The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-20


determined is: Harris M. Plaisted, "a, rs,
Daniel F. Davis, 1854; Joshua Nye, 500;
William A. Joy, 1874; Harrison NJ. Plaisted
81; scattering, IS; total vote, 147,s02.
TEE PennsyIvania Republican Senatorial
caucus nominated H. w. Oliver, Jr, fol
United States Senator on the 18th. Fifty.
ono Republican members absented themselves
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT was elected Presi
dent of the Worlds Fair Commission on the
18Th. and signi6ed his acceptance.
II. N. PLAIsrED was inaugurated Governos
OF Maine on the 18TH
HAMILTON FISH was elected President OF
the Union League Club of New York on the
18th.
The Republicans of the New York State
Legislature on the 18th nominated Thomas
c. Plat for United States Senator.
West and South.
JOHN f. SWIFT one of the Commissioners
who negotiated the recent treaty with China,
arrived at San Francisco on the 10th. He
stated, in an interview, that the treaty con-
tains q clause reserving to the United States
the right to terminate at any time tho resi-.
dence Of Chinese laborers In this country.
It was also tacitly understood that the
Chinese cannot be naturalized in the Unit
| ed States, and that the naturalizations a.
readily accomplished shalt be considered null
| and void.
| Two CHICAGO children recently died from
the careless administration of morphine in
mistake for quinine. The blunder was made
by a clerk in q drug store.
A BILL recently introduced in the Ohio
House of Representatives provides for =
special election on May l, at which all per-
sons having the qualifications Of electors,
without regard to sex, may vote on the ques-
ton of suppressing the liquor traffic from
July 4.
Miss MARY STACK, of East st. Louis, ILL.,,
while kissing the lips of . dead and well-loved
cousin the other day, fell dead upon the floor
from grief.
AT Alpena, Mich, few days ago Mrs.
Alice Williams. as q supposed sacrifice to the
Lord, severed her tongue with q razor.
MEssRs. CRITTENDEN, OF Missouri, Cullom,
of Illinois, and Porter, of Indiana, were in
augurated on the 10th as Governors of their
respective States, with the customary impos-
ing ceremonies.
Masonic LODGE No. 4, of Petersburg, Va,
in VIII CHI George Washington was initiate in
1852, has determined to erect q memorial
temple.
ACCORDING to dispatch received on the
18th from Major Ilges, dated Poplar River
two days before, he had captured twenty
more Indians, cone of them badly frozen.
Allison, who left on the 7th to continue nego
tiations with Sitting Bull, had not been heard
from.
Both houses of the Texas Legislature Or
gained on the 18th by the election of the
Democratic nominees for the chief Offices
The Superior Court of Cook County, ILL.,,
recently awarded verdict Of $a,O0O to a col
ored man named Cooper, who was elected
from an omnibus on Wabash avenue shorty
after the great fire.
basha County, Mime sofa, killed himself on
the 18th by firing bullet into his temple.
OK the 18th the Kansas House of Repre-
sentatives was duly organized by the election
of J. B. johnson (Republ ican) for Speaker.
The bill prohibiting pool-selling has passed
the Ohio Legislature and received the up.
prevail of the Governor.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hayes,
confined in the Minnesota Insane Asylum,
was choked to death BY another inmate named
Mrs Olive A. Andrews. " fts,'
On the evening of the 18th General Gar
field was waited upon in Cleveland by colored
Republicans from Alabama, whose spokes-
man said they had come in the interest of NO
man, but pleaded for education for their race
and for consideration OF the material inter-
ests of the South. The President-elect in re-
Spouse warned the colored men to permit no
one to create a race feeling among them.
The Republ cans of the Indiana Legislature
have nominated General Ben. Harrison for
United States Senator, and those of the Ohio
Legislature, Hon. John Sherman. The latter
had no opposition.
JAMES G. FAIR has been elected United
States Senator from Nevada, and General
John F. Miller United States Senator from
California.
ALLEN G. THURMAN was on the 18th nomi-
mated for United States Senator by the Demo-
Gratis of the Ohio Legislature.
The West Virginia Legislature met on the
18th and elected the Democratic nominees
for presiding officers.
A BOILER in the Union FIGURING Mills of
Detroit exploded on the 18th. Three men
and three horses were killed, and the build.
ing was completely wrecked.
The Democratic members of the Delaware
Legislature renominated Senator Bayard on
the 18th.
The Farmers Convention at Topeka, Kan,
on the 18th adopted q resolution favoring
q Congressional enactment controlling all
interstate transportation and rates of
freight based upon the cost Of constructing
railroads.
The Wisconsin Legislature met on the 18th,
AMI the Senate elected Thomas B. Scott Pres
ident pro TEN. j. B. Bradford was chosen
permanent Speaker of the Assembly.
A FEW days since the farm residence of
John Wiskow, near Oshkosh, Wis, was
burned to the ground. An investigation
showed that, in a fit of insanity, Wiskow had
killed his wife, attempted the life of his
dau shter, fired the house and out buildings,
and then killed himself.
GOVERNOR CHURCHILL, Of Arkansas, was
inaugurated on the 18th.
On the 18th both houses of the Michigan
Legislature adopted a resolution requesting
the State delegation in Congress to aid in ex-
tending the land grant for . railroad from
Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line.
GEORGE AsHBAUaH, foreman of . factory
At Indianapolis. was recently caught by .
shaft revolving three hundred times per min
ute, stripped Of all his clothing, and had both
feet pounded OF. He lived but five minutes.
The Southern Pacific Railroad has been
constructed to . point within forty miles OF
Ell Paso.
JAcKMAN 81 Co., live stock commission
dealers, and the Cheever & Burchard Cutlery
Cornponv ~ q ouia have foi1a6 Ts.bgN