The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-18

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INTERESTING papers were read from
Secretary Window, Comptroller Knox an,
George s. Coe at the second days session o
the National Bankers Association on the
18th.
THE Pennsylvania Democratic State Con
vention will be held at Williamsport on tn
18th Of September.
THE widow of ex-President Willard Fill
more died on the 18th at her residence il
Buffalo, from paralysis. She was nearly
seventy years of age.
EN-PREsIDENT GRANT has purchased /:
sos 900 house on East Sixty sixth street,
New York. q
On the 18th at Rochester, N. Y, Maud s.
trotted mile in 2:10Z, thus beating hel
previous record by one-quarter of sec.
ond.
West and South.
OWING to the advance in the price Of
grain ON the Sth two suspensions occurred
in Chicago, G. p. Comstock 4 Co, with liza.
bilities Of over 500, 900, and A. j, Mulloy,
with unknown assets and liabilities.
No SUCCESSOR to Bishop Haven can be
chosen until the next general election Of
Bishops. The four conferences on the Pa
cific coast will be taken in charge by Bishop
Harris.
On the morning of the sth the training
stable on the race.course near Lexington,
Ky, was burned. Out Of sixteen horses
preparing for the fall meeting, Bowen Is
Carrie Hanson and Eagles gray colt Knox
were burned to death, and the others were
greatly injured by dashing madly around
the course.
A FEW days ago . food at Central City,
COL, caused by the bursting of rain cloud,
wrought damage amounting to $4,000. A
volume Of water five feet high ran through
the streets, and at some points the debris
was piled up twenty-five feet. One man
lost his life.
ALL the prominent places in New Orleans
were recently adorned with placards signed
by the Committee Of Safety, declaring that
the laws must be enforced. corruption in
office stopped, and hoodlumism put down.
DAVID X. CARROLL, a Baltimore manu-
facturer recently deceased, whe bequeathed
a large estate to his family, placed 100000
in the hands of his executors to defend the
will in case of litigation.
On the 9th the mercury in st. Louis rose
to los In the shade, the highest point
reached for forty five years.
A ROCKFORD {IlI.) man was recently fined
$50 and costs for giving anotherman liquor.
On the 10th the Virginia Republicans met
in State Convention at Lynchburg, the
Straight-outs meeting in one hall and the
CoalitiOnists in another. Both bodies an.
pointed Committees of Conference and took
q recess. The Conference Committee agreed
that the Straight.outs should nomin tie no
ticket and the Coalitionists should indorse
none, the State. Committees to remain a.
formed. When the Conventions rcassembled
the Coalitionists rejected the conditions Of
compromise and Endorsed. the nominees of
the :Readjusters. The Straight-outs ad-
journed to the next morning without select
ing candidates.
THE Joint Executive Committee Of the
Trunk lines have resolved to restore on the
ed the grain rate of twenty-five cents from
Chicago to New York.
CROW DOG has been sent to Fort Mo.
brara to await trial for the murder of
Spotted Tail.
THE Supreme Council of Tem1rfs Of
Honor and Temperance began its thirty.
fifth annual session at Indianapolis on the
10th. Representatives were in attendance
from all parts Of the Union. Hon. Eugene
IL. Clapp, OF Boston, presided, and reports
were heard showing . total Of 13,217 mem.
bers in good standing, a loss Of 1927 in the
subordinate temples during the past year.
On the evening Of the 10th Hon. o. H.
Browning died at Quincy, H., ut the age of
seventy.five. Deceased filed the un.
expired term Of Stephen A. Douglas in the
United States Senate, and was Secretary of
the Interior in President JohnsOn's Cabinet.
ONLY one county in North Carolina gave
a majority for prohibition, and that was
only majority Of twenty. lone. Seventy.
three others report 1886 majority against
it.
A FEW days ago Leonidas Robertson, a
farmer living near Madison, Ind., who had
never before shown the slightest tendency
to insanity, put on his wife's clothes and
and hanged himself.
A GRAIN commission house in Toledo,
Ohio, is charged with issuing fraudulent
bills Of lading to the amount of 100000 or
more. Its suspension is announced, and
both partners have absconded.
A PLOT to burn the st. Nicholas Hotel at
Lexington, KY. was recently checked by a
night clerk. The conspiratSrs hadremoved
the tips of several gas-jets and q two.inch
main. sv<gxv -rt,s .e,,t.-
Nv, %ho 11%h Dn<o, r>.hi a,.a ~,
County (Il.) Hospital, of hydrophobia.
He was bitten In the thumb by q dog six
months before.
On the 10th the first bale Of cotton re-.
ceived In Louisville from Alabama this sea.
son was sold ON Change at "a. 40 per pound,
The first bale from Tennessee was sold at
the same time quarter cent higher. s4g.
TIE State Board Of Agriculture reported
on the 18th that there had been no such
in crops in Kentucky since 1854.
It believed, that not more than half an aver.
age yield Of wheat will be harvested.
OK the 11,h the Coalitionist Republican
State Convention at Lynchburg, Va. ad.
)ourned after indorsing the Readiuster plat.
form. The Straight.outs nominated Gen.
6ANl w uh10&kA ~ w ACAuAu1 xOE dOVeF0Ofs
Samuel NJ. Yost for Lieutenant. Governor
and Judge Willoughby for Attorney. Gen.
eral, but all refused to accept, and the Con-
vention adjourned without further uomina.
lions. r
On the 18th Rev. Drs. Jewett and Hat.
ield, who were appointed . committee Of
The Rock River (Ill.) Conference to formu.
late and prosecute charges of heresy against
Rev. H. w. Thomas, D. D., completed
heir work.. The charges are brief, and &C.
cuse the doctor q denying the inspiration
II the Scriptures, denying the doctrine Of
and teaching probation after
Heath. The trial will occur in Chicago in
3pptember.
Foreign Intelligence. :.
A COLLISION near Blackburn, Eng. on
he 9Th, between Pm express train from