The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-02-24
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.

ea'e AVsu oyMr. Eaton, from the committee on
Foreign Relations, is as follows:
sentatfves: that the interests OF the people of
the United States and the welfare and security
OF their Government are 30 involved in the
subject of the construction Of a shipcanal and
otner ways for the transportation OF sea-going
vessels across the isthmus that the Govern
ment of the United states. with the frankness
winch IS due to all other people and Govern
consent Is a necessary condition precedent to
the execution OF any such project, and also as
to the rules and regulations under which other
NATIONS shall participate in the use of such
canals or other ways, either In peace or war.
On the 18th the President withdrew the
nomination Of MIR. Foster to be District At
torney OF New York, in place of Stewart L.
Woodford.
ADAMS, the Postmaster Of Deadwood, who
was sentenced to five years in the Detroit
House of Correction for em0ezzlement, has
been pardened by the President.
The East.
GENERAL GRANT is one of the Directors Of
the United States National Bank recently or
gained in New York City.
d. r. JONES. Secretary Of the Coal-miners'
Association, was recently tried at Greene
burg. Pa, fos conspiracy to induce laborers
to strike, and verdict Of guilty was rem
dered.
THE smallpox was reported to be on the
increase in BROOKLYN, N. T., on the 18th. A
case Of the disease had appeared in the New
Jersey State Normal School and that institu-
ton had been closed.
DIR. ALEXANDER, the Post-Surgeon at West
Point, testified in the Whitaker Court Mar
tial at New York ON the 18th that he believed
that Whitaker mutilated himself.
E. B. COKE, the Democratic member who
was elected to the Pennsylvania Senate last
fall from Wilkesbarre, but declined to take
the oath that he had not used money to Sc
cure his election was recently reelected by .
majority Of 800 to 1900 at a special election.
A REMARKABLE game Of billiards was
played in New York on the evening of the
18th, between Jacob Schaefer and William
Sexton. The game was for 1000, cushion
caroms, four hundred points up. At the be-
ginning Of the eighty-Hft inning Sexton had
scored 3l5 to Schaeier's SlA The two players
kept close together during several succeeding
rounds, when the score was Sexton 396,
Schaefer 3Sa By brilliant playing Schaefer,
who needed fifteen to win. counted one by
one until he had fourteen. The balls were
now in the upper left-hand corner Of the Ia
Bile. Several round-the-table shots followed
by both contestants, both missing. until at
length Schaefer, by . magnificent four-cush-
ion shot, scored the point and won. Number
of innings, 1O2 Winners average, 347-5l;
LOSERS. 1851.
AT the municipal election held In Philaiel-
phia on the 18th Samuel G. King was elected
Mayor, and John Hunter Receiver of Taxes
These gentlemen were citizens candidates
In Pittsburgh r. W. Lyon (Dem.) was elected
Mayor, and the Republicans elected the re-.
mainder of the ticket. In Allegheny City
the Republican nominees were elected.
The Maine Senate has unanimously
adopted Committee report that the Won an.
Suffrage Constitutional amendment ought
not to pass.
BIZ vote of 10 to the New York Senate
has adopted a resolution in favor OF placing
on the free list all Western bound freight on
the canals.
THE members of two Rondout On. w FAM
lilies, named Boyce and Felter, have been
recently made dangerously sick BY eating
what is supposed to have been diseased pork.
Some of the same meat given to cats killed
thss@ Tbs sIgPspp It's siSS }sGGISs Es
the system.
AT a meeting held on the 10th the anti
caucus Republicans of the Pennsylvania Leg
isiature decided to appoint a committee of
twelve to confer with like committee of the
regular Republicans relative to the selec tion
OF compromise candidate for United States
Senator.
PIERcE's PALACE HOTEL at Buffalo, My,
one of the finest structures of the kind in the
country, and valued at $780, OO,, was destroy ed
by fire on the 10th. The Convent OF the
Good SHEPHERD, the principal female Cath
Ole school in the same city, was also burned.
AT New York City on the 10th, in q one.
hundred-mile race on skates, John Ennis, of
Chicago, defeated Rudola N Goetz, of Mil
waukee. Arrangements were made for q race
for l,0O0 side.
On the 10th suit in equity was begun in
the United States Circuit Court in New York
to prevent the carrying out of the agreement
Of consolidation between the three great
telegraph companies on the ground that
1t will result in the violation of specific
contracts with the United States Cable
Company.
The International Commission decided on
the 10th to issue an appeal to business men
to assist in making the Worlds Fair at New
York in 1888 success.
CHARLES E. FORBES, who recently died at
Northampton, Mass, left by will $.2O, 900 to
establish public library in that place.
EARNEST efforts are being made by the So.
ciety for the Suppression of Crime to close
the gambling houses in New York City.
AT Danielsonvil!e, Conn, q few days ago
three children were fatally burned as the re.
suit Of pouring kerosene oil on q fire. The
mother was seriously burned in trying to save
their lives.
EDWARD HANLAN and Wallace Ross have
offered to row any two men in the world.
This challenge has been accepted by John A.
kennedy and NJ. F. Davis, of Portland, Me-,
the contest to take place in American waters,
for $1,000 side.
The deadlock which has prevailed in the
New York Board of Aldermen since January
still continued on the 18th, no President
having been chosen.
AT the recent city election in Philadelphia
the vote for Mayor was as follows: King,
Independent Democrat, Endorsed by the In
dependent Republicans, 1917; stokely, Re-
publican, % $50; Kings majority, 553S.
West and South.
FIERCE wind-storm prevailed in the pine
woods of North Carolina on the night of the
18th. A rude hut occupied by . number Of
turpentine-makers was demolished, and ten
OF the inmates we're fatally and three others
seriously injured.
FERNANDO WooD, Member Of Congress
from the Ninth New York District, died 1t
Hot Springs. Ark, on the night Of the 18th.
H. vAA
and he went to the Arkansas resort two or
three weeks before his death, in the hope Of
finding relief. He was . member of the
Twenty-seventh, Thirty-eighth, Fortieth, For
ty-frst. Forty-second, Forty:third, Forty
fourth, Forty-ffth AMI Forty-sixth Congresses,
and hal been reelected to the Forty seventh.