The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-02

Tim official canvass Of the recent electio,
In Michigan shows . total vote of S52, 655
Garfield received 1S5, l95; Hancock, 1871, SO1
Weaver, &,S95; Dow, 943; scattering, 322
Garield's plurality, 1884; majority over all
l7,73a
On the morning of the 23d Prof. James C
Watson, astronomer at the Wisconsin Stat,
University. died after q short illness.
TRE official canvass OF the vote Of Nortl
Carolina shows the following result: Han
cock, ia. 2c4; Garfield, 115,6l8 Hancock
majority, $3.50
JAMES L. ProH, the Democratic caucu
nominee has been elected Senator from Ala
bama, to fill the vacancy caused by the dealt
Of Ex-Governor Houston.
AN inmate of the Minnesota Insan,
Asylum, named Ben Hasselman, confesse
that he fired the building, and wishes all hat
been burned.
ACCORDING to Cincinnati telegram OF thu
23d A. j. Tullis, lawyer, and Jacob Nine,
who were indicted for forgery had been ar
rested. and Cornelius McGoldrick, an asso
ciate, would soon be arrested. They ar,
charged with the forging Of title deeds t,
large tracts of land in Illinois, Iowa and 9th
er States, thereby dlfrauding innocent pur
chasers. The forgd14es of which they arr
charged are Of startling character, bein,
deeds to large quantities Of land owned b.
the executrix of the millionaire Jere
miah Tullis, who died two year,
ago. It is said some 10, 600 acres Of land ii
Iowa, near Fort Dodge have thus beer
fraudulently conveyed, and innocent ;ar
ties are now occupying the property. Othel
lands in illinois, Missouri and Tennessee
are said to have been similarly sold. The
alleged method was to make deed from
Tullis to McGo!drick dated year or two
before Tullis' death; then McGoldrich
would deed it to another of the party,
and then it would be sold to an innocent
victim.
AT wedding reception given to newly
married couple in Kingston, Tenn, on the
18th, thirty-five persons were poisoned, and
up to the 23d five had died and several others
were expected to die. The cook who made
the cake for the occasion used arsenic in
stead Of soda.
OK the 23d at Cincinnati Jonas Brown. a
laborer employed in a candle factory, fell
into vat Of boiling grease, and was pulled
out thoroughly cooked, and died shortly after.
A FEW days since Mrs. Fred Chateau and
Miss Amanda Gregoire, of East Dubuque,
were drowned in an air-hole while endeavor-
ing to cross the Mississippi on the ice.
The South Carolina Legislature organized
on the 23d, and the Governor delivered his
message.
The remains of the late Governor of Indi-
ana were buried in the cemetery on his home
stead at Wheatland on the 25th.
A FEW days since j. F. Dunn, of Alma, COL,
was carried 1900 feet down the mountain by
snowslide. He persisted.
A. 8. FooTE, Brick Pomeroy's former part
ner in the publication of the La Crosse DEM
ocrat, has been sentenced to FIVE years. i'm
prisonment in the Penitentiary for forgery.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Anna Coleman, the
wife of farmer living near Jonesboro,
Iud, was gored to death by vicious bull.
Foreign Intelligence.
In a leading article on the ed the Takit,
the principal newspaper of Constantinople,
gravely describes America as desiring a war
with England, and insinuating that Turkey is
about to enter into an offensive and defensive
alliance with the United States.
A LATE Teheran telegram says the Persian
troops, contrary to the orders Of their COM
manders, had destroyed twenty-five Kurdish
villages.
ORDERS have been issued by the Egyptian
Government to drive back the Abyssinians by
force. The King of Abyssinia has decreed
that all Mussulmans must be baptized or leave
the country.
A BILL for the construction of a trans
Continental railway has been passed by the
Parliament of Queensland.
On the 23d Leon Cogniet, the celebrated
French painter, died at his home in Paris.
The Irish Land League organized thirty
nine branches during the week ended Novem-
Der 20.
A FEW days ago the Italian steamer Ortigia
French steamer Oncle Joseph, which had 800
passengers on board. The Oncle Joseph sank
soon after the collision, and $50 passengers
went down with her.
ACCORDING to a Teheran dispatch of the
Oath the Persians had beheaded three hun
dred of the Kurdish prisoners and decorated
the walls of Tabreez with their heads.
The Turks, after an engagement lasting
eight hours, captured and occupied Dulcigno
on the oath, and notified the Montenegrins
that they would surrender the city to them on
demand.
On the 25th the Protestant Archbishop of
Dublin promulgated formal prayer for the
cessation of the disturbances in ireland.
IT, lo% oF <ho oe
land caused the loss of over twenty vessels.
THE peace negotiations between Chilli and
Peru have come to full stop in consequence
of the demand of the former power for a
large slice of Peruvian territory as indemnity
for the past and security for the future.
OK the 24th sixty persons were arrested at
Westport, ireland, for threatening resistance
to an eviction. On the following day an at
tempt was made to shoot Captain John
Mitchell, who had rented a farm in Roscom-
mon from which tenant had been ev:cted.
and Protestant clergyman in Tipperary was
fred upon.
SIR BENJAMIN COLLINS BRoDIE, the distin-
guished London chem st. died on the 25th.
LATHE
Or the $52S, 100, $50 worth of United States
registered four-per-cent. bonds, $27l, ass, 900
worth are held BY citizens of our own coun-
try, and $685., $50 worth by foreigners and
foreign banking establishments The National
Banks hold s136, SO, 700, and other banks and
trust companies hold sis, SO6 900. Of the
$40, $50, 900 registered 4>S-per-cent. bonds,
our citizens hold 81, 0lO,9 &c., and foreigners
hold only IS, Isl, $50. The National Banks own
$S9, 46l, $50, and other bank and trust compa-
MES 5A6a0. 400 OF the bonds held in our
own country, 10 90 per cent are held in the
Eastern States, GA 40 in the Middle States,
"A 2l0 in the Western States, and $40 per
cent in the Southern States. About 30 per
cent. of the bonds held in the Eastern States
are owned by women, 10 per cent by the
women in the Middle and Western States, %
per cent. 10 the Southern States.
1T was stated ON the 28th that 1000 men
had been thrown out Of work at ALBANY,
N. T., on account of low water
NEW YORK dianatch of the oath a. ve ON