The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-04
The East.

JUDGE ROBERTSON has taken the oath o
Office as Collector of Customs at New York
and sent on his bonds to Washington for ap
proval.
JAMES r. KEENE is said to be organizins
telegraph company intended to cover every
paying point now reached by the Western
Union Company, with a capital of $4,000,
OOV,
AT RoXbury, Mass, on the oath, thu
widow Of DR.. Rufus Hathaway died at thu
advanced age of 1G3 years. She was the
mother of eleven children.
THE refusal of the Attorney General Of
Pennsylvania to award an extra compensa.
ton of $500 to members of the Legislature
has been Endorsed by Judge Pearson, Of
Dauphin County.
CATHERINE BEHLER, Of Brooklyn, N. Y,
few mornings ago used kerosene oil to
start fire. An explosion followed, and she
was so badly burned that she died during
the hight.
A REPORrthat ex-senator Conkling had
stated to reporter, in a recent alleged in
terview, that he was going to retire from
politics ard devote himself to his law prac-
tice, is pronounced untrue by Mr.. Conkling.
A SEVERE wind storm swept over the
country in the vicinity of Troy, N. Y, on the
26th. Barns and other buildings were de-
molished, trees were uprooted, snd the
crops were greatly damaged. Several build
ings were destroyed by lightning, and q
number OF horses and cows were burned to
death. Severe storms were also experienced
in many parts Of New England.
A LITTLE girl, daughter of John G. Love.
Joy, Of Manchester, n. a.. died recently of
hydrophobia, caused by the bite of rabid
dog several weeks before.
THERE were three deaths from lock.jaw
in New York City on the 18th. John Bar
tolph died of the effects produced by stone
falling on his finger, Peter Mcmahon from
the effects of cut by a knife used in taking
off the hide Of COW, and Augustus Dunn
from a toy-p pistol wound received on the
Fourth Of July.
fourteen years General Agent of the New
York Associated Press, resigned his posi-.
ton. He is to be succeeded by James C.
Houston, the present London agent of the
Association.
A FEW days ago a man named McLane
went into the Old Capitol Building at Alba
nv, n. Y, with the avowed intention of
shooting Governor Cornell. He had an UNI
loaded gun with him, and was probably in.
sane.
THE Republican State Convention of Mas
sachusetts will meet at Worcester Septem.
Der q. - .5.s-
FEW days since Rev. W. F. Whitcher,
OF Providence. r. l., called together the
Board of the Mathewson Street Methodist
Church, said he had been guilty Of stealing
books from public libraries, and announced
his retirement from the ministry.
In trot against time at Philadelphia on
the 2sth Maud S. made the three heats in
2:12, 2:1S1 and 2:1211-said to be the fast
est three consecutive heats ever trotted by
any horse in any country.
JAMES,R. KEENE. is President and C. II.
Haskins Vice. President of the Postal Tele.
graph Company recently organized in New
York.
STEAMSHIP AGENTS at New York were,
on the 18th, taking every precaution against
the shipment Of dynamite. As the result of
formal conference, O'Donovan Rosa had
been deprived Of the sub.sgency of the
Allan line.
Two PHILADELPHIA lawyers have been
convicted of forging will, by which opera.
ton they expected to secure the handling of
$8D0,0OO.
THE funeral Of the late Justice Clifford
took place at Portland, Me-, on the 2Sth.
Among those present were Chief Justice
Waite. General Banks, Judges Blodgett,
Miller. Fox, Appleton, Walton and others.
Rev. DR.. Hill, ex-President Of Harvard
University, conducted the funeral services.
THE New York Live Stock Express Com.
pany is the name Of new organization in
New. York, with . capital of 81, 600, 900,
formed for the transportation Of cattle.
EIGHTEEN buildings in the central part of
the town Of Cattaraugus, N. Y, were re.
Gently destroyed by fire, inhicting loss Of
H7iOO0 'ssts