The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-03-03

own life HIS reason was her complaints u.
his Incidence.
GEoRGE PICARD. late President of the Will
iamsburg IN. ~ Savings Bank, left q Co.,
O0o to relatives aud friends.
Four prisoners recently escaped from the
County Jail at st. Paul, Minn., by prying up
a board in the floor near the register and
dropping through into the basement
Foreign Intelligence.
MOUNT BAKER, in British Columbia, is said
to be in q state of active eruption.
A REWARD of g., 500 for the discovery Of
the perpetrators Of the recent attempt to
blow up the arsenal at Stafford has been Of
fered by the British Government
Ex-EMPREss EUGENE is engaged in writ
ing the biographies of Louis Napoleon, her
late husband, and the Prince Imperial, her
late son.
SECRETARY FORSTER on the oath introduced
coercion bills in the British Parliament, one
of which asks power for the Viceroy, until
September of the next year, to arrest persons
reasonably suspected Of reasonable offenses.
HERR BLuCHRoDER, leading Jewish bank
er of Berlin, is said to have renowned Juda-
ism and to have gone to Rome to be baptized
by the Pope.
JUDGE FITZGERALD concluded the charge
to the jury in the trial of the traversers at
Dublin, Ireland, about noon ON the 25th.
After short deliberation, q juror stated to
the Court that they stood ten to two, but the
Judge insisted upon . unanimous verdict.
At 7:45 p. m. the foreman announced the
impossibility of reaching an agreement and
| thov W. IienhornoG 0p,fa1In <ho
House the crowd rent the air with cheers. A
torchlight procession was organized in honor
| of Parnell, who had slipped away to London
at the close of the trial. The town of Dun
garvon was brilliantly Illuminated. and the
hills for twenty miles were ablaze with light.
GENERAL CLusERET, the distinguished Com
munist of Paris, was recently sentenced to
two years. Imprisonment and a fine of three
thousand francs for defaming the army and
eulogizing regicide.
On the 25th, in accordance with his last re-
quest, the remains of E. A. Sothern, the &C.
tor, were placed in the grave with those of
his sister, at Southampton, Eng, after
strictly private funeral.
BIZ the laundering of harbor boat at Cher
bourg, France, on the Goth, eighteen persons
lost their lives.
The British House of Commons on the
| 26:h, after continuous session of twenty
four hours, passed the Government resolu-
ton to give precedence to the Coercion bills,
the vote standing PSI to 80.
OPERATIONS for boring the tunnel under
the St. Lawrence have been begun at Mon
treal.
CARDINAL KUrscHER, Archbishop of
| Vienna, recently died from an apoplectic
| shock.
OK the 9th Sir Thomas Hesketh and his
! California bride, the daughter of Senator Sha-
ron, reached their estate in Lancashire, Eng.
One Mackin, a juryman in the late State
| trials at Dublin, joined the Land League on
the 27th.
GREAT sensation was caused at Sheffield,
Eng, on the 9th by the advent Of two hum
dred men, supposed to be Fenians Precau-
tons against disturbances were taken.
On the 9th the Irish Land League voted
to summon Shaw and Colthurst (Home-Rule
Members of Parliament) to resign their seats
| in the House of Commons.
A STATEMENT was made in the British
House of Commons on the 9th that diseased
animals had 0een found among American
cattle landed since January ], but there was
no official information of the existence of the
foot-and- mouth disease in the United States
ACCORDING to the London Times of the
eth the Bank of France was about to adopt
the silver standard to stop the drain of gold.
THE royal printing establishment at Flor
ence, Italy, has been totally DESTROYED by
| fire.
LATER.
A BILL for the suppression Of contagious
diseases among domestic animals was report
| ed in the United States Senate on the 2Sth.
Mr.. Blaine introduced . bill to establish
United States ocean mail service and revive
| foreign commerce by American steamships.
Mr.. Wallace introduced a joint resolution
| proposing Constitutional amendment
changing the mode of electing the Presi.
dent and Vice-Presdent of the United
States; the bill d spenses with the
Electoral College and provides for the cleo
ton BY the people, by direct vote, in dis.
tricts. A resolution was adopted In the
information in regard to the Halifax award.
| joint resolution was passed authorizing
the printing of $1,000 copies of the special
report of the Commissioner of Agriculture
relative to the diseases of swine anil other
domestic animals
| A BILL has been introduced in the Illinois
Assembly providing that men convicted of
beating their wives shall receive not less than
five nor more than twenty-five lashes on the
bare back with a rawhide.
On the 18th a fire destroyed the Young
Mems Christian Association building and
twelve stores at West Point, Ga.
| COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, of the Genera
Land-O Office, appeared before the House Com.
mittee on Public Lands on the 18th, and
urged the propriety and necessity for re-
survey of the public lands.
THE United States Senate on the 2Sth re-
jected the nomination of Robert NJ. Wallace
for United States Marshal Of South Carolina.
On the 2Sth meeting held by twenty thou
sand miners at Leigh, England, was succeed
ed by desperate riot in which the hussars
charged upon the mob, injuring several per-
sons.
sKoBsLEFr, the hero of the late Turcoman
campaign, has been made q General of Rus
sian infantry, and decorated with the cross
of St. George.
FIVE men were injured, two of them dan.
gerously, by the explosion of pudding fur
mace in the works of the Phoenix Iron Com
pany, at Phpnixville, Pa, on the 18th.
UP to the morning of the 10Th Hughes had
made five hundred m les in five days in the
walking-match at New York, the greatest
feat on record. Albert stood second.
A FoUR-YEAR-OLD son of q Mr.. Casey, of
New Orleans, died on the 2Sth of hydropho-
bia, resulting from the bite of a dog received
on the 10th. Another of Mr.. Casey's chill
dren was bitten by the same dog some six
weeks before, but no unfavorable symptoms
had yet appeared.
THOMPSON SMITH, prominent lumberman
OF Eastern Michigan, was recently fined $500
in the Circuit Court at Detroit, for trespass on
public lands
JOHN MAXWELL, of Maiden, N. Y, the
largest blue-stoae dealer along the Hudson
! River, has failed. His principal creditors ara