The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-12-16

bag, and took $3.50 from the registered letters
contained In it. - - IN RI. rrft
ANinsane mother At Marquette, Wis, near
" decapitated her babe ON the 9th and then
took her own life.
THE three negroes who ON the 5th MUIR
dered Mrs. Kennedy, In Clarendon County,
8. C., were ynched at the scene Of the trag-
edy on the 9th.
AT Union, q. c., few days ago John Lyles
had . fight with his father-in-law, James
Thomas, which resulted in the death of both.
Thomas sons, who assisted In the row, re-
ceived scalp wounds. s-+
The championship flag of 1880 has been
formally awarded to the White Stockings
Base Ball Club, Of Chicago.
ON the 9th two men were killed and several
others wounded by the premature explosion
of blast in the Forman mine shaft at Vir.
ginia City, New.
Foreign Intelligence.
| IT was stated on the 9th that Gladstone's
withdrawal from the House of Commons had
been urged by his physician. 1t wac report
| ed that, after the Presentation of the budget
Gladstone would be made Peer and support
the Irish Land bill in the House of Lords.
PARNELL received a threatening letter at
Waterford, Ireland, on the 7th. In It he was
charged with destroying Ireland to benefit
himself pecuniarily.
IT is stated that counterfeit ten-dollar
United States Treasury notes are being ex-
tensively circulated in Canada
A PARIS dispatch of the Sth says that Mr.
Thompson, Secretary of the United States
Navy, had cabled to M. De Lesseps accepting
the Chairmanship of the Panama Canal Com
pany.
A BERLIN telegram of the Sth announces
the arrest OF four Socialists at Darmstadt,
Prussia, on the charge Of high treason, and
the arrest, also, OF six others for circulating
revolutionary publications.
ADDITIONAL outrsges were reported from
Ireland on the sth. While executing de-
cree at Bsllingilly, Bailiff Mulholland was
shot dead by a man named Graham. In
many small! towns the Land League had
caused the letters L. L. to be painted over
the doors of sympathizing shop-keepers. A
Lacquer at Portadown was threatened with
death unless he ceased addressing meetings.
Nangle, the Ulster tenant, who fred at his
landlord, has been sentenced to twenty years.
penal servitude.
On the Sth an evidsntly-nspired article ap-
peared in the st. Petersburg Journal pledging
to the Liberals Of England the sympathy o:
Russia.
DILLON. Biggar and other Land Leaguers
notified Secretary Forster on the Sth that Lord
Rossmore had reached Enniskillen with
troops, intending to attack those attending
the land meetings, aud demanded pro-
lection from the Government.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch of the 9th
the Porte had ceded the Island Of Crete to
Germany.
HEALY and Walsh have been indicted by
Cork Ureland) Grand Jury for intimidating
Farmer Manning
On the 9th the Bank Of England raised the
rate OF discount to three per cent, its avowed
purpose being to stop gold exl ortation to the
United States.
TIE Lords of the Admiralty have an
nounced the abolition Of iogging in the Brit.
ish Navy. 81
GENERAL D. 8. STANLEY has taken com
mand at San Antonio. Texas.
A PARIS dispatch of the 9th says that Spain
had taken $1,000 shares in the DeLesseps'
Panama Canal scheme.
Nix. FORSTER, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
issued a memorandum to magistrates on the
9th pointing out their duties under the un-
settled condition of things. A Dublin dis
patch of the same date says the officials,
agents and landlords dare not enforce the
law. r.. al,= as
LATER.
IT was reported on the 10th that the liabil.
tiles of Arnold 4 Co., the great coffee mer.
chants who recently failed in New York,
amounted to S2,O0l,OOo, with alleged assets
OF the same amount Bowie, Dash Il Co.,
another heavy coffee firm OF the same city,
caught in the same deal which carried down
Arnold & Co.-an attempt 10 get up . corner
on coffee-also suspended on the 10th, with
liabilities of 81, 500, 900.
A DUBLIN dispatch Of the. 10th says Judge
Fitzgerald had received . letter threatening
him with death unless he charged fairly in
the Limerick cases.
AN explosion in the Penygrieg colliery in
Wales, early on the morning Of the 10th,
shook the ground for miles around. Over
eighty miners persisted. Four men were res
cued, but thirty -four corpses were discovered
BY an exploring party.
The Grand Jury Of the United States Cir
cult Court At Richmond, Va, on the 9th In
dfcted B. B. Foster, James F. Galloway and
Samuel Logan, the last named colored, the
Manchester (va) Judges of Election, for re-
fusing the right Of suffrage to voters in the
Presidential election who presented them
selves to vote with capitation tax receipts
alleged tn have been illegally issued from the
State Auditors Office. - 4
The jury in the case OF DR.. Earn, of
Chicago, indicted for criminal malpractice
resulting in the death of young lady named
Eta Carl, after being out several hours, re-
turned verdict on the 10th of guilty, fixing
his punishment At five years in the Peniten-
tiary.
The Republicans and anti Tammany Demo
Gratis Of New York have for some time been
arranging . combination TO wreck John Kel
", the head and front of Tammany, and on
the 10Th it was successfully accomplished.
Mayor Cooper nominated Allen Csmpbell for
Comptroller, and after vigorous OPP osition
he was confirmed by Q, vote Of thirteen to
eight. Other nominations dividing the chief
omcee quite equally between The. fusionists
were quickly approved : skys
The colored epigrants from North Caro-
lima who have settled in Indiana held . con-
ventton at Greencastle on tho Josh, and
adopted an address urging that one-half the
negroes of the South emigrate to Northern
farms
TEE Anderson Nnd.) Court-Hous was de-
stroyed by ire On ths 10th. The records OF
the School Superintendent and OF the Sheriff
were burned. n geT5s ga - rF-r
The United States eenate was not IN ses-