, a son of Mrs.
HATTIE by her first husband, who was the only
other occupant of the dwelling at the time of
the murder. 1t was subsequently ascertained
that William, who, after the discovery of the
bodies. had gone to Cincinnati, committed
suicide by drowning himself in water-tank
at Plainville: On the 4th D. R Anderson,
father of William, who resides in Cincinnati,
was arrested and taken to Waynesville, under
suspicion that he might have had something
to do with the terrible crime; but there were
many who did not believe him guilty or that
he had any guilty knowledge of the affair. A
pile of vile literature has been found belong
ing to the young man Willie. It contains
papers with fashily headed atrocities, pictures
OF fights BY land and sea, where daggers,
bowie-knives and pistols flash and CLEAN in
the hands Of men and boys whose faces be-
token nothing but the basest instincts. He is
said to have been constant reader of dime
| novels, and 1t is thought that his mind had
been poisoned and rendered morbid by what
| 1t was fed upon.
The votes cast in San Francisco have
been counted, and give the following result /:
The Workingmen elect the Mayor. Sheriff.
Auditor, Treasurer, Tax Collector, Public
Administrator, Surveyor, District Attorney,
City aud County Attorney, Police Judge, one
Supervisor, five members of the Board of
Education and Railroad Commissioner for
the City District. The Republicans elect the
Assessor, Recorder, Coroner. County Clerk,
Superintendent of Schools, Superintend-
emit of Streets, eleven Supervisors.
| seven members of the Board of Education. q
member of the State Board of Equalization.
and re-elect Congressman Davis. The re-
turns from the State at large received on the
Sth left no doubt OF the election of Perkins
and the Republican State tickle: by plurality
ranging from 10000 to $4,000. It is conceded
that the Renubicana have o1on<od oil ~.