The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-11-17
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.

Compiled from Latest Dispatches.
From Washington.
THE announcement was made on the 9Th
that the Treasury Department in Washing
ton had In store nearly $2,O0O,OOO in Con-
federate bonds aud $4,000, 100 in notes, be.
sides large quantity Of certificates OF in
debtedness issued by the Confederate Gov.
eminent, ranging from $50 to $500, 900 in
amount.
DURING the week ended ON the 9Th there
were 14o business failures in the United
States and Canada, being nineteen more than
during the week before.
DISTRICT. ATTORNEY CORKHILL arose in
court at Washington on the eth, during the
progress OF the argument in the Star route
cases, and declared that Mr.. Macveagh was
wholly responsible for the delay in the pres>
ecutiOn. Judge Cox corroborated his state.
ment.
AN important decision has been rendered
by the United States Supreme Court which
holds that where an agent deposits the money
OF the concern which he represents with his
own money. although he keep but one ac-
count. the bank is directly responsible to
the concern, and the concerns money can
be recovered from it, though the agent may
have drawn the money on his personal
account; also, that il money held by .
person in fiduciary capacity, though not
as trustee, has been paid by him to his ac-
count at his bankers, the person for whom
he holds the money can follow it, and has .
charge on the balance in the bankers hands,
even though it is mixed up with the de.
positor's own money.
FRANK uArTON. First Assistant Post
master General, assumed charge Of his de-.
partment on the It'll.
The effects of the late President, which
had been stored in the White House, were
forwarded to Mentor on the sth.
On The Slh the request Of Guiteau's coun.
sci that his trial be further postponed was
refused by Judge Cox of the Criminal Court
Of the District Of Columbia.
Up to the evening Of the 9th the United
States TreasuryDepartment had received, Jun
der the lO5th call for redemption of United
States bonds, s., 736. 100.
TnE United States Quartermaster Gener-
ais Department disbursed during the last
fiscal year II, .05, ss96 less than the appropri-
alton.
against Chief Justice Shannon, of Dakota,
and on the 9th the Department Of Justice
was engaged in the consideration OF them.
THE attorneys engaged In prosecuting the
Star-route cases made demand upon the
Treasury department on the 10th for re.
tainers, but the Auditor and Comptroller Of
the Treasury decided that service rendered
to the Government could not properly be
paid for in advance.
JUDGE Cox, of the Criminal Court of
Washington, rendered decision on the
morning Of the 10th granting the motion to
quash the proceedings by information
against the Star-routs defendants, holding
that the preliminary proceedings should
have been w Indictment, and ordering their
discharge.
PROMINENT citizens of Washington have
raised small sum Of money toward the
erection Of the Garfield Memorial Hospital
in that city, and have scattered $1,000 circu.
lars through the country asking for addi.
tional subscriptions.
On the 10th the District Attorney SUBJ
mitted long list of names of witnesses for
the Government to Guiteau. The latter
caused summons to be issued to Henry
4 West Chester Railway.
The East,
THE Government Examiner has concluded
his investigation into the affairs of the col.
lspsed Newark IN. J.) National Bank. and
reports the assets at $2,O35, 2599S, and the
liabilities at :, 4i5, 2'S. A.. The sharehoId-
ers would lose an amount equal to their stock,
4 ~s.,l,A q
THREE Boston clergymen and o brother
OF Guteau were formally summoned on the
9Th as witnesses on the trial OF the assassin.
On the afternoon of the 9Th a fire broke
out at the Eagle Dock in Hoboken, n. J.
In consequence of a quarrel between the
city authorities and the Fire Department
the fire got under full Roadway before the
department got to work, and the whole dock
was destroyed. Loss $500. 600.
A FEW nights ago a tenement house in
New York City was destroyed by fire, result.
Ing In the loss of several lives.
On the 4th the schooner Della Hodkins
capsized in a sluall of the coast of New En-.
gland. The crew took to the ships launch,
and, In two days. exposure to the storm,
five men died of cold and fatigue before y
passing vessel picked them up.
A FEW days ago Mrs. Pfeiffer, of Scran.
ton, Pa, expired suddenly on learning that
her son George had placed policies for $54,.
COO upon her life in graveyard companies,
by means Of forged applications. She made
dying request of her son Christian 10
prosecute the offender, and the latter and
his confederate have been arrested and held
to answer.
FN~,t k~ 7tA 4
sale dealers in chemicals at Newark, N. j.,
were forced to suspend, in consequence of
the failure Of the Newark National Bank.
The United States Court had placed pro.
visional receiver in charge OF Nugent's fac
tory. Cashier Baldwin's examination was
postponed for one week and he was ordered
to find bail in the sum Of 100000.
A FEW mornings ago two freight.trains
on the Erie Railroad colided near Port Jer.
Wis, and George Dorr, conductor. and Je-
rome Grover and Mark Coxson, engineers.
were killed.
AT the late session of the Methodist Epis.
copal Conference in New York City there
was appropriated for foreign and domestic
missions the sum of $3.50, 1872.
EARLY on the morning of the 9th three.
story tenement house fell in . mass of ruins
In New York City, buryi9g its unfortunate
occupants. Up to dark ten dead bodies and
eight injured persons had been taken from
the debris.
ANNOUNCEMENT YVES made on the 10th
that the Mutual Union Telegraph Company
was about to open Offices in all the principal
northern cities, and that rates would be ten
per cent. lower than those demanded BY the
Western Union Company.
On the 10th Rev. DR.. John W. Mears,
President of Hamilton College, died, after Q
short illness.
THE Pennsylvania Road has notified the
trunk lines Of its intention to make general
advance In west.bound freights from New
York to Chicago, irrespective Of the plans of
other roads.
The elevator of the Belvidere Hotel,
New York, fell from the fifth floor to the
basement on the 10th, In consequence Of
the breaking Of the steel rope which carried
q %nto 11svS ~~S, I'll.