The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-25

kuSlOn c0nOlOaCc6, ana tn9C THESE acts wert
part of premeditated plan to secure . Flu
sion Governor and Legislature, and the Gov
ernor and Council must have been parties Il
it.
AT the recent Rhode Island Republi
can State Convention, Governor Van Zandt
declining to be . candidate for reelection
Alfred h. Little wasnominated for Governor
and Henry H. Fay for Lieutenant Governor
The other candidates nominated are the pres
ent incumbents. Delegates to the Nationa
Convention were elected, and they are un
derstood to be unanimous for Blaine.
The announcement is made that w
H. Kemble and other Pennsylvania politicians
convicted Of corrupting members Of the Leg
islature, have made appli cation for pardon.
West and South.
IT was reported ON the 18th that five
or six men who recently left Silverton, Col.
on . prospecting trip had been killed by
Indians near the Blue Mountains.
Four hundred frame-makers, EN-.
ployed in the Chicago furniture factories, re
Gently struck for an advance of fifteen pei
cent. in their wages.
ABOUT two hundred people attended
a meeting in Chicago on the evening of the
18th, to listen to an address by Mrs. Elizabeth
Comstock in behalf of the colored refugees in
Kansas, and adopted a resolution inviting
$1,000 colored men from the South to settle in
Illinois.
A NUMBER of Chicago working men
held meeting on the evening Of the 18th
and resolved that the Chinese in Chicago
must leave.
GENERAL MILES states, in his recent
telegram to General Sheridan, announcing
the presence of Sitting Bull on United States
territory, that he was reliably informed that
while Sioux war parties had been depredatine
on the settlements, their camps had been Oh
tanning supplies from no less than four Gov
eminent trading establishments between tn.
Missouri River and the boundary line.
On the 10th number of employees il
the Pacific Railroad shops at st. Louis strucl
for higher wages.
A TELEGRAM was received in Wash
ington on the 10Th from Los Pinos Agency
14th, stating that q number Of parties hai
already staked q number of placer claims ani
taken up ranches on the Ute Reservation
and that Others were preparing to follow
The telegram says: 1.-THE next two
weeks will see the reservation swarminl
with trespassers, and q conflict 10 inevita
ble." Secretary schurz at once notified tn,
trespassers that their claims to land wer,
illegal, and would not be recognized, ant
directed Ouray and the other chiefs then a
Washington to hasten home in order to exer
their influence for the preservation of peace
WHAT is reported to be a dangerou.
so counterfeit United States Treasury note
series of 1875, has recently made its appear
ance in theWest.
DENIS KEARNEY, the San francisco
cendiary language in his sand-lot harrangues
was sentenced on the 10th to six months
hard labor in the House of Correction and t.
pay fine of $1,000. The severity of the sen
tence was a surprise to Kearney and his coun
sci. In expectation of q nominal sentence
the latter had neg ted to demand jury
trial, and having now no recourse in that
direction they at once filed an appeal to the
Supreme Court, furnishing bonds in the sum
of $1,000.
A NUMBER of Chicago mercantile
firms have petitioned Congress for the pass
age of uniform Bankruptcy law.
The Democrats of Missouri will hole
their State Convention to elect delegates t.
the Cincinnati Convention at Moberly on thu
Goth of May. The Convention for the nomf
nation of State officers is to meet on the 21st
of July at jefferson CITY.
The Louisiana Republican State Con.
vention will be held in New Orleans on the
oath of May.
A STATE GREENBACK CONVENTION
was held at jackson, Mich. on the 18th. H
G. Hodge, of jackson, was chosen Chairman
and David Parsons, of Wayne, Secretary
The time for the meeting of the Nationa
Convention being so near, no report wsI
made by the Committee on Resolutions. Thu
following delegates to the National Conven
ton were chosen: H. 8. Smith, Crane
Rapids; NV. Field, Detroit; Walter Childs
st. Joseph County; Hubbard Taylor, Bay
City.
In Chicago on the 18th a man named
Clarence B. Davis, charged with having foul
wives, was held to bail in the sum of IS ,0O(
to await trial for bigamy. In default Of bali
he was locked up.
The Legislature of Wisconsin ad.
journed sine die on the 18th.
DURING q recent norther" in Texas
man exposed to its fury was frozen t.
death.
The Illinois State Central Commit
tee of the National Greenback-Labor party
held a meeting in Chicago on the 18th, and
decided to drop the word "National" from
the name. A call was ordered for the State
Convention to meet at Springfield on the 2lst
of April.
The Democratic State Convention Of
Illinois to nominate candidates for State off,
GERS and choose delegates to the National
Convention is to be held at Springfield or
the 10th of June.
A MEETING in the interest of the
Illinois & Michigan Ship Canal project wa.
held At Ottawa, Ill, on the 18th. Speeche.
were made by Governor Cullom, Mayor Har-
rison, of Chicago, and others. It was de.
cided to interest members of Congress in
the enterprise with a view to ultimate appro.
priations by the General Government.
A RECENT fire nearly destroyed the
Pacific mail steamer City Of Sydney, rs she
was lying at her dock in the harbor Of San
Francisco.
A SENSATIONAL elopement, which
ended in the peppering Of the lover and mar
rage Of the twain, took place At Elizabeth
City, N. c., the other night Miss Florence
Seymark had arranged to elope with Jonathan
Joy, young lawyer, At seven in the morning.
He was to meet her at the gate ina buggy.
Her father got wind of the affair, and went to
joys office and shot him in the shoulder. A
servant Informed Miss Seymark of the shoot
ing in the evening, and she fed from her
room in her nightclothes and joined her lover,
and in this garb was married before the father
discovered her absence.
GENERAL HENRY A. THOMSON, q
graduate Of West Point Of the class of 1919
and President of the National Bank of Balti
more, died in that city recently, aged eighty
years.
WHEN Denis Kearney was arraigned
in court at San Francisco the other day fol
sesiitiou, he remarked, with lofty air, that