The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-11-18

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REDWOOD FALLS. MINNESOTA,
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
-. The issue Of stamps aud postal cards for
October amounted to 8, 3l2 09A the largest
In the history OF the country. The total rev.
enue Of the Post-Ofice Department during
the last fiscal year was $50 3l5, 40; expandi'
lures, &S6, l0l. SaO-making the actual cot for
the year of the postal service to the general
Treasury e. 7S6.34l.
COMMISSIONERS MEAcHAN arrived at Wash
lngton ON the 9th, direct from Denver. He
stated that the Utes did not want war, and
would not fight unless they think It their last
resource.
Ream, will Ue unveiled in Farragut Square,
Washington, about the 10th of December.
SECRETARY SHERMAN announced on the
10th that the interest ON the six per cents. Of
1850 will cease December 81. In the mean
time the bonds will be purchased with sur
plus revenue with satisfactory rebate.
THE number of immigrants arriving in this
country during the ten months ended OctO-
Der 81, was ~, COO The year lS54 was the
year Of the largest immigration in the history
OF the United States, the number then arriv-
ing being $4,000. 1t is thought that number
will be exceeded this year.
ACCORDING to the report of the Commits
sioner of Customs for the last fiscal year the
total collections from customs were SIS, S7S.-
GIL, aud the expenses Of collecting the same
o6OsS 2sa
The number Of letters and parcels regis
. tered in the United States during the year
ended June 80 was 6996 SIS, of which $780,
90 letters and s, sd parcels were Tor foreign
countries. The amount of the fees collected
orr the letters and parcels was 1886, IA, being
an increase of thirty per cent over the fees
for the previous year. OF the letters, LIS,
or one in every $500, were lost.
VI Tie ElcCtOToA NOtc "a tuc ScSCIot St3tCb
Garfield and Arthur have IA; Hancock and
English, 155. -...
SINCE the commencement of the current
fiscal year up to and including the 18th the
receipts from internal revenue amounted to
&4S.Ao, 76S, against $43, $50, 9S5 during the
corresponding period Of last year.
The East.
COLONEL E. L. DRAKE, who drilled the drst
oil-well at Titusville, and who thus became
the founder of the petroleum interest OF
Pennsylvania, died recently at New Bethle-
hem. Colonel Drake had for several years
been the recipient of a pension from the
State in recognition of his services and the
benefit which the State had derived from his
discovery. A statue to his memory viii be
erected at Titusville.
The evid ence in the case of Philip, charged
with forging the Garfield Morey letter, closed
ON the 9th when General Pryor asked the dis
charge of the prisoner. Judge Davis said he
would render decision on the 18th. 8. 8.
MOrey and Robert Lindsey, two Of the wit
neeses for the defense, were arrested for per-
jury, and were committed for examination.
Two GIRLS named Bryant, while visiting at
other day, engaged in q playful scuffle with
James Kelly, aged eighteen years, and Tinnie
Bryant, aged twenty, took from box which
happened to stand on the table q single-bar-
relied pistol. She pointed it at James, and
said, in sportive way, "Your money or your
life" He, also supposing it was not loaded,
said, "Fire away" She pulled the trigger,
and the result proved that it was loaded, the
bullet taking effect in the unfortunate mans
abdomen, inaicting wound from which he
died in few hours. The young lady, who
was terribly overcome By the unhappy occur
renee, was arrested.
ANEW YORK young lady named Mary 81
gerson repulsed offers of marriage from
Andrew Gillen, a dissipated young lawyer
On the 10th he called at her residence, threw
bis arm about her neck, and, in the presence
OF her mother, shot her dead.
RUSSELL DART, of Buffalo, employed
music teacher named Emil Siefert, who made
love to the daughter and was forbidden the
house. He armed himself with Q large knife
on the 10th and came to the house, making
threats to kill the family, whereupon he was
fatally shot by MIR. Dart.
LrCRETIA Mort died recently at Philadel-
y
preacher of her sect the Society of Friends,
and was early identified with the Anti-Sla-
very cause.
AT Safe Harbor, near Lancaster, Pa, on the
night Of the 10th, during Republican cele.
bration, a cannon exploded, killing Joseph
Taylor and John Anment. One man and two
ladies were seriously injured.
IT was stated on the 18th that General
Hancock, in an interview at Governors ISL
and denied that a letter supporting to have
been written by him to an army officer ut
Washington, touching the New York vote,
was written by him, and said that he was one
OF the few persons who could not discuss the
Presidential election at the present time
without indelicacy. He also said that il there
was a letter in existence from him purport-
ing to be of that tenor he was willing that it
should be produced.
MOREY AND LINDSAY, alias O'Brien, ap-
pesred before the Grand Jury of the New
York Court of General Sessions on the 18th
and confessed that they had perjured them
selves in the hearing of the Philip case. Morey
was held as q State witness, and O'Brien was
indicted for perjury.
WHILE twelve men were playing cards in .
Pa, on the n'ght Of the 10th, Joseph Keeps,
one Of the number, poured kerosene oil on
the fire to replenish it, when the contents Of
the can caught fire and Keeps threw it
from him. 1t fell into q can of petroleum
oil, which set fire to the house. Elliot Brown,
Barney Haley and Henry Hyde persisted in
the flames. Joseph Barthley received fatal
injuries in attempting to escape. Mike
Welsh, Henry Monroe and Willard Fresby,
who we're badly burned, would probably die.
Heess escaped without serious injury.
West and South.
A sERRrBLE tragedy was recently enacted
at B.tesville, Ohio. Frank NJ. Biedenbaugh,
. wealthy young German, who three years
ago married the daughter Of . neighbofng
farmer, came home late . few nights ago. in
an intoxicated condition, and, entering the