The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-07-28

the persons on whose information the arrests
were made were themselves arrested and
sent to Jail in default Of $1,000 bail. The
Justice before whom the liquor men were
| tried was also arrested on the charge Of ex-
| tortfon.
West and South.
THE town Of New Ulm, MIMI, situated
on the Minnesota River, some sixty-five
miles from st. Paul, and containing about
thirty five hundred people, was wrecked by
cyclone late on the afternoon of the 18th.
1t seems that two currents Of air swept the
valley simultaneously, coming from different
directions. The scene was appalling. Stone
and brick buildings were RACED to their
foundations and the air was full of debris.
| The town and its suburbs were rendered a
mass Of ruins. West Newton, in the neigh
boring county Of Nlcollet. was also visited
by the storm. Many lives were lost in both
places.
| MRS. SAMUELS, the mother of the James
| boys, who was reported, in the account of
the recent train robbery in Missouri, to be
dead, is still living. According to Kansas
City special Of the 18th she had declared
cerned in the recent robbery were dead, but
her statement was not believed.
THE Governors of all the States and Ter
| ritOries except Texas have favOrably re-
sponded to the suggestion Of the Governor
Of Ohio for day of thanksgiving and praise
| for the recovery Of the President. The
Governor of Texas responded as follows:
"My failure to answer you favOrably is not
| on account of any want Of sympathy for the
President, but because l do not deem it
consistent with my position rs Governor to
| issue q proclamation directing religious
| services, where Church and State are and
ought to be kept separate in their functions.
doubt not the people of Texas have as
strongly wished and will as devoutly pray
| for the recovery Of the President as any peo-
| pie in the United States.
A PARTY of outlaws went into the camp of
the Mile Lac Indians, near Aiken, MINI. !,
and precipitated quarrel which resulted in
the murder of the chief and four bucks. The
butchers were arrested.
On the 18th Lieutenant Ray, of the United
States Signal Corps, sailed from San Fran
cisco with nine companions for Point Bar
| row, in the Arctic. Ocean, to establish a
meteorological observatory.
THE Commission appointed to select a
| new reese rvation for the Uncompahgre Ute
Indians have reported to the Secretary of
the Interior that they selected a reservation
at the confluence of Green and White Rivers,
in Utah, where the Uintah and White River
| Utes will also be located.
At a recent picnic at Greenleaf, in Indian
| Territory, two ull-bloods became intoxi-
Gated and made an onslaught on the re-
mainder Of the party, seven being killed or
MORALLY wounded.
THE National Educational Association met
at Atlanta, Ga, on the 10Th. Governor Col
quit delivered the address of welcome, and
ex-Superintendent Smart, Of Indiana, de-
livered the inaugural address. Papers were
| read by c. c. Rounds, of the Maine Normal
School; Al. Kickoff, of Cleveland; j. j.
Burns. Of Columbus, Ohio; John w. Dowd,
Of Toledo, Ohio, and United States Commits
sioner Of Education Eaton. The citizens of
Atlanta gave a grand banquet to the men,
bers of the Association in the evening.
A FEW days ago the propeller Winnipeg
was DESTROYED by fire while lying at her dock
in Duluth, Mimi. Four men persisted in
| the flames.
LITTLE BROWN JUG made the fastest
three heats ever trotted or paced, on the Chi
csgo track on the 10th, the time being
2:12 1-2, 2:4 1-2, 2:14 1-2.
UP to the 10th the number of deaths by
the recent cyclone at New Ulm, Mimi, had
reached thirty -four.
THE Revised Statutes of the United States
provide for the admission of "tools of
trade" free Of duty. This provision has
been interpreted by the Treasury Depart
ment to cover the case OF certain books inn
ported by journalists for their libraries.
IT is announced that William II. Wander
bit has offered to bear two-thirds the cost
of suitable buildings for female college at
Nashville, Tenn.
TIE Cincinnati Coffin Company's works,
by fire few evenings ago, causing loss Of
$3OO, 900. Nearly five hundred men were
thrown out Of employment.
THE Prohibition State Convention of Ohio
was held at Cleveland on the Goth. Among
the resolutions adopted was one declaring
that "the time has fully come when tenn
perance men should unite in political
organization whose leading object shall be
the suppression Of the liquor traffic." The
platform also declares in favor of Local OPP
ton, and demands of the next Legislature a
stringent Local-Option law. A resolution
Of sympathy with President Garfield and his
family, and of rejoicing over the prospect of
the Presidents speedy recovery, was also
adopted. A full State ticket was nOminat-
ed, headed by A. r. Ludlow, of Spring.
field, for Governor; Jason McVeigh, of CO.
lumbus, for Lieutenant-G Governor, and
Gideon T. Stewart, Of Norwalk, for Judge
Of the Supreme Court. Letters from Gov
| ernor Foster and Attorney General Nash
were read. Both claimed that they were not
opposed to prohibitive legislation as such,
but both held that, under the present Con-
stitution of Ohio, there could be no Pro-
hibitory or adoption laws.
A FEW days ago Thomas L. Brayton, a
United States Deputy Collector of Internal
Revenue, was killed by illicit whisky dis
tillers in Pickens County, S. C..
On the afternoon Of the Goth Sitting Bull :,
the fam Gus Sioux Chief, with following OF
200 people. arrived at Fort Buford, and
formally surrendered to the military au.
thorities. The chieftain was sullen and i'm
| sOlent.
On the Goth the army worm was reported
to be rapidly extending over the State of
Illinois, and in many places farmers were
cutting their crops in advance Of their ripen-
| ing, to save them.
A FEW days ago three men were killed
and two more fatally injured by the explo-
sion of the boiler of portable saw-mill at
| Watcrtown, near Marietta, Ohio,
ACCORDING to a recent HarrisOnburgh
| Va.) dispatch two members of the State
Central Republican Committee, who had
previously acted with the Straightouts, had
decided to favor fusion with Mahone's
forces. Fernall, United States Internal
Revenue Collector Of the Fifth Virginia
District, formerly a Straightout, had also
declared for coalition with Malone.
SOME days ago ''Billy the Kid" notori-
Gus outlaw who had been for several years
the terror of the cattle in New Mexico
and Colorado, was shot dead by the Sheriff
of Lincoln County, N. NJ.