The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-15
West and South.

under consideration, aud would give him an
answer in thirty days.
West and South.
The Woman's Suffrage Association,
National wing, met in st. Louis on the even
ing of the 9Th, and elected twenty delegates
to the National Convention, to be held in
indianapolis on the 26th of May. Commit
tees were also appointed to visit both the
Democratic and Republican State Conven-
tions of the State and secure, If possible, the
introduction of q woman's suffrage plank
into their platforms.
The Chicago Times of the morning
of the 9Th says the wheat and fruit prospects
lent.
MANY of the Western cities held their
municipal elections on the 5th. In Indiana
the amendments to the Constitution were
adopted by large majority.
AT Narrow Ridge, near Mendocino
City, CAL, few days ago, Neil 8. HANNA
land killed his wife and a man named Frank
Alsen, as they were asleep, by beating out
their brains with an AZ. He was arrested
tenuating circumstances.
On the 9th Brackets block, q four
story building in Minneapolis, occupied by
merchants, newspaper publishers and manu-
| factnrars was destrnvad nv fire. cansin9 a
HE local election occurred in Chi
cago on the 9th. The Republicans carried
their tickets in the South and West Towns,
and the Democrats in the North Town. The
former elected ten Aldermen and the Demo-
Gratis and Socialists nine. In Milwaukee, the
Republicans carried every ward but one, and
elected the entire municipal ticket, except
Clerk Of the Municipal Court, by msjorisies
ranging from LOO to $780, In Cincinnati
the Republicans elected their candidate for
City Comptroller by about 1000 majority, and
the entire Board of Education by majorities
ranging from 200 to 1000.
On the evening of the 9Th the San
Francisco Board of Supervisors adopted q
resolution declaring that the peace of the city
had been seriously imperiled by the alleged
incendiary speeches of Mayor Kalloch, and
authorizing the Judiciary Committee to in
vestigate the matter and report. It was be-
lieved this was the first step toward impeach-
ing the Mayor.
AT the late municipal election in
Fond du Lac. Sing Yam, q Chinaman, took out
his naturalization papers and voted.
On the 9TH the Iowa Democratic State
Convention was held at Burlington and dele
gates were selected to represent the State in
the Cincinnati Convention. No instructions
were given, but the sentiment of the Convep-
ton favored Tilden.
AT q Conference of the Mormon
Church, which closed at Salt Lake on the Sth,
it was agreed to release many late arrivals
from Europe from the payment of debts
amounting to $500, 900 for their passage
money, to authorize the purchase of cows
and sheep for poor people, and to appoint
fifty elders to PROSECUTING missions in the
United States and Europe.
A CAR attached to a passenger train
on the Beilaire & Southwestern Railway
jumped the track on trestle eighteen miles
| from Bellaire Ohio, on the afternoon Of the
6th, and fell fifteen feet to the ground.
Four or five. persons we're seriously injured,
one of them fatally.
JOHN PErR1E, fifty-one years old, of
Baltimore County, Nd, was married to a
young lady OF twenty-five on the evening of
the 9Th. On the morning Of the Sth he went
out in the garden and blew his head of with
q shotgun.
The Oregon State Democratic Con.
vention met at Portland on the 9Th and nomi-
mated five District Judges and five District
Attorneys. The platform adopted advocates
economy in public affairs, uniform taxation,
equal protection to capital and labor, regula-
ton by legislative acts Of rates of common
carriers, maintenance Of public schools, free
elections, without interference by military;
condemns keeping alive the bitterness of the
late war; censures President Hayes for veto
ing the Chinese bill; declares the
recent decisions Of the United States
Supreme Court in relation to the
Election laws as favoring the Republican
party; pledges support to all laws favoriug
untrammeled suffrage; opposes protective
tariff, and denounces the thirl-term move
ment.
The Nebraska Republican State Con-
vention for the selection of delegates to the
National Convention has been called to meet
at Columbus on the 10Th of May.
The libel suit of Mime. Patti against
st. Louis newspaper has been dismissed at
the plaintiffs cost.