New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-11-12

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signal has much increased the usefulness of
the service. OF the cautionary signals dis
played, SOL per cent. have afterward been re-
ported as justified.
In his annual report Quartermaster-
General Meigs shows that the total ex-
penditures of his department during the last
fiscal year were $1O,75s,0O. The Depart
ment moved during the year 59,17 persons,
1921 beasts and 120, 40 tons of supplies from
the settlements to the military posts, many
| Of them in the far interior and at the end of
long lines Of communication. The cost of
this transportation was s2,215,96S The
Pacific Railroads earned for Government
transportation $722,00. ---.-. III
AT the Cabinet meeting in Washing
ton on the 31st ult the Secretary of the
Treasury called attention to the fact that the
Dominion Of Canada had prohibited the i'm
portation Of American cattle, on account of
apprehensions of pleuro-pneumonia, and as
the same fear existed among Americans in
| regard to Canadian cattle, it was agreed that
| an order should be Immediately issued pro-
hibiting the introduction of Canadian cattle
into this country: g.r .. ..,.
AaE public-debt statement for Octo-
Der makes the following exhibit: Total debt
| Including interest), 2,46 1914 ,357. Cash in
Treasury, $220, 644,611. Debt, less amount in
Treasury, $2,016, s49,546 Decrease during the
month, $40 49,, 800. Decrease since June 80,
1879, So, 357,7lO.
The wholesale dry-goods house of
Stettauer Brothers & Co., of Chicago, sus-
pended on the Sd. Their liabilities are esti-
mated at 81, 10000. @."..
PRESIDENT HAYES issued proclama-
ton on the Sd, designating Thursday, No
yember q, as a day of National thanksgiving
! and prayer.
A Fort SCOTT (Kansas) dispatch Of
the Sd announces that Jesse James, the no.
| torious train and bank robber, was shot dead
on the preceding day, by George Shepherd, .
| Kansas City detective He was riding over
the prairie near the Indian Territory with
James when he quickly drew arevolver, placed
it within an inch of Jesse's face, and said:
" You robbed and murdered my nephew. I
have been long waiting for this opportunity
for revenge.'' He pulled the trigger and
| Jesse fell dead.
AN explosion of fre-damp occurred
in the Delaware and Hudson mines at Mil
Creek, Pa, on the morning Of the I'd. Five
| corpses were taken out, the bodies being fear
fully mangled.
AwELL-KNowN cattle-dealer of Chi
cago, named NJ. A. Mclean, died in that city
on the LIST Of hydrophobia. He was bitten by
small dog about three months before.
GENERAL HATCH, Chief Ouray and
General Adams have been appointed COM
mission to make an investigation into the cir
| cumstances attending the recent outbreak at
the White River Agency, and determine the
punishment to be meted out to the guilty.
JAMES L. GILLESPIE has declined the
Republican nomination for lieutenant-Gov-
ernor of Louisiana. ...--r 49,.
The wife of Bill Young, who was late
~ lynched at Luray, Mo-, swore out warrants
on the I'd for the arrest of several persons be-
lieved to have been concerned in the hang
ing. ...s' .-. p.
Ice formed on the morning of the Sd
in the street cutters of Memphis, and the day
was by far the coolest of the season. Hun
dreds of kilograms had been sent by physi-
clans, advising that all absentees could return
with safety. 80. ....a
MOUND CITY, Ill.,, was visited by q
destructive confagration few days ago,
which obliterated nearly one-third of the bust
ness and residence structures, and inflicted q
loss Of from $140, 600 to $15O,WO. All the, pub
lie school buildings, courthouse and about
thirty other buildings were destroyed. The
county records were saved, except some loose
documents. An appeal for assistance has
been issued. Contributions of money or pro-
visions can be sent to the Relief Committee
of which r. Fuganza, Mayor, is Chairman.
SECRETARY SHERMAN issued an order
on the Sd prohibiting the importation of neat
| cattle from Canada, to take effect Deem
Der I.
The new two-cent postal card is now,
or will soon be, ready for distribution. The
Universal Postal Union, to which the new
| cards can be sent, includes Great Britain,
Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Norway,
! Sweden, Portugal, the Netherlands, Austria
Hungary, Servia, Denmark, the Argentine Re-
public, Roumania, Luxembourg, Montenegro,
the British, French, Spanish, Portuguese and
Netherland colonies, Egypt, British India, the
Falkland Islands, Ceylon, Greenland, Hondu-
| ras, Hong Kono and other places in China,
Jamaica, Japan, Liberia, Mexico, Newfound.
! land, Peru, Persia and Trinidad. Canada BE-
longs to the Union also, but the special ar
| rangcmcnt between that country and the
United States remains In force, letters and
postal cards passing between the two at do
nestic rates.
THREE hundred delegates were pres.
| ent at the opening of the American Female
| Suffrage Association in Cincinnati on the
evening of the 4th.
A PASSENGER train on the New York
| & Greenwood Lake Railroad ran into an open
| draw at the Hackensack River, near Hacken.
sack, N. T., on the 4th, the bridge having
| been left open by the Waterman. The en-
| gineer jumped from the locomotive and was
killed. Several of the passengers were hurt
but none fatally. The car foatcd on the
men in boats.
Ex-PREs1DENT GRANT reached his
old home at Galena on the 5th. He was
most enthusiastically received by his ole
friends and neighbors. An address of well
come was made by Senator Mcclellan
and other speeches by Governor Cul
lom, Governor Gear, of Iowa; Gov
ernor Smith, of Wisconsin; Senator
Logan, Senator Allison, Of Iowa; Hon.
E. B. Washburne and others. General Grant
made appropriate response to the welcoming
address. ,.-.-tr., 49, .s-. ~ ;. 49,.
The remains of the late Senator
Chandler were taken from his residence in
Detroit on the morning of the 5th and car
ried to the City Hall, where they lay in state
until about one O'Clock, and where they
were exposed to public view. At one
O'Clock they were returned to his late
residence, and there funeral services we're
held, conducted by Rev. DR.. Pierson,
Of the Fort Street Presbyterian Church,
after which the body was laid away
in the family burial lot in Elmwood Cemetery.
The attendance Of citizens was very great,
and the United States Senate was represented
by Senators Anthony, Blaine, Cameron and
Ferry, and its Secretary and Sergeant-at