The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-09
The East.

BRoCKwAY, the famous counterfeiter, has
been discharged on his own recognizance and,
It is alleged, has surrendered to the Secret
Service Bureau twenty-five plates from which
spurious bonds have been printed.
THE New York State canals earned 81, 1885,
COO in tolls during the last season. 1t was
thought on the morning of the 3Oth ult. that
the ice-locked boats could not be moved this
season.
THE last of the bodies lost in the Hudson
River tunnel was recovered on the goth ult.
Mis-. LITTLEFIELD, of East Stoughton,
Mass, poisoned her husband and son on the
29;h ult., and then killed herself with a re-
volver.
OK the Goth ult. Francis Hotchkiss re-
tired merchant OF New Haven, Conn.,, died
very suddenly, and his wife dropped dead on
learning his fate.
A FEW days ago lad twelve years of age
plunged into the Morris Canal at Jersey CITY,
n. j., to rescue two girls. respectively three
and five years of age, who had broken through
the ice. The little fellow got both ashore,
but not until the younger of the children was
dead.
On the 3Oth ult several National Banks of
New York City applied to the United States
Court for an injunction to restrain tn May
or and municipal authorities from collecting
the tax levied upon the stockholders until its
legality should be determined.
EvARrs W. FAIR, Congressman-elect OF
the Third New Hampshire District, died at
Littleton, in that State, on the Goth ult, of
pneumonia.
IT is stated that large quantities Of pota-
toes and apples were frozen by the recent
sudden advent of cold weather in New York
State.
On the night of the 10Th ult life-boat,
going out from a life-saving station on the
Massachusetts coast to rescue the crew on
board a stranded vessel, was capsized, and its
Captain and two Of the crew persisted.
On the Both ult DR.. Buchanan, the Phila.
delphia dealer In bogus medical diplomas,
was tried for fraudulently using the mails in
disposing Of his counterfeit wares, and &C.
Quilted BY order OF the United States District
Judge, who directed the jury to return YER
dict Of not guilty, ON the ground that Bu-
chanan was not imposing upon his CORE
spondents.
In his recent attempt to escape from the
Massachusetts, State Prison Jesse Pomeroy,
with three-inch saws, cut of the heads Of
eighteen inch bolts in his window grating
and also cut from the boiler plating . piece
over foot square. He filed these apertures
with soap, and painted 1t in . manner to de-
ceive the keenest eye. The statement 10
made that his mother carried him the saws
with which he perfor med these feats.
Or the ID the New York Chamber OF Com
merce adopted . resolution declaring that
"the proposed National Bankrupt act for the
distribution of insolvent estates and for the
encouragement of insolvency will promote
the general well-being, by confirming conf
dence in business trans actions, and greatly
increase Interstate trade.''
On the I'd there was In the New York Assay
Office foreign gold coin to the value Of $780,
OOO, 900 It was estimated that tl2, 0O0, 600
more was on the way to the United States.
TIE New York piano manufacturing firm
of Durham & Sons has failed. Liabilities,
$4,000
On the evening OF the I'd the semi-millen-
NAL celebration OF the birthday Of John
Wycliffe, who made the first translation Of
the Holy Scriptures into English, was held
under the auspices Of the Bible Society At New
York.