The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-29

Republican; Ninth Tennessee, c. B. Simon.
ton, Democrat; Twelfth Illinois, Henry NJ.
Miller, Greenback; Sixth Indiana, General
Tom Browne, Republican.
The Colorado Democratic Conven-
| ton is to be held at Leadville on the 18th Of
August.
Foreign Intelligence
ALoNDoN dispatch of the 10th says
members of firms controlling the English
cattle-trade were making strenuous efforts to
secure a modification of the orders of the
Privy Council relative to the Importation of
cattle. Notwithstanding the restrictions, it
was said the importation of American cattle
had steadily increased.
A ST.. PETERSBURG telegram of the
10th says Nine. Skobeleff, mother of the
noted Russian General, had been murdered in
Turkey, where she was organizing schools
and hospitals.
ORDERS were issued by the French
Government on the Goth fer the immediate
and absolute expulsion of all members of the
order of Jesuits from France.
DISPATCHES of the Goth state that
American secur. ties had advanced in value in
Europe, owing to the apprehens sion that the
state of exchange would soon necessitate gold
shipments to the United States
SEVERAL German army officers have
recently gone to Turkey to reorganze the
Ottoman military service.
A LIEUTENANT and several soldiers
have been arrested in Turkey upon the
charge of being concerned in the assassina-
ton of Nine. Skobeleff the mother of the
distinguished Russian General Their motive
was robbery.
1T was stated on the goth that the
French Government had sent a General and
sixty officers to Greece to assist that country
in the expected war with Turkey.
The persons proposing to erect .
monument to the late Prince Louis Napoleon
in Westminster Abbey have withdrawn the
proposal, the Queen having offered site in
st. Georges Chapel, Windsor Castle, where
the memorial will be erected.
The Car had declined to receive
the Chinese Ambassador at St. Petersburg.
A LISBON telegram of the 21st says
earthquake shocks occurred in the Island of
Lucon, one of the Philippine Islands, from
the 18th to the 10th. The cathedral and bar
racks at Man la and some public buildings at
Laguna and Rabacan were demolished. Elev-
en- persons were reported killed and sixty
nine injured.
ACCORDING to a late dispatch from
the City of Mexico General Gonzales had been
elected President of the Republic by large
majority. An attempt was subsequently
made to assassinate him. He was on bal
cony receiving an ovation, when somebody in
the crowd fired at him. Revolutions, grow
ing out of the late election, were reported in
five provinces.
ACCORDING to an editorial in the
London Times of the 2lst Austria had notified
the Porte that she was determined that the
decisions of the Conference with respect to
the Greek frontier and Montenegro should be
executed to the letter. The Times a so states
that Germany supported the declaration of
Austria.
IT was stated on the 22d that Colonel
Vale, of the Mexican army, with 476 men,
was in pursuit of Victoria and his Apaches.
who recently crossed from the United States
into Mexico.
TIE General Manger of the Northern
Counties of England Insurance Company was
recently sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment at hard labor, the Chairman of
the Board of Directors to twelve months, and
four Directors to six months, for classifying
the company's accounts.
AN earthquake shock was felt at Of
tawa, Ont, on the ed.
AN explosion of powder in the artil-
lery works of Kooisk, South Russia, few
days ago killed eighteen and wounded twelve
persons.
H.
Ar noon on the 23d DR.. Tanner COM
pleted the twenty-fifth day of his fast in New
York City. His weight was 1914 pounds, the
same as the day before. His pulse was 81
and respiration IL. At the commencement
of the experiment the Doctor weighed 1871
pounds .JItti r
GENERAL GRANT arrived at Leadville
on the sd, and was welcomed by salvo Of
artillery, military escort and grand process
sion, in which some $1,000 persons partici
pated.
SPECIAL AGENT SAWYER, who was
sent to St. Louis by Superintendent Walker
to inquire into the alleged imperfections in
the taking of the census of that city, reported
on the 23d that he had investigated all COM
plants carefully, and that the alleged imper-
-tectiOns did not exist-that the census had
been faithfully taken by the enumerators-
and that he saw no good reason why the re-
quest to have the census taken over again
should be compiled with.
On the night of the 22d q pleasure
yacht, having on board Father BIeyenbergh,
pastor Of Trinity Catholic Church, Detroit,
and a number of altar boys and church off,
cials, was run into by the steamer Garland,
on her way down the Detroit River, and six
teen persons, ten boys and six adults, were
drowned.
The New York Tammany State Com
mittee met at Saratoga on the 23d and re-
ceived and accepted the designations of the
candidates for Presidential Electors nomi-
mated at the Syracuse Convention in April
last Resolutions were adopted in favor of har-
mony in the party an ! indorsing the nomina-
tons of Hancock and English.
The official census returns give Rhode
Island population of go, no, gain Of So
U7 In ten years.
JOHN r. FRENCH, ex-Sergeant-at-
Arms Of the United States Senate, has been
appointed Secretary and Disbursing Officer Of
the Ute Commission, nice Colonel Stickney,
deceased.
DISPATCHES were received at Wash
ington on the 23i from Admiral wyman, who
went on the United States steamer Tennes-
see to Cuba toinvestigate the alleged indig-
mites offered the American nag by the Span
ish man-of-war CantO. Admiral Wyman
states that at Santiago de Cuba he was as
sured by the Spanish Governor that his
Government unequivocally disayowed any
intentional insult or indignity, or the
commission Of any act at variance
with the usages Of al civilized pow
ere. The Spanish authorities claimed
that the vessels fired upon were not only
within six mics Of the shore but actually