The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-02-27
TIE New York Court Of Appeale has

TIE New York Court Of Appeals has
overruled the ruling of the court below which
American Popular Lite Insurance Company,
and has ordered new trial Dr.. Lambert was
convicted Of perjury In swearing to the COM
pany's annual statement, which was alleged
to be false.
A MEETING was held at Syracuse, N.
Y, on the 18th, in which such men a. Bishop
Huntington, Bishop Peck and Chancellor
Haven participated, at which war was de-
clared upon the Oneida Community.
TIE coolest weather of the season
prevailed in some portions of Canada, on the
18th. At Ottawa the thermometer indicated
81 deg. below zero, and in several localities
the mercury was frozen.
WILLIE ZEIGLER, boy, eleven years
of age, committed suicide in Philadelphia q
few days ago, by hanging himself in the eel
lar. He lived with his grandmother, who was
absent from home at the time the deed was
committed. The reason assigned for the sui
eide is disturbance of mental balance pro-
duced by reading religious books.
In the Jail at Columbus, Ohio, lies a
negro, named Sam Hall, convicted, on cir
cumstantial evidence, of the murder of q
man, named Holmes, in 1876. and sentenced
to be hung therefor. Hall says that he was
sentenced to the Penitentiary, in 1872, for
horse-stealing, and that he escaped in 1877,
and was, consequently, in Jail in 1876, when
the murder was committed. Investigation
has shown that his story Is true, and he will
not, Of course, be executed. Had he not
been in Jail at the time of the murder he
would have been hung for q crime he did not
commit.
AT New Orleans, on the 18th, the
United States District Attorney presented
thirty-two additional indictments, involving
100 arrests, Tor violation of the Election law in
the Parishes Of Caddo, Tensas, Rapides and
Natchitoches.
AN Investigation of the accounts of
Conklin, late County Treasurer of Oswego
County, N. Y, shows shortage of $133,OO0.
The President has approved the act
allowing women to practice before the su-
preme Court.
EPHRAIM HYsTER and wife, of Som
erville, Me-, left home, on recent morning,
to do some trading, leaving their three chill.
dren, aged four years, two and q half years
and eight months, alone in the house. By
some means the building caught fire, and,
with its contents, was destroyed, the three
children perishing in the flames. About year
ago another child of the same parents was
burned to death.
The Soldiers Orphans Home, near
Xenia, Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 10th. There were 600 children
in the Home, and Eany narrow escapes are
reported. The teachers and officials lost all
their personal effects, many of them narrowly
escaping with their lives. The loss TO the
State is about SIS, 900; no insurance.
AT the annual meeting of the Wis
consin State Horticultural Society, recently
held at Madison, resolutions were adopted
demanding that nurserymen be held strictly
responsible for the representations of their
agents; that tree planters should demand of
all who solicit their orders unquestionable
proof that they are authorized agents of some
reliable nurserymau, and that such nursery
men are able and willing to meet the repre-
sensations of their agents, and that the ale.
cations Ut scarcity, or extraordinary excel.
lence, or exhorbitant prices, may be taken as
prina .tocie evidences of fraud
A HOUSE owned by John Guyer, and
situated in Franklin Township, Allegheny
County, Pa, was destroyed by fire, on the
morning of the 10Th, and Guycr and man
named Wilson were burned to death. An
other inmate, named George Shaw, was badly
and probably fatally burned.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
says, on the recommendation of the Commit
tee on Appropriations, the House had passed
bill making an appropriation of S26, 500, 600
to meet the payment of the arrearages of PEN
sions.
AT Cincinnati, on the 18th, Judge
Baxter, of the United States Circuit Court,
decided that the election law of the United
States is Constitutional, and proper exer-
else of National authority
The L. G. Mccormick, q steamer
running between Marietta and GAINESVILLE,
Ohio, on the Muskingum River, exploded her
boiler, on the 18th, killing the fireman and
severely injuring the Captain and several OF
the passengers. The boat sunk in five min
utes after the explosion.
The eighty-ninth call for the re-
demption of $40 bonds was made on the 17th
The amount is 10000, OO0-interest and prin-
cipai to be paid on and after the 18th of NAV.
WALL STREET, New York City, was
considerably excited, on the 18th, by rise in
Union Pacific stock from 691s to 7s. 1t was
said that Jay Gould had effected arrangements
by which the control of the Union Pacific
Railroad would pass into the hands of syndi-
cate composed of some of the strongest gem
tlemen in Wall street. He had sold 100000
shares at price not far from 20. This was
said to be the greatest single transaction in
the history Of Mr.. Gould's financial operations,
and he was probably Weather than ever be-
fore.