The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-26


THE EAST.
Four men were killed at Randolph.
N. H., on the 18th by the explosion Of boil
| er in John F. Thompson's saw-mill.
REV. EDWARD CowLEY, Manager of
the Shepherds Fold in New York City. was
convicted on the 18th Of starving and cruelty
treating the children in his care, and remand
ed for sentence.
In response to the Governments Of
fer to buy 81, OOO, 600 of bonds, seventeen pro-
posals to sell were received at the Sub Treas
ury in New York on the 18th, aggregating
s., S., 200, at los and interest for IS of 1880;
los IS and 1O6 for SIS of 1881, and 1895 to 1O4
for SIS of 1881.
The Kansas Republican State Con-
vention will be held in Topeka on the S1st Of
i March.
The Greenback Central Committee of
New York State at ito recent session In SYRIA
cuse, considered charges of perfdy brought
against its chairman, Thomas A. Saunders.
After many speeches, it was resolved to sum-
mon him before the committee on the 23d Of
March for an investigation. 1t is alleged that
he sold out to the Democrats. The State
Convention was called to be held at Albany
on the Gath of March.
AT the recent election in Philadelphia
fifteen Republicans, seven regular Democrats
and one independent Democrat were chosen.
The Select Council stands twenty Repub-
| licans and flve Democrats; the Common Coun-
Gil forty three regular Republicans, five inde-
pendent Republicans and five Democrats.
With those holding over, the Common Coun-
Gil will stand seventy-two regular and indie
pendent Republicans and twelve Democrats.
A LARGE spoon factory at Waterbury,
Conn.,, was burned on the morning Of the
10th. Loss, s15o.000.
AT their recent State Convention
| at Providence the Rhode Island Prohibition
lists nominated the following ticket: Albert
Howard, for Governor; Thomas NJ. Seabury,
for Lieutenant Governor; William Sayles,
for Attorney General; j. NJ. Alderman, for
Secretary of State, and Samuel Clark, for
General Treasurer. The last three named
are the present incumbents.
WEST AND SOUTH.
IT was reported from San Francisco
on the 10th that several large manufacturing
establishments had shut down and dismissed
their hands, and would not resume until the
validity of the Anti-Chinese law had been
passed upon.
A Los P1Nos dispatch Of the 10th
says that promptly At the expiration of ten
days, as promised, Captain Jack rode up to
the agency with three of the twelve prisoners
demanded by the Government, VIZ: Chief
Douglass, Tim johnson and Thomas Jack
was very reticent, and declined to state how
| or in what manner the capture was
effected Sowerwick returned several hours
later, but brought no prisoners. Jack
assured General Adams that, owing
to the depth of the snow on the mountains
| and scattered locations Of the camps, it would
take at least three weeks to capture the re-
naming nire prisoners. Chief johnson, one
of the prisoners demanded by the Com
mission, sent regrets at being unable to &C.
company the party to Washington, giving as
q reason that he was the medicine man, and
had very sick patient, whom he could not
| leave.
| A LARGE quantity of provisions and
clothing was distributed to the destitu'e
colored refugees in Kansas City on the 18th.
The heavy floods on the Ohio, Ten
nessee and Cumberland Rivers were receding
on the 18th. A house containing family of
| nine persons, near Mayfeld, KY, was washed
away on the night of the 10th, and all the in
mates were drowned.
The statement that thousands of adj
| venturers were gathering in Southern Kansas
preparatory to raid on Indian Territory was
confirmed by dispatches from that quarter on
the night of the 18th.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
recently decided that the legal name of q
-
surname. Any one may have as many middle
names, or initials, as are given to him or as
he chooses to take. They do not affect his
legal name, and may be inserted or not in
deed or contract without affecting its validi-
ty. Nor does mistake in the middle initial
of name, in deed, in any way affect its
validity.
THE Georgia Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Augusta
on the 2lst of April to choose delegates to
the National Convention and transact other
business.
The colored men of Texas in State
Convention at Galveston on the 18th, adopted
resolutions approving of emigration from
| States east of the Mississippi river, denying
the necessity of emigrating from Texas, show
ing the advantages offered by the State to
those seeking new homes, and inviting their
| colored brethren to turn toward Texas instead
of more northerly States.
Two MEN of Marion County, Ohio,
claim to have solved the problem of perpetual
motion. A model of the machine which they
have in operation has been sent to Washing
| ton for patent. The machine consists of
large iron wheel containing . large number
of slides, inclined planes. etc.. and it is claim
ed that it will set itself going.
NEAR Leedsburg, Va, on the night
of the 18th a negro who had feloniously as
saulted white woman was lynched. The
woman was among the lynchers, and was per-
mitted to fire at the victim as he was drawn
into the air. She fred fourteen revolver
shots into his dangling body.
A BOILER in a Peoria Qn.) distillery
exploded few evenings ago, wrecling the
building. Two men were instantly killed,
two fatally injured and three others seriously
burned.
A NUMBER of colored emigrants from
Mississippi arrived at Leavenworth, Kansas,
ON the 10th. They designed settling on the
line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
FOREIGN lNTELLIGENCE.
A DISPATCH from Alexandria, Egypt,
on the 10th says several of the native chiefs
had revolted against King John, Of Abys-
sinia, and that his power was seriously threat
ened.
REV. CHARLES H. STURGEON, the
great London preacher, in . sermon on the
18th, said England's rulers were making
bloody wars and depressing nations; that
they encouraged and consoled themselves
with the reflection that 1--WE are great peo-
pie, and, by lingo. do what we like, it will al
come right in the end;" but they should re-
member that pride went before fall
IT was officially announced at St.
Petersburg on the 10th that no measures for
the organization or reformation of the politi-
cal administration of the Empire would be
promulgated on the twenty-afth anniversary
| Of the Cars accession to the throne.
1rrsr before the Russian rOval fam.