The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-10-07

gan, Henry w. Lord, and Of the Third Viz
ginia, II. L. Pelouse.
HENRY CHAMBERLAIN has declined thu
Greenback nomination for Congress in thu
Fourth Michigan District.
ABOUT 1900 persons were present at Re
publican gathering at Warren, o., on tn,
18th, over which ex- President Grant presided
Senator Conkling made the principal speech
General Grant, in q recent letter to the
Chairman OF the Republican National Com
mittee, has declined to preside at any more
campaign meetings than those for which ar
engagements had already been made, Of which
the above meeting was one.
Ar Indianapolis ON the night Of the 2Sth
| ult. Mr.. James Forester and his wife tool
rooms At the Pyle House, and, having blown
| out the gas on retiring, were found in an un.
conscious state the next morning from having
breathed the escaping gas. Mr.. Forester
was dead, aud his wife was not expected t.
live.
THE Supreme Court Of California has re
Gently decided that no county or municipal
officers are to be voted for at the election thi.
fall This renders nugatory a great amount
of county convention work by the various
political parties
The epizootic has broken out among the
horses in Indianapolis.
A NATIONAL REUNION of the surviving pris-
oners of the late war was held at Indianapolis
on the goth ult General Strcight presided,
and an address of welcome was delivered by
Mayor Caven. Several hundred persons par
ticipated.
THE South Carolina Greenback State Con-
vention which met at Columbia on the 10Th
ult. nominated full State ticket, headed by
L. w. X. Blair for Governor.
THE Greenbackers of the First Illinois Dis
trict have nominated Richard Powers for Con-
gress, and the Republicans of the Third
Arkansas District have nominated Thomas
Boles.
The boiler of Shaber's Touring mill at st.
Paul, Mimi, exploded . few mornings ago,
totally wrecking the engine-house and killing
the engineer, Jacob Rapp q young man
twenty-four years of age.
THE Nebraska Democrats have nominated
Thomas Upton for Govern or.
THE Greenbackers of the Fourth Wiscon-
sin District have nominated George Godfrey
for Congress, and those of the Fourth South
Carolina, j. H. McLane. General John f.
Farnsworth is the Democratic candidate in
the Second Illinois District.
Foreign Intelligence.
A STATEMENT has been recently made by
the United States Consul at Lyons, France,
that the cereal crop of that country this year
will amount to TO-, OOO, 900 hectolitres, an av-
erage yield. Nevertheless, there will be a
large demand for American wheat. In Ger
many the cereal crop is a mediocre one, and
in Russia somewhat of failure.
A TENANT farmer named Sweeney was ar
rested on the 9th on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the killing of the Irish landlord,
Lord Mountmorris. Sweeney was under no
tice Of eviction. In this connection 1t was
stated that landlords throughout the west of
ireland were terribly scared, and were calling
on the Government for the re-enactme2t of
the Coercion act.
AN Orange meeting, attended by about 500
persons, was held In the north of Ireland q
few days ago, at which resolutions were
passed calling on the Government to suspend
trial by Jury in murder cases. and declaring
that Americans and other foreigners who
be expelled from the country.
FIVE men were suffoca ted while cleaning
one of the sewers in Paris few days ago.
THE London Mark Lane Express of recent
date says the wheat crop was disappointing
to the farmers, and that a large quantity
of foreign wheat would be required to mix
with the homegrown article to make it avail
able.
IT is stated that, in view of the unsatis-
factory condition of affairs in Ireland, the
British Parliament will be convoked in No
vember.
AN explosion in coal-mile near Herme,
Prussia, occurred few days ago, by which
eleven persons " ere killed and eleven others
seriously injured.
A BERLIN telegram of the 2Sth says the
Powers had on that day peremptorily de-
manded of the Sultan the immediate recall of
Ria Pasha, the Turkish Commander, and the
surrender of Dulcigno.
ACCORDING to Candahar dispatch, receiv-
ed in London on the 29th ult., the Afghan
priests were preaching fresh rising in
Afghanistan, and the condition of the British
army had again become critical.
One Cannon has been arrested and COM
mitted to jail in Galway, ireland, for the
murder of Lord Mountmorris.
The wife of the Russian Consul at Van, a
city in Turkish Armenia, was recently assas-
sinated by robbers.
A CANDAHAR telegram of the 30th ult. re-
ports a gathering of the friends of the de-
posed Yakoob Khan at Farrah, at which it
was agreed to organize attacks upon the
British until Yakoob was proclaimed Ameer
again.
GAR1BALDI and his son Menotti have re-
Gently resigned as members of the Italian
Parliament, and it was rumored that they
were connected with revolutionary move
ments.
AN Italian iron-clad, said to be the most
powerful one ever constructed, was recently
successfully launched at Rome, in the pres
ence of King Humbert and large gather
iron-clad (the Italia) is said to be three feet
thick.
hATHR.
JUDGE HILTON has declined the Democrat
ic nomination for Congress in the Twentieth
New York District.
The public-debt statement issued on the
LIST makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Cncluding interest of SIS, 9O6, 1865, S.
1858, AZ Cash in Treasury, $199, 945, $50.
Debt, less amount in Treasury, $1,9l5, 594,-
1S2. Decrease during September, : 1914
s9l. Decrease since June 30, 1880, $26,57S,-
ILL.,
The daughter of General Zachary Taylor
recently received $4,000 at the Treasury
Department in Washington. This is the bal
ance Of salary which her father would have
received had he lived to complete his Presi-
Dental term. Miss Taylor has been in poor
circumstances for some years, and the bill
authorizing the payment of the money to
her was passed during the last session Of
Congress.