New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-23
The Greenbackers Of Wisconsin met

Governor; Colonel William L. Utlcy for
Lieutenant Governor; George w. Lee for
Secretary Of State; Peter A. Griffith for State
Treasurer; Colonel George Goodwin for
Attorney General, and DR.. w. II. Searles for
Superintendent of Public Instruction. The
platform calls for the immediate payment Of
all United States bonds in legal tenders; the
abolition of the National Banking system;
the issue of greenbacks to meet the just obli-
CATIONS Of the Government; the unlimited
coinage Of gold and silver; the fixing Of the
rate of interest by National law; etc, etc.
Two VESSELS on the Eastern coast,
one at New Orleans and fourth on the
lakes are enllsting boys for the United States
Navy. E&#
Ar a Cabinet meeting held in Wash
ington on the 18Th, the question of the I'M
portation of cattle from abroad was constd-
cred, and it was decided that such Imports
tions heretofore prohibited should be allowed
under certain conditions, such conditions to
be contained in a circular soon to be prepared
by the Acting Secretary Of the Treasury.
REFORMATION has recently been re- !:
ceivcd at the Treasury Department. that fine
cod-fshery banks lie along The coast Of
ALaohts AIOH Tue pcu1lSui6 Oh OuaiaSiNa,
through Norton's and Kotzebue's Sounds into
Behring Straits, and that the fish in quality
and size arc equal to those caught OIL the
Banks OF Newfoundland.
PrTTs' AGRICULTURAL Works at
Buffalo, N. Y, were burned on the morning
of the 10th. Loss about 100000.
On the afternoon of the 10th tor
nado OF unex ampled severity burst over Bos-
ton harbor with terrible effect. The yacht
Myrtle was caps.zed, and of the six persons
on board, five were drowned. Several other
craft capsized, and numerous lives are res
ported lost. The hurricane was very severe
also on the land in that section. Many fine
trees in Boston Common were Frustrated
and large quantities OF glass were broken by
the accompanying hail. Crops were destroyed
and several buildings overturned. The storm
was exceptionally severe In the Connecticut
Valley.
The Iowa Prohibitionists met in State
Convention at Cedar Rapids on the 10th and
passed q series of resolutions recognizing the
traffic In intoxicating liquors as the great
moral, financial, social and political evil Of
the present age; expressing the belief that
the prohibition of such traffic is the only
sound legislative theory upon which this
vexed question can be solved and the Nation
saved from bankruptcy and decentralization;
insisting upon the enforcement Of the tres
cnt Prohibitory law of the State, and upon
such amendments by the next Legislature rs
will place ale, wine and beer under the
same condemnation as other intoxicat-
Ing liquors; favoring the right OF females
to vote on the question of temper
ance; indorting the effort to amend
the State Constitution so as to prohibit the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors cx-e
cept for mechanical and medicinal purposes,
including malt and wine LIQUORS. After a
spirited discussion resolution was adopted
IL to declaring 1t inexpedient and unwse
ut this time to nominate State Prohibitory
ticket. After the adjournment Of the regular
Convention about forty of the delegates met
and nominated State ticket, as follows. For
Governor, G. T. Carpenter; Lieutenant-Gov-
ernor, Frank s. Campbell; Supreme Judge,
J. M. Beck Superintendent OF Public Instruc-
ton, Professor j. "A. Nash.
THE Democratic State Convention OF
Pennsy lva,ia was held at Harrisburg on the
10th. D. O. Barr was nominated for State
Treasurer. The resolutions adopted declare,
among other things, that the military are,
and ought to be, in I'LL things subordinate to;
the civil authorities; that the right to free
ballot Is right preservative of all rights;
that the presence ut the polls of regular
| military force, and Of q host of hrtling of.
ftclals claiming power to arrest aud imprison
Citizens without warrant or hearing, destroys
all freedom of elections ana upturns the
| very foundation of self governments; that
Rutherford B. Hayes, having been placed
In power against the we'll known and legally
| expressed will OF the people, is the repre-
sentative OF a conspiracy only, and bis
claim OF the right to surround the ballot
boxes with troops and Deputy Marshals to
intimidate electors, and his unprecedented
use of the veto to maintain his unconstitu.
tional and despotic power, are an insult and
menace to the country" favor the ''COnsti-
tutional currency OF gold and silver, and of
paper convertible into coin;'' oppose the sys-
tenn Of subsidies by the General Government;
ETC., etc. 49, 49, -, H.
The Ocean steamship State of Vir-
ginia was wrecked on Sable Island, off the
coast Of Nova Scotia, on the 18th. The pas
sengers were taken ashore In the ships boats,
and all were saved except the occupants OF
this accident nine persons lost their lives.
The loss of life by the recent lorna
do in Boston harbor foots up twenty-three.
This includes those killed withia: line drawn
twenty miles around Boston. Outside that
line there were a half dozen XII; I'd.
A WASHINGTON special of the 18th
says the members Of the N:sss$$:.,;4l Board Of
Health were not surprised to ',ejye informa-
ton Of additional yellow-1al s,.ss;e 10 Mem
phis, but were quite emphai. i; the opinion
that there would bc no epidtn.c arising from
such cases.
a FEW days ego, Mr.. Charles Leh-
mann, President OF the Lum ,ermen's Union
Of Chicago, was engaged In examining his re-
yolver to see II It was In working order. Sit
ting opposite to hin, In the house was his wife
laying with their child on her knee, when
suddenly the weapon was discharged, and the
little one fell deal on the mothers lap, with
bullet nits brain. Both parents we're nearly
azed at the sad occurrence.
1--WE new cases Of yellow fever and
ft;enss death were reported In Memphis on the
18th. The cases occurred among the mem.
bers Of two families named Hester, living on
Clay street. Mrs. James Hester died at noon
on that day. Of black yomit. There were one
or two other suspicious cases in the city. The
announcement Of these new cases had not
created panic, although business was Sc.
verely injured, and 1t was stated that several