The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-30
From Washington.


The certificates OF the Electoral vote have
been received BY mail from every State in the
Union.
Four HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN THOUSAND
NINE HUNDRED AND N1NErr-FIvE standard
silver dollars were distributed during the
week ended December Is. During the CORE
spending week in 1879 the number was 49,
800
The total values of exports Of domestic
breadetuffs for the eleven months ended No
vember 30, 1880, is reported BY the Chief OF
the Bureau of Statistics at $256, 762, $50; same
period in 1879, $3.50, 79l,6A.
On the 18th the Secretary of the Treasury
feiters. Mr.. CASTELAR,, of the Bureau of Eu-
craving, pronounced the work the equal in
every way of that produced BY the Govern
ment.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the Goth says
the President had requested General Crook
and General Miles, of the army, William
Stickney, of Washington, and Walter Allen,
OF Newton, Mass, to proceed to Indian Ter
ritory and investigate the Ponca question.
IT has been recently decided by the United
States Supreme Court that an individual
stockholder of an insolvent National Bank
cannot be required to pay more than his full
proport!onate share Of the banks liabilities
in order to make good q deficiency caused bv
the inability of other stockholders to pay their
proportion ate shares.
The General Assembly of Connecticut has
presented an oil portrait of ex-Speaker iona.
than Trumbull to the National House of Rep-
resentatives.
The East.
The wallpaper mandatory OF Birge 4 Son.
at Buffalo, N. Y, was DESTROYED by fire on
the 18th. The flames spread SO rapidly that
egress from the building was cut of, and .
number OF workmen persisted in the flames
On tie 10Th three corpses were recovered
from the debris and five boys were still mise
ing. 1t was thought that the loss of life was
between fifteen and twenty.
CHARLES SlcKLER, of Scranton, Pa, re-
Gently gave his sick wife carbolic acid, mis-
taking It for hydrate of choral The wife
died and Seeker became insane.
BROADWAY, in New York City, from Union
Square to Twenty-eighth street, is nightly
Illuminated by electricity.
Or the $50 cases of diphtheria occurring in
Brooklyn, N. Y, during the week ended on
the 18th fifty were fatal
NINE buildings in the business quarter of
Duke Center, Pa, were burned on the morn
ing OF the 10Th. Ann Eliza Young, the nine
teenth wife Of the late Brigham Young, was
taken from one of the buildings, losing all OF
her personal effects.
In New York shootinz-gallery . few
mornings ago Charles Westfield made
wager that he could put bullet through the
hat Of . barkeeper asleep at one end of the
gallery. As Wes,ield fired, the barkeeper,
named Warganz, changed position, and the
bullet struck him in the head, inhicting
probably fatal wound.
Tine first annual festival of the New En-
gland Society Of Brooklyn, N. T.. was held ON
the night Of the 2lst Prof B. d. Silliman
presided Among the guests were General
Grant, President Hayes, General Sherman,
Secretary Evarts, etc.
OK the 10th and 2lst one of the heaviest
snowstorms experienced In many years pre-
vailed throughout New York, New Jersey and
the northern part of Virginia Railroads
were blockaded, locomotives buried and |
great trees broken down by the weight of the |
snow. Eighty feet Of the great ocean pier at
Kong Branch we're washed away, causing Q |
damage of over $4,000.
THERs were . large number Of cases Of |
diphtheria reported in Buffalo on the 2lst, |
and in one section the public schools had |
been closed.
Ok the 2lst delayed express train on the |
Pennsylvania Railroad ran into Q party Of |
passengers on the track ct Bristol, and fatally |
injured four Of the number.