The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.

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Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
WIN. II. VANDERBILT holds registered
our-per-cent. Government bonds which
amount in market value to nearly $4,000,
OOO.
1T was rumored among army officers ON
the 18th that President Garfield had re.
ccived private telegram from General
Miles saving that the court martial recently
held In New York had sustained the charges
against Whitaker, the colored cadet.
THE President has appointed Miss NJ. NJ.
Giilctt, OF Wisconsin, but now resident Of
Washington, and q law student, a Notary
Public for the District of Columbia. This
is the first instance where a woman has re-
ceived such an appointment from Presi.
dent.
1T is announced by the Secretary of the
National Greenback Committee that the
Greenback members of the next Congress
will act solidly together on all questions.
Nine members of the next House are pledged
to meet in Greenback caucus and determine
upon and carry out Greenback politics.
The President has appointed Commander
Montgomery Sicard Chief Of the Ordnance
Bureau Of the Navy Department, in place of
Commodore Jeffers. resigned.
IN its report on the 18th the National De-
partment Of Agriculture places the wheat
crop of the country at St per cent. Of last
years yield for spring and IS for winter.
Ir was stated on the 10Th that Secretary
Window had positively refused to give out
for publication the report Of the committee
that investigated Pitney, the Custodian of
the Treasury Department.. Mr.. Window
said the report was made up and submitted
to him for his private information, and while
he intimated that he would act upon It very
soon, he emphatically refused to give out
anything OF its contents. 1t was understood,
however, that the report sustained the
charge of irregularities and Of reckless man.
aSement. aud even worse. and that these ir-
regularities had been going on for several
years.
IT was thought probable on the 18th that
the Government would not be prepared to
lay its case in the matter of the prosecution
OF the '.Star-route" thieves before the Grand
jury until about the first of July. All the
witnesses necessary to secure an indictment
would be brought to Washington before the
prosecution opered.
THE President has appointed w. n,
Dudley, United States Marshal of Indiana,
Commissioner Of Pensions, rice j. A. Bentley.
resigned, and Judge Noah C. Mcfarland, Of
Topeka, Kan, Commissioner of the General
Land Office, zee General Williamson, re-
signed.
ABOUT IL. 800 immigrants arrived in this
country during May, and during the eleven
months ended May 81 the arrivals numbered
5S4,294. OF the latter number 175, 500 were
Germans, 11O,611 came from Canada, 81, 796
from Ireland, 57,s61 were English and
welsh, 12,6sS Scotch, 7,443 Chinese, and
lSs,641 came from all other countries.
The East.
AT meeting Of the Directors of the New
York Maritime Association on the 18th
resolution was adopted urging upon Presi-
dent Garfield, Secretary Window and COL
lector Robertson that the principles of Civil
Service Reform be especially observed in the
Custom House there, to the end that faithful
and efficient employees be retained, and abil.
ity and experience be the sole test governing
new appointments.
THE untimely explosion of blast in the
Hudson Mine at Plymouth, Pa, the other
day killed one man and severely injured two
others.
ONE man was killed and several others in
jured by the explosion of a patent water.
back In the grape-sugar works at Buffalo,
n. u, few days ago.
THE New York City school teachers cele-
brated the 104th anniversary of the adoption
of the American flag by a reception at the
Grand Opera House on the evening of the
18th.
On the 18th the investigation into the al
legged bribery at Albany, n. Y. was contin.
ued, Mr.. Bradley finishing his statement be.
fore the committee, and directly charging
that Mr.. Sessions had given him 5000 to
vote for Depew, instead Of Plat. Senator
Sessions also appeared before the committee,
and again emphatically denied that he had
given any money to Bradley, and asserted
that Bradley had told him he would vote for
Depew because he thought that by SO doing
he would be acting in accordance with the
wishes of his constituents.
DURING the first five months Of 1881 1O,-
SS3,272 tons Of anthracite coal were mined.
an increase Of 1850, 233 tons over the pro.
duction for the same period last year.
For eleven months Of the fiscal year 1881
the foreign imports at New York were $497..
S11,791, an increase of $12,OOO,OOO over the
imports Of 1880. The exports for the same
period were 1886 434 ,59, an increase of SO.
coo, over those Of the preceding year.
An Erie (Pa.) dispatch of the 18th saws
that Father Mahony, the alleged miracle
worker OF Erie, Pa, who was arrested on
the charge of obtaining money under false
pretenses, had been discharged because he
had not solicited money for doing his mir
acles.
ANUMBER of furnaces in the Lehieh and
Schuylkill Valleys, Pa, stopped operations
on the 10th, on account of the low price Of
pig iron. 1t was said more suspensions
would follow unless prices should improve
within the next ten days.
SILAs NJ. WAITE, ex-President of the
First National Bank of Brattleboro, VT.
has pleaded guilty to the charge Of making
false returns under the National BANKING
act, and has been sentenced to six years. inn.
prisonment in the House Of Correction.
A FIRE in Brooklyn, n. Y, on the 18th
destroyed two Of the Pierrepont warehouses.
and inflicted loss Of about s., OOO, 200. One
man was burned alive, and another fatally
injured. Henry E. Pierrepont, Jr., was
severely burned.
E. p. CUTLER & Co., large iron firm Of
Boston. have recently failed, owing to the
depression in that branch Of trade. Liabil.
tiles estimated at from 1906, 900 to 500, 900.
THE National Greenbackers of Pennsyl.
vania held their State Convention at Potts.
vile on the 18th. r. w. jackson, Of Mercer
County, was nominated for State Treasurer
by reclamation, and E. S. Watson was re-
elected Chairman Of the State Central Com.
mittee. The platform adopted indorses the
National platform of 1880; denounces the
AGGREGATION of real estate nv cornoration..