The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-16
The East.

A SEVERE drought was said to bt
prevailing in all parts of Vermont on the 9th
and manufacturers had in many cases beer
forced to suspend work for want of water.
THE obelisk was successfully taken
the 9th, and would soon be placed in position
in Central Park.
The actor William Henry Josephs,
half brother of Rev Dr. Lorimer, of Chicago
died in Boston few DAYS ago.
THE New Hampshire Republican
State Convention was held at Concord on the
9Th. A full State ticket headed BY Charles
H. Bell for Governor was nominated.
The Republicans of the Third New
Hampshire Distr ct have nominated E. W.
Farr for Congress, those of the Twenty.Sixtt
New York District John H. Camp, and those
of the First Connecticut John R. Buck.
On the night of the 9TH a Utica IN.
" man named G. w. Knapp committed
suicide by jumping into the rapids of the
American Falls at Niagara, short distance
above the precipice.
DURING August 1890. 900 bushels
of grain were shipped from New York to
Europe.
In the Eastern States on the 9Th
nominations for Congress were made as fol-
lows: Fourth Connecticut District, w. H.
Barnum, Democrat, and Congressman Fred
erick Miles, Republican: Twenty ninth New
York, E. s. Lapham, Republican; Fourth
New Jersey, Henry s. Harris, Democrat !;
Twenty New York, Congressman War
ner Miller, Republican; Sixth New Jersey,
Phineas Jones, Republican.
SMALLPOX prevails in the city of
Camden, n. j., to an alarming extent, and
on the Sth the Board of Education deter
mined to close the public schools for one
month. This was thought to be necessary,
as the great majority of the cases reported
had been among children, aud it was with a
hope Of preventing its spread through their
mingling in the class-rooms that this action
was taken. There were sixty cases of the
disease in the city.
On the 9Th the Manhattan Market.
situated between Thirty-fourth and Thirty
fifth streets, on Eleventh avenue, New York,
was entirely destroyed by fire. The building
covered 10000 square feet of ground, and
cost originally $1,000, 900.
The Massachusetts, Prohibitionists
held their State Convention at Worcester on
the Sth and nominated a full State ticket,
headed by Charles Almy for Governor.
CHARLES LIVINGSTON is attempting
to fast forty-two days, aud is on exhibition in
Brooklyn, N. Y. He completed his second
day of the fast on the evening of the sth.
An ordinance was lately adopted by
the Board of Aldermen of New York City re-
quiring all druggists and other persons en-
gagged in compromising phs sicians' prescrip-
lions to keep all poisonous substances sepa-
rate from harmless drugs, and in an apart
ment provided especially for the purpose,
which is to bear in large letters sign with
the word "Poson" thereon. The department
is to be kept securely locked in drug stores
and dispensaries, and is to be opened only
when necessary for the filing of prescriptions,
n the presence of the person bearing the
description.
On the Sth the National Democratic
Executive Committee met in New York and
approved the movement to reconcile the diff
ferences in Virginia by the substitution of
sin lie Electoral ticket for the two in the
field, and expressed confidence that it would
receive the support of all Virginians who de-
sire the election of Hancock.
The following Congressional nomina-
tons were made on the 9th--all Republicans:
Seventeenth Pennsylvania, General j. NJ.
Campbell; Seventh Pennsylvania, Congress-
man William Godshalk; Seventh New Jersey,
Congressman Lewis A. Brigham; Third Con-
necticut, Congressman ]. T. Wait.
A FURIOUS and destructive northeast
gale swept along the New Jersey coast on the
9th, causing much damage to dockage and
shipping. The wind blew at the rate of sixty
miles an hour.
A HARRISBURG (Pa.) newspaper re-
porter secured remarkably accurate particu-
lars of var. Gus burglaries, and published
them some time In advance of the discovery
of the crimes by the victims thereof. A de-
tective was placed on the young mans track,
and in few days he was under arrest. He
confessed to several burelaries and was sent
to the penitentiary for one year.