The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-05-26
The East.


The East.
A FEW days ago in New York City q man
named Patrick Quinlan shot his mother with
a revolver, because she would not give him
money for drink. Her wounds were thought
to be fatal.
ton, broker in canned goods and meats, is
announced, his liabilities being estimated as
high as $3.50. 1000.
FOUR deaths from sunstroke occurred in
New York City on the 18th.
THREE bills Of indictment have been re.
turned by Philadelphia Grand Jury aga INST
Joseph K Black, William r. Cason, Joseph
Frank aud Henry Arbuckle for conspiracy to
defraud the United States Government in
connection with the "star-route" contracts.
ACCORDING to law the date for the cleo.
ton of Senators to succeed Senators Conk-
ling and Platt lately resigned, is fixed for
Tuesday, May 81. 1t would have occurred
Oh the oath had not the New York State
Senate adjourned before the transmission Of
the note announcing the resignation. Ac-
cordiug to an Albany dispatch of the 18th
there was a strong combination forming,
having for its object the election Of Judge
Robertson as Mr.. Conkling's successor, and
it is announced that the Democrats had
formally notified Mr.. Robertson that they
would support him for the Senatorship. On
the evening of the 18th the State Repub-
lican Central Committee met and adopted
resolutions indorsng the action of Messrs.
Conkling and Piatt, and the Republican
Committee of 1850 adopted resolutions in
dorsing the action of the President on the
Robertson nomination.
EBEN WRIGHT, a millionaire bachelor of
Boston, died in March, leaving the bulk Of his
estate to the wife of banker WHO had be-
friended him in his illness Since then eight
additional wills and codicils have been pre-
sented for probate, the latest one directing
that the whole matter be carried to the Su-
preme Court for unraveling.
A FEW days ago, while crossing q trestle
near Sunbury, Pa, four railroad repairers
were overtaken by freight train and killed.
The steamer Arizona recently made the
passage across the Atlantic in seven days,
Eve hours and thirty-five minutes, the fastest
time on record.
DURING the four days ended on the 18th
Q, 80 immigrants arrived in New York. The
tOC8l sluce Tue year Openeu W as l4O,SUA
DISPATCHES OF the 18th state that the
army-worm was destroying all kinds Of vege-
tation in Northern New York.
In New York at noon on the 10th the re-
vsed New Testament was delivered to sub
scribers.
HEDDEN, the cashier Of the First National
Bank of Newark, N. j., who recently default
ed for large amount, has been sentenced to
seven years in State Prison.
THE United States District Attorney for
the Southern District of New York has nolle
pros'd the proceedings against Kenward
Philip Charles A. Byrne, Louis T. Post and
Joseph Hart, for libel in the Morey matter.
A FEW days ago Ex-Governor Sprague, of
Rhode Island, and his quondam friend, DR..
Greene, came to blows in the streets of Prov
idence. Sprague slapped Greene's face, and
Greene retaliated, hitting s: rague on the
nose. The spectators refused to interfere,
and the two gentlemen kept pummeling each
other until they tired. The quarrel arose
over financial transaction.