The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-02
West and South.

ACCORDING to corrected census re.
turns Cleveland, Ohio, has a population oil
16O, 46S.
COLONEL S. E. FINK has been nomi.
mated for Congress by the Republicans of the
Fourteenth Ohio Distric. and JOSEPH
Wheeler BY the Democrats of the Eighth
Alabama District.
ASA Dow, prominent member and
former President of the Chicago Board Of
Trade, gave notice on the 23d that he would
not be able to meet his obligations. His
liabilities were stated at s102 900, and his as
sets at about $4,000. He was largely en-
gagged in speculation in pork.
The Delaware Democrats have re.
nominated E. L. Martin for Congress
The Supreme Grand Lodge Knights
of Pythias me: in st. Louis on the oath, and
was Hospitality welcomed by the Missouri
Grand Lodge and by visiting Knights. In the
evening there was a grand procession, which
was heartily cheered by the multitudes who
witnessed it.
A FEW days ago a young carpenter
named Haslet, engaged in making some re-
pairs on Terre Haute hotel, dropped his
rule into vault thirty feet deep, and de-
seconded to pick it up. when near the bot
tom he suddenly fell over. His father, who
was at work on the same building, went to
his rescue, but when he got as far as his son
had gone he, too, fell over. Both died from
inhaling foul gas.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made or the 24th as follows: Fifth Michigan
District, George w. Webber. Republican;
Second Michigan, William H. VALIDITY, Demo-
crat; Third Wisconsin, Congressman George G.
Hazelton Republican; Fifth Illinois, j. NJ. King
Greenback; Sixth Illinois, B. H. Truesdell'
Democrat; Arizona, NJ. w. Stewart dele
gate), Republican; Ninth Missouri, General
James Craig, Democrat; Twelfth Missouri,
William Hatch, Democrat.
AN Anti-Masonic Convention was re.
Gently held in Chicago, at which an address to
the pastors and churches of the United States
was adopted, setting forth that many professed
ministers and church members belong to the
Masonic Order, which greatly impairs their
Christian influence and dishonors the name
OF Christ, and alleging that Freemasonry ia
immoral and profane; that it destroys truth
fulness by binding Masons to pretend that to
be true which is false; that it destroys church
fellowship and discipline, by denying
the right of the church to inquire into the
conduct of church members while in the
lodge; that 1t dishonors Gods word by put
ting it on level with the Koran and other
pretended revelations; that it dshonors the
name of Christ by excluding it from its cere-
monies in the first seven degrees, and that it
teaches false religion. A Grand Lodge of
Seceders was organized, officers were elected,
and alleged exposures of Masonry made.
The Iowa Republicans met in State
Convention at Des Mcines on the 25th and
nominated Captain J. A. T. Hull for Secre.
tary of State; w. v. Lucas for Auditor: z.
H. Conger for State Treasurer; j. X. Powers
for Register of the State Land ONCE; Smith
Mcpherson for Attorney General, and Presi.
Dental Electors.
GENERAL AND Mrs. GRANT reached
Galena on the evening of the 25th, from their
Western trip.
ON the 25th General Garfield deliv.
cred an address at the reunion of his old reg
iment, the Forty-second Ohio, at Ashland.
He was elected President Of the RegimentaI
Association for the ensuing year.
The following Congressional nomi-
nations were made on the 25th: Third South
Carolina District Congressman d. w. Al
ken, Democrat; Fifth South Carolina, Con-
gresham John 8. Richardson, Democrat;
Second Arkansas, James X. Jones, Democrat;