New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-12-18
MISCELLANEOUY.

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city Dec. 18th, all insured
The child at Towanda, Pa, proves not
to be the long lost Charlie Ross.
Heavy failures in Stockholm are
announced caused by the fall in the price Q
iron.
A livery stable at Petersburg, Ill, has
been burned with horses and entire stock.
Loss $25,000.
A cotton mill at Ballston, N. Y, has
been destroyed by fire. Loss 100000, Insur-
ance $4,000.
Advices have been received from
Magador stating that terrible famine pre-
walls there Deaths Is day.
The Vandalia and the Ohio g. Missis
sippi railroad have reduced passenger fare
from st. Louis to Cincinnati, from $3.50 to
$500.
At Cumberland river shoals, near
Somerset, KY, by premature blast explosion
in quarry, two men were fatally injured,
and one man seriously.
The loss by fire in Reynor Bros. whole
sale confectionery establishment, at Pitts
burg, Pa, will reach $4,000. A large part
of the loss was caused by water.
Gen. Mescham, of the army, testifying
before the Indian bureau transfer commission
gave as his opinion that the savage must be
civilized, and that this cannot be done by the
army
A heavy snow storm occurred in Kansas
City, and other portions of the South on
December s, at which place it measured ten
inches deep. The storm extended from St..
Louis, Missouri, to Abilene, Kansas.
A London Telegram says, the Chatter
~ Iron company has refused the offer of 900
men to resume work at a reduction of per
cent Extensive discharges Of workmcn in
the neighborhood are impending.
A bank at Montreal has received a
cable dispatch announcing the suspension Of
the West of England bank, headquarters at
Bristol. Capital stock Ell, 100000, and it has
forty-nine agencies. Trouble caused by loss
OF the iron trade.
The funding board of Louisiana are
trying to make such arrangements as will
enable the State to pay the January interest
on consuls. It is believed that at least $780,
600 in addition to the interest fund then on
hand will be required.
The Eversjasg Dispatch Of ST. Louis, in
Guiding all property and franchises, has been
sold at auction under a second mortgage for
$4,000, subject to a first mortgage of $4,000
All the presses, material and other properties
Of the morning Journal, which suspended
publication month ago, were sold at the
same time, subject to the same mortgage.
An extensive and destructive prairie
fire below Crook City, D. T., has swept in an
easterly direction, burning up hay which had
been cut and stacked for the military posts a
Bear Butte. The military quarters narrowly
escaped destruction. Many ranches were
burned to the ground. sturgis City, which
lay in the path Of the flames, was saved by at
slight rainfall, which stopped the fires prog
ress.
At Youngstown, Ohio, a terrible ex-
plosion occurred on the 9th inst, at the upper
Brierhill furnace. The furnace men were in
the act Of turning on blast when the ex-
plosion occurred, throwing the hot blast in
every direction and covering the men.
Robert Lowe, of Newcastle, thigh broken
and otherwise seriously injured; recovery
doubtful. George Anderson, legs and head
badly cut Patrick Saunders, head and body
badly cut. The boss had leg broken and
was otherwise seriously injured. Cause of
the explosion n@tknoWn.
The sugar traders at a meeting in New
York city, pronounced emphatically against
Secretary Sherman's proposed change in the
mode of collecting duties on that article as
in the highest degree unjust and impracti-
cable. Instead of decreasing the temptation
to defraud, they believe it will have just con-
trary effect, and any changes at all are to be
made in the tariff they think it should be
SO framed as to avoid discrimination against
qualities Of raw sugar, whether Of high or low
grade, and that will conform as near as prac-
ticab1e to ad valorem duty.
It is stated by a Waukon paper, on
what is asserted to bereliable authority, that
the Waukon & Mississippi narrow gauge rail
road, recently purchased by the leadingstock-
holders in the Dubuque & Minnesota road, is
to be transformed into a standard guage road
and the work Of extension up through Mime
sofa commenced early next spring with a
viewto reaching st. Paul. The line will prob.
ably pass through -FTeSLOn, Hlgh Forrest,
Kasson, and SO on through Dodge, Goodhue
and Dakota counties, and will thus prove q
competing through line between st. Paul and
Chicago.
As an argument against transferring
the Indian bureau to the military department.
Secretary schurz alleges alack Of due econo-
my in the habits Of the military He says sol
diers never think of the cost Of a thing If it is
thought to be necessary. As an instance he
mentions that at the close of the Sioux war
there were about 1900 horses, ponies, and