The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17


b. Smith, Clerk Of the United States Court
OF the Omaha District, was assassinated,
hs dead body being found At bis Office
door In that city on the morning OF the 9Th,
with bullet.hole through hts head. His
recent activity in enforcing the Liquor law
10 supposed by some to have led to the
tragedy. A public meeting Of citizens was
held on the 9th at which purse Of $500
was raised to offer as q reward for the con.
viction Of the murderer. The liquor dealers
offered $500 more.
HEAVY frosts prevailed in the cotton 70.
gions Of South Carolina ON the mornings Of
the 18th. 9th and 9th inst.
THEIRS was transit Of Mercury over the
a line drawn through Cleveland. Ohio, to
Charleston, s. c.
TIE whaler Belvidere, which arrived
from the Arctic seas ut San Francisco on the
7th, brought news aud mail from the Arctic
relief steamer Rodgers. which she spoke
September p near Herald Island, the
Rodgers then being on her way south for
winter quarters. Lieutenant Berry had es-
tablished the fact that Wrangel Land il an
island.
A FEW days ago Charles Madder, a
divinity student at Heidelburg College,
ohio, shot aud killed young lady to whom
he had been paying his attentions. He
asked her to marry him, and upon her re.
fusal shot her dead. On the mor>ing of
the 7th body Of masked men numbering
several hundred appeared at the Jail and
demanded the keys. The Sheriff refused.
and, having previously gathered q posse Of
armed men to protect the Jail, lively riot
ensued. Some Of the officers received
severe injuries, but the mob was repealed.
and warrants were issued for the leaders.
The prisoner was subsequently lodged in
Jail at Toledo.
RECENTLY the conductor and engineer Of
a railway train ut Danville. KY, were in
death of five persons in collision brought
about by reckiessness.
THE other day Charles Williams, i'm.
prisoned in the Jail at Roseburg, Oregon, set
the building on fire, thinking In the con-
fusion to make his escape. He persisted in
the flames.
A FEW days ago party Of hunters were
poisoned in Wyoming Territory. They had
with them a can Of arsenic, procured for the
preservation of hides, and by mistake they
used it for cooking purposes, supposing 1t
to be baking powder. Four men died, and
others were sick, with but little hope Of re-
covery.
THE Governor Of Louisiana has convened
the State Legislature in extraordinary SEES.
sion on December 5.
ACCORDING to q vicksburg Miss dis.
patch of the Sth an attempt was made on
that day by body Of negroes at Marion
Station to take possession Of the ballot
boxes. The whites resisted, when the ne.
groes opened fire aud killed four white men
and seriously wounded two others. Two
armed squads went to the scene of the trou-
bic from Meridian, and found one hundred
negroes barricaded in the house of Edward
Vance. After fight, in which John Vance,
colored, and A. g. Warren, OF the Sherift's
posse, were killed, about thirty negroes es.
capped to the woods. holly pursued by the
Infatuated whites.
All KIM, a Chinese missionary student,
suffering disappointment in love affair
with a servant girl, killed himself with
chloroform at Marietta, Ohio, few days
ago.
DIR. J. CLAY MADDOX, of Baltimore, was
shot dead on the 9Th while repelling an at
tack on the election inspectors.
4 YOUNG man named Sullivan, alias
Delaney, who was recently sentenced
at Little Rock, Ark, to twenty years. inn
prisonment in the Penitentiary for robbing
train on the Iron Mountain Railroad, died
on the Sth. of "home- sickness" He was
twenty three years of age.
On the 9Th an advance Of five per cent.
per hundred pounds in freight rates for
grain, flour aud provisions from Chicago
to New York, took effect on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Central Roads. The
advance.
b the recent explosion Of powder in a
mine near Hancock, In the Lake Superior
rn.rinn- trrn man and hnv ua-o tillnd
On the morning Of the Sth the first of the
new daily fast express trains from New
York, by the New York Central 4 Lake
Shore route, reached Chicago at 0:40 o'clock.
Time, twenty-six hours.
Oh the 9th the Texas State House at Aus.
tin was totally destroyed by fire. The
archives ofthe Republic Of Texas, the battle-
flags. and the Alamo monument were de-
stroyed, involving an estimated loss OF
100000. The fire is supposed to have been
the work Of incendiaries.
ONE Of the notorious Williams brothers
has been arrested near Grand Island, Neb.,
and lodged in Jail to await the coming OF the
Sheriff Of Pepin County, Wis.
A FEW days ago two cowboys were ar
rested for dealing in stolen stock. and were
imprisoned at Shakespeare. Arizona. Early
on the morning Of the 9th masked men en-
tered the Jail, overpowered the guard, aud
hanged The two prisoners to joist.
THE chief of the Fire Department at Sc.
dalia, Mo. killed Wash. HYDE few nights
ago for violently resisting an attempt to ar.
rest him.
AT the recent election the proposition to
sell the Internal improvement lands Of Min
nesota and pay the old railroad bonds failed
to carry, through the neglect of the people
to vote on the question.
w. j. FULLER, a moonshiner in Haber.
sham County, Ga, recently killed Taylor
Love for furnishing Information to the rev.
enue officers. Commissioner Raum has or.
dered the utmost vigilance in securing the
arrest Of the murderer.
On the night Of the 10Th six inches of
snow fell at Omaha, Neb.
A FEW nights ago two masked men en-
tered 4 jewelry store in Kansas City, Mo. I,
while u boy only was in attendance, and
hastily stored away u 800 worth Of goods in
their pockets.
Foreign Intelligence
VIENNA papers Of the 7th say that the in.
PRODUCTION of military law in Bosnia and
Herzegovina means the final annexation of
those provinces and the abrogation of the
suzerainty Of the Sultan.
CALCUTTA kilograms Of the 7th say that
at Darjeeitne, India, choleraic fever was un.
usually prevalent. Nine thousand deaths
had occurred, being ten times as many as in
previous years.
DURING the month Of October the British
exports increased nearly $4,000. 600, and
the imports increased about SIG, OOO, 900 over
those Of the preceding month.
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