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

were arrested for lurking about the custom
house. One Of the latter subsequently com
mitted suicide.
TaR ship Bremen was recently wrecked OF
the a1etland Islands, and thirteen Of thu
crew were drowned. The steamer Bohemian
from Boston for Liverpool, has also been
wrecked in Duulough Bay, and thirty-twe
persons were drowned.
AN explosion in Whitfield colliery, En-
gland, on the 7th imprisoned seventeen men,
aud they were believed to have persisted.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has recently sent To
the Sultan an autograph letter declaring that
Germany would do her utmost to prevent
war.
IT was stated on the 9TH that the Home.
Rulers in Ireland had decided to carry into
the great towns of England and Scotland the
agitation against coercion.
The Home Secretary announced to the
British House o. Commons on the 7th that
Davitt would not be subject to ordinary pris.
ON labor, but would have to wear the con-
vict'e dress.
A DUBLIN telegram of the 7th says tenants
on several estates who had been refusing to
pay rent had begun handing in the money.
ACCORDING to Dublin dispatch Of the 9Th
Brennan, one OF the Irish traversers, was in
tending to visit the United States t. collect
funds for the Land League, and Walsh would
! visit Australia for the same purpose.
AT Sutton, England, on the 9Th . gale
swept the roof from the residence of R. W.
Bradford, Secretary OF the British Bank oil
North America, killing him instantly.
TIE steamer Bohemian, which was
wrecked of the Irish c1ast on the 7th, was
worth, with her cargo, $7510o0.
The Skuptschtna of Servia has adopted a
resolution to close all the monasteries.
OK the Sth the Spanish Ministry resigned
in body because of q serious disagreement
with King Alfonso in regard to refunding the
public debt Senior Sagista Immediately
formed new Cabinet
PENDING an inquiry In the British House
Of Commons ON the 8th' as to the alleged
cruelties in the American cattle trade, the
Vice President of the Council said the matter
was receiving serious consideration, although
great majority Of the beeves were landed in
excellent condition, as If just from farm.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch of the 9Th
the United States had accepted the invitation
Of France to participate by delegates in an
international mon etarv conference.
A DESTRUCTIVE lire broke out in the Vic.
toris Docks, London, on the evening Of the
9Th, which destroyed eighteen railway trucks
and eighteen grain-laden barges and dam
agedtw others, involving an estimated total
loss Of q, ,000
THE announcement is made that the Jap
anese Agricultural and Industrial Exhibition
will open in Toxic on March l.
ACCORDING to late advices from Cape
Town the British Commander had defe ated
the Beers after desperate fight lasting eix
hours in which the British troops sustained
loss Of one hundred and fifty killed and
wounded. The Boer loss was heavy.
ITALY and Germany have accepted the in.
vitation to participate in the proposed Inter.
national Monetary Conference.
On the 9th at . fair in Kilkeely, Ireland
the people stoned the police, and at Bally.
hanis the police charged . crowd with bayo
nets. The Irish Land League has requested
Parnell to proceed to the United States and
re-arouse the sympathy of the people.
DE LEssEPs has been notified of the com
mencement Of operations on the Panams
Canal.
TIE Archbishop of Dublin has published Z
letter in reply to the late Pontidcial nott
concerning Irish land agitation, claiming
that pernicious laws for centuries have re
duced the people to the extreme of misery
and the abrogation of the cruel statutes i.
demanded; that while deplorable acts and
speeches have blackened = just cause, il
must not be forgotten that the people have
despaired of justice.
The sudden death of Chief Joseph, head OF
the Okla Indian tribe, is announced from
Montreal.
JOHN ROBINSON s. Son, wholesale dry goods
merchants, Of Toronto, Ont, susl ended few
days ago.
PATRICK EGAN, the Treasurer of the Irish
Land League, cab,ed from Paris on the Stt
an enthusiastic greeting to all sympathzera
in the United States.
Os tho 9th Dillon, the Irish Land agitator
while speaking in Manchester, Eng. said that
if the English did not quickly change thei
temper toward the Irish, they (the Irish
would indeed be dogs and slaves If they d.
not long for the day when they could join the
United States. Parnel, he said, within 6
month would stand in Congress at Washing
ton an honored and welcomed spokesman oil
their wrongs.
OVER is, 90 cattle persisted during the re-
cent floods in the Spanish Province of Seville
IT is stated that there are indications of 9
large emigration from Canada to the United
States during the coming summer. The
Montreal Post declares that nothing can stor
the exodus until the Dominion ceases to be .
Crown colonv, and has the sole Management
of its own affairs.
ACCORDING to an Athens dispatch of the
10th Greece will accept nothing less than the
terms of the treaty of Berlin. A decree sum.
moning the National Guard had been pub
lished.
DURING the seven days ended on the 9th
over thirty three inches Of snow fell in Man.
itoba and snow continued falling on the 10th
TIE remains Of Thomas Carlyle were in
TERED at Ecclesfechan, Scotland, on the 10th,
in the presence Of alarRe concourse of people.