The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-02-13
FROM WASHINGTON.

that on February l there was 81, 1884,
1855, ia worth of gold and silver coin and
bullion in the United States divided as
follows: Gold coin, 1924, 900, 433; gold
bullion, S66, 0s0,9s7; silver coin, $780,
646,645: silver bullion, 81 1857
EDITOR MITCHELL, of Richmond, read
paper at the National convention of
colored men in Washington on the 9Th
upon outrages upon colored people in
the South. He said that 1888 negroes
had been lynched in the South from
1887 to date, and that colored men had
been roasted in North Carolina. per-
manent organization was formed to be
known as the American Citizens Equal
Rights Association of the United States
of America.
In Washington on the 9th the colored
mems convention elected ex-senator
Pinchback president of the National
organization and issued an address to
the people of the United States asking
justice for the colored race, and declar-
ing that the colored vote in the
South is suppressed by violence or
neutralized by fraud, and that
their children are not afforded the
school facilities to which they are en-
titled. The coiored voters are urged to
support in the future only such candi-
dates for public Office as are known to
be in favor of justice to the colored
American citizens. All we ask, says the
address in conclusion, is justice, equal
rights and fair play.
In the United States there were 259
business failures during the seven days
ended on the 18th, against 291 the pre-
vious seven days. The total of failures
in the United States January to date
is 1,SS7, against 1,S71 in 1889.
SECRETARY TRACY, it was stated on
good authority on the 7th, would not
relinquish HIS official duties on account
of his recent terrible affection.
THE EAST.
4. Cox & Co.'S stove works near Nor
ristown, Pa, were destroyed by fire on
the 4th. Loss, 500, 900.
AT the Metropolitan Opera-House in
New York the centennial of the forma-
ton of the United States Supreme Court
was celebrated with public meeting on
the 4th and a banquet in the evening.
JOSEPH P. MURPHY, of Philadelphia,
manufacturer of cotton and wooden
goods, failed on the 4th for S5O0,OOO
On the 4th window-glass manufact-
urers met at Pittsburgh, Pa, and
ordered an advance in prices of per
cent
The Hudson river was open to naviga-
ton one hundred miles above New York
on the 5th.
The Republicans of the Fourth Penn
sylvania district on the 5th nominated
John E. Reyburn to succeed the late
Congressman William D. Kelley.
On the 5th the American Axe and
Edge Tool Company, comprising all the
edge tool concerns in the country, was
organized at Pittsburgh, Pa, the capital
stock being S4,OoO,OOO.
ANDREW CARNEGIE on the 9th offered
free library, to cost not less than 81,
600, 600, to the city of Pittsburgh, Pa
DEMOCRATS of the Fourth Congress
sional district of Pennsylvania on the
7th nominated w. M. Ayres for the Con-
gressional vacancy caused by the death
of w. D. Kelley.
PAPER-CovERED library publishers
formed trust in New York on the 7th
with capital of $1,000, 900.
A STORM in Pennsylvania on the 7th
did great damage in Fayette and
Westmoreland counties and the Con-
nellsville coke regions, unroofing and
blowing down houses and factories At
Blairsville the glass-works were wrecked
and Charles E. Barr and Mr.. Berney
were killed. The loss in the coke
region would reach $500, 600.
On the 7th the schooner Minnehaha,
en- route from Philadelphia to Provi-
dence, R. l., was, with her crew of six
men, given up as lost .s-z
In the Connellsville pa region the
wages of the coke workers were on the
7th advanced from 10 to IL per cent