The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-03-18

ingmen and Democrats elected the Chief of
Police.
On the 18th the Trade and Labor
Union Of Chicsgo received communication
from st. Louis, inviting its members to join
the wOrkingmen of the latter city in big
strike In April.
DENIS KEARNEY was arrested at San
Francisco on the 18th, on charges of INSIDE
meanor based on remarks made by him in an
incendiary speech delivered the night pre-
vious.
On the morning of the 18th Lehman
4 Co.'s fax mills at Frankfort, Ind, were de-
stroyed by the explosion of the steam boilers.
Ten men were killed.
Foreign Intelligence.
On the evening of the 9Th Sir Stat
ford Northcote the British Chancellor of the
Exchequer, announced in the House of Com
mons that the Ministry had advised the
Queen to dissolve Parliament before Easter
The announcement was received with cheers
On the 9Th the schooner Elbano went
ashore during violent storm near st. John,
N. B. Eight persons lost their lives.
PARNELL and Dillon, the Irish land
agitators, were enthusiastically received at
Montreal on the evening of the 9Th. On their
arrival they were greeted by procession car
rying 5000 torches.
News was received at Panama on the
Sth of an explosion in the artillery barracks
at Santiago, Chill, which killed twenty -four
persons and destroyed the building
THE clause of the Governments Edu-
cation bill containing a prohibition of the
Society of Jesuits as defeated by a vote of
AS to 129 in the French Senate ON the 9th.
The British Royal Commission on
| Agricultural Depression has announced its
| approval of the scheme for the purchase by
| the Government of Irish waste lands, to be
| allocated among local farmers on certain con-
ditions of tenure and improvement.
THE Vistula River, on the Austro-
Russian frontier, has broken down its dixie,
near Dzikow, and flooded thirty villages.
Thousands of persons are said to be without
food or shelter and numerous lives have been
lost.
| ACCORDING toa Paris telegram of the
10th Hartmann the Nihilist whom the French
| Government refused to extradite on the de-
! mand of Russia, had concluded to emigrate to
America.
On the 9th twenty-four persons were
burned to death and twenty-nine others seri-
ously injured at a fire in Moscow.
THE St. Petersburg Nihilists have
threatened to destroy and plumber the Bank
of St. Petersburg.
ACCORDING to Candahar dispatches
received on the 41th the strength of Mahom-
ed Jams, the rebel Afghan leader, was rapid
ly increasing He had sent out messengers
in all directions, and was securing the support
of most of the native tribes.
The British Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer presented the budget to the House
of Commons on the 18th, showing deficit of
e3, $50, 900.
On the 18th United States Minister
Lowell presented his credentials to the Queen
of Great Britain.
A SPANISH Government Post-ofice
official has been discovered tampering with
mails from India and Malta en- route to En-
gland. 1t has been proved that he stole
large numbers of registered packages and
destroyed other letters in large quantities
LATER.
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
18th says General Melikoff was saved by
chain shirt at the time of his recent attempted
assassination.
A SHANGHAI (China) dispatch of the
18th says Chung How, late Ambassador to
Russia, and who negotiated the Kuldja treaty,
had been beheaded, and that rebellion had
broken out in Pekin.
In letter, dated March 10, to M. L.
scudder, Chicago, Secretary Sherman ex-
plicitly states that he is candidate for the
Presidency, with the purpose neither to press
any one to support him nor to decline such
friendly aid as is offered him. He does not
think it necessary for him to belittle or arraign
General Grant, Senator Blaine, or any one
else, and says he will not use his official posi-
ion to promote his candidacy.
The Fertilization Appropriation bill
was passed in the United States Senate on
the 18th, after being so amended as to in
crease the House appropriation for repair of
works of defense from $lOO,OO to $15O,OJO,
and for the armament of seacoast fortifca-
lions, including the conversion of smooth
bore cannon into rifles, from 1925, 900 to $780,
OOO The Deficiency Appropriation bill was
reported in the House, with an amendment
appropriating $500, for the payment of
fees and expenses to United States Marshals
and their general deputies for the present
fiscal year, thus making the total amount ap-
prOprated by the bill 81, 265, $50, and the bill
was considered in Committee of the Whole.
A bill was introduced by Mr.. Covert for the
suppression of pleuro-pneumonia in neat cat
tie. Both houses adjourned to the 18th.
r. A. SAWYER, late Fusion Deputy
Secretary of State of Maine, refused to testify
before the Legislative Committee as to the
whereabouts Of the State seal on the 18th.
and was remanded to custody until further
orders of the House, or until he should purge
himself of contempt.
GENERAL MILES reported on the 18th
that Sitting Bull was then south of the inter-
national boundary line, near Round Buttes,
on Milk River.
1T was announced on the 18th that,
after two weeks of incessant labor, the snow
and ice blockade on the Dakota division of
the Northern Pacific Railroad had been re-
moved. Two hundred men and seventeen
locomotives were employed in clearing the
track, which in some places was so complete
ly imbedded in ice that the strongest snow.
plows made no impression upon it. Tie past
winter is said to have been unprecedented in
severity in the far Northwest.
The Missouri State Republican Con-
vention for the election of delegates to the
Chicago National Convention will meet at
Sedalia on the Sth of April.
THE Ohio Republicans will meet in
State Convention at Columbus on the 2Sth of
April to select delegates to the Republican
National Convention
Ten Men Killed by Boiler Explosion
at Frankfort, Ind.
A special to the Chicago Inter Ocean