The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-05

among Others, sent wreaths to be placed
upon the coffin. The church bells were
tolled In all the principal cities and towns in
England at tho hour appointed for the fu.
neral.
A LAND meeting was held at Dublin on the
26th, At which Dillon declared that Wholesale
evictions would not be effected without
armed resistance.
AFRENCH iron-clad bombarded and de stroy-
ed Tunisian fort ON the Island of Tabarca
on the 26th. The telegraph wire between
Tunis and the Algerian frontier had been cut.
1t was reported from Paris that France would
send fifty thousand men to Algeria.
GENERAL LUDWIG Won BBNEDEK, who COM
manded the Austrian army at Sadowa, and
Emile de Girardin, the French critic and
duelist, died ON the 9th.
Two CADETS and four sailors we're killed
and eighteen other persons injured by the
bursting of shell on hoard the German train
ing-ship Mars, at Wilhelmshaven . few days
ago.
The new Car of Russia has sent letter Of
congratulation to Gortschakof upon his d.
plomatic successes, and also presented him
with portraits of his murdered father and
himself, set in diamonds.
NINE persons were arrested In Constants
nope on the 9th for completely ir the muir
der of Sultan Abdul Aziz. A Hungarian en-
ployed as the Sultan's medical attendant was
among the number.
CONTRACTS have recently been made in En-
gland to carry &C, 600 swedes and NoEwsgians
to the United States.
The Mexicans engaged in running skiffs
across the Rio Grande at Laredo have declared
that they will not submit to the destruction
OF their business by the erection OF an inter-
national railway bridge.
SENTENCE of imprisonment for life has
been imposed upon the Russian Grand Duke
Nicholas, for compl city in Nihilistic plots.
MIR. DnAphAuaH reappeared at the Speak
er's table in the British House Of Commons
on the night of the 9th, and claimed the
right to take the oath. He was removed by
the Sergeant-at-Arms.
ACCORDING to st. Petersburg telegram OF
the 2Sth the necessary alterations at the
castle of Gatschina for its occupancy by the
Car required several hundred artisans to
to silence in the church at midn light. The
windows of the Imperial bedroom are pro-
tected by massive iron shutters; guard of
eighty Cossacks are posted in the antecham.
bers; electr cal apparatus has been arranged
to ring bell in every guard-house, and on
retiring tho Emperor removes the outer
handle Of the door. Dynamite has been cap
tured in the courtyard, concealed in q load
of hav.
ARRANGEMENTS for the cession of territory
to Greece have been made at Constantine
pie and approved by the foreign ambassa-
doris. Thessaly Will be first surrendered,
and an International Military Commission
will superintend the evacuation.
On the 2Sth the Nihilists distributed
Easter Eggs in the streets of Moscow, Rus
STA, which contained proclamations urging
the peasantry to seize farms and refuse to
pay taxes or serve in the army.
AN English yard has built six steel-turret
crews have arrived at London to man them.
ACCORDING to London dispatch of the
2Sth the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops
Of Ireland had advised Mr.. Gladstone that
the Land bill should provide for the purchase
and reclamation of waste lands. for liberal
advances to tenants for improvements, and
further limit the power of landlords.
By reason Of i'll health Sir John A. Mac.
donall. the Canadian Premier, has been or
dered by his physician to retire from political
life.
Rev. r. b. SMITH, the head Of the Metho-
dist Church in the Province of British Column
bia, having been rebuked for denying the
truth of the doctrine of eternal punishment,
has withdrawn from that organization and
organized an independent church.
LATER
UNITED STATES four-per-cent bonds sold
In New York on the Goth ult. for l16H
ATToRNEY-GENERAL MACVEAGH has given
an opinion affirming the right of the Post
master General to prohibit the delivery OF
registered letters and the payment of money
orders to M. A. Dauphin, Secretary Of the
Louis ana Lottery Company.
ACCORDING to Washington dispatch Of
the 10Th ult there we're over 5000 applica-
tions for Consulships on file at the State De-
partment. There were about l75 Consulates
all told, and only about half dozen vacan-
ces.
OK the goth ult an attempt at eviction at
New Pallas, Ireland, in which the Sheriff was
backed by five hundred soldiers and police.
men, called to the scene about five thousand
peasants, who hooted and stoned the officers,
50 frightening the bailiff that he refused to
point out the houses Of d.faulting tenants.
BRADsTREET's reports los failures through
out the United States and Canada during
the week ended April %. VIII oh was an in
crease of seventeen over the previous week.
The average ger week for ten weeks had
been LII. There were also grated a num-
Der OF extensions to relieve temporary en-
barrassment
BIZ the sinking Of a ferry-boat which had
been in use since the bridge over the Fox River
at Elgin, ILL.,, was carried away, several lives
were lost on the 2Sth ult. During the 10th
extended search was made along the river for
the bodies of the drowned, but up to the
evening OF that day none had been recovered.
The authorities had offered a reward of $50
for each corpse recovered. The loss of life
in the catastrophe was believed to he eight.
The strike OF the st. Louis street rail-
way conductors and car-drivers continued
on the 2Sth ult. and several riotous
disturbances occurred. In order to secure
the suppression of the latter the Governor
called out the First Regiment of Infantry,
ETC., and the Police Commissioners gathered
four companies of their reserve, and placed
on duty along the tracks large force Of
special men. With these precautions cars
were run on Olive street and Washington
avenue. The strike was virtually ended on
the Goth, and all the street railroad lines cx-
cept the Fourteenth street resumed opera
lions. The wages generally accepted are Is
cents per hour for conductors and 121S for
drivers. The proposed Conductors and
Drivers Union was abandoned.
The high water in the Kansas River caused
great alarm at Kansas City. Mo-, on the 18th
ult. Fully 500 houses in West Kansas City
were flooded, and thousands of families were
without shelter Of amy kind. On the 10th
the water rose fifteen inches and was de-
stroying everything within its reach Seven
thousand people had been rendered home.
less. The Hannibal Railway bridge, which
cost q. 500 900. was in perilous situation.
The Chicago Il Alton was the only line which
could run into the city on it's own tracks,
and the water was two feet deep in its Yards