The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-13
10 prevent unjust Determinations by railroad

to prevent unjust Determinations BY railroad
companies.
A PASSENGER train on the Chicaxo 81. Paul
q Omaha Railroad, at . curve near Middle
/ Creek, Neb., ran into rarity Of laborers en-
gagged in charging snow cut on the 4th, and
killed six men and wounded one.
OK the 9Th the Republican Senatorial
caucus at Lansing, Mich, nominated Omar
D. Conger for United States Senator.
AFEw days ago child was nearly roasted
alive In . small room in tenement-house in
s.. Louis, and . babe two months old was
rescued from . burning cradle by the fire.
men. The mother states that she had left
them but few minutes before, on visit to
. pawn-shop.
Ar Sturgeon Bay, Wis. recently two
brothers named Holman, lost six children
each BY diphtheria.
GovRRNoR-ELscr PORTER, Of Indiana, and
Miss Cornelia Stone were married in New
York on the 5th.
On the 9Th the Indiana Legislature met at
indianapolis. The House effected an organ
ixation by electing a. officers tho Republi can
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chosen President pro tenn. Of the Senate. by
an almost unanimous vote. Four ballots
were had for Principal Secretary, in each of
which Rice received twenty-five votes and
Wilson twenty five-Davis and Majors Green
backers) voting with the Democrats and Poin-
dexter with the Republicans.
| The Illinois Legislature has been finally
organised in both branches. Nj. Campbell,
of Cook. was elected President pro tenn. Of the
Senate, and General Thomas Speaker of the
| House.
In his message to the Michigan Legislature
Governor Croswell says the State is practi-
cal!y out of debt, and the prospects for the
future are better than ever before.
THH Missouri Legislature met on the 9th
and organised by electing the Democratic
caucus nominees
A FEW days ago at Coalville Kan, the
dress Of Miss Davis caught fire from an oren
CRATE and herself and her mother were burned
to death.
TIE Governor of Minnesota, In his message
to the Legislature, read on the 9th, strongly
urges the payment OF the old State railroad
bonds.
On the 9th Mrs. Brown, Of Indianapolis was
again found guilty Of the murder of her
husband. but the Jury sentenced her to i'm
prisenment for life.
The Nebraska Farmers Alliance re Gently
met at Lincoln and adopted resolutions re.
questing the lie yislature to pass laws prohib-
iting the railroads from exacting extortionate
passenger and freight rates, also to reduce
the tolls on the Plattsmouth and Omaha
bridges.
Foreign Intelligence.
IT Is stated that DR.. Schlicmann has pre-
scented his collection of Trojan antiquities to
the Emperor of Germany, to be placed in the
Berlin Museum.
IT is stated that Rev. John Macintosh, of
Belfast, Ireland, who was called to the pas
torate of the Second Presbyterian Church Of
Chicago. has declined the offer, on account
Of the ma, ked change in climate.
A PARIS telegram of the 5th says that an
expedition OF engineers had sailed from
Havre to direct operations on the Panama
Canal, and that machinery, provisions and
la Dor had been ordered to be forwarded from
New York and New Orleans.
TEE officers of the Traee branch of the
Irish Land League were arrested on the 5th
on charge Of sedition for having passed .
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Canes. A mob near Claremorris dug q deep
ditch to obs ruct the passage Of police, and
threw stones at the officers. A bayonet
charge was made, and four persons were be-
Neved to have been fatally wounded. Farmer
Graham was convicted Of shooting Bailiff
Nulhollaud, at Corkstown, and sentenced to
penal servitude for life.
TEE British Parliament convened on the
9th. The Queens speech expressed anxiety
over the Turco-Grecian complications; de-
clared the necessity of vindicsting British au-
thority in the Transvaal, and showed that the
permanent occupation of Candahar was not
intended. On the Irish question the speech
alluded to the terrorism prevailing, and as
serted that the insufficlency OF ordinary pow
ers forced q request for additional authority
to protect life and property. The Lords we're
recommended to take measures to give q
larger portion of the Irish people q perma-
nent proprietary interest in the soil, and to
consider bill for the establishment Of
county government in Ireland, founded upon
representative principles. /
A LAND-LEAGUE President In Ireland,
named Cody, and twelve members of his Or
ganization were held for trial on the 9Th on
charge Of Forgetting" farmer.
Mr.. SrRAssNAN, an Israelite, was recently
elected President Of the Municipal Council Of
the city OF Berlin.
IT was stated on the 9th that Captain Eads
had obtained from the Mexican Government
a charter to build ship railway across the
Isthmus Of Tehuantepec, and grant OF 1000.
600 acres of land.
The first overt act Of war occurred on the
Turco- Gree an frontier on the 5th, when a
body OF Turkish soldiers pursuing, on their
side of the border. party of Greek brigands,
was fred upon by the Greeks.
A PEW days ago the ship Indian Chief was
wrecked ut the mouth Of the Thames River,
England Eighteen persons persisted and
eleven were saved.
Nor long ago mob Of three hundred per-
sons forced the prison doors at Entire Rios,
in the Argentine Republic, and cut to
pieces four slaves charged with murder.
LATER.