New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-11-19

thought from the evidence given on the trial
that the plaintiffs business had been serious
~ injured by undue and unwarranted inter-
ference on the part of the defendant, who had
forbidden his communicates to patronize the
plaintiffs hacks under any circumstances, and
hence they brought in q verdict for Parker for
$3,433.
A REPORT comes, ola San Francisco
on the 9th, t at the Indians at Williams
Lake, British Columbia, were starving. Their
chief had had translated for publication
pathetic appeal to Her Majesty, reciting how
they had been deprived of their lands and
means Of livelihood by the whites, and asking
relief, saying his young men would not
starved in peace. E
The packing house employees at the
Union Stock Yards, near Chicago, recently
struck for increased pay, and the employers
agreed on the Sth to advance the wages of
their butchers and laborers twenty-five cents
per day, as demanded. The previous rates
had been about $3.50 per day for common,
and from 81 to *4.6O for skilled, laborers.
The total amount of silver coin in
the Government Treasury vaults in Washing
VOu vi VIC 1OCu ~do OtcT VI WHICH
$32, 90 were standard silver dollars.
AT a meeting of the grain trade at
the New York Produce Exchange on the 10th
it was decided to rescind the rules referring
to the GENITAL system, and a committee was ap-
pointed to confer with the Board of Managers
Of the Exchange as to the ACCESSIBILITY of con-
tinuing the old system of weighing and meas
uring grain. ...
The Assistant Treasurer atNew York
on the 10th purchased the whole of slO,00,-
600 of six per cent. Government bonds of
July, 1881, which he had been authorized BY
the Secretary of the Treasury to buy at LOG.
The specie imports at New York
during the week erding on the 9Th amounted
to Sc, 1856 900. Three hundred thousand dol
lars in gold arrived there on the 10th from
Europe.
RICHARD SCHELL, the noted New
York Democratic politician, died recently, in
that city, after three weeks Illness.
Mrs. DAVID DAVIS, wife of Senator
Davis, of illinois, died at her old home in
Stockbridge, Mass, on the night of the 9th.
She had been in poor health for many years.
AT Memphis, Tenn, few days ago
Mrs. Margaret Myers committed suicide by
pouring kerosene oil over her clothes and
then setting them on fire. She stated before
her death that she had been inveigled into
marriage with man who had since robbed
and deserted herself and children.
A WHITE woman named Mrs. James
Adams, in Lancaster County, s. c., the other
! night, cut the Threats of her five children, set
fire to her own clothing, and was burned to
death. 1t is supposed she was insane.
A STRIKE among the loDgshoremen
at Boston, Mass, ended on the 18th by the
employers making the concessions asked.
A LARGE meeting of citizens was held
in Cincinnati on the night of the 18th to de-
wise means to aid the suffering people Of Ire
land. Speeches were made denouncing as
false Lord Beaconsfeld's statement that Ire
land had never appealed to the Government
Of Great Britain in vain.
The Board of School Trustees of Tie
District Of Columbia had before them on the
18th the question of the application Of Mrs.
1elva A Lockwood and six other women for
placing woman on the School Board A re
port was finally adopted admitting that there
is no legal obstacle to women serving as
h'SAuOSAS VI GhC DIStINC SSuOOl OOdiuSs DuG
taking the ground that there are grave objec-
tions "as matter of policy, and that there.
fore the application should he ref'ts"'''
REAR ADMIRAL AUGUSTUS H. K1LTEY,
United States Navy, died at his residence in
Baltimore on the 10th, aged seventy-two
years.
The Post Office Department in
Washington has received official notification
chat the Republic Of Venezuela has become
member of the Universal Postal Union, to
date from the LIST of next January.
On the 10th desperate fight took
place at Candelaria Mountain, fifty miles
south of Ell Paso, Texas in the State of Chi
huahua, Mexico, between large band of In
dams, about two hundred, and party of fifty
men from Cariza, N. NJ, thirty-two of whom
we're killed and eighteen escaped, wounded.
The fight lasted all day.
In New Orleans on the 18th Edward
G. Palmer, late President of the Louisiana
Savings Bank, was arrested upon two indict.
ments by the Grand Jury, one charging him
with embezzlement in June, 1879, Of 81, 437 tf
money belonging to the bank or deposited
therein, and the other with publishing false
reports and willfully concealing facts as to the
condition OF the bank, to deceive the public.
he was imprisoned in default of $4,000 bonds.
On the 18th General Grant received.
at the Palmer House in Chicago, the members
OF the Society Of the Army of the Tennessee,
the members of the Veteran clubs, the men,
bers Of the different posts of the Grand Army
OF the Republic, and such citizens as chose to
pay their respects. In the evening he was
duly banqueted. After the cloth was re-
moved, there were speeches from Generals
Sherman, Grant, Logan, Villas, Hurlburt and
>chofeld, Admiral Stevens Leonard SWEET,
General Wilson, General Woodford, General
Pope, Colonel Robert J. Ingersoll, Emory A.
Storrs and Mark Twain. The banquet was az
exceedingly brilliant one.
GOVERNOR CROsWELL has an
pointed Hon. Fernando c. Beaman, Probate
Judge of Lenawee County, to succeed the
late Zachariah Chandler as United States
Senator from Michigan. ."
GENERAL HATCH, of the Indian
Peace Commission, reached Los Pinos
Agency on the 18th. General Adams arrived
there three or four days earlier. The hostile
chiefs, with the exception of Jack, were
there and willing to surrender. Jack had
persistently refused to come to the agency
and meet the Commission. 1t had been de
termined almost beyond doubt that he led
the hostiles in the Thornburgh fight. Ouray
had, In conference on the 18th, told the
hostiles they need expect no mercy.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th
says Postmaster-General Key had arrived at
the conclusion that all lottery companies and
lottery ents are doing a fraudulent bust
ness within the purview Ct his statutory
powers, concerning "schemes to defraud the
public" and he had commenced the issuance
OF special orders to postmasters forbidding
them to pay any postal money-order or to de-
liver any registered letter addressed to per-
sons named in the orders as being concerned
In the lottery business. Such letters are to
be stamped fraudulent" and to be return
ed, as are also money-orders, to the senders
All ordinary mail matter addressed to names
that are known to be fictitious are to be sent
to the Dead-Letter Office