The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-07
The East.


voted to indefinitely postpone a resolution
adopted by the Senate expressive of sympathy
with the pc ople of Ireland.
OK the 10th the body of the late DR.. Kour.
den Horenzburg, of Indianapolis, was Gre
mated in the LIE Moyne furnace at Washing.
ton, Pa.
On the 10th a meeting Of the stockholders
OF the Western Union Telegraph Company
was held in New York, at which S25, 973
shares voted in favor OF the increase of stock
to 500, 900 shares of 500 each, and 100 shares
against the increase. The 100 shares voted
in opposition belong to William s. Williams,
who has brought one of the suits against the
consolidation.
ANEW YORK dispatch of the 10th says that
the epizootic had broken out afresh in some
Of the street-car stables in that city.
The beet-sugar enterprise at Franklin,
Mass., is said to have proven failure, and
many farmers in that region are reported to
be heavy losers
Up to the 2lst nothing had been heard OF
the French bark Fannie. which left Philadel-
phia September 30 for Havre, with cargo of
petroleum.
A Mrs. CLEMENS, Of Northampton, Mass,
during q fit Of insanity a few nights ago, rose
from her bed, went to the barn, saturated
her clothing with kerosene, and set 1t on fire,
burning herself to a crisp.
DURING a recent amateur walking match in
New York Thomas Smith, fifteen years old,
became exhausted and retired after walking
ninety-eight miles, but was carried back by
his father to the track, where he tainted. He
in a hA 4
was arrested for cruelty.
THE Republican members of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature held a conference on the
evening of the 22d, and selected John L.
Mitchell, member of the Forty-sixth Congress
from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania District, as
the compromise candidate for United States
Senator The thirty-fifth ballot was taken in
the Legislature on the 23d and resulted in
Mr.. Mitchell's election. The vote was
Mitchell (Rep.), $50; Wallace (Dem.), 90;
scattering, 2.
An explosion occurred in fireworks fac
tory near Jersey City, N. j., on the 3d. Three
boys were dangerously injured and four men
badly burned.
WHILE under treatment at Camden, N. j.,
for smallpox, patient recently left his
room in delirious condition, and is said to
have since visited nearly all the towns in
that section of the State.
The Sprague divorce case was called in the
Supreme Court at Kingston, R. l., on the
23d. The respondent filed his answer, deny
ing the allegations of the petitioner, and
counsel were authorized to select q day for
trial When the contemplation of Governor
Sprague was called, continuance until June
was asked, which the Court took under ad-
yisement
The deadlock in the New York Board of
Aldermen ended on the 23d, Alderman Patrick
keenan,, an antiTammanyite, being elected
President.
THE lower house of the New York Legisla-
ture adopted resolution on the 23d direct
ing the Attorney-General to institute quo
warranto proceedings to prevent the water
ing of stock by the telegraph companies.
In New York on the oath the monetary
stringency was the most severe experienced
since the collapse Of Jay Cooke & Co., the
rate rising to one per cent per day and six
per cent per annum. It's effect on the stock
market was mitigated somewhat later by the
announcement of the Secretary Of the Treas
ury that he was prepared to redeem the
bonds lately called, paying interest to the
date Of presentation.
ON the oath both branches of the New York
Legislature adopted the resolution to abolish
canal tolls on west-bound freight.
OK the oath four lottery-dealers in New
York were fined and sentenced to the Peni-
Tertiary.
A NAIL train on the New Jersey Midland
Road was wrecked by a broken rail the other
day, two ears being thrown down an embank-
m ent of twelve feet and set on fire by the
overturning of the stoves. Several persons
we're injured, but none fatally.
The President of the New York Police
Board marshaled all the Captains Of the
force at the Central Office on the oath and in
formed them that the evidence necessary to
convict gamblers must be obtained, under
pain of instant dismissal.