The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-15
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

GEORGE E. LOCKE, the Yankee come
dian, died in Lowell, Mass, on the 5th.
EIGHT THOUSAND people are report
ed to be on the verge of starvation in Bosnia.
REV. THOMAS ALFRED, STARKEY has
been recently consecrated Bishop OF the
Episcopal Diocese of Northern New Jersey.
GORDON PAsHA, the American off,
Ger so long in the employ of the Khedive of
Egypt, has resigned, and his resignation has
been accepted.
GENERAL NIcoLEs DE PIEROLA was
on the I'D of December proclaimed Dictator
of Peru. The President fed the country two
days before.
HERR PRfroRrus, ex-President of the
Transvaal, and claiming still to bold the
office, has been arrested upon the charge of
A BERLIN telegram of the 5th says
that in one province in Southern Russia 1000
persons had died of diphtheria in each Of the
last three years.
AN Italian bark arrived at Baltimore
on the Sd with eleven of the passengers and
crew of the steamer Borussia, which lately
foundered in mid-ocean.
The Receiver of the suspended Gro
GERS Bank at New York states that forged
paper to the amount Of $ls5, 900 has been
found among its "assets." = Ft--F
The California Legislature completed
oy,;, tom <ho IF ho of4so
elected are Republicans, the attempt of the
Workingmen and Democrats to un .te proving
failure. p t j - K. Z = - s',# -
GOVERNOR SMITH, of Wisconsin, was
inaugurated on the 5th. The military pro-
cession was a fne one. All the State officers
were sworn in and conducted to their several
departments.
A New ENGLAND Bank Examiner
says that all recent investigations into the
Dexter (Me.) bank robbery case confirms him
in the opinion that Cashier Barron was both
murdered aud slandered.
The Massachusetts, Legislature Or
ganized on the 9TH. Senator R. r. Bishop |
was unanimously chosen President Of the |
Senate, and c. J: Noyes (Republican), on the |
fourth ballot Speaker of the House.
BISHOP GILBERT HAVEN, of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, died at his home in
Maiden, Mass, on the evening Of the Sd. |
His disease was primarily neuralgia of the
stomach. He was fifty-eight years cid.
In view of the ravages of diphtheria
in the Russian province of Kharkof. the
local Red Cross Society has formed three
medical and sanitary detschments to assist
the Government to combat the epidemic.
THE message of Governor Andrews,
of Connecticut, shows a reduction in the
States income. The extension Of the right
of voting to women is recommended, at least |
In all matters affecting taxes. More stringent |
divorce laws are urged.
AT Lyons, N. Y, on the afternoon of |
the Sd Miss Fanny Hovey entered her fathers |
store, and shot him with revolver in his left !
temple. She then shot herself in her, left |
temple, dying almost immediately Her |
father was MORALLY wounded. ..g..f
In the caucus of the Republican
members of the Ohio Legislature on the
nominated for Senator BY reclamation. The
names of ex- Governor Taft, Stanley Mat
thews and ex- Governor Dennison were with
drawn before the nomination was made.
GOVERNOR COBB, of Alabama, has
filled the vacancy in the United States Sem
ate caused by the death of Senator Houston,
by appointing Luke Pryor, of Athens, who
was a law partner Ut Senator Houston. Mr..
Pryor has always before declined public office.
The election by the Legislature will take place
in November next.
In the Supreme Court of the United
States on the 5th Chief-Justice Waite denied
the motion of Senator Edmunds to take up
the Legal-tender case out Of its regular order
He added that the Court would refuse to
grant motions to advance cases involving
important Constitutional questions so long
as they could not be heard before q full
bench.
The adoption of the GENITAL system
has been received with so much hostility by
the New York Produce Exchange that the
Board of Managers on the 5th resolved to
recommend postponement of the. expert
ment until the necessary National and State
legislation can be obtained and the principal
commercial exchanges agree upon q time for
its simultaneous adoption.
In Chicago a few evenings ago Mrs.
Kate Anderson undertook to hurry I'D her
kitchen fire by pouring kerosene into the
stove from a common oil-can. An explosion
followed throwing the burning oil all over
her clothing, and before assistance could be
rendered her she was burned to q crisp from
the head to the feet in q most fearful man
ner. She died In about four hours after the
accident.
JOHN TAYLOR, the Mormon, preached
bitter sermon at Salt Lake on the 4th, de-
claring that polygamy would be practiced in
spite of the Federal Courts. He asserted that
1t was the duty Of the saints to obey the COM
mandments Of God, regardless of the statutes
of their enemies, and leave the results In His
hands. request on his part for the people
who would practice polygamy, law or no law,
to sigrify their intention, brought up the
hand Of nearly every person in the vast con-
gregation.
In his recent message to the New
York Legislature Governor Cornell shows
during the last year by cancellation, and that
the canals had cost the taxpayers $3.50, $40.
In regard to railroad ira, sportation, the Gov
ernor says" The. public have the right to de-
mand that freight tssiffs shal bestniform for
like service without discrimination as between
citizens and communities, and that they shall |
also have all reasQoable publicity. This
should be secured BY just and practical regu-
lations." tn
AT San Francisco on the morning of
the 9th fire broAe out h I twcstory frame
dwelling occupied by Daniel Haskids, bis
wife and five children. Hsskins and the ED
s ss.. son n.a gone to x9rk, and Mrs H.slins,
ond floor front, and lay down on . bed with
Eddie, aged four Her Aasghtsf Antde, aged
nineteen, anda baby sister were stm sleeping I
in the back chamber Thomas thu seror6 l