The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-11

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AT the recent election in Portland,
Me-, william senter (Rep.) was elected
Mayor by . majority Of 1,2SA The Repub-
licans carried Pennington, Skowhegan, Lew
iston, Auburn, Gardner, Bath, saco, Deering,
Cape Elizabeth, Brdgton, Falmouth, Cor
ham, Kennebunk, Kennebunk Port, Carmel,
Fryeburg, Hiram and Kockland. standish
gave Democratic majority, and the Demo
Gratis also elected their candidate for Mayor
| of Ellsworth.
EDWARD COwLEY, ex-Superintenden
Of the Shepherds Fold in New York City,
has been incarcerated In the Penitentiary, Of
which institution he was once the chaplain.
The following delegates to the Ma
tional Convention at Chicago were chosen by
the Republican members of the Maine Legis-
lature on the evening Of the Sd: Eugene
Hale, Joseph R. Bodwell, E. T. Gill and Al
mon A. Strout The resolutions adopted
reafiirm the principles Of the party and urge
the nomination of Senator Blaine for the
Presidency.
AT the Sub Treasury in New York
on the Sd bonds to the value of $2,516, 600
were purchased on sinkiny-fund account. The
amount offered was Sl3 10000.
A BOY named Waring Schooley, aged
fourteen years, was found near Pittston, Pa,
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having been shot and probably fatally
wounded BY some one unknown. The mother
of the boy dropped dead when he was carried
into the house.
WILLIAM H. CUMMINGS, the General
Western Freight Agent of the New York
Central Railroad, dropped dead in the Tiff
House at Buffalo few mornings ago, of heart
disease.
COUNT LIrTA, Secretary of the Italian
Legation at Washington, died few days ago
in New York hospital.
BERGEN, Genesee County, N. Y, was
almost completely destroyed by fire a few days
ago. The people believe that the flames were
caused by the explosion of kegs of powder by
incendiaries.
A NEW YORK Assemblyman and his
brother had a difficulty, the other evening,
with . policeman, during which the latter
was pounded and kicked so severely that his
life was despaired of.
West and South.
The number of hogs packed in
Chicago during the season ended on the 2Sth
ult. was 2,S7S,0OO, against 2,943, lis for the
corresponding season year ago.
The Mofitt Bell-punch law has been
repealed and the license system adopted by
the Virginia Legislature.
The snow blockade on the line of the
Northern Pacific Railroad the past winter
was the worst ever known in that section.
Traf1c was suspended between Bismarck and
Fargo from the 18th of February to the first
week in March.
A JOINT resolution proposing an
amendment to the Wisconsin State Constitu-
ton prohibiting the manufacture and sale of
Intoxicating liquors as q beverage, except
native wines aud beer, was lost in the Assem-
bly, on the lst-ayes, A.; noes, 80 a majority
of all the members-elect not voting in the
affirmative.
The new Railroad Commission of
Georgia has fixed the maximum tariff for pas
sengers in that State at four cents per mile, |
. reduction on rates heretofore charged.
The Republican State Convention of |
Iowa, for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention, is to be held at Des |
Moines on the 18th Of April.
A CARLOAD of exodus negroes ar
rived at Bloomington, ILL.,. on the Sd.
AN act making the manufacture and
sale Of oleomargarine as butter punishable by |
fine and Imprisonment has been passed BY the |
Iowa Legislature.
The Kansas Republican State Con-
vention is to be held at Topeka on the Goth of |
May.
CHIEF DOUGLASS, one of the Ute |
prisoners confined in Fort Leavenworth, |
jumped from second-story window Of the |
guard-house on the 4th and attempted to es-
cape, but he was pursued for half mile, and |
recaptured after desperate struggle.
The State Senate of Wisconsin has
concurred in joint resolution passed by the
House in favor of q Constitutional amend
ment providing for biennial sessions of the
Legislature.
The Union Greenback Labor Ma
tional Convention assembled at St. Louis on
the 4th, twenty States being represented by
about $50 delegates. Ralph E. Hoyt, of In.
diana, was chosen permanent President, and |
George W. Brewster, of Iowa, Secretary. A
platform was adopted, and Stephen B. Dill.
laye, of New Hampshire, was nominated for
President and B. j. Chambers, of Texas, for
Vice-President. A resolution was adopted |
that the Convention should adjourn to meet
at Chicago on the 9th of June, and Special
Committee of one from each State was ap-
pointed to meet there at the same time.
Two ASSESSORS were recently arrest
ed at Wilmington, Del, by q United States
Marshal, charged with refusing to assess Re-
publicans who desired to pay their taxes and |
qualify As voters.
The Indiana Republican State Cen
trail Committee met at Indianapolis On the
4th and elected four Delegates-at-Larget to the |
National Convention. Three of the delegates
are said to favor Senator Blaine's nomination,
and one General Grants.
]. w. MACKEY is authority for the
statement that he has purchased the entire
He declines to state what he paid but says it |
was over s5,0Oo,0OO.
JAMES MOOREHEAD, a st. Louis COM
mercial traveller, was recently shot and in
stantly killed at Los Vegas, New Mexico, be-
cause he insisted upon having eggs for breakt |
fast.
A FEW days ago q crowd of deter
mined women and children compelled force
of forty men, who undertook to lay railroad
track in Toledo (Ohio) street, to beat an
ignominious retreat. The females sat on the
nail-kegs and rails, and some Of the more
muscular threw the track-layers' tools into
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