New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-12-03
Los P1Nos dispatches, received in

trouble. The Commission feared they would
not be able to accomplish much more, and it
was reported that q campaign bad already
been arranged-one column to march from
Milk River, one from Utah and two from the
south. The Commission was barricaded and
prepared to resist any attack.
The following is the official vote Of
Nebraska: Cobb, Supreme Judge, 25,2s6 plu-
rality; Carson, for Regent of the University,
23,A9 majority; Garrett, Regent, 20,265 ma
jority. These were the Republican candi-
dates. Weaver, Pound, Post, Barnes and
Gavin, Republicans, and Savage, Democrat,
were elected District Judges.
THE Eighth Avenue Railroad stables
in New York were destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 25th, one hundred horses per-
ishing in the flames. One fireman was killed
and several others were injured.
A RECEPTION was rendered the ven-
cradle Bishop Potter at New York on the
evening of the 25th, in honor Of the twenty
fifth anniversary Of his episcopacy. Many
distinguished people were present.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY opened
their revival meetings in St. Louis on the
evening of the 25th, at the First Presbyterian
Church. The building was packed with
people.
GENERAL FRANCIS WALKER, Superin
tendent of the Census, in his annual report,
says the Census law enacted at the last rcgu-
lar session of Congress is found to be thor
oughly satisfactory in its practical working,
and he recommends only two minor changes
that the ranking privilege be extended to
communications addressed to the Census or
fee, and that inquiry relating to holders of the
public debt be omitted from the population
schedule as useless and aggravating.
AN alarm of fire in St. Louis
school building on the 26th caused q
stampede among the teachers and pupils.
In the mad rush for the street, a dozen
scholars were badly trampled upon and in
jured, and a very much larger number re-
ceived slight hurts.
THE steamer Waubuno was recently
wrecked in Parry Sound, Lake Huron, and
all on board, thirty in number, persisted.
On the Goth William H. Vanderbilt
sold to syndicate, composed of Drexel,
Morgan & Co., of New York, and j. 8. Nor
gan, of London, $685. 1000 of New York
Central and Hudson River Railroad stock at
12O For this Mr.. Vanderbilt received
SIS, OO0, 0O9 in Government bonds, and will
receive a like amount later. This is the
largest stock sale ever consummated in this
country. Mr.. Vanderbilt will retain the
management of the Central.
The Indictment against the persons
charged with attempting to bride members Of
the'Pennsylvania Legislature was quashcd on
the Goth, because it was found by twenty-four
persons, when only twenty-three of them
were qualified grand jurors.
DURING the last season 230 Glouces-
ter (Mass.) maekercl fishermen were lost.
The Assistant Acknowledgement for
the Post. Office Department has given an
opinion to the Third Assistant Postmaster
General to the effect that lottery letters
reaching the Dcad-Letter Office may be re-
turned to the senders, and that letter must
be addressed to lottery agent, as such, to
warrant its detention. The Postmaster-G en-
eral, In accordance with this decision, has d.
rected that lottery letters be returned to the
senders. The suit in the District of Columbia
against the Postmaster General was, on the
Goth, certified to the Supreme Court of the
United States.
In New York City on the 26th
Thomas Boland, an Inspector of Election, wal
convicted of issuing fraudulent certificate
of votes cast at the election of 1878. The
punishment for the otfense is confinement in
State Prison for not less than two nor more
than five years.
A Los P1Nos telegram, received a,
Lake City, COL, on the 9th, says that at the
meeting of the Commission on the Goth,
Ouray reported the arrival the night before
OF runner from Douglas camp, with inform.
alton that, owing to the advance of the
troops, the Uintahs had left the agency and
the reservation to join Douglas, prepared to
fight; that the White River Utes declined to
return, and Jack had sent word that he would
not come to the agency until the Uinitahs
trouble was settled. Some of the Commission
doubted this report, believing it ruse to
gain time, or that the Mormons were at the
bottom of it. Should it prove true, the work
Of the Commission would end for the present
in failure.
AT the municipal election in Provi-
dence, R. l., few days ago, Thomas A.
Doyle, Republican, was elected Mayor for the
fifteenth time, receiving 1923 votes to 264S
for his opponent. The vote on granting
license to sell intoxicating liquors was 2,101
in favor of, and 1 $3.50 against, such license.
HE Indiana Republican State Cen
trail Committee met at indianapolis on the
18th and determined to issue call for q
State Convention to be held on the 25th OF
next February.
SEVERAL witnesses in Kellogg's be.
half were examined before the Kellogg-spof.
ford Committee at New Orleans on the 26th
and 9th. They denied that they were bribed
to vote for Senator Kellogg, and one of them
stated that he had not dared, for two years.
on account Of his politics, to visit the parish
where his family lived On cross-examina.
ton the same witness admitted that he had
been accused OF murder, but was sure it wal
his Republicanism that led the people of hi.
parish to threaten him should he return there.
LATE advices from the Arctic regions
are not encouraging for the success of the
expedition OF the Jeanette. It was feared
the ship would freeze up in the pack-ice and
have to be abandoned. A whaling bark
which arrived at San Francisco on the 9th
from the Arctic Ocean brought the officers
and crew of bark abandoned in the ice on
the 2th OF October and another vessel frozen
in near by.
GEORGE L1NCK, the tutor who played
role in the Conkling- sprague episode, sued
Mrs. sprague to recover his wages as tutor
Her defense was that she was a married
woman and that her husband was responsible.
Linck told his story in court on the 18th, and
said all he wanted was the money he had act
ually spent in the service of Mrs. Sprague,
about ninety dollars, and his wages for three
months at fifty dollars month.
BEFORE the Spofford- Kellogg In.
vestigating Committee on the 2Sth, one OF
the Witnesses discharged employe of the
Internal Revenue Oftice-testifed that Nor
ris Marks had told him that he 'scould moi
take care of any of his own friends whilst
this fight was being made on Kellogg;
that he had appointed ours to keeI
them from 'squealing' on Kellogg" A
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