The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-08-14

more thoroughly before Congress and the
people.
A WASHINGTON telegram Of the 31st
ult states that the Mint at Carson City had
been reopened, and coinage would be recon-
menced as soon as the necessary bullion could
be procured at market rates. The Treasury
was making arrangements to avoid the neces-
sity Of running the Philadelphia Mint night
and day during August to make Up the def
cheney in the coinage Of standard silver dol
lars in July.
The yacht Josephine, filed with
passengers, capsized in the vicinity of the
Thousand Islands in the St. Lawrence River,
ON the 3lst ult. Five were drowned, and six
teen rescued.
The Consolidated Bank of Montreal
closed its doors on the morning Of the LIST,
and announced its suspension. The immedi-
ate cause Of the failure was the withdrawal OF
about g.. 0OO, 600 of deposits within the pre-
ceding two weeks. The bank has about l, 100
shareholders distributed over Canada, the
United States, Great Britain, Ireland and
France, and the indications are that nothing
will be left to them after the debts are paid.
A FIRE occurred at Hamilton, Ont,
on the afternoon of the LIST, which destroyed
McInnis' block. Among the sufferers were
the Banks of Hamilton, Livingston q Co.,
McInnis & Co., and the Hamilton Provident
Loan Association. The loss was in the
vicinity of million of dollars. Two persons
were fatally injured.
The Republican State Convention of
Minnesota has been called to meet at st. Paul
on the I'd of September.
The public-debt statement for July
makes the following exhibit: Total debt lin
GLIDING intcrest). $2,3l6, 19s.S73. Cash in
Treasury, s2S2, 9O5, 273. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, s2,O3a, 293, 900. Increase during
the month, $6.oss,si4
DURING July there was paid for ar
rears of pensions the sum of Is, 1874 900, which
exhausts the special fund held for the re-
oemptlon OF Iractlonal currency.
The amount of refunding certif-
Gates received at the ~ for conversion into
Department units Was s34, 100, $50.
CONFORMATION has recently been re-
ceived by the Secret Service Division of the
Treasury Department in Washington that
Photographic counterfeit five-dollar notes on
the State National Bank, of Boston, Mass,
letter e, and the Dedham National Bank, of
Dedham, Mass, letter D, had made their ap-
pearance at San Francisco.
The returns received from the Ken
lucky election up to the morning of the 5th
were very meager, and showed q considera-
BILE falling off in the popular vote. It was
generally conceded that Blackburn's majori-
ty would bell far from 10000. The Repub-
licans had dad -some gains for members of
the Legislature, and it was believed that the
call for a Constitutional Convention had
failed.
THE town of Volcano, w. Va, was
almost entirely destroyed by fire on the 4th
Six hundred barrels Of oil, ten stores, the
postofdce. railway depot hotel and other
business houses, and about fifty other build
ings of various sizes were burned, with their
entire contents. The burning oil running
through the streets spread the fire in every
direction. The loss would be about $50, 900.
The fire was thought to have been the work
of an incendiary.
A WHOLE family consisting of E.
P. Lesueur, wife and two children were
struck by lightning at Rochester, Mimi, a
few days ago. The woman and children were
killed and Lesueur was probably fatally in
jured.
The Massachusetts State Republican
Convention has been called to meet at Wor-
ceSter on the 10th of September.