The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-05
The East.

The East.
A RECENT Boston dispatch says Gen
eral Grant had been elected President of the
San Pedro 4 Canon Delaqua Company, which
owns $1,000 acres of land in New Mexico, in
GLIDING copper and gold mines. His salary
had been fixed at SIS, 900. Eastern capitalists
are interested in the enterprise.
A DISPATCH of the 10Th says that the
army-worm had made its appearance in q
corn-feid near Pittsburgh, Pa, and also in
Eastern Ohio
On the 9th the Democratic and
Greenback State Committees met at Augusta,
Maine, and decided ON . Fusion State and
Electoral ticket.
AMIDDLErowN (Conn. Savings Bank
was robbed on the 9th of $500 during the
temporary absence of the officials. Accom-
plices of the robbers engaged the clerks on
duty in conversation while their "pals" got
away with the money.
JONATHAN WAsLEY, Superintendent;
Frank Williams, inside boss, and John Reese,
District Superintendent of the Philadelphia &
Reading Coal and Iron Company, descended
the Kelley Run colliery, near Pottsville, Pa,
on the night of the 26th, to inspect the ven
tilation of the mine and we're taken out dead
the next morning, having been suffocated by
black damn.
The Pine Street Church in Boston,
built in 1880, was destroyed by fire few days
ago.
The Democrats of the Fifth Maine
Congressional District have nominated
Thompson H. Murch, the present Greenback
Representative in Congress.
SEVENTEEN circus men of the sixty
five who were recently arrested at Green's
burg, Pa, for abducting and outrageously
treating fourteen-year-old girl at Somerset
have been identified and held for trial.
THE anthracite coal mines in Pennsyl-
vana have decided to stop mining during
twelve days in August.
A FEW days since Captain James H.
Stanley, of Middleton, Pa, died of hydro
phobia- He was bitten by his dog about a
month before.
FROM actual returns received up to
July q, and from estimates by well.informed
persons, it was believed that the population
of New York State would exceed 100000.
The Massachusetts, Prohibition State
Convention will be held at Worcester on the
Sth of September. The Republican Conven-
ton will meet on the 18th of September at
the same place.
On the 2Sth the Republicans of the
Second Vermont Congressional District NOM
mated James NJ. Tyler for Congress.
On the Goth snow commenced falling
on the summit of Mount Washington, N. H.,
little before noon, and continued most of
the time until two O'Clock.
AFEw days since large quantity of
whisky and well-equipped illicit distillery
were discovered by the revenue officers near
Yonkers, N. Y. The owner pretended that
he was running vinegar factory.
THE Democratic State Convention
will meet at Worcester, Mass, on the 1st of
September
WILLIAM WARD has been renominat-
ed for Congress, b. the Republicans of the
Sixth Pennsylvania District and the Demo-
Gratis aud Greenbackers of the First Maine
District have united in nominating Samuel
J. Anderson.
On the Goth the Captain of the
schooner Eunice P. Newcomb reiterated the
statement made when he was in Boston on
his last trip, relative to the firing upon him
by Spanish war vessel, and is Ger, ain that
the affair happened ten miles from the Cuban
shore.
The New Jersey Democratic State
Convention will meet at Trenton on the LIST
of September.
West and South.