The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-29
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches
From Washington.

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
ACCORDING to the report of the Chief
OF the Bureau of Statistics the total value OF
the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the
United States during June, 1887, was $2S,-
o&9, $50, and for June, 1879, $17, 2l0 10; dur
ing the year ended June 80, 1850 $2s7, 296,
49,, and during the same period In 1879, $2Ol,-
cs6.499
ANEW BURBAU is about to be organ
lied in the State Department at Washington,
tobe devoted to the preparation Of circulars
embodying the commercial reports of our
Consuls, to be transmitted upon payment Of
fees to merchants and Boards of Trade
throughout the country. Congress, at its
last session, appropriated $l4, 900 for the pur-
pose.
On the 2lst the State Department at
Washington received information to the Eff
feet that the vessel which recently fired
upon the two American schooners in Cuban
waters was the Canto, small screw steamer
belonging to the Spanish Navy. Notwith-
standing the Spanish authorities had denied
that firing was done by any vessel of the
Spanish Navy, Assistant Secretary Hay be-
1ieved that such denial was based upon the
fact that neither of the previous reports of
the affair correctly stated the name Of the Of
Tending vessel
PRESIDENT HAYES has appointed
General Henry 9. Huidekoper, of German
town, Pa, who commanded the "Bucktail
Regiment" at the battle of Gettysburg,
Postmaster of Philadelphia.
The East.
OK the 10Th Mrs. Nesmith, wife of 3
Lieutenant in the navy, and two children
were drowned while bathing at Atlantic City,
Nj
THE late census shows the population
of Providence. r. l., to be 1O4 76o-an increase
of IS, $50 in ten years.
THE steamer Dessouk, having on
board the Egyptian obelsk presented to the
United States by the ex-Khedive of Egypt,
reached New York on the 10Th.
Ok the evening of the 18th Solomon
Easterly, wealthy farmer living near Lyon,
n. u, killed his mother-in-aw and wife with
an AK and then committed suicide. He had
had trouble with his wife because of the pres
ence at his home of her mother, and at one
time a suit for divorce was brought, but on
the old lady agreeing to keep away he with
drew the suit, and thereafter is said to have
lived peaceably with his wife. On the day in
question the mother-in-law appeared at his
home. He ordered her away, but she refused
to leave. and he fired at her three times. The
bullets failing to take effect he Drained her
and his wife with an az, and soon after
drowned himself.
ACCORDING to the census returns
New Jersey has a population of 100000,
being An increase in ten years of $4,000.
Pennsylvania contains about 4, 226, 600 people,
an increase of about 100000 in ten years.
In his letter accepting the nomina-
ton for the Presidency by the National Pro-
hibitory party Neal Dow, after commenting
at some length on the evils of the liquor
traffic and the responsibility of the prohibit
DRY movement, says: 81 consider the object
of the Prohibitionists of this country to be
of supreme Importance to the interests of
the Nation and people. Aside from its bear
ing upon the moral and religious welfare of
the people, l consider the suppression of the
liquor traffic to be an object of far greater
political Importance than any other now
EARTHQUAKES were felt in several
portions of New Hampshire on the 10th. The
vibrations were sufficient at several points to
shake down pictures and dishes. The motion
had a south and east tendency, and the sound
was very perceptible.
The shore end of the tunnel now be-
ing dug under the Hudson River from Jersey
City to New York, caved in on the morning
OF the 21st, and twenty-five men were buried
alive, eight others making an almost miracul-
Gus escape.
By the late census returns it appears
that Rochester, N. Y, has a population of
S9,49S, an increase of 81, liz since 1870.
IMMIGRANTS to the number of $500
arrived at New York on the I'D. Among
them were 75S Mormons, nearly 600 of whom
were Swedes and Norwegians. There were
also few Danes and five English families
among the Mormons.
THE Vermont Democrats have nomi-
mated Edward j. Phelps for Governor George
w. Gates for Lieutenant Governor, and
James X. Williams for Treasurer.
BosToN has population of 1858, 565-
an increase Of l,O66 in ten years.
AFTER investigating the causes which
led to the Hudson River Tunnel accident, ex-
perts have concluded that the engineers en-
gagged in the work were derclict in their
duty and guilty of gross carelessness and
blunder.ng.