The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-02-05
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.

.EPlT0ME OF THE WEEK.
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Two AMERICANS have been arrested
at Naples charged with stealing $1,000 franc
from Russian naval officer at Brussels
The Medical Commission appointed
to examine the man who recently attempted
the life of the King of Spain has decided tina
he was insane.
A CONVENTION has been signed by
the Turkish Minister Of Foreign Affairs ant
Sir Austen Layard, the British Ambassador
for the suppression Of the slave trade in Tur
key.
The Governor of Rhode Island, in
his recent annual message, recommends that
women be given the right to vote on the
school question, and that prohibition take
the place of the present Liquor law.
A STEAMBOAT called the "Charmer,"
loaded with cotton, was totally destroyed by
fire ON the Mississippi River. in Louisiana,
on the 36th, and two chambermaids, two
cooks, two cabin boys, one fireman and one
deck hand persisted.
In Executive session on the Goth the
Senate confirmed the nomination of James
Russell Lowell, John w. Foster, Lucius Fair
child and Philip H. Morgan to be Ministers
of the United States to England, Russia,
Spain and Mexico, respectively.
A TELEPHONE test was made recently
between Omaha and St. Louis, distance of
= four hundred miles, and is said to have been
completely successful. "The Sweet By and
By" was sung in st. Louis in clear barytone
voice, and every note was distinctly heard in
Omaha; then 1t was repeated at Omaha, for
the benefit Of St. Louis.
The late earthquakes in Cuba were
much more severe in the interior than in
Havana. At the latter place the earth shook
sensibly, but no great damage was done. San
Cristobal and other places in West Cuba suf-
fered to considerable extent. In the first
named place almost every house was shat
tered, and its one thousand Inhabitants rem
dered homeless. Several people were killed
and others badly hurt.
A FEW mornings ago, between three
and four o'clock, New York policeman met
three boys on one of the streets in that
city, bound for Leadville, and took them into
custody. Four loaded revolvers were found
in their pockets, with a plentiful supply of
dime novels. The boys gave their ages as
nine, thirteen and twelve years, and told Su-
perintendent Walling that their homes we're in
Worcester, Mass. Adesire to see the world and
seek adventure impelled them to organize the
expedition. The youngest, who il the smart.
est, stole ten or twelve dollars from an apoth-
ecary's shop, where he was an errand-boy.
Making their way to Boston, the lads started
for New York on Sound boat When ar
rested they still had over eight dollars left of
stolen money.
SECRETARY SCHURZ on the 29th
sent a note to E. H. Hayt, Commissioner of
Indian Affairs, informing him that the pub
lie interest demanded change in the Com
missionership of Indian Affairs, and that
his further services in that Office were dis
pensed with. Upon inquiry it was stated,
on authority of the Committee of the Board
of Indian Commissioners, who had been in
vestigating the charges against Hayt dill
gently and thoroughly, that no proof
of any dishonest act or connec-
ton with corrupt practices on his
part had been found, aid that the action in
dicated by the letter of Secretary Schurz was
taken for the reason that Hayt had withheld
from the Department information which the
Department ought to have had. On the other
hand, it was quite as positively stated by
other parties that, while the facts developed
in the recent investigation may not have
been regarded as sufficient ground on which
to remove Hayt, they we're of the most
damaging character, and, had Secretary
Schurz failed to remove him, other
charges of still more serious nature would
have been preferred. Washington specials of
the 29th state that General Hammond, of
Chicago, who had recently resigned the posi-
ton of Indian Inspector, made a confession
to General Fisk, who was prosecuting the
case against Commissioner Hayt, duplicating
Hayt and himself in very crooked transac-
tons in connection with their official positions;
and that he (Hammond) had resigned the In
spectorship to avoid being brought before the
Investigating Committee. After making his
statement General Hammond was taken sud-
denly i'll.