New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-05-01
mlscelaaneous.

mlscellaneous.
The coinage Of the new dollars was
commenced at the San Francisco mint on the
18th inst, in the presence of a number of in
vited guests.
It is announced that R. r. Bridges has
been appointed receiver Of the Wilmingto
Columbus & Augusta railroad, better known
as the Atlantic coast line.
Judge Lawrence at New York on the
18th inst, denied another motion of James
in the suits against the Erie railway, and for
stay of the sale Of the road.
The evening rapers Of Columbus, o.,
have published interviews with all the leading
| national and private bankers of that city, in
which they declare themselves ready to resume
specie payments at any time.
The Charter Oak insurance company
has been reorganized, under the mutual char
ter granted at the late session of the Connect
cut Legislature. About 800 policy holders
were present in person at the meeting.
1t is understood an arrangement with
the st. Paul and Pacific railroad company is
now virtually made, with the object of util-
izing the Pembina Branch railway 1t is ex-
pected by the first of November there will be
all rail communication will Winnipeg from
the head of Lake Superior.
Reliable information from the interior
of the Mexican border, states that an insur-
rection against the Diaz government is stead
lily but surely re-opening. It is understood
there that the Lerdos party are arming the
Mexican Indians to renew raiding, in order to
bring matters on the Rio Grande to their
former unstable state as regards the United
States. The commanding officer of the sub
district of Pecos telegraphs that the Mexican
Indians are aiding in concert with Indians
from Fort Stanton reservation, who are now
on an extensive raid in Texas.
Holt s Bugbee, lumber dealers, of Bos-
ton, Mass, have prepared statement The
notes upon which the firm is liable as indors-
er Gin great part forged paper) aggregate
$212, 1859 Of which the National Exchange
bank holds s60,592; the Blackstone National
bank $64 SAT; the Metropolitan National bank
$685. 464; the National Bank of Commerce $34,
O75; and Richardson, Hill & Co., $192Os. The
firm is liable on accommodation paper to the
extent of $4,000, making the total liabilities,
disputed and undisputed, $264224. The total
assets are reported at $252,993.
A telegram from Manchester SAYS it Is
calculated that there are between eighty and
ninety thousand operatives on strike in
Lancashire, about sixty-four thousand being
weavers. Most of the mills were open ON the
23d inst, so that the operatives could com
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strikers resumed. A mass meeting of opera
tives, numbering seven thousand, was held at
Burnlay, and resolutions adopted, to the effect
that they should refuse to work until notices
of reduction were withdrawn. A small miD-
GRITTY opposed the motion, and prepared
compromise.
Since the first of September there have
been received at New Orleans 7,849 bushels
of wheat, in bulk, against IS, 725 bushels same
! time last year; 313,636 bushels of rye-last
year not one bushel; sugar, 1OS,692 hhds-last
year 159,72S hhds; rice, bbls and sacks, 200 1896
Last year 264 062; pork, st, 5s7 bbls-last year
$780, 784 bbls; -four, Al $50 bbls, against 421 lO4
IBIS last year; cotton seed. 1,7l6,0O1 sacks;
last year 1,0S59sS sacks; meats
in bulk, 5,373,7ll lbs. against 1894 ,9s44,446
lbs last year; corn in bulk, 3,549,966 bushels
against 1,148,650 bushels last year. Us
Five hundred miners ana laborers met
| near Pottsville Pa, on the 10Th inst, for the
purpose of consulting and proposing plans to
ask the authorities Of the State to legislate in
their behalf for immediate aid, to enable them
to provide for themselves and suffering fami-
I 1;oe o~1<
were signed asking the State to appropriate
several million dollars and purchase iron and
! withhold it from market for several years so
| as to enable the iron interests to resume and
l thereby make demand for coal, or take any
1 other prompt measures to create work in the
Region. Resolutions were passed requesting
l the miners, laborers and workmen of other
sections of the State to address the Legislature
/ on the same subject. Meetings are to be held
throughout the Mahony valley by the work
ing people generally for the same purposes.
The President of the Paris Commune
! of 1871, Citizen Charles Beslay, died at Geneva
q few days ago, in self-imposed exile, for the
prosecution agains.s him had been dropped in
consideration of his services to the Bank OF
i France whose funds he protected Beslay was
prominen. in the revolution of 1S48, and was
exiled after the coup d'etat. When the
4 France Prussian war broke out, though he
was then an old man of 76, he enlisted and
served in the army of Metz. !,
New Orleans has sufficient reason t
lume herself upon the great and remarkable
increase in her grain receipts during the pre-,
ent season. OF bulk wheat W. have received
up to this time, 4554 , 1914 bushels more than las
year; of rye 33l, $50 bushe g, and Of corn ,4O1