New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-11


A LOCKOUT Il prevailing in Pitts
burgh, Pa, IN consequence Of the iron man
ufacturers refusing to longer pay @5 per ton
for pudding. The operatives refused to ac-
cept less, and, on the LIST, the manufacturers
shut down. Various attempts have since
been made to compromise, but up to the
morning Of the 4th no satisfactory result had
been reached, and the lockout promised to be
universal throughout the iron region.
THE works Of the Merrimac Chemi-
cal Company at New Boston, near Woburn,
Mass, were burned, on the night of the I'd,
involving q loss Of $4,000. The sulphuric
acid as it escaped from the watts flowed into
the cutters, and several persons who mad
vertently stepped into them were badly
burned Albert Weeks, the company's book
keeper, fatally, it was thought.
The Maine Greenback State Conven-
ton was held on the Sd. Joseph H. Smith, Of
Oldtown, was unanimously nominated for
Governor, and resolutions were adopted-re
affirming the platform Of 1873, Snd expressing
pride and satisfaction at its Endorsement by
the people at the September election; favor
ing the unlimited coinage of gold and silver,
to be supplemented by full legal-tender paper
money sufficient to carry on the business of
the country; the substitution of greenbacks
for National Bank notes: ETC.. etc.
A JOINT caucus of the Democratic
members of both houses of Congress was held
on the afternoon Of the Sd, and programme
previously agreed upon by the Caucus Commit
tees was adopted. The plan decided upon
provides for the introduction in the House OF
the Army Appropriation bill, Invested Of the
political amendments ON which the Presidents
veto was based, but containing proviso
that no money appropriated by the act
shall be paid for the expense or com
pensation of any part of the army to be used
rs police force to keep peace at the polls at
any election held within any State; the Legis-
lative and Executive Appropriation bill to
be introduced without any political
clauses, but the Judicial appropriations
to be provided for in o separate
measure, in which no provision is to be made
for the compensation of Supervisors or
Deputy Marshals of Elections, and which vii!
contain, substantially in the same terms
those sections Of the vetoed bill which pro-
vided for amendments respecting the method
of drawing juries, and for the repeal of the
Jurors Test-oath; it is also provided that
no portion of the money appropriated in this
act shall be used as compensation or to defray
the expenses of any person employed under
the statute authorizing the appointment of
Supervisors and Deputy Marshals Of Elec
tions, and that no officer of the Government
shall make any contract or incur any liability
before sufficient sum to meet such contract
or liability shall have been appropriated by
Congress-
The Iowa Prohibitionists have called
State Convention to meet at Des Moines on
the 4th of July, to nominate a State ticket.
PROFESSOR j. A. NASH, the Iowa
Greenback nominee for Superintendent of
Public Instruction, has declined the nomina-
ton.
Ar the General Council of the Re-
formed Episcopal Church, in session in Chi
cago or the Sd, Rev. A. 8. Richardson, who
was recently elected Bishop Of the branch Of
the Church in Great Britain, was confirmed
in his Office by vote OF ffty-two to twenty
ive-those In the negative favonng post
ponement for year. ..
THE next session of the General
Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church
will be held in the City Of New York.
A REMARKABLY close conjunction be-
tween the planets Mars and Saturn will take
place on the last day of June, the distance
being, at their nearest approach, only the six
tieth part OF degree. a..
JAMES ORION WOODRUFF, the pro-
jector of the "Woodruff Scientific Expedi-
tion,' which collapsed few weeks ago, died
at New York on the 18th, of brain fever.
The Secretary of the Treasury gave
notice on the 4th that the ten-dollar refund
ing certificates would be received at the
Treasury Department in exchange for the
four per cent. Government bonds on an after
the 9Th inst, but that they must be furnished
for exchange without expense to the United
States. 81. a". 49,"
The Ohio Greenback State Conven-
ton met in Columbus on the 18th, and placed
in nomination the following ticket for State
officers: Governor, General A. Saunders
Plat; Lieutenant Governor, Hugo Preyor;
Auditor. Andrew Ray; Treasurer, Charles
Jenkins; Supreme Judge, A. NJ. jackson; At
torney- General, James G. Crogan; Member
of Board of Public Works, George w. Plat.
The platform demands the issue, by the Gov
eminent, of an ample volume of legal-tender
currency; opposes the issue of interestrbear-
ing bonds; insists upon the abolition of the
National banking system; favors protective
tariff, and doing away with internal-revenue
taxes, substituting for the latter graduated
income tax; demands the calling in for pay
ment of all bonds; ETC., etc.
The Ohio Democratic State Conven-
ton was held at Columbus on the 18th. Sam
uel F. Hunt, of Cincinnati, was chosen per-
manent Chairman. Thomas Ewing was NOM
mated for Governor; A. v. Rice, for Lieuten-
ant-Governor; Anthony Howells, for Treas.
urer; Charles Reemelin, for Auditor; w. J.
Gilmore, for Judge Of Supreme Court; Isaiah
Pillars, for Attorney General, and Patrick
O'Marah, for Member of Board of Public
and fair elections, and to that end denounces
all interference with elections by the military
power; declares that the Election laws of
Congress interfere with State elections,
under pretense Of regulating the manner of
Congressional elections, and that the
same are unconstitutional, and ought to be
repealed; denounces the Republican minority
in Congress for refusing to vote supplies for
the maintenance OF the Government unless
the majority would agree to the use of troops
ut the polls, ETC., and condemns the President
for his unprecedented use of the veto power
in order to perpetuate the Objectionable laws
aforesaid; declares that not dollar should be
appropriated by Congress to pay soldiers
Marshals, Deputy Marshals, or Supervisors of
Elections, to Interfere with or control cleo
tons; reatfirms the financial principles here
tofore advocated by the Democratic party Of
Ohio; ETC., etc.
The Workingmen's party of Califor-
MIA held their State Convention at San Fran
cisco on the Sd and 4th. Dennis Kcarney
was chosen permanent President. The plat
form adopted repudiates communism and
agrarianism; advocates the enforcement OF
the letter and spirit Of the new State Consti-
tuition; demands the restoration to pre-emp-
ton and sale Of forfeited railroad lands; ad.
vocates the election Of President and Vice.