The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-04

mail and was fined 500 and costs.
The New York State Republican
Convention convened at Utica on the 25th,
E. Smith as Chairman. There was quarrel
over the admission of delegates from Oneida
County, but it WAS settled by admitting the
delegation headed by Senator Conkling.
Resolutions pledging the Electoral vote OF
the State to ex-President Grant; declaring
that the New York Republicans reposed ab-
solute trust in his honesty, his fidelity, bis
serene judgment and solid intelligence; in
sisting that the objection to third President
ial term applied only to q third consecutive
term, and instructing the delegates to the Ma
tional Convention to use their most earnest
and united efforts to secure the nomination
Of Ex-President U. 8. Grant, were adopted
amid considerable confusion. A motion to
strike out the name of General Grant and
substitute that Of James G. Blaine was de-
motion instructing the delegates to vote for
Blaine If General Grant we're not nominated
was tabled on motion of Senator Conkling.
The delegates-at-large were elected as follows
Roscoe Conkling, A. B. Cornell, c. A. Arthur
and James D. Warren. Presidential Electors
and State Central Committee were also ap-
pointed.
One thousand employees of the Har-
mony mills at Cohoes, N. Y, struck for an
advance Of ten per cent. in their wages and
one hour instead of thirty minutes for dinner,
on the 26th.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Convention for the nomination of State off,
GERS and the appointment of delegates to tie
Chicago Convention has been called to meet
at Providence on the 18th Of March.
The Woman's Suffrage Association
of New York recently held congra' ulatory
meeting over the enactment of the law al
lowing women to vote for school officers.
WEST AND SOUTH.
A GALEsBURG Ql.) dispatch of the
23d states that a colored man named Brown
and his wife had been arrested on suspicion
Of having been engaged in the robbery of the
Knoxville Bank, and that their son had been
taken by q crowd of excited citizens and
threatened with hanging unless he would tell
what he knew concerning the robbery. He
thereupon stated that the robbery was COM
mitted by Bill Stamps, of Knoxville, Lew
Ellsworth, q barber, and white man named
Ed Adle, both of Maquon. He said Adle,
Ellsworth and Stamps went inside the hank,
and he stood on the outside to watch. He
was given a box Of nickels for his share,
about $780, Most of the implicated parties
had been arrested and locked up.
An enthusiastic gathering, said to
have been one of the largest crowds ever as
sembled in Chicago, greeted Mr.. Parnell, the
Irish land agitator, at the Exposition build
mated that not less than thirty thousand peo-
pie were present. A series of resolutions was
adopted, and speeches were made by Mr.. Par
nell, Governor Cullom, of Illinois, Hon.
Thomas Hoyne, and others.
A PETERSBURG (Va.) dispatch of the
evening of the oath announces the arrival of
q large number of colored people, mostly
women and children, en- route for Indiana,
They reported that hundreds of others would
follow.
JESSE JAMES, the outlaw whom a
detective named Shepherd claimed to have
killed near Kansas City some months ago,
was in St. Louis on the oath.
Four cattle-thieves were recently
hung in the vicinity of Deadwood by the Wig
ilantes.
The Michigan Greenback State Con-
vention, to choose delegates to the National
Convention in Chicago, will meet at jackson
on the 18th Of March.
The Illinois Republican State Con-
vention will meet at Springfield on the 18th
Of May.
THE following were elected as men,
bers of the Indiana Republican State Central
Committee by twelve Of the District Conven-
lions held on the 25th: First District, H. s..
Bennett, vanderburg; Second, Robert Evans,
Knox; Third, W. NJ. Hurley, Floyd; Fifth,
J. 8. Jordan, Morgan; Sixth, Isaac Jenkin-
son, Wayne; Seventh, John e. New, Marion !;
Eighth, H. H. Boudinot, Vigo; Ninth, A. l..
Kumler, nppecanoe; Tenth, NJ. w. Tomlin-
son, Cass; Eleventh, Alexander w. De Long,
huntington; Twelfth, Robert Stratton, Al
len; Thirteenth, w. C. Graves, Kosciusko
John c. New was elected Chairman.
The Iowa Democratic State Conven-
ton to select delegates to the Democratic
National Convention has been called to meet
1t Burlington on the 9TH of April.
ON the 25th district delegates to the
Republican National Convention were chosen
in Indiana. -Four districts favored Blaine and
one Sherman; in the others no instructions
were given.
ACCORDING to San Francisco tele-
grams of the 18th the workingmen of that
city had resolved to discontinue their calls
upon employers of Chinese and, for the pres
ent, to abandon the meetings on the sand
lot. It was believed that . Vigilance Com
mittee had been formed, and that any at
tempt on the part Of the sand-lotters to
create disturbance would be summarily sup
pressed. The merchants had held meet
ings with view to raise subscriptions for the
benefit OF the unemployed, but It was not
announced what the outcome of the meeting
was.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
9th that the Joint Executive Committee of
the Eastern and Western trunk lines had met
in Chicago the day before, and decided to re-
duce rates on grain between Chicago and the
sea-board i've cents per hundred pounds, to
take effect on March l. A corresponding re-
duction on other articles was agreed to, to
take effect on March 8.
ON the 18th General Adams arrived
ct Fort Leavenworth, with Chief Douglass,
the Ute, and, leaving the savage there q
prisoner, proceeded on his way to Washington.
TIE Texas Republican State Conven-
ton to appoint delegates to the National Con-
vention has been called to meet ct Galveston
on the 9th Of March.
The Louisiana Senate adopted on the
18th resolution suspending several Senators
because they signed . memorial to the United
States Senate favoring Senator Kellogg. The
SerHeant-at-Arms was also directed to keep
them in custody until further orders.
A NEW go counterfeit United States
Treasury note has made its appearance in
Chicago. The note is of the series of
1870 letter c. and the most striking feat