The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-22

cans have nom mated W. B. Treat for Con.
gress. The Democrats of the Sixteenth Ill
nois District have renominated Congress nan
Spares; those Of the Third Alabama District
have nominated Colonel w. C. Oates, and
those Of the Seventh Tennessee District have
renominated Congressman Whitthorne
On the 10Th the local Board of Health
of Mem. his adopted and Endorsed the order
of the State 'arl prohibiting the importa-
ton into the State of certain articles shipped
from New Orleans, and the statement is made
that the order will be strictly enforced.
Foreign Intelligence.
THE British engineers have been Or
dered to demolish the forts erecte by the
British army around Cabul.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of
the 18th another South African war was i'm
minent I'm consequence of the disarmament
Of the Basutos
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says
that Russia having prohibited the expectation
of grain, and crops being POOR in Germany, it
was believed that the latter power, despite the
high customs duties, would be heavy pur-
chaser of American grain.
The Peruvian authorities have been
notified by the Commander of the Gillian
| feet that he will invest Lima unless the offer
of Chilli be soon accepted, and peace made.
1T is stated that the Cubans in New
York have received intelligence that many
OF the insurgent prisoners Lately captured by
the Spanish forces have been killed. One of
them was Pho Rosada, the insurgeni Minister
| of War.
A PARIS telegram of the 14th says
the French Chamber OF De Duties had decided
to vote credit of 1900, go francs for the con-
struction of a railroad across the Desert of
Sahara.
LORD ROsEBERRY has been appointed
Under Secretary of State for India, to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lord
Lansdowne.
THE proposition to re-introduce sill
yer currency in Germany has been rejected
by the Federal Council of that Empire.
The ninetieth anniversary of the
storming of the Bast;le, the French Naho
fete, was celebrated throughout France on
the 14th with great enthusiasm. President
Grevy presided over the ceremonies at Paris.
The Irish members of the House of
Commons prevented vote Oh the Govern
ments amendments to the Conpe :ation
bill the 18th.
ROCHEFORr's new paper in Paris sold
to the extent Of 49,, co. copies of the first ed-
ton.
RUSSIA has demanded of Roumania
that she shall expel all the Nihiists within
her borders.
On the morning, of the 10Th an ex-
plosion occurre l in a coal-pt in South Wales
which caused the death of about 100 miners.
THE Powers presented the collective
note relat We to the Greek question to the
Porte on the 18th.
A LATE St. Petersburg dispatch says
that Chung How, the Chinese Ambassador
who negotiated the Kul;ia treaty with Rus
STA and on returning home was sentenced to
be beheaded had been set free, and that the
Chinese Government had abandoned the idea
of war with Russia.
IT is announced that Peru and Bo-
livia, allies in the war against Chill, have
formed confederation to be known as the
United States of Peru and BOLIVIA.
ACCORDING to Constantinople dis
patch of the 18th the Turks ha attacked and
cap, ured the Montenegrin outpcsts on the
Fem. Ten out of the sixteen soldiers defend.
ing were b headed.
I..ATEE-
The committee appointed by Secre-
tary Sherman to investigate the truth or falls
ity OF the charges made against West India
planters OF artifcially coloring the sugar sent
to the United States in order to cheat the
revenue, have reported to the effect that. such
frauds have been practiced even to greater
extent than charged. No secret was made of
the matter among the planters in Demerara
and elsewhere.
DIR. TANNER finished the nineteenth
day of his fast in New York on the 10th, and
was still gaining in weight, although no
nourishment except that contained in the
water he drank had apparently passed his
lips during the nineteen days. At the be-
ginning of the fast he weighed 1871 pounds
On the 18th his weight was 1873, aud on the
18th 152 pounds On the 18th he was found
to weigh almost 1876 pounds, making
gain of nearly one and three
fourth pounds. At the close Of the
nineteenth day he weighed 1861 pounds, max
ing gain of over pound in one day. While
the watchers still believed in Tanners hon.
esty, this gain had naturally aroused half
expressed suspicious. When asked in regard
to this gain in weight, Tanner said: "It
comes simply from the water have drank.
There will be an equally-ma-ked decrease,
and after tomorrow expect to lose steadily
I'm weight"
THE Republicans of the Twelfth In
diana District have nominated Robert 8. Tay-
lor for Congress.
CAPTAIN PAYNE, the Indian Terri
tory invader, and twenty two of his followers
were arrested by United States troops on
the 10th.
JACKSON, Miss, has established land
and water guarantees against New Orleans
CHAsrINE Cox, the murderer of Mrs.
Dr. Hull, was hanged at the Tombs prison,
New York, on the 10th. He expressed sorrow
Tor his crime and hope TO-. forgiveness.
ABOUT 1000 German immigrants ar
rived at Baltimore on the 10th. They left at
once for Chicago.
A PARIS telegram of the 10th, speak
ing of the absence of Marshal Nc Mahon from
the great military review at Long champs on
the 18th, states that the veteran was in q
deplcrable condition, mentally and physi-
cally. He was harrassed by creditors, re-
preached by old fire nds, and saw life in such
gloomy colors that he not long since seriously
contemplated suicide.
A PHILADELPHIA telegram of tho
10th says IL QUO of DR.. Buchanan's bogus
diplomas are current throughout the world.
A list Of those diplomas which were not ante
dated will be published, with directions for
applying twenty lone different methods of
detecting the aDte-dated diplomas and es-
tablishing their fraudulent character. The
dOtngs of the National Eclectic Medical As
ISOLATION, which, under Buchanan's manage
me"t, sold its diplomas for Is, will, it 10 said,
also be laid bare