The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-24
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physicians were busy night and day. Many
cases, 1t was feared, would prove fatal. 1t
was believed that the epidemic was occa-
stoned by impurities Of the water in the reser-
voir.
ON the 10th the eleventh annual re-
union Of the Society of the Army of the Po-
tomac occurred at Burlington. Vt. Generals
Sheridan and Miles aud other distinguished
soldiers were present
OVER twenty-five hundred emigrants
landed at New York and thirteen hundred at
Baltimore on the 10th. Among the New York
party were three hnhdred and thirty Mormon
proselytes, bouAdfOr Utah.
INvEsriGATIONs into the affairs of
the suspended National Bank Of Brattleboro,
VT, made on the 10th. indicated that the IT.
regularities dated back for q period of ten
years. At that time It is asserted that
brother of the absconding President got into
financial troubles in Chicago to the extent OF
$4,000, which amount was paid out OF the
funds of the bank. Forged checks were then
deposited IN the bank for the amount with
drawn. The Directors did not detect the
fraud, and it also escaped the notice Of the
Bank Examiner until q short time before the
collapse of the hank.
A coNFLAGRATIoN recently occurred
at Auburn, N. Y, during which five firemen
were seriously hurt by the falling Of q wall,
and one was killed.
The anniversary of the Battle of
Bunker Hin was celebrated in fine style in
Boston on the 18th. A New Orleans militia
company participated.
On the 18th Hanlan, the champion
oarsman, was defeated iu . race at Provi-
aspes & Esss RS and he :S order rs named
The champion is said to have been suffering
from illness.
AT the late annual meeting of the
Society of The Army of the Potomac the TO-
lowing officers were elected: President, Gen.
eral ~Horatio g. Wright; vice-Presidents,
First Corps, General John c. Robinson; Sec
ond, General James B. Colt; Third Colonel
W. A. Rafferty,; Fifth, Colonel j. Stewart
Tower; Sixth, General James II. Warner;
Ninth, General McKibben; Twelfth, General
VIM. Cogsweli; Cavairy, General VIM. Wells;
Treasurer, General NJ. T. Mcmahon; Record
Ing Secretary Colonel Horatio c. King; Cor
responding Secretary, General George II.
Sharpe, Hartford, Conn.,, was selected as the
IL .2kiti, ss
West and South.
In Chicago on the 18th meeting in
Chicago of physicians from various parts of
the country was held to discuss the ailments
of children and their treatment. 1t was re-
solved to form National Pathological So
ciety, which, should meet annually. Several
instructive papers on the food of babies and
mothers were read.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th
the boilers IN the Mcnominee distillery at
Milwaukee exploded with great force, de-
stroying the building, killing one man and
injuring three others-one fatally. Loss,
$4,000.
COLONEL WHISTLER, at Fort Keogh,
telegraphed the military headquarters in Chi
cago on the 14th that the reports of Indian
depredations on the Little Missouri had been
greatly exaggerated. Not more than five
Indians had been seen at any time for a con-
siderable period in the district, and only two
persons had been killed. The mail-carriers
and stage-drivers, however, were greatly de-
moralized.
ON the 14th about 500 of Sitting
Bulls Indians from the British territory came
into Fort Keogh and surrendered to Colonel
Whistler, in command in the absence of Gen.
eral Miles. The Indians were in starving
and were cared for and fed.
IT appears that the tornado which
swept through Indiana in the neighborhool |
of Shclbyvillc on the 14th caused much more |
damage than was at first supposed Four
persons were killed, aud about twenty serious |
Is ini,srasl. +h;-ayr f--.-> i-oo.-oe WI.
wrecked, while over hundred |
barns and outbuildings were destroyed. Cat
tie were killed by the drove; orchards and |
also suff .red great damage.
THE Supreme Court of Louisiana has
recently decided that the law taxing CONNER
cial travellers from other States $25 per month
is unconstitutional.
SINCE the close of the last epidemic
Memphis has laid more than twenty miles of
sewerage and thirty miles o: tile drain, and
its citizens believe that yellow fever will not
again fad lodgment there.
THE mine-owners and the miners at
Leadville have compromised their differences
aud the latter have resumed work. The mill
tia has been disbanded. "a
MAYOR SKINNER, of Valparaiso, has
been nominated for Congress by the Demo-
Gratis Of the Tenth Indiana District, and D.
Mcdonald by those of the Twelfth. Mr..
Skinner has also received the Greenback NOM
nation in his dis rict.
The Metropolitan Baptist Church
met in San Francisco on the evening of the
18th and adopted preamble and resolutions
strongly indorsing the pastor, Rev. l. 8. Kali
och, present Mayor of that city.
On the 18th the Indiana State Re-
publican Convention met at Indianapolis and
nominated Hon. Albert g. Porter, First
of the Currency at Washington,
'or Governor; Hon. Thomas Hanna for Lieu
Governor, and full state ticket. The
platform indorses the platform of the Ma
;ional Republican Convention and its nomi-
1ees; denounces the attempt of Senator
Voorhees, and the Exodus Committee to pre-
1ent emigration from the Southern States
Etc., etc. --
THE National Prohibition Convention,
which met in Cleveland on the 18th, nomi-
mated Neal Dow, of Maine, and A. H. Thomp-
son, of Ohio, for President and Vice-Presi-
dent of the United States.
ON.Lne lItn y. b. Howell, proprietor
Of the Gate City, of Keokuk, and at one time
United States Senator from Iowa and later
one of the Comm ssioners on Southern Claims,
died at his residence in Keokuk, in his sixty
fourth year.
On the evening of the 18th Senator
Vance, of North Carolina, and Mrs. Florence
Martin were married at the residence of the
brides mother in Louisville.
The National Christian Association,
ct its recent session in Chicago, elected the
following officers for the ensuing year: Pres
dent, Rev. DR.. A. N. Milligan; Vicc-President,
A. D. Freeman; Secretary and Agent, ]. P.
Stoddard; Recording Secretary, Thomas
Hodge; Treasurer, E. Hildreth; Auditors, j.
H. Pearson. H. L. Kellogg, 8. A. Kean; Board
Of Directors, Philo Carpenter, J. Blanchard,
Archibald Wait, E. A. Cook, C. r. Haggarty,
H. L. Kellogg, E. Hildreth, D. p. Baker,
Thomas Hodge,