The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-14

A GASOLINE LAMP exploded in Jacksonville
Fla. on the 5th, and the three children Of M,
William CLARK, leading business man, wer
burned to death. Mira Clark was also severe
~ burned and not expected to recover.
The complete returns Of the election 4
Delaware on the 9th give the Democrats
majority Of $50 for inspectors, and $50 70
Assessors.
LYMAN E. STowR, Of Detroit has bee
nominated for Congress by the Greenbacker
Of the First Michigan District and the Demo
Gratis of the Second Maryland District hav
| nominated F. c. Talbot.
THERE were several cases of the episooti
in Cincinnati ON the 9Th, and the disease Wa
reported to be raging ut indianapolis. wher
| several fatal cases had occurred.
Miss ALICE SKlRR, OF Laurinburgh, N. G.
betrothed to Rev. John Easterly, . youcI
clergyman of that place, lately became in
sane. A few days before her betrothed de
termined to 60 to China a. q missionary
Miss Skirr refused to 20 with him, and trie,
to prevail on him not to 60. He persisted ii
his determination, and Miss Skirr was 9,
much affected that she became . raviu,
maniac.
THE Supreme Court of Michigan has re
Gently decided, in test case, that the Liquor
Tax law, passed five years ago, is constitu
tional.
The registration books In Milwaukee show
total of 1854 names on the list, gain o
6905 over the previous registration.
COLONEL JAMES M. STEWART, Postmaste
Of the National House of Representative
since 1876, died recently at Alexandra, Va.
The epizootic was reported on the 7th to b.
raging among the horses at Milwaukee ant
Detroit. At the latter city several fatal case
had occurred.
GEORGE O. CANNON has been renominatet
- Delegate to Congress from Utah.
Foreign Intelligence.
SEVERAL of the evening newspapers pub
lished in Vienna were confscated on the q
for publishing the manifesto of the Constitu
tional party.
BIZ the upsetting of boat on Lake Mes
lantic, near Montreal, the other day four per
sons, Mrs. John Murray, her son Angus, Miss
Mckenzie and Miss Mcdonald, were drowned
The gallery in a Catholic Church, al
Manchester, Eng, gave way q few days ago
and one person was killed anil twenty Others
were injured.
On the 4th thirty feet of masonry and ar
immense mass of rock fell in the st. Gothard
Tunnel, and four men were killed and many
wounded.
IT was reported on the 4th that pluero.
pneumonia was prevailing to an alarming
extent among the swine in Lancashire, Eng.
OFFENBAcH, the celebrated French musician
and composer, died at his home in Paris on
the 5th. He was sixty-one years old.
A MADRID telegram of the 5th announces
the death Of the famous Carlist Chieftain
Ramon Tristany.
RECENT heavy rains have caused serious
floods in Bengal, India. Many lives have
been lost and the crops greatly injured.
On the 5th the Porte co mmunicated note
to the Powers stating that it had resolved to
deal with all pending questions, and would en-
deavor to induce the Albanians to surrender
Dulcigno. With respect to Greece, the Porte
proposed frontier line running north of
Velo and south of Larrissa, Metzopo and
Janini, and terminating at the mouth of the
River Arta. The reforms already promised
would be introduced in Asia Minor within
three months. Reforms in Europe would be
carried out, as far as compatible with the in
tegrty of the Empire. Foreign bondholders
would be invited to send delegates to Con-
to arrive at an arrangement by
which certain revenues may be assigned for
of interest on bonds. The Porte, as
. condition Of these reforms, insisted upon
the abandonment of the naval demonstration.
LONDON, England, has presented the free
dom of the city to Sir Henry Bessemer, the
inventor Of the Bessemer process for con-
verting iron into steel.
A ROME Qtaly) dispatch of the 9Th says the
Pope had formally threatened to recall the
Papal Nuncio from Paris IL the religious de-
crees were further enforced.
VELAsCo, an old resident of Paris, has been
recognized as Mexican Minister to
France.
The inhabitants around scutari, in Albania,
have all been summoned to arms.
IT was announced from Paris on the 7th
that the Powers were seriously conside ring
the proposition to depose the Sultan of
Turkey.
THE funeral of Offenbach occurred at the
Church in Paris on the 9TH with
great pomp and ceremony.
The barracks at Athlone, Carlow, Sligo and
other places in the west of ireland have been
ordered by the British Cabinet to be prepared
for the full complement they are capable of
accommodating.
GENERAL PRIMROSE has been recently re :
called from Afghanistan and summoned to
defend his conduct in connection with Gen.
eral Burrows defeat by Ayoob Khan.
A SOCIALIST CONGRESS is to be held in
Zurich, Switzerland, in 1851. Circulars have
been sent to the principal Socialist Societies
in Europe and America inviting attendance
and cooperation.
GENERAL GONZALES has been declared BY
the Mexican House of Representatives to be
the President-elect of the Mexican Republic
His term is to commence on the LIST of De-
cember.
FLEMING, R1ED & Co.'s worsted mills, the
largest in Scotland, were destroyed by fire .
few days ago.
LA TIE H.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued declaring
Counties Galway and Mayo, in Ireland, in a
state Of disturbance, requiring additional
police.
A. A. RANNEY, who declined the Republic.
an nomination for Congress in the Third
Massachusetts, District has withdrawn his
declination and consented to run.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 8th: Second Rhode Island
District, Jonathan Chace, Republican; Four
teenth New York, Lewis Beach, Democrat;
Twentieth Pennsylvania, Thomas B. Murray,
Republican; Eighth Missouri Colonel R. T.
Van Horn, Republican.
FoR the year ended June 80, 1880. the H.
sues OF postage-stamps, stamped envelopes
and postalcards aggregated in value the sum
Of So, 067, S42, being an increase of nine per