The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-01-15

at Fernsndina, Fla, on the morning q the
eth. -, Isl
An Alexandria dispatch of the 9Th
says Gordon Pasha had reported to the Khe-
dive that Abyssinia was surrounded on all
sides by discontinued tribes and rulers, and
that the Khedive need fear nothing in that
quarter. He recommended the placing of
arms in the hands of the malcontents, and
predicted that II his advice were followed
King John would soon be displaced by Theo-
dore's second son.
A DUBLIN dispatch of the 9Th says
the excitement in Ireland was increasing. A
very serious ARRAY had occurred between the
constabulary and Galway peasants, during
which the latter were fred upon by the police.
AN explosion occurred in q Newark
IN. J.) celluloid factory on the 5th, by which
three men were instantly killed and two 9th
ers fatally burned.
By the burning of a Turner Hall in
New York on the morning of the 5th four
people were suffocated, and several others
who jumped from windows sustained injuries
of painful character.
AT New Orleans on the afternoon of
and badly used up by man named Martin
from Ascension Parish. The difficulty is
said to have grown out of an unfulflled POI
litical promise.
ADvICEs from Mexico, received on
the 9Th, say q formidable revolution had
broken out in the State of Durango. General
Trevino, WHO was ordered from Monterey to
suppress it, had been defeated and urgently
demanded assistance. The impression pre-
vailed that the revolution was likely to be-
come general one.
A CABUL dispatch, received on the
6th, says General Roberts had offered amnesty
to all Afghan insurgents who would lay down
their arms and promise not to make war
again on the British flag.
E. w. Cooke, distinguished En-
glish painter and Fellow of the Royal Soci-
ETY., died on the 9th. He was sixty-nine years
old. -''f
A ST. PETERSBURG telegram of the
9Th says the Polish press had been relieved
from censorship.
HERR Box, Secretary of the Boer
Committee in South Africa, has been ar
rested for high treason.
AN Alamosa Coli telegram of the
9Th says General Hatch was still there with
the Ute Commissioners, who were anxious]y
awaiting permission from the Interior De-
partment to start on their journey to Wash
ington. The dispatch further states that,
although three of the Indians with General
Hatch were Viii River Utes, 1T must not
be supposed that any of them belong to the
1S.< of
None Of these have been surrendereJi, nor
has there been any offer to surrender them
The only semblance of a surrender was when
Chief Douglas and his son Johnnie, with
one of the Others, called at Ouray's house,
and the latter notified General Hatch that
they we're there, and he could go and take
them if he wished. But as Douglas party
numbered some twenty or thirty warriors,
and Hatch had only fifteen men, he did not
accept the invitation to take Douglas. 1t
is believed here that the murderers will
never be surrendered, and that the delega-
ton to Washington is simply ruse for the
purpose of delaying decisive action by the
Government" By permission of Secretary
schurz Ouray's wife will accompany him to
Washington. 90 .,4fy
ACCORDING to Dublin dispatches of
the eth the Irish rent agitation had extended
from rural to urban localities A movement
had been organized to reduce rents in Dublin
and other large towns. 1t was stated that
the Government had set apart e250O 600 to be
loaned at an exceptionally low rate of inter-
est to landlords and local bodies for the con-
struction of public works, in order to provide
work for unsKilled workmen,
A BERLIN telegram of the 9TH says
Russia has asked Germany to extradite all
military deserters, and that the request has
been denied.
In the Augusta one. newspapers on
the morning of the 9th affidavits signed by
Thomas B. Swami and Moses, Hartman were
published, in which atlantis stated that they
had been approached by agents Of the Re-
publican leaders and offered $1,000 each
for absenting themselves from the OPEN
Ing session of the Assembly, and
that they had accepted the money
With the intention Of exposing the
corrupt solicitors.
A PARIS dispatch of the 9Th says
the subscription for the memorial to the de-
ceased Prince Imperial had reached the sum
of 2OO,OOO francs. ~,
A MADRID telegram of the 9Th says
the new Queen of Spain had become seriously
III from the shock consequent upon the recent
attempt upon the life of her husband. She
had been ATTACHED with epileptic fits.
The National Greenback Labor
Party Conference met in Washington on the
sth. About 100 to LIS delegates from differ
emit States were in attendance, and, with the
exception of thirteen Greenback Congress
men, were mostly representatives of State
and local Greenback associations. There
were, however, q few delegates who came as
of Trade and Labor or
PLANTATIONS. The assemblage was called |
to order by E. P. Devices, Chairman
Of the Decentralization party, who delivered
an earnest address, after which Representa-
tive Murch was made permanent Chairman.
A committee, consisting of members of the
National Executive Committee ami the Con-
gressional Committee of the Labor party.
together with one delegate from each of the
States represented in the Conference, was
appointed to report upon the time and place
for meeting in Presidential Nominating
Convention, and also to report the basis of
in that convention. A num-
Der of resolutions were introduced and re-
lerred to the above committee.
NINETEEN shoemaker shops in New
York City have recently increased the wages
Of their employees fifteen per cent. A Read
Ing (Pa.) dispatch OF the 9Th says the hat
factories there were granting an advance in
wages asked by the workmen, and work was
being resumed.
TWELVE Ute Indians on their way to,
Washington in charge of detachment OF the
Ninth Cavalry, arrived at Pueblo, COL, on
the 7th. They had ordered dinner at the
Union Depot Hotel, but seeing so large
crowd of pale-faces destroyed their appetites,
and they went aboard the train at once and
left without eating. Between two thousand
and three thousand people were at the depot
to see the savages. "Hang the red devils"
7" Shoot the numbering nends, /" and like ex-
pressions were frequently heard from
q portion Of the crowd, and they were pelted