The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-09-22

eral office. holders of Virginia to contribute
two per cent. Of their salaries to the Read
tuster campaign fund.
NEWS was received on tho 18th to the eff.
feet that the Apaches had driven large herds
Of cattle in the Tonic basin toward the
mountains. where they were concentrating
supplies.
THE little town Of Bates City, Mo-, on
the Alton Road. seven miles from the scene
Of the late train robbery, was thoroughly
pillaged on the 11th by two armed aud
masked men.
AT the fair in Lawrence, Kan, few days
ago twenty mile race for $4,000 took
place. between Miss Cricket Still, of Kansas,
and Miss Nellie Archer, Of Missouri, the
latter winning by half-length in forty-six
minutes. About thirty thousand persons
were present.
CONRAD r. SrINDE, St. Louis shoe
manufacturer. has failed for $4,000.
Pie score of the three leading clubs of
the Base Ball League stood as follows on
the 10th: Chicago, 4S; Buffalo. 40; Provi-
dence, 81
THE survivors Of the Seventeenth Indiana
volunteers are about to bring suit against
the city Of indianapolis to recover $500 Zoo.
They claim that, on their re-enlistment in
1854, they were offered $4OO each to credit
themselves to the State Capital, but received
only $50.
A PARTY of armed and mounted men re-
Gently took from the Jail at Dardanelle,
Ark, two murderers and hanged them in an
adjoining grove.
AFEw days ago German resident Of st.
Louis dressed himself in his best clothes,
babe his wife good-by, went into the garnet
water, cut himself in the calf of the leg, and
sat there until he bled to death.
1T was believed on the 18th that all the
forest fires in Michigan had been extin-
guished by rain. The restitution and suf-
fering caused by this calamity are very
great, and the call for relief has been re-
sponded to generously by the people in va
rious sections of the country.
THE trouble among the dock laborers in
New Orleans had become so pronounced on
the 18th that the Governor placed the city
under martial law, and ordered out two
brgades of militia.
On the 18th the business buildings in
Beaver, Utah, were burned, but hard work
saved the residence quarter.
PROF. KINGS balloon, which started
from Minneapolis a few days ago, came
down six miles from the starting point. He
was reported on the 18th to be waiting for
favorable winds, when he expected to start
again for the Atlantic coast.
SOME weeks ago an application was made
to the Supreme Court of Minnesota for an
injunction to prevent the sitting Of the tri-
bunal Termed last winter for the adjustment
of the disputed debt, and the court has re-
Gently decided that the expunging amend.
ment of 1860 is unconstitutional, as IMPAIR
ing contract; that the act for the adjust.
ment Of the debt is void, because it dele
gates legislative power to a tribunal, and
that writ Of prohibition restraining the
tribunal from acting shall issue. While
this kills the legislation of last winter for
the settlement of the old railway debt at
fifty cents, the Legislature is distinctly en-
powered to arrange for paying the debt
without submission to popular vote.
THE body Of Henry Smith, of Frederick,
Md, who died in 1887, aged sixty-four
years, was recently found to have become
entirely petriied. The clothing had all
disappeared, and the body was lying
there without sign of decay or wasting
away; the eyes were closed, the mouth
slightly open, and the features perfect aud
life-like.
AT the Chicago Fair on the 18th, in the
twenty mile race between Miss Belle Cook
and Miss Emma Jewett, the former was sue
cessful, winning in forty-five minutes and
sixteen seconds.
IT is reported that the Indians on the San
Carlos reservation are becoming FESTIVE.
Troops have been sent thither to preserve
order.
THREE masked burglars recently visited
the hut of hermit at Collinsvile, O.,
named John McCavarry, bound him to his
bed, and compelled him to reveal the hid
ing-place of IS, OC0 in currency.
CASES Of yellow fever were reported at
Key West, Fla, on the 18th, and the Ma
tional Board of Health complained that at
tending physicians and the local authorities
had denied its existence there.
PROMINENT citizens Of Detroit have
united in an appeal to the people of this
country for aid for the sufferers by the re-
cent forest fires in Michigan.
THE labor troubles in New Orleans have
ended, both parties yielding to some extent,
and the proclamation of martial law has
been withdrawn.
DURING the progress OF the races on the
fairgrounds at Kansas City on the 18th the
main hall was found to be on fire, and all
the exhibits were reduced to ashes. The
loss is estimated at $6S, 900.
ION the 18th the Baltimore and Pennsyl-
vania roads were selling S. tickets from
Chicago to Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington.
On the night Of the 14th the wind thumped
Prof. Kings balloon to that extent that
nearly all the gas escaped, and the aeronaut
was forced to abandon the proposed trip to
the sea coast.
WHILE being recently taken from San
Francisco to Portland in irons Harry Nor
daunt, convict, sprang overheard and was
drowned.
THE widow of Jerome Napoleon Bona.
parte died in Baltimore on the 18th.
A FEW days ago fire at Austin, Nevada.
destroyed twenty buildings, including the
post-office and Masonic and Odd Fellows
halls. The loss was about 100000.
Foreign Intelligence.
On the evening of the 18th the village Of
Elm, in Switzerland-a place of about 900
the scene Of terrible ca
lamity. Thirty houses we're overwhelmed
by mountain landslide and 200 persons
were buried.
IT is stated that the late forest fires in the
Parry Sound District Of Ontario destroyed
timber to the value of 81 100000.
A PARTY of forty disguised men broke
into the residence Of three brothers named
Mahoney, near Knocknagre, ireland, on the
night of the 18th and fatally shot them.
THE steamer Proteus reached st. Johns,
N. B., on the 18th, bringing intelligence that
the Greeley Arctic expedition reached Lady
Franklin Bay August 3, and established
station at Discovery Harbor. A house was
erected on the site used by the English ex-
pedition.
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