The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-04-28
The East.

A DYING woman at Reading, Pa, confessed
that three wel.-known citizens murdered .
soldier fifteen years ago. They have been
committed to Jail.
Pm. W. FLYNN, a Jersey City IN. J)
Justice OF the Peace, has been arrested on o
charge of having, while acting as an Election
Judge, put package OF ballots in the box,
and also of having a number of ballots con-
cealed in his coat sleeve.
A FEW days ago four lads, from nine to
fourteen years of age, were caught In the
Eastern Railroad freight office at Lawrence,
Mass, while attempting to open the safe.
They had previously robbed a stationery store
and coal office.
ACCORDING to New York dispatches Of the
10th to the Chica o Tribune the leading cler-
gymen of the former city appeared to be
greatly in favor of the new version Of the
New Testament.
ADoLPH YAGER was In the Bellevue Hos
pital, New York, on the 18th, suffering from
trchiniasis. He had eaten raw ham. At
Allegheny City, Pa, Frank Frize, within two
days after eating free'y Of pork which had
been but partially cooked. grew violently Ill,
and physician found seventeen wrigglers in
piece of his flesh. He was thought to be
slowly improving on the 18th.
A RECENT election Of officers by the New
York Tammany Soc ETY. resulted in a victory
for John Kelly.
IMMIGRANTS to the number of 1l,447 ar
rived at New York during the week ended
April Is.
THE Pennsylvania Greenback State Con-
vention is to be held at Pot.sville on Wednes-
day, June Is, to nominate a candidate for
State Treasurer.
THE Washington Market New York; but.
ter dealers have recently resolved not to deal
in o!eomargarine, and the clerk has been in
structed to suspend any dealer selling the
article.
The conductors and drivers of the horse
railroads Of Boston made demand on the
18th for twenty per cent increase in their
wages. The wages OF the employees of the
South Boston Road had been increased from
&1.75 to g per day.
A FEW days ago Jerome Wilson, of Car
bondale, Pa, appeared to his wife and daugh-
ter after an absence Of fourteen years, during
which they had heard nothing of him. He
had been in Texas. among the Indians, and
returned with fortune.
A JOURNALIST named W. F. G. Shanks re-
NSASAy UiouSAe Suts W ICCOVcE ualu'
ages from the American News Company Of
New York, for circulating copies of news
paper alleged to contain libel against hun.
The jury awarded him &, 500.
By recent gas explosion in a mine at Mill
Greek Slope, near Wilkesbarre, Pa, one man
was killed and two others badly burned.
The boiler makers OF Pittsburgh, Pa, to
the number Of 500, have struck for higher
wages.
On the 10Th William Ryan and John O'Neill
were killed at Buffalo by the fall of the walls
of a malt-house which had been previously
partially destroyed BY fire.
On the 18th there were 121 small pox and
103 typhus-fever patients in the New York
hospitals. Three cases of cholera were also
eaid to have been reported in that city by one
of the C ty physicians
NEARLY 900 immigrants arrived in New
York on the 10Th.
A FEW days ago five mad dogs were shot in
jersey City, N. j., within few hours. Three
OF them had bitten children.
JOHN McENrEE, boy of seventeen, recent
ly killed his uncle, Peter McEntee, an old
man of seventy, at Bath, N. Y.
A FEW days ago dozen houses and stores
were burned at Bouni Brook, N. j., render
ing thirty families homeless. and involving q
loss Of about $4,000.