The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-26
West and South.

YIN suc ulSut VI the 1OCQ f1crSCnel
V. johnson, who ran on the Democratic
ticket with Stephen A. Douglas in 1850, died
at his residence in jefferson County,
Georgia. He was sixty seven years old.
A NATIONAL Convention of Republic
can clubs will he held at indianapolis on the
18th of September.
The following Congressional nomi-
nations were made on the 18th: Seventh
Kentucky District Congressman j. C. 8.
Blackburn, Democrat; Third Kentucky, Con-
gresham John W. Caldwell, Democrat; Sixth
Texas, Congressman Columbus Upson, Demo-
crat; Thirteenth Indiana, John w. Carter,
Greenback.
AT Eureka, New, at ten o'clock on
the morning Of the 9Th fire destroyed a
number of valuable structures, among which
were Mann's brewery, the Leader printing
Office, the Odd Fellows Building the Inter
national Hotel, and other buildings. The
loss was estimated at over $l,0OO0oO. Many
families were left homeless and destitute.
AT Winchester, Va, during a circus
parade on the 18th a keeper WIS pounced
upon b. fcrocious and treacherous hyenas.
inflicted by the beasts were pronounced fatal
THE other night a man named Nc
Gowan was expelled from Kansas City (Mo. }
saloon and went to sleep in an ice-house near
a butchers shop. While there he was SO
terribly eaten by rats that it was thought he
would die.
On the night of the 18th an explosion
occurre in the wager Mills at st. Louis, and
the entire building became envcloped in
flames The fire spread rao:dly, destroying
warehouses, tenements, freight cars, an old
skating-rink and much other property.
MORE than quarter of million peo-
pie witnessed the great parade of Knights
Templar in Chicago on the 18th. The column
was seven miles long, and was composed Of
about . hundred bands and about 10000
Knights. The heat was great, and many of
the Knights were Frustrated. The city itself
was in holiday attire, and flags bearing en-
b.ems of the Order futtered from every
building along the line of march. There was
frightful jam at the Exposition Building in
the evening" it being estimated that nearly
one hundred thousand persons were In at
tendance. Scores of ladies tainted, and there
were instances Of persons being badly hurt
by being caught between the outgoing and
incoming throngs. There was some dane
ing, nut, because of the heat and the crowd,
this feature of the reception was not salts
factory.
Six Brule Sioux Indians, who had
stolen seven horses and killed white man
near the Rosebud Agency, have been recently
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Fort Randall by Spotted Tail.
The Indian agent at Poplar River,
D. T., recently abandoned his post in conse-
quence of the threatening attitude of the In
dams in that vicinity. He reported on the
18th that Sitting Bull was within twenty miles
of the agency, and troops were dispatched to
that point from Bismarck.
A SEVERE wind-storm in the Red
River Valley, D. T., few nights ago, unroot
ed several houses, killed one man and seri-
ously damaged the wheat crop Of the district
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made ON the 18th as follows: Republican
Eighth Iowa District, Colonel w. p. Hep
burn; Twelfth Ohio, John Grace. Democrat
.ic-Seventh Missouri John F. Phillips IRE
nominated); Ninth Kentucky, Thomas Tur.
ner (renominated); Seventh Georgia, ]. w.
Robertson; Sixth Texas, Columbus Epson
(renominated). Readjusters-Eighth vir-
ginia, General j. H. Williams; Third
Virginia, Captain John 8. Wise, son Of the
late Governor Wise.
ALARGE number ESTIMATED ct 50. O0Ol
Of people witnessed the prize drills Of tho