The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-02-17

religious sects, % also parades By the Ma
ional Guard for their benefit
TIE New York Board Of Trade and Trans-
portation has adopted resolutions calling for
the improvement of the canals and the aboli-
ton of all tolls on West-bound freight, to
enable boatmen to compete successfully with
the improved Canadian canal.
A FEW days ago Andrew K. Hay, who rep
resented New York District in Congress
from lSa9 to 1851, died at WInslow, N. Y.
A POWERFUL bloodhound. supposed to be
rabid, recently attacke great many people
in New York City, and mangled several in
shocking manner. One of the victims was
Mime F. Lee, little girl nine years o. age.
The New York SuN Of the 9Th says that she
was then suffering from hydro; hobia, and
apprehensions We e felt for her two brothers,
who were also bitten.
The accumulation of snow on the roof of
the old New York Central Depot at Buffalo,
N. Y, caused it to fall on the 9Th. buryiDg in
its ruins large number of cara and several
human beings. Henry Walters private sec
Rotary to Superintendent Tillinghast, Of the
New York Central Road; William Wells,
clerk of Car-Inspector Howe, Of the Lake
Shore Road; Captain Byrns. and two others
were crushed to death. There were many
other people in the depot At the time of the
accident, but they escaped without serious in
jury. A Lake Shore train Was for . time
buried out of sight, and some of the cars and
an engine were broken to pieces. The loss
was about $50, 600.
THERE were 14s deaths in New York City
on the 7th, four of them by smallpox.
Ar Philadelphia ON the 9Th the United
States Circuit Court issued an order restrain
ing the Western Union Telegraph Company
from using the American Union wires in such
manner rs to violate the existing agreement
between the Pennsylvania Railroad and the
American Union Telegraph Company.
ACCORDING to the official figures Pennsyl-
vania has population of 4, q, 1885, Of which
$3.50 are colored. Males, 2. 136, 635; females,
Alag, ISL The native population is 3605 25S,
and the foreign-born population 5S7, 533.
THE New York Assembly are considering q
bill prohibiting the sale OF ole0margarine and
adulterated cheese.
The President of the American branches
of the Irish Land League has issued an ap-.
peal to the American people and the Irish in
America for financ al aid.
On the twenty first ballot for United States
Senator in the Pennsylvania Legislature
on the 9th Oliver received 20; Wallace, ~;
Grow, IS; Wolfe, IL; scattering, 16 Mr..
Oliver afterward formally withdrew from the
contest. The Grow men held . caucus and
decided by two-thirds vote to support Con-
gresham Thomas NJ. Bayne, and about forty
Oliver men resolved to vote for James A.
Beaver.
A CONFERENCE was held at the Office Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company in Phila-
delphia on the 9th, in which Jay Gould, Cen
eral Thomas T. Eckert and D. II. Bates, rep
resenting the consolidated Telegraph Com
panies, and officers of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company, with counsel, participated,
aud at which it was decided to suspend tele-
graphic litigation for the present This &C
ton was intended to hold legal proceedings
in allegiance until new terms could be agreed
upon.
AT Rock Hill Station, Pa, on the 10th
passenger train on the North Pennsylvania
Railroad collided with q freight train. Two
men were killed, four Others fatally and five
badly injured. The flag station was demol-
ished, and the telegraph operator seriously,
if not fatally, hurt. The demonstration of
a telegram caused the disaster.
MINNIE LEE. the little girl in New York
who was recently attacked with hydrophobia,
js dead.