The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-12

oeeu aPpointeu Oonsul at 81. Helena, ana
W. Roosevelt, of the same State, Consul at Ma
tan4as, Cuba.
On the 9Th letter was received a
the Dead-Letter Office in Washington, -frpr
Pittsburgh, Pa, which contained the head
OF several parlOr-matches and an ounce o
powder.
The East.
On the arrival at New York on tn,
I'd Of Colonel Bodine, Captain of the Ameri
can file Team, the customs officers searche,
his gun-cases. and found concealed therein
many dutabe goods. 1t was said in behal
OF the Captain that the articles had beer
placed in the gun-case without his knowledgs
by some OF his friends, who intended them q.
presents for his wife.
Mrs. JOHN G. SAKE died recently al
Brooklyn, N. Y, aged sixty years.
EX-SENATOR DORSEY, Secretary Of
the Republican National Committee, wa.
Frustrated by the extreme heat which pre-
vailed at New York on the ID.
The Republicans of the Nineteenth
Pennsylvania District have nominated Charles
>. Little, professor in Dickinson College,
for Congress.
ACCORDING to Boston telegram OF
the Sd Scion Chase, the Maine Greenback
orator, had announced his opposition to the
fusion of the Democrats and Greenbackers in
that State, and had declined to accept nomi-
nation on the coalition Electoral ticket.
ON the Sd John Buerger was ar
rested by the revenue officers for running an
Illicit distillery in jackson Township, Pa.
He had been eighteen years in the business,
it is said.
A FEW evenings ago, while Phila-
delphia mattress factory was burning, Eliza
beth Oglesby and Emma Barnes leaped from
third-story window, the former being
fatally, and the latter only slightly, injured
1Tis stated that diploma was granted
by the American University of Philadelphia,
Tor $500, to Spanish citizen, who has since
made oath that he never attended the univer>
sity and never resided in the United States.
The papers have been laid before the Attor-
ney-General of Pennsylvania
DURING last month over rs, 900 Euro
pean emigrants landed at New York, being,
1t is said, the largest number ever landed in
one month
OF Andes, N. Y, recently undertook to kin
die fire with kerosene oil, when the can ex-
ploded. burning the boy so badly that he died
in ten hours,
AT Pocasset, Mass, the other day
two Or three boys undertook to teach their
little brother, six years of age, to swim by
taking him to the middle of a swift-running
river and dropping him in. He got out all
right once or twice. hnt was finally drowned
ON the 4th Messrs. Jerome, Patchell
and McGibbin were held to the Grand jury
of New York in bonds of &, 900 each for lar
ceny OF the railroad securities found in their
possession and which had been lost by mes
senger OF Brayton, Ives 4 Co.
GEORGE w. LADD has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats and
Greenbackers of the Fourth Maine District.
HE Democrats of the Second Yer
mont District have nominated DR.. Daniel
Campbell for Congress.
A PROMINENT pork-packer of Pitts
burgh named Reese o Sens failed on the 5th.
His liabilities were placed at $16O, 900. The
available assets were believed to be quite
small. The catastrophe is said to have been
precipitated by the Chicago corner.
West and South.
The census returns from Missouri, as
Tar as received up to the I'd, indicated popu-
lation in the State of about 2,2OO,O 900, gain
of 100000 in ten years.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
announced on the Sd as follows: Fifth Ohio
District, N. X. Boone, Republican; Eighth
Kentucky, Phil. B. Thompson, Democrat:
Eighth Michigan, Congressman Roswell G.
Horr, Republican; Second South Carolina,
Congressman O'Connor, Democrat; Third
Missouri, Congressman r. G. Frost. Demo-
crat; Ninth Michigan, Congressman Hubbell,
Republican; Thirteenth Illinois, Congress-
man A. Z. Stevenson, Democrat.
ACCORDING to Montg emery (lAla.)
telegram of the Sd reports from various parts
OF the State indicated a Democratic majority
of between $4,000 and 10000 on the whole
State ticket, and the Legislature was almost
entirely Democratic. The Independent and
ticipated.
AT the State election held in Ken
lucky on the I'd Chief-Justice Pryor was re-
elected Judge of the Court of Appeals by q
very heavy majority.
A RAILROAD contractor, named Stew
art, on the 4th identified the old man in jail
at Fremont, Neb, as John Bender. Stewart
wasonce well acquainted with the family.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the Atm as follows: Third Michigan
District, Edward 8. Lacey, Republican; Thir-
teenth Ohio, A. B. Clark, Republican; Elev-
enth Missouri, Congressman John B. Clark,
IT,, Democrat; Tenth Missouri, Charles II.
Mansur, Democrat; Fourth California, Wal
lace Leach, Democrat; First Kansas, John
Davies, Greenback; Second Kansas, Con-
gresham D. c. Haskell, Republican; FIJI
teenth Illinois, Congressman A. p. Forsythe,
Seventh Indiana, 8. ]. Peelle,
URIAH PHELPS, merchant in Tyron,
N. C.,.a few nights ago induced youth
named o. w. Click to sleep with him in his
store, in anticipation Of raid by burglars
The next morning Phelps was found dead in
his bed. As all the windows and doors were
locked, and as Click is noted somnambulist,
it was thought the young man got up in his
sleep and killed Phelps with an Ak. Click ad-
mitted the possibility of this, but declared
that he had no recollection of anything, ex-
cept he dreamed Of fighting burglars.
JUDGE THOMAS HEILMAN on the 4th
declined the nomination for Congress lately
rendered him by the Democrats Of the
Eighteenth Illinois District.
The Republicans Of Michigan held
their State Convention at jackson on the
5th and nominated full State ticket, headed
by David H. jerome for Governor. Presi-
dental Electors were also nominated.
ACCORDING 70 a Los Pinos dispatch
of the 5th one-hundred and thrty-hve chiefs
and head men of the Utes had signed the
Ouray treaty.
ON the night of the 4th st. Aubrey
Angelo, q correspondent Of the Liverpool
(Eng.) Courier, was run over by the cars on
the Union Pacific Railroad, near Cheyenne,
one arm and one Leg being crushed. He was
fnnn6 dad mart mOrnin0. With a hn11Af.h0lA