The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-04-08


inently in the trial Of the cause.
A LONDON telegram of the S0th ult.
says riots had occurred in several of the close
Parliamentary districts In England and Scot
land, where the Conservatives had encour-
aged independent candidates in order to ID.
vide tho Hbsrpl VOTE The elections began
on the morning Of the S1st ult.
JAMES GORDON BENEFITS Musco-
din won the Park hurdle handicap in En-
gland on the S0th ult. BY twenty lengths.
A MEXICAN newspaper accuses the
United States Gove5nment of selling to
American citizens lands within the limits of
the Mexican State Of Sonora. -
GENERAL FAIRCHILD, the United
States Minister to Spain. arrived at Madrid ON
| the S0th ult., and was received by the King
the following day.
IT is said the Jesuits are building
houses in various parts Of Spain, and have
purchased large establishment near Madrid.
SIR FRANCIS HINcKs and other direc-
| tors of the collapsed Consolidated Bank of
Montreal have been tried and acquitted on
the charge Of making false returns to the
Government regarding the condition Of the
bank. a..
BARON GEDALIA, President of we'll
known Copenhagen banking-ho was re-
Gently sentenced to one month"; imprisonment
for repeatedly using Cancelled stamps on
stocks and billA H' si
ADMIRAL PHILIP ,WEsTPHAL, the old
est commissioned officer in the British navy,
died few days ago, aged ninety-eight years.
EXTENSIVE preparations are said to
be making throughout all parts Of Germany
for emigration to the United States during
the coming summer.
IT was reported from st. Petersburg
on the LIST that General Melikoff had inter
dicted the play of Julius Cesar.
AN explosion of fire-damp occurred
in colliery at Anderlues, Belgium, on the
LIST. There were $50 persons in the mine at
the time of the disaster. At dark on the
evening Of the day Of the accident twenty
corpses had been recovered.
The weather at Halifax, N. S., was
exceedingly stormy ON the LIST, and the snow in
the streets was from three to four feet deep,
and in the country in some places ten feet.
The Dublin Home Rule League has
passed resolution denouncing in the strong
est terms the mob that 80 rudely treated Mr..
Parnell at Enniscorthy.
OWING to the drought which has pre-
vailed in Cuba for three months, the tobacco
and sugar crops will be very much below the
average yield this year.
CATTLE disease is so prevalent in En-
gland just now that the demand for American
meats at an advance in prices is reported to
be very considerable and rapidly increasing.
IT was rumored in st. Petersburg on
the 1st that 800 Chinese troops had crossed
the Russian frontier, and that $1,000 more
were concentrating for an advance.
THE King of Greece has warmly
thanked Charles Tuckerman, formerly
United States Minister at Athens, for a pa
per on the Greek frontier question, which he
prepared some time ago for the consideration
of the mixed commission.
AURELIAN SCHLELL, brilliant Paris
ian journalist, in an article in L'EJsnenent
on the subject of "Cruelty to Animals"
seriously announces his intention to commit
suicide.
DIR. GoFF, an American physician,
has arrived in St. Petersburg and offered his
services to the Government to combat the
diphtheria in the province of Karkahoff and
other infected districts.
The number of men killed by acct
dent in the st. Gothard Tunnel from the
commencement to the end of the undertak-
ing was 120. Over 400 were wounded.
LATER.
PRINCE BISMARCK celebrated his six
ty-sixth birthday on the LIST.
UP to the evening of the I'd the re-
turns from the Parliamentary election in
England showed the election of 212 Liberal
members and 12l Conservatives
In the United States Senate on the
ID the bill to ratify the Ute agreement was
debated by Messrs., Teller and Hill (Col),
the latter favoring ratification and indorsing
Secretary Schurz, and the former taking
ground in opposition to both. The House
amendments to the bill amending the Census
act were disagreed to, and Conference
Committee was appointed. Mr.. Wallace,
on behalf of the majority of the
Senate Select Committee on alleged
frauds in the late elections, submitted
special report concerning political assess
ments, showing that the whole sum received
by the Republican Committee in the summer
and fall of 1878 from Federal officials was
$4,000, and recommending the passage of
bill to prohibit officers and employees of the
United States from contributing money for
political purposes. A minority report would
subsequently be submitted by Mr.. Teller.
Adjourned to the 5th. The Star Service De-
fciency bill was further debated in the House,
and the Senate amendments were finally con-
Cured in-91 to s.
1T was reported from Washington on
the I'd that the Cabinet had decided to recon-
mend legislation looking to the establishment
of civil government in Alaska.
A NEW ORLEANS telegram of the I'd
reports the formation of large crevasse near
Gretna, La. A great deal of damage had al
ready been accomplished.
ACCORDING to official figures, the
packing of the West during the past winter
season-from November /, 1879, to March 1,
1SSo-aggregated 6,950,451 hogs. OF this
number, Chicago slaughtered 2525, 219; st.
Louis, 81, 79S; Cincinnati, 534, $50; Indianap-
oils, 364, OIL; Milwaukee, 349,7S3 and Louis
vile, 23l,559 During the same period last
year the West slaughtered 7,48O,648 hogs, or
53O, 1917 more than the number returned for
the season of 1879 so.
A WASHINGTON special .of the I'd
to the Chicago Aster-Ocean states that
the whole number of pensions granted
since 1852, not including the arrears.of-pay
claims, amounted to nearly 100000, and, in
addition, nearly a quarter of . million of ap-
plications for pensions were then on file.
EIGHT persons were hung in various
parts Of the United States on the 3D. Among
them were Edward Tstro, who killed Mrs.
Butler at Highgate, VT, who was hung at
Windsor. VT, and Stone, the colored WIFE
murderer, who was strangled at Washington,
D. c. In the latter case, as the drop fell,
the head was completely separated from the
body, almost as Clearly as If It had been done
with knife.
A New Homestead Law Passed by the
Senate.