The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-03

The recent trial of Nihilists at st.
Petersburg resulted in the conviction Of
eleven, two of whom we're sentenced Il
death and the others to various terms of i'm
prisonment.
TWELVE Turkish villages in the Bal.
kan range were recently destroyed by party
of 900 Bulgarians.
THE breaking out of formidable re.
bellion in Burmah was announced on the
96th. One town had been destroyed and ar
English Governor killed.
The Khedive has refused to allow the
wives of Ismail, the ex-Khedive, to return t.
Egypt.
A PAPER containing communication
from Garibaldi, In which he denounces the
house of Savoy and recommends that all
prominent members of the Rightin the Cham
Der OF Deputies be Missed in the street, has
b. On recently seized at Rome.
The new Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
earl Cowperl made State entry into Dub
lin on the 9th, and was received with con.
siderable enthusiasm.
AT = meeting held in Montreal on the
evening of the 9th resolutions were adopted
favoring closer commercial union with the
United States.
A LONDON dispatch of the 25th says
that 1t was George Eliot, after all, who wae
married to Mr.. Cross, and not the Legitimate
Mrs. Lewes.
The Persian Consul having insulted
the British Consul at Djeada. Lord Granville,
Secretary Of State for Foreign Affairs, has
asked the Shah for an explanation. In the
meantime the Consul has been suspended.
The Spanish Minister for Foreign
Affairs thinks it would be rather difficult to
negotiate commercial treaty between Spain
and the United States.
TwENrY-EIGHr shops in Cabul were
recently destroyed by gunpowder explosion
THE beautiful Poem House on Pea
cock Island near Potsdam, Prussia, was re-
Gently burned with all its rare and valuable
contents.
The Irish members of Parliament sit
on the Opposition benches.
MIR. HEAP, United States Consul at
COnstantinople, has received from the Syrian
Archbishop letter describing the condition
of affairs in Syria. The prclate says the peo-
pie were dying like sheep; that the cereals
having been all consumed, the survivors
were eating the corpses of their friends.
Mr.. Heap states that the suffcrings of
these people are indescribably greater
than anything of the kind in Ireland.
A LONDON dispatch of a recent date
says Carlyle was rapidly failing. He was
said to be resigned at the prospect of death,
and hoped he would not survive his intellect.
ual faculties.
The British Cove rnment favors the
recent act of Congress authorizing an Inter.
national Santa ny Commission to be held in
the United States.
SEVERAL vessels are said to have
been sunk in attempting to force their way
through the immense fields of ice on the
Newfoundland coast.
Russia has decided to recall her
Charge d. Affaires from Pekin and place her
subjects in China under protection Of the
United States.
n.
The Unit ed States Senate has con-
eral Key as United States District Judge for
Eastern Tennessee The nomination of Hor-
ace Maynard, Minister to Turkey, to succeed
Key as Postmaster-General,a and of General
Longstreet, to take Maynard's place at Con-
stantinople, were laid over on the 9th.
The public proceedings in Cadet
Whittaker's case ended on the 2Sth, and the
matter was taken under advisement by the
Court of Inquiry.
FOURTEEN cases of sunstroke, twelve
of them fatal, were reported in New York
and Brooklyn on the 2Sth.
A TORNADO in Suffolk and Enfield,
Conn.,, on the 18th did considerable damage
to buildings and orchards.
In the United States Senate on the
2Sth the report Of the Conference Committee
on the bill for q supplement to the Revised
Statutes was adopted, and q bill was passed
authorizing the bonds of the manufacturers
OF tobacco, snuff and Cigars, exporting the
same to be Cancelled at the port of clearance.
The House finished the consi deration of the
Sundry Civil Appropriation bill in Committee
of the Whole, and the bill and amendments
were reported from committee, when the
main question was ordered. Both houses ad-
journed to the 3lst.
Il. A. MORRIS, clerk to the Librarian
OF Congress, was robbed of $40 in currency
at the United States Treasury in Washing
ton on the 18th. He laid the package down
fer q moment, and few minutes later no
ticed that bogus bundle had been substi-
tuted.
The boiler of a saw-mill at Toronto,
Can, exploded on the 2Sth, completely
wrecking the structure, killing three men
outright, MORALLY wounding two and serious
ly injuring about five other persons.
PRINCE LEOPOLD, the youngest son
Of the Queen of England, reached Canada on
the 2Sth.
The Oaks Stakes at Epson, Eng,
were won on the 2sth by the American mare
Jenny Howland.
THE Methodist Episcopal General
Conference adjourned size die on the 9th aft
er four weeks session in Cincinnati. New
York, Boston. Philadelphia, Syracuse, Gin
cinnati, Chicago, st. Louis, Des Moines, At
lanta, Denver, St. Paul, Washington and
Chattanooga were selected as Episcopal resi-
dences.
The Nevada Democratic State Con-
vention on the 9th elected six delegates to
the Cincinnati Convention, and, by vote of
IS to SO, declared Tilden to be the preference
of the party for President.
A FURIOUS rain on the 9th and 18th
caused the inundation of the town of Brack-
EFT, in Texas. Most of the houses foated
away and about twenty of the citizens were
drowned.
A PACIFIC COAST HORROR.
Two Open Railroad Cars Loaded with
1sscn1ckers Leave the Trnck--Thlateen
Persons Killed and Many Injured.