The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-22

published there, that there was not particle
Of truth in the reported massacre at Man
dalay.
PRESIDENT DIAz has recently con-
graduated the Mexican Congress on the revo-
cation by the United States military authori-
ties of the order to invade Mexican territory
in pursuit of cattie-thieves.
The Supreme Court of Canada has
declared the Temperance law of the Dominion
| to be constitutional.
AT Madrid on the 18th Otero, the
man who attempted the assassination of King
Alfonso, Of Spain, in December last, was
executed.
CHINA has refused to ratify the treaty
of Kuldja, because it left the mountain
passes in the hands of Russia.
A RECENT Bremen telegram says e.
600 Swedes had left that port this spring for
the United States.
IT was reported on the 18th that
Egypt had decided to occupy the Red Sea
coast to the entrance of the Arabian Gulf.
The New Market (London) handi-
cap was won by Lorillard's Wallenstcin on the
14th.
ROBERT LAURIE, ex-Mayor of Chat
ham, Ont, died q few days ago from burns
caused by the explosion of coal-oil lamp.
AvEssEL loaded with arms and am
munition for the Chilians took fire while w.
ing in the River Elbe, near Hamburg, the
other day, and was scuttled to prevent an ex-
plosion.
The Parliamentary elections in En-
gland, except to fill vacancies, closed on the
18th, and show q clear Liberal majority of
about sixty in the House of Commons
The Dublin Qreland) Mansion House
Relief Committee was in receipt of letters on
the 18th which showed that the distress
throughout Ireland was increasing.
LATE advices from South America
show that the attack of the Chilians ON the
Peruvian City of Mollendo was attended by
frightful atrocities. The invaders destroyed
and sacked many costly buildings, and COM
ing to the residence quarter, spared neither
age, sex nor condition. At the height of the
beastly revel the Gillian officers attempted to
check their sOldiery, but were unable to res
cue the women and girls until they had killed
with their revOlvers several of their own men.
The Duchess of Newcastle has lately
married Tom Hohler, British concert singer
RIGHT REV. THOMAS JOSEPH Brown,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Newport, England,
Is dead. He was eighty-two years old.
BR1GANDs have sacked the town OF
Selova, in Macedonia.
LATER.
The steamer Vega, with Prof. Nor
denskjold on board, reached Copenhagen on
the 10th. She was received with great enthu-
siasm.
The Vermont Greenbackers will hold
their State Convention at Montpelier on the
18th Of May.
The bar-rooms in Fredericktown, N.
B., have been closed in consequence of the
recent decision of the Supreme Court of Can
ada sustaining the constitutionality of the
Temperance law.
HE Secretary of the United States
Treasury received from New York on the 10th
q package containing 81 600 and marked s.In-
come Tax. 1t was placed in the conscience
fund.
PRESIDENT HAYES has affirmed the
sentences of courts-martial dismissing two
young Lieutenants, one for getting drunk
in full uniform and falling asleep on a
billiardtable, and the other for cowardice in
the field in Oregon.
The Maine Democrats will meet in
Convention at Bangor June 1, to nominate
State officers and select delegates to the Gin
cinnati Convention.
RECENT forest fires have done very
serious damage in Sussex, Chesterfield, Dim
widdie and Prince George Counties, Virginia,
and two or three persons were burned to
death. Millions of dollars worth of property
has been destroyed by the fires in New
Jersey.
REPORTS that there have been cases
OF yellow-fever at Memphis during the pres
ent year have been pronounced absolutely
untrue by DIR. Thornton, President of the
Board of Health in that city.
A FURIOUS snOw-siorm was raging in
the far West for several days pre ceding the
10th. The Central Pacific Railroad was
tlockaded between Emigrant Gap and Cisco,
and several trains had been ditched in en-
deavoring to force passage. On the 10th
heavy snow-storm also prevailed in Northern
Wisconsin.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT was received
at Cairo, ILL.,, on the 10Th, by about 10000
people. Much enthusiasm was manifested.
In the United States Senate on the
10th the Geneva Award bill was further de-
bated, after which an adjournment was had
to the 10th. In the House Mr. Cox, Chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, re-
ported resolution requesting the President
to take steps to abrogate the Clayton
Bulwer treaty. The Senate bill for
the removal of the political disabilities of
Roger A. Pryor was passed, as was also tie
bill for the relief of settlers on public lands
providing that, when q presumption, home
stead or timher-culture claimant has fled a
Written REIMBURSEMENT of his claim in the
local land office, the land covered bv such
claim shall be open to entry without further
notice on the part of the Commissioner of the I.
Public Land Office.
A Daring and FOOlhardy Feat.