The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-27

A NUMBER of Indians attacked .
wagon train en- route for New Mexico, near
Fort Davis, Tex, few days ago, and killed
man and woman. Eleven other persons In
escape.
A PARTY of twenty-five men from
Deadwood recently came up with band of
seventeen Indians who had murdered .
herder near that city and then stole his cat
tie. Four of the Indians were killed and sew
enty-seven horses were taken from them.
RED CLOUD, Spotted Tail and ten
other Sioux chiefs are soon to 20 to Washing
ton to discuss the proposition to permit rail-
roads to run through the Sioux reservation.
The Cincinnati Musical Festival was
successfully opened ON the evening of the
18th.
The Committee on Episcopacy re-
ported to the Methodist General Conference
at Cincinnati on the 18th in favor Of the cleo
ton of Bishop of African descent.
A CALL has been issued for the West
Virginia State Republican Convention to
meet at Grafton ON the SOth OF June, to
nominate State ticket.
The National Committee of the So
cialistic Labor party, whose Secretary is 10
Gated in Detroit, has issued q call to all those
who sympathize with their movement to
have Government exercise control of land,
labor and money to meet in Chicago, June :,
to endeavor to reach harmonious action In
support of candidates for President and Vice
President who will be pledged to carry out
these principles.
UN the 10th the Minnesota Repubf-
can State Convention met in st. Paul and
chose delegates to the Chicago Convention
favorable to the nomination Of Senator VIM
dom, Of Minnesota. Presidential Electors
were also nominated.
The Virginia Conservatives met in
State Convention in Richmond on the 10th
and selected delegates to the Cincinnati Con-
vention who favor the nomination of Judge
Field as President ElectOfs-at-Large were
placed in nomination.
On the 18th Senator John b. Gordon,
of Georgia, rendered his resignation as United
States Senator, and the Governor of that
State on the 10th appointed Ex-Governor
Joseph E. Brown as his successor.
On the afternoon of the 10th ex-Gov-
ernor Foote, known as 'Hangman Foote,"
Superintendent of the United States Mint at
New Orleans, died at his home, five mtles
from Nashville, Tenn.
A FEW days ago seven Mexicans
crossed into Texas, robbed q store, murdered
the re-keeper and committed other out
aud up to the 10Th he had arrested five OF
the scoundrels aud hoped to capture the other
two.
On the 10Th the California Working
mems State Convention adopted resolution
to send delegates to the Greenback National
Convention.
The Republicans of Dakota met in
Territorial Convention on the 10Th and chose
Window delegates to the Chicago Conven-
ton, with Blaine as second choice.
The California Workingmen's State
Convention on the 2Uth selected delegates to
the Greenback National Convention. Denis
Kearney is one of the Delegates-at-Large.
The Republican State Convention OF
Nebraska on the Goth selected Blaine dele
gates to the Chicago Convention.
The Virginia Conservatives have in
structed their delegates to support the two
thirds rule.
The recent Mississippi Greenback
State Convention appointed uninstructed del
egates to the National Convention,
The Iowa Greenback State Conven-
ton was held on the Goth. Delegates to the
National Convention were appointed, and
Presidential Electors and State officers were
nominated.
In the Methodist Conference at Gin
cinnati on the 10th resolution was adopted
-229 to 1870 postpone indefinitely the
election of q colored Bishop.
Washington on the 10Th that he had received
advices from General Pope to the effect that
Captain Payne and his band of intruders into
the Indian Territory had been captured by
Government troops. General Pope stated
that, if there was any law applicable to the
case, Payne at least ought to be tried. Gen.
eral Sheridan says: "He (Payne) Isl pestif-
mouths in organizing this band to violate the
proclamation of the President concerning the
Indian Territory, and it is possible with q
view to bring the matter into the courts. His
followers are probably mere instru ments."
The Rev. w. F. Dickerson, of New
York; Rev. H. NJ. Turner, of Georgia; Rev.
o. H. Cain, of South Carolina, the newly-elected
Bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal
Church, were ordained with imposing cere-
monies in the African Methodist Episcopal
Conference at st. Louis on the afternoon of
the Goth.
AN equestrian statue of Andrew Jack
son, by Clark Mills, was unveiled in the Cap
itol grounds at Nashville, Tenn, on the Doth,
by Governor Marks, in the presence of 10000
people. Five of Jackson's old soldiers and
number of distinguished gentlemen we're in
attendance.
The General Assembly of the North
ern Presbyterian Church was opened in Mad
ison, Wis, on the 10th. DIR. Paxton, of New
York, was elected Moderator. The General
Assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church
met in Charleston, s. c., on the same day,
and elected DR.. T. A. Hoyt, of Nashville,
Moderator. The General Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church also con-
vened on the same day at Evansville, Ind.
The Minnesota Democrats held their
Convention on the 2Oth, and chose unin-
structed delegates to the Cincinnati Conven-
ton and nominated Presidential Electors.
AT Sharp's Turnout, Tenn, the other
day, Bob Bird (colored), one Of the section
hands, left the gang and went back to the
house Of the section master, in which his
wife cooked, and took her across his lap and
deliberately cut her throat with a sharp
Ratchet, nearly severing the head from the
body. He then went to Killran's pond, near
by, and, wading in, drowned himself before
his fellow-workmen could secure him.
:. A. KANSAS CITY. youth who went to
6eeseardes n ri: chAxe of his brother,
who <aa iythe tifeee:is az intoxicated cohdi
tipn, got drunk himself, and on the way home
!sse at night %i: :ue! md tixsa :; :: despe-
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The Cincinnati Southern Railroad
has reduced passenger rates to two cents per
mile