The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-01-27

right, and not q privilege that any Govern
ment can confer or justly withhold; that we
are Nation, and not confederacy of States;
tnat We are all citizens, first Of the United
states. and second of the States wherein VI
reside, hence the right of self-government
should be guaranteed by the National Con-
stttution to all citizens, that, With The ballot
In their hands. they may protect thcmsclvea
everywhere under our flag; that 1t is the
duty OF Congress to submit to the several
States q Constitutional amendment giving
women citizens the right Of suffrage, and to
pass the bin providing for q committee to
consider the rights of women.
Tnx FfSsidsnt on the 10sh nominated Col
onel Delos B. Sackett formerly attached to
General Sheridan's staff, to be Inspector
General Of the Army. -
WI .- tsNS ~ y =
" The East. - ~
A BROOKLYN burglar, named Frank Walsh,
who was serving :. term Of twenty years at
Sing Sing, attempted on the 18th to run
across the Hudson on the ice, and was shot
dead by a guard.
The Legislature Of Maine on the 18th elect
ed Eugene Hale (Rep.) to be United States
Senator to succeed Hamlin (Rep.); the
Connecticut Legislature elected General J..
r. Hawley (Rep.) to succeed Eaton (Dem. },
and the New York Legislature elected
Thomas G. Plat (Rep) to succeed Herman
Dem. = 49,.
AN oil tank at the Atlanta Refinery, near
Philadelphia, exploded ON the 18th. causing
the destruction of several wharves, ware
housee and N0.sessela Loss shout oi00 000
JOHN KELLY has been reelected Chairman
of the Tammany Committee on Organization.
In his speech accepting the Office he declared
that Tammany would never again unite with
any other party or faction.
GOVERNOR LTfTLEFiELD, in his message to
the Rhode Island Legislature on the 18th,
recommended woman suffrage on the school
question.
Two OF the public schools of Jersey City.
N. j., have been closed lately on account of
the prevalence of scarlet fever.
The Pennsylvania Legislature took one
ballot on the 18th and three on the 10th for
United States Senator, each of which resulted
Is follows: Senate-Oliver (Rep. caucus NOM
inee), 20; Grow Qnd. Rep), IA; Wallace
Dem }, 16 House-Oliver, Is, Grow, A;
Wallace, q; scattering, 3. ..
HENRY L. DAWES has been reelected Unit
ed States Sc nator from Massachusetts,, and
Francis NJ. Cockrell United States Senator
from Missouri. f.@ = t.-
FIVE Paterson IN. j. boys. ranging in
ages from fifteen to eighteen years, were re-
Gently seriously, and some of them probably
fatally, injured. while coasting, their "bob-
sled" having come in collision with tele-
graph pole. The boys and their sled were
horribly smashed. One boy had his nose
broken and driven into his face, his teeth
and jaw broken. the imprint of every tooth
in the upper jaw being left in the telegraph
pole against which the sled ran. some of the
indentations being half an inch deep
JOHN 8. MoRrox, formerly President OF .
Philadelphia street railway, who was sem
fenced to ten years. Imprisonment for the
fraudulent issue of bonds, has been voted
pardon by the Pennsylvania Board of Par
dons @Esss
Miss MARY CARDAFF and Miss Honore
Dougherty, of Girardville, Pa, were coasting
down hill the other day, wher the boy who
was guiding their sled lost control of it. See
sled crashed against q telegraph pole, and
OOtu OuuS IdUIcS W0Tc INSTANTLY kIllcU.
A FEW days since William H. Westervelt
completed term of seven years for con-
sp racy to kidnap Charlie Ross, aid was dis
charged from the Eastern Penitentiary at
Philadelphia. He says he is utterly innocent
of the charge on which he was convicted.
GENERAL AND Mrs. GRANT were publicly
received at the Executive Mansion in Albany,
N. T., on the Oth. Many citizens paid their
respects.
ACCORDING to New York dispatch of the
10th Rufus Hatch had brought suit in the Su-
preme Court against the Western Union, the
Atlantic & Pacific and the American Union
Telegraph Companies, to prevent the pro-
posed consolidation. He had obtained an in
junction restraining the companies named
from entering into any agreement of CONSOLE
dalton, and from increasing their capital
stock. The Assembly at Albany had called
for an investigation concerning the proposed
consolidation Of the telegraph companies.
A FEW days ago Francis B. Booth and wife,
an aged New York couple, were found in bed
perishing from hunger. They had been Ill
for thirty days, and had eaten nothing for
nine days. Mr.. Booth had been wealthy, but
lost his money in speculations.