The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-07-08
West and South.


1T has been recently decided by the
Supreme Court of Wisconsin that option cop-
tracts, where it can be proved that there is no
intention to deliver the goods contracted for,
are unlawful, and fall within the provisions of
the Wisconsin Gambling act.
A FEW days ago a little boy, four
years old, son Of George Wheeler, living near
Des Moines, Iowa, got hold of a revolver and
pointed it at his two-year-old sister. It was
discharged and the bullet penetrated the
baby's head, killing her instantly.
The wooden mills at Burlington,
Wis, were recently destroyed by fire, and ].
P. Willard the superintendent, persisted in
the flames.
The notorious counterfeiter Charles
Ulrich, who has recently completed q ten
years. term in the Ohio Penitentiary, is
thought to be the author of the dangerous
500 counterfeit bank notes lately put in cir
culation.
The other day six escaped convicts
from the Idaho Pententiary waylaid stage
coach on the Challis g. Utah line, robbed the
seven passengers-five men and two women
of all their valuables, and then Invested them
of oil their clothing.
AT Fort Stockton a few days ago two
soldiers, named Taylor and Robinson, quar-
relied, and Robinson shot Taylor dead. The
murderer was turned over to the civil author
tiles, and the next day was forced to dig his
victims grave
The Supreme Court of Illinois has
recently rendered a decision in favor of the
constitutionality of the State Railroad law of
1873. The Railroad Company illinois Gen.
traD concerned in the suit will appeal the
case to the United States Supreme Court.
:. THE new census reports give Indian
apolis, Ind, a population of 75,O3l, and Mil
waukee. Wis, 1lS,122. Madison, Wis, has q
population of 10000, gain of LIZA since
1870
The Republicans of the Fifth Iowa
District have nominated John A. Kasson, at
present United States Minister to Vienna, as
their candidate for Congress, and those of
the Sixth District, N. E. Cults. General C.
w. Pavey has been also nominated by the
Republicans of the Nineteenth Illinois Dis
trict; Joseph Jorgenson by the Republicans
of the Fourth Virginia District, and A. E.
Stevenson (present incumbent) by the Green
On the 3Oth ult. Judge Barnum, of
Chicago, decided that the property decided
by d. d. Spencer, the absconded President
Of the Illinois State Savings Bank, to his
wife, belonged to the creditors Of the defunct
institution. The deed of transfer to Mrs.
Spencer the Judge declared to be fraudulent.
On themorning of the 3Oth ult. the
Sny Levee, on the Mississippi River between
Quincy and Alton, ILL.,, gave way, and the
bottom lands. destroying thousands of acres
of wheat and corn crops, and devastating
strip of territory forty miles long by ten miles
wide. The residents had to flee for their
lives, and many took refuge on the levee, not
having time to make their way to the high
grounds. One family, named Freemer, con-
! sisting Of five persons. is reported to have
been drowned.
In letter recently written from
White Sulphur Springs, Va, Senator Came
ron declines to be continued in the position
of Chairman of the National Republican
Committee. He says his health has COM
pletely broken down, and that his physician
insists upon period of rest With the re-
storation of his health, he adds, be will give
his energy, as . member Of the Committee. to
the work Of the campaign.
ACCORDING to the census enumera-
tors Louisville, KY, has . population of 1885,
$50 and Omaha, Neb., . population Of 5000
tho last showing . gain of IA, 900 in ten
years. 1t was thought ON the S0th ult. tina.
the census returns for Chicago would show,
whom completed, total population Of owe,
1000.
DURING service at Columbus, Ohio,
on recent Sabbath, . well-dressed man sit
ting in front pew seized the contribution.
box and made for the outside. A regula.
chase followed I'm which clergyman, deaconi