The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-14
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
The decision of the Supreme Court Of
Utah, which found Miles, the Mormon, guilty
of bigamy, has been reversed by the United
States Supreme Court The Supreme Court
finds that the Utah tribunal made an error
in admitting the testimony of Miles second
wife in relation to his first marriage, whereas
Utah law bars wife from testifying against
her husband, or husband against his wife.
Nearly all authorities agree that SO long
as the fact of the first marriage is contest
ed, the second wife cannot be admitted to
prove it. The case was remanded for . new
trial.
On the 4th the Republican United States
Senators met in caucus AMI decided to con-
tinue their efforts to secure the passage Of
the resolution for an election of Senate Of
fcers before proceeding to other business.
This decision was said to be substantially
unanimous. The caucus also discussed the
broken from time to time BY executive ses-
sions, for the confirmation OF uncontested
nominations, but it was decided that, at least
for the present. such course would be un-
advisable.
GEORGE W. MoNYPENNr, Chairman OF the
Ute Commission, has resigned
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 5th says
that Secretary Blaine believed that this Gov
eminent could do nothing for the relief of
Michael Boyton, arrested in Ireland under the
Coercion act, except to ask that he be ae-
corded good treatment VIII lie in prison.
SECRETARY LINCOLN has ordered General
McCook, of General Sherman's staff, to join
his regiment at the White River Agency, and
Chaplain Mullins has been directed to take
charge Of education in the army.
THE President on the 9th nominated ex-
Congressman Hiram Price, of Iowa, to be
Commissioner of Indian Affairs, vice Thomas
NJ. Nichol, whose name had been withdrawn
at his own request.
The Postmaster General has directed that
the railway mail service, as to salaries and
appointments, be reorganized on May l.
The East.
OK the 81 Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff, of New
York, one of the American Committee on
the Revision Of the New Testament, stated
that the changes in the new version were
so many that scarcely verse remained unal-
tered, thou n in many instances the alter
atoms concerned punctuation and minor
words only. He said ''the New Testament
will be sold in England, Scotland, Ireland,
Australia and the United States on the Goth
of next May. The stories that large numbers
of books are now in this country, under lock
and key, are false, the revisers only having
received copies" 1t is understood that
within forty-eight hours of the appearance of
the English copies upon the market reprints
will appear from six New York publishers,
the price of some Of the editions to be as low
as fifteen cents.
On a recent Sunday Mr.. Beecher stated in
Plymouth Church at Brooklyn, N. T., that he
had committed to the care of Catholic pas
tor the daughter of q member of the Plymouth
Church who for one year had manifested .
desire to unite with the Church of Rome.
THE Erie and Pennsylvania Railroad Com
panies are said to have each subscribed $685.
OO) towards the Worlds Fair at New York.
AN investigation into the circumstances at
tending the death from trichiniasis which re-
Gently occurred at Hoboken, N. j. shows
that the victim died from eating bologna
sausage imported from Germany.
Rev. PHILLIPS BROOKS, d. D., at one time
rector of St. James's Church. Chicago, has
been called to chair at Harvard College to
fill the vacancy caused BY the retirement Of
Rev. DR.. Peabody.
OCoNSELL one Of the PERSONS who plant
ed the bomb at the Lord Mayors mansion in
London, has reached New York.
OK the 9Th the Pennsylvania Senate passed
bill providing for the escheatment of the
property of competing telegraph lines violat-
ing the Constitution by consolidating.
OK the 9Th Mayor Grace, of New York,
vetoed the bill permitting the Edison Elec-
trc Light Company to lay tubes in the
streets, on the ground that the compensation
the corporation offered for the privilege was
grossly inadequate.
A FEW days since the New York Board of
Aldermen adopted a resolution requesting
the Board of Health to chemically analyze
the article known as "oleomargarine," and
ascertain whether or not as an article Of
food it is detrimental to the public health.
The United States Commissioners to the
International Monetary Conference, Messrs.
Evarts, Thurman and Howe. sailed from
New York on the 5th for Europe.
TIE Consul General of Belgium at Phila-
delphia, who lately visited the Western
cities to investigate the pork question, has
expressed the opinion that no diseased meats
have been shipped from Chicago, Cincinnati,
or st. Louis.
BoYCOTT, the Irshman whose name has
been given to Land-lea que prescription, ar
rived in New York with his family on the 9Th,
aud left for Richmond, Va.
INTERNAL revenue officials found an Illicit
still in a rav;ne about fourteen miles from
Somerset, Pa, on the 9Th, and captured four
moonshiners and one hundred and fifty bar
rels Of whisky.
resigned the Rectorate of the Episcopal
Church of the Holy Trinity of New York, on
account Of ill-health.
AT Sunbury, Pa, few days ago q four
teen-year-old boy, son Of Mrs. Hover, shot
and killed his sister. aged seventeen, while
the family were seated at dinner. His al
legged reason was that he could not get
ecough to eat.
AT the recent election in Rhode Island the
Republican State ticket was successful The
majority for Governor Littleield (re-elected)
was 5O72.
A New YORK woman, named Mrs. Mazda
lena Mills, died few days ago of starvation,
having stopped eating three weeks before and
refusing thereafter to partake of any nourish-
Anent.
Ok the 7th the Committee on Railroads and
Transportation of the New York Chamber of
Commerce submitted . report on the subject
of railroad consolidation. In this they une.
quivccally condemn consolidation as injurious
to commerce, as q menace to public welfare
and as generally demoralizing.
A FEW days ago Gutenberg Bible, print
ed in 1850 with movable types, was sold ct
auction in New York for $500.
West and South.
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