The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-05-20

IT was thought in London ON the 18th
that the difficulty between Albania and Mon
tenegro could not be adjusted without con-
dict. Both sides were making rreparations
for war. and the Porte, being powerless to en-
force the convention, could not prevent .
collision.
ON the 18th the United States frigate
Constellation left Queenstown Harbor, Ire
land, for the United States.
A CONsTANTINOPLE dispatch of the
18th says band of Bulgarian soldiers had en-
tered the Aidas district and pillaged nine
Turkish villages, killing the men and mall
treating the women.
The village of San Luis. Cuba, has
been destroyed by fire. Three hundred houses
were burned and seven persons persisted in
the flames.
An explosion occurred at the gum
powder factory at Gesthacal near Hamburg .
few days ago, and four persons were killed.
LoR1LLARD's colt Iroquois won the
two-year-old plate at the Newmarket en-
gland) race meeting on the 18th.
A FIRE in a bonded warehouse at
Bordeaux, France, on the 10th, destroyed
property to the amount of 100000.
In accordance with the advice of his
constituents Mr.. Bradlaugh, the member of
Parliament from Nottingham, consented on
the 18th to waive his scruples and take the
oath required Of members of the House of
Commons.
DURING the week ending on the 18th
twenty two steamers sailed from British ports
for the United States with full loads of emf
grants ON board.
SERIOUS disturbances having broken
tu;at Salonica, q state of siege was pro-
claimed on the 18th.
TIE famine in Persia is greatly in
creasing, according to latest advices. In the
district of Oroomiah there have been 600
deaths from starvation since January l, and
LOO Christians have left the country. In
the famine-stricken districts wheat is worth
$500 per ton.
A LATE Vienna dispatch says 1000
horses, 5000 Martini rifles and 30 600 cartridg,
had been received at Scutari for the Alba
mans, who occupied the whole territory Fl ON
men were fraterniztnx with the Albanians.
The cotton manufacturers of the
Blackburn eng district have decided to
lock up their mills unless the workmen with
draw their demand for an increase of wages.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has sent letter to
the British Minister at Vienna stating that
his recent animadversions upon the foreign
policy of Austria was based upon a miscon-
ception of the facts.
LORD BEACONsFIELD has announced
his intention Of remaining at the head of his
party.
RIGHT HON. ROBERT LOWE, a Lib
eral member of Parliament, has been ere
ated Peer, with the title of Viscount Sher.
brook.
Mr.. WHITE, United States Minister
to Germany, has notified the State Depart
ment that the German Government was about
to increase the circulation of silver coin twen-
ty per cent.
IT is asserted that British Columbia,
in giving the Dominion Government a
twenty-mile strip on each side of the pro-
posed line of the Canada Pacific Railroad,
included valuable mining and farming land
south of the American boundary.
A FATAL duel took place on the 9th
of April between Senior Irenco Paz, editor of
the Patriel, and q member of the Mexican
Congress, and Senior Santiago Sierra, editor
of La Libertad and Secretary of the Senate.
The latter was killed on the spot. Senior Paz
and his seconds were arrested, but those who
were members of Congress were released,
they not being liable to arrest during the ses-
sion. The others were imprisoned.
LATER,
PRESIDENT HAYES on the 18th nomi-
mated N. G. Ordway, of New Hampshire, for
merly Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Rep
to be Governor of Dakota Ter
ritOry.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 18th
states that Postmaster James, of New York,
had written letter declining to be a candi-
date for Postmaster-General.
ANY discharged soldier of the United
States who has not made application for
pension on account Of wounds or disability
received while in the service must do so
before July l, 1880. After that time pensions
will date only from the time of application.
The same is true regarding applications for
additional bounty yet claimed by many
soldiers.
THE Crow Indians have agreed to
sell to the Government 100000 acres of
their reservation in Montana for $50, 900 per
year for twenty-five years, and the Shoshone
and Bannock Indians, of the Fort Hall ida.
ho) Reservation, have signed an agreement
of 100000 acres of their reservation
for &c. 900 per year for twenty years. The
Indians will remain upon certain portions of
their reservations.
SANFORD E. CHURCH, Chief-Justice
Of the New York Court of Appeals, died sud-
denly at his residence in Albion, N. Y, on
the 18th, of apoplexy.
A FIRE broke out about noon on the
18th in q railroad car factory at Milton, Pa.
Owing to the prevalence of q strong north
west wind, it was not got under control until
the entire business portion of the town was
destroyed. Among the buildings burned are
the principal hotels, the theater, the banks,
the newspaper Offices, the railroad depot, the
gas works and the Reformed, Baptist, Presby-
terrain, Lutheran, Evangelical and Cath
Ollie Church buildings Over 400 build
ings In all were destroyed and $50 families
homeless, many of them destitute.
Many persons are reported 10 have persisted
in the flames, several badly-charred bodies
having been recovered from the debris on the
day of the fire. The loss of property was
estimated at 81, 900, QUO, and the insurance at
$4,000. Governor Hoyt has appealed to the
Mayors Of cities in Pennsylvania to solicit
for the sufferers.
MKssRs. PENDLETON and Cameron
(Wis.) spoke in the United States Senate on
the 18th in opposition to the Kellogg Spofford
resolutions, the former expressing himself -
utterly opposed to the unseating of Kellogg,
e contrary to law, precedent and justice.
The Senate adjourned to the 18th. The Leg
tslative, Executive and Judicial Appropria-
ton bill was passed in the House. 1t was
voted-133 to 75-to consider the resolution
reported for final adjournment on the 31st.
A motion by Mr.. Mills tn at the resolution be
recommitted, with instructions to the Com
mittee on Ways and Means not to report it
back un til 1t had first reported the bill for
the free importation of salt and printing "a
per, was defeated-90 to 116
Two Terrible Explosions.
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