The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1882-01-19
The East.

WILLIAM BURKE alias BILLY the Kid" the
famous bank robber who was arrested recent
" for being connected with the robbery of Mr..
Eells, of Cleveland of $4,000 in bonds, and
who after his release in Cleveland, was taken
to Albany, N. Y, on "a requisitiOn to answer a
charge of robbing the Manufacturers Bank of
Cohoes of $4,000, escaped from Jail few days
ago.
CHIEFJCsTICE JOHN PIERPoNT, of the Su-
preme Court of Vermont, died at Vergennes
recently, aged seventy. six years.
THE death of Rev. DR.. John Cotton Smith, a
distinguished Episcopal minister of New York
City, was announced few days ago.
In Brooklyn recently the sugar-house of
Theodore A. Havemeyer was swept away by
fire. The loss is estimated at 81, 100000.
A SENSATION was caused by Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church on the Sth
by his taking open and emphatic grounds
against the doctrine of eternal punishment.
THE use of the revised version of the New
Testament for other than marginal purposes
is discouraged by Bishop Doane, of the Prot
estant Episcopal Diocese of Albany, N. Y.
IT is announced that the Pennsylvania Re-
publican State Convention will be held May 10.
In the New York Assembly the deadlock
continued ON the 18th. The ballot for Speak
err gave Alvord So votes, and Patterson Sc, with
81 necessary to choice.
THE Siemens-Anderson Steel Company Of
Pittsburgh failed few days ago. Liabili-
ties $1,000, 900; assets, 81 100000.
RESOLUTIONS were adopted in the New
Jersey Senate a few days ago in reference to
the late President Garfield, and calling for the
just and righteous punishment of the as
sassin, whom the resolutions declare a sane
man.
THE Lincoln National Bank of New York.
of which x-Postmaster-G General James is
President, opened for business on the 18th
THE Independent Republican State Commit
tee of Pennsylvania, numbering 20Odelegates,
met on the 18th and decided to hold State
Convention May "a at Philadelphia.
THE recently-suspended Pacific National,
Bank of Boston has adjusted it's troubles, and
the institution is announced as being ready
for business again.
West and South.
GOVERNOR FOSTER was installed for his sec
ond term at Columbus, Ohio, on the 9th.
COLONEL F. A. JONES, editor of the Herald,
at Macon, Mo-, died in Wabash passenger
coach near Fort Wayne recently.
GENERAL TERRY, in his recent report for
the Department of Dakota, admitted that
the Indian outlook in Northern Montana was
unfavorable. The buffaloes are rapidly dimin.
ishing, the savages raid on the herds of cat
tie, and the ranchmen are organizing forces
for protection.
BRAVE BEAR, the Sioux chief, was recently
sentenced to be hanged at Yankton, d. T., on
the 9Th OF March, for the murder of Joseph
johnson.
AT Atlanta, Ga, few days ago, the Ex-
position building was sold for $500, 900. and
will be metamorphosed into cotton factory.
e. X. STRUBLE., of Louisa County, was
elected Speaker of the Iowa Legislature at its
organization on the 10th. Colonel E. c..
Hayne, OF Appanoose County, was made
Clerk of the House, and L. D. jackson. of But
ler was elected Secretary of the Senate.
AT Des Moines, Iowa, on the 10th, in the
Republican Senatorial caucus, Governor Gear
retired from the contest, and the name of John
A. kasson was withdrawn. James F. Wilson
was nominated for the long term and j. w
McDill for the kirkwOod vacancy
Iowa now has 5,426 miles of railway in Cd
Grafton, and 900 miles in process of construc-
tion, according to recent official returns.
JOHN W. TORY, young man, was admit
ted to the city hospital at San Antonio, Texas,
as pauper, but when he died recently funds
tothe amount of 5000 were found among his
effects.
A RESOLUTION to place statue of the late
President Garfield in the House of Represent
atives at Washington was adopted by the
Ohio Senate recently.
RECENT dispatches are to the effect that the
Flathead Indians, defying the authority of
their Chief, had driven the Northern Pacific
surveyors from their reservation, and were
gathering at point thirty-fve miles west of
Missoula to take measures against the advent
or the locomotive. The surveyors would BE-