The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23

A NEW YORK dispatch Of the 10th says q
responsible New York grain merchant, who
has made extensive use Of tho cable to OBJ
tain the facts. alleges that the crop prospects
In France are fine, aud that the Russian
harvest will be the best for twenty years.
He asserts that Europe will not only be in.
dependent of American wheat, but that
Russia will offer considerable competition to
our grain growers. Germany, Austria,
Roumania and Switzerland give the most
encouraging reports.
West and South.
CAPTAIN PAUL BoYToN arrived at Bur-
lington, Ia, on the afternoon of the 18th,
on his swimming trip down the Mississippi,
and was greeted by an immense crowd Of
people who had congregated ON the river
bank. He was reported to be in good health
and spirits.
A LEXINGTON (Ky.) man was sentenced
to State Prison for life for stealing dozen
pigeons, it being his third grand larceny.
The Supreme Court has lately reversed the
decision, and, as the Grand Jury took no
action, the thief has gone free.
RECENT hre destroyed nearly all the
business portion of Ludington, Mich, i'm
flicting loss of about 500, 100.
REAR ADMIRAL RODGERS entered upon
his duties as Superintendent Of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md, on the 18th.
LIGHTNING recently killed flock Of 100
blooded sheep in Nodaway County, Missouri.
A FEW days ago twelve persons in Atlanta,
Ca, were poisoned from eating ice -cream,
improperly compounded, but it was
thought all would recover.
On the evening of the 14th Hugo Malapert,
son OF the Prussian High Chamberlain,
leaped from the Chicago water-works tower.
He struck clear Of the abutments, breaking
his neck.
THE Commissioners to select new reser.
walton for the Utes crossed the Gunnison
River few mornings ago, when it was dis.
covered that Colorow and Joe, two Ute
Chiefs. had disappeared.
THE Chfef-Justice Of Wyoming Territory
mas decided that the recent marriage in
Denver of Chinaman and a white woman.
peing legal in Colorado, though illegal il
consummated in Wyoming, must be recog-
nlzed as valid In the latter Territory. Lee
Chin's compatriots, however, declare that
ne has disgraced himself by marrying
Mclean" woman, and have "cast him
out"
Ex-PREsIDENr GRANT left Chicago on the
evening of the 18th for New York City.
A STATE PROHIBITION CONVENTION was
held at Madison, Wis, on the 18th and 18th.
and was quite largely attended. A declara.
ton of principles was adopted favoring the
prohibition by State law of the manufacture
and sale of intoxicating liquors, and Con-
stltutional amendment, organization and
the distribution Of documents to bring about
such result, and pledging Prohibitionists
to the support of fellow-sympathizers and
workers as members Of the Legislature, and
requiring pledges from such members that
they will vote for Prohibition Amendment
to the Constitution. A committee was an.
pointed to take into consideration the adyisa.
bility Of calling State Convention for the
nomination of State ticket after the Repub.
licans and Democrats shall have made their
nominations and ignored the Prohibition
element.
THE Ohio Greenback State Convention
was held at Columbus on the 10Th. About
Aoo NSASc"t "CAC prosecute 1uC lOllOWIuX
nominations were made: For Governor.
John Sietz, of Seneca; Lieutenant Governor,
Charles jenkins; Supreme Judge, Joseph
Watson; Attorney General, E. NJ. futile;
Treasurer, w. F. Lloyd; Member of Board
OF Public Works, H. L. Morrison. The
resolutions adopted declare that the right to
make and issue money is sovereign power
to be maintained by the people for the com.
mon benefit; that all moneys, whether me.
tallic or paper, should be issued and con-
trolled by the Government; that the United
States bonds should be paid as rapidly as
possible; that legal-tender currency should
be substituted for notes of National
Banks; that the National Banking sys-
tenn should be abolished, and the
unlimited coinage Vf KUld ana silver
established by law; demand equal protec-
ton for labor and capital; oppose all SUBJ
sides; declare that telegraph and trans
pOrtation companies rates should be regu.
lated by legislation; that all property should
bear its proportion of taxation, and that a
graduated income-tax should be provided
for; denounce all attempts to restrict suf.
frage; oppose an increase in the standing
army and militia; condemn the practice Of
issuing free railroad passes to public off,
cials, the letting Of convict labor, and the
organization of public institutions for polit.
ical purposes; and favor the submission by
the Legislature to vote of the people of an
to the Constitution prohibiting
the manufacture, sale, or use of intoxicating
drinks as beverage.
NV tho %ho
Convention met at Des Moines. Judge L.
d. Kline was nominated for Governor:
Captain G. NJ. Walker for Lieutenant Gov.
ernor; Hon. II. B. Hendershott for judge
Of the Supreme Court, aud Prof. w. H.
Butler for Superintendent Of Public Instruc.
ton. The platform reaffirms the National
platform Of 1880; declares for tariff reform:
opposes sumptuary laws and the proposed
Prohibition amendment; favors an appro-
priation for the Improvement of the Missis-
sippi and its tributaries; etc., etc.
A FEW days ago two stages running be.
tween Alma and Fayetteville, Ark, were
stopped by armed men, who robbed the
passengers and mail-bags.
A RESIDENT of Newark, Ohio, has been
fined So for putting split stick on his sons
tongue.
MRS. ELKINs, the wife of q Chicago artist,
brought suit against Chicago saloon keep
er and the owner of the building in which
the saloon was located, for damages for
having, in spite Of her protest, sold intoxi-
eating liquor to her husband, causing him
to squander his earnings and neglect to sup
port his family. The jury failed to agree
and has been discharged. Mrs. Elkins has
instituted another suit against Darius Cud.
ney, brother of the other defendant, for
III, 600 on the same grounds.
On the 18th the United States steamer AL.
lance sailed from Norfolk, Va, for four
months cruise between Norway and Spitz.
bergen in search of the missing steamer
Jeanette.
THE weather at New Orleans was exces.
sively hot during the three days ended On
the 10th, and there were thirteen cases of
sun-stroke, seven Of which proved fatal. At
vicksburg the thermometer indicated 1Ol in
the shade on the 10th.
A CANTON (Ohio) boy named Edward
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