New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-08
MT8CELLANEOUk.

thusiastic address.
MIsCELLANEOUs.
There we're 1870 deaths in New York
last week, from scarlet fever.
The Armstrong block in Rome, N. Y,
has been burned. Loss, $4,000.
The American hotel at San Francisco
has been burned. Loss $4,000.
Major Pazenonski's house, at Chippewa
Falls, Wis, has been destroyed by fire.
A general and plentiful fall of rain
throughout the State of G Alifornia is reported.
The snow blockade on the side tracks
and switches at Buffalo, N. Y, stops business.
The Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot at Fond du Lac was destroyed by fire
Dec. IS.
Great distress prevails in Switzerland
there being 6,0O0 unemployed persons in
Geneva.
A fire in the Catholic publication So
ciety's building, in New York city, resulted in
a loss ofs5o.O00.
Business failures to great or less ex-
tent are reported in Ohio Kentucky, Indiana
and West Virginia.
A Dec. 30th, Green Bay telegram says,
a fire at Fort HARDWOOD destroyed the Grand
Central hotel and barn.
The liabilities of the Wheeler & Cos
Pork house, in Cincinnati, O., amount to be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000
A fire in the Cocheco print works, at
Dover, N. H., damaged the buildings and con-
tents to the amount of So, 900.
The Emmerson piano factory has been
destroyed by fire. Loss, 100000. IS men
men thrown out of employment
President Goven of the Reading rail
road, gives it as his opinion that there will be
no coal combination make next year.
Three engines and a snow pillow ran off
the track on the New York & Oswego Mid
land railroad near Fulton and killed two en-
ployes.
At Kingsley, Qrebec, on Christmas
day, the boiler of the Dominion paper mills
exploded, and two men were killed and five
injured.
The most valuable business houses in
Gardner, ILL.,, were destroyed by fire, eally on
the morning of Dec. Goth. Loss $4,000. In.
cendiary.
The schooner, Ellen, from St. John for
New Haven, has been wrecked on the coast of
Maine, and the captain and three seamen
drowned.
A press telegram from Berlin says the
socialist law IS being enforced with renewed
severity, seventeen publications have leen
prohibited in Leipsic alone.
A correspondent at Kuran says proc
lamation Of the ameer of Afghanistan has
been discovered, dated Nov. 18th. 1t shows
it had declared holy war against the British.
Backwater flooded the suburbs of
Fulton, ~, and hundred families have
| been obliged to vacate their houses. The
| merged.
About 40 railway postofice clerks,
route agents and local agents, will be dis
CHARGED, and the pay Of those remaining re.
| duced to bring expenditures within the ap-
ropriations.
Reports from all portions of the coun-
try show that the late polar wave covered a
vast extent ofcountry, north, east and west
In the northwest the thermometer ranged
| from zero 10 ~ DelOW.
| The United States consul, at Kingston
Jamaica, confirms the report Of the loss of the
steamer Emily B. Sauder, in hurricane al
sea, and the loss of all on board, passengers
and crew, except two seamen.
The representatives of twelve railroads
including the Chicago & Northwestern, and
Milwaukee & st. Paul, met ii Chicago and
decided to abolish the issuing of free passes
to shippers OF freights or theft agents.
The court house at Marysvile, Dekalt
county, Mo-, burned Dec. &c. All the county
records excepting those of the circuit clerk
and treasury were destroyed. The value O.
property consumed is said to he worth 500.
| OOO
The assistant treasurers of the United
States have been instructed to make no dis
tinction between coin and legal tender afte,
the first OF January. Checksfor payment O.
interest on 4 per cent loan due that day are
being prepared.
I AT a meeting of prominent Roman
Catholics, in Cincinnati, on the Both inst, 8
committee was appointed to prepare circu
lar for distribution among the members of the
church, soliciting subscriptions for the inan
! cial relief of Archbishop Purcell.
The London Standards correspondent
with the Kuram column telegraphs that Gen
Roberts convoked the principal Inhabitants
OF Kuram valley at Peiwar and Ali Kheyl, and
Informed them the ameers rule had passed
away forever, and henceforth they must iooh
to the empress of India
]. The suit against the government
brought by the heirs Of Stephen A.. Douglas
for certain cotton captured by the United
States government in Mississippi dnring tn.
war and sold as abandoned property, sett,.i
Il finally in the cnnrt nf c1a,nc ).vo ;,,dnro