New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-11-05

sbers to greet him.
ARGUMENTS took place on the 9th
Sin the United States Circuit Court in New
York on the demurrer to the bill of discovery
: fled by the Government In the suit against
Samuel ]. Tilden for unpaid income tax.
Judge Blatchford gave decision nverruling
the demurrer, and directed the plaintiff to
serve his proposed form of order.
A Sioux CITY Qowa) special Of the
9th says news had been received Of serious
outbreak among Spotted Tails bandin South
western Dakota. A warrior shot an Agency
emploje, and the Agent arrested him for trial.
During the night the Indians attacked the
Agent and forced him to let his prisoner co.
A company Of soldiers had been called upon
to preserve order.
The Postmaster General on the 9th
issued instructions to Postmasters at New
York City, Louisville and New Orleans to re-
fuse hereafter to rent boxes in their Offices to
lottery companies or their agents.
UP to the 9th of October "A, 453,95O
which 1921, 01O were in circulation, the re-
mainder being in the Treasury.
The annual report of the Superin-
tendent of the Railway Mail Service will show
that during the last fiscal year fifty-nine lines
of railway post-offices were operated over
Il, $40 miles of railway, performing about 50,-
600 miles daily service, and nearly 49, O0, 600
miles service annually. The aggregate num-
Der of miles of railroad mail service of all
kinds Gncluding transportation, not only of
postal cars but Of closed pouches,) was over
93,MO,O tN miles during the year. The number
Of letters handled and distributed by employees
of the railway mail service on postal cars
during twelve months was about l,669, Wr,n o,
beside which there were nearly IS 1000 0
newspapers, showing an increase Of about
40oIhA,"O pieces, or nearly twenty per cent.
in am unit of work as compared with the pre-
ceding year.
The remains of w. S. Bodie, the
original discovcrer Of the Bodie (California)
mining district, and no persisted in snow
storm nearly twenty years ago, were dis
covered on the Goth, about mile southwest
Of the town Of Bodie.
A WEALTHY farmer named James S.
Nash, living in Henrtco County, Va, got on q
| spree while In Richmond, q few days ago, and
returned home at night, well under the influ-
| ence of liquor. He went to his fodder-house
"a small log building-to get some feed for
his horse, and, after opening the door, drop
| ped the candle he was carrying, setting fire at
| once to the fodder. In his drunken stupidity
he overturned heavy bale of hay, which
oiled against the small door, shutting it and
closing it completely, fastening him in, and
he was burned to death.
A Los PINos dispatch of the 9th, re-
ceived at Del Norte, COL, on the 2Sth, an
nounces the arrival there of Mrs. Meeker and
the women and children made prisoners at
the White River massacre.
TIE steamship " England arrived at
New York on the 2Sth from. Liverpool. When
her cargo was about to be unloaded man
was found leaning against crate, who faint
ly gasped out "Water." He was terribly enact
ated and weak. He was asked If he had been
all the time while the ship was at sea without
food or drink, and he nodded once, shuddered
and died. The England " left Liverpool on
the 18th of October, and the stowaway must
| have been thirteen days without food or
drink.
GENERAL SHERMAN has received q
dispatch from General Grant stating that the
latter will be unable to attend the reunion of
the Army of the cumberland in Washington,
IN the th of November, as he has an en-
gagement for that date at indianapolis.
An agricultural and mechanical fair
(the first ever held in that city, was opened
in Washington on the 2sth. President Hayes
and several members Of the Cabinet were
present.
Bill YOUNG, who was recently tried
at Cahoka, NO., for the murder of the spen-
Ger family, and acquitted, was taken from his
house on the Goth and hung to the cross bars
OF the gate in front of his residence. About
700 Of the neighbors were concerned in the
affair."
A. 3. WAKEFIELD, prominent st.
Louis lawyer, was convicted of perjury on
the 10th, and sentenced to two years. impris-
onment in the Penitentiary.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN /. n. MORRIS, of
Quincy, ILL.,, died at,his residence in that city
on the morning of the Goth, aged sixty-seven
years. -,
Two HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN Nor.
mon immigrants and eleven Mormon mission
ar es arrived at New York on the 10th, for
Utah. They we're from Scotland, Wales, En-
gland and the Scandinavian countries.
A SEVERE storm prevailed through.
out the East on the 10th, doing considerable
damage in many sections. At Mount Wash
ington, N. H., the wind attained a velocity of
one hundred and thirty-two miles an hour A
heavy fall Of snow also occurred at the same
time.
A PHOENIX (Arizona) dispatch of the
3Oth ult. says news had been received there
that the Apaches had captured a station on
the tornado del Mierto, near Fort Craig, and
killed thirteen persons. The Navajos had
also gone on the war-path, and troops had
been sent against them. Later advices from
Tucson, Arizona, state that the latter Indian
tribe had burned Fort Wingate.
The business portion of the town of
Parker, In the Pennsylvania oil region, was
destroyed by fire on the morning Of the 9oth
ult. About one hundred Of the best build
ings in the town were reduced to ashes, in
volving the loss of from 100000 to s3Oh0o0,
with not more than $4,000 insurance. The
tire was started by an incendiary.
The american Missionary Associa-
ton met in annual Convention in Chicago
on the 2Sth ult., and held three-days'
session. E. 8. Tobey, Of Boston, was re-
elected President Of the Association, and
large number Of Vice-Presidents were
chosen. Rev. NJ. E. Strictly New York,
was elected Corresponding Secretary;
Rev. c. L. Woodwork (Boston), Rev.
G. ID. Pike New York; and Rev. James
Powell (Chicago), District Secretaries; II. W.
Hubbard New York;, Treasurer. Executive
Committeee-Alonzo 8. Ball, Clinton B. Fisk,
4. s. Barnes, A. p Foster, Andrew Lester,
Charles L. Mead, George NJ Boynton, 8. B.
Halliday, John H. Washburn, William B.
Brown, Samuel Holmes, G. B. Wilcox, Edgar
Ketchum, Charles A. Hull, William 7. Pratt,
Joseph A. shouchy. Auditors-Ch Charles L.
Me- and James r. Leavitt.
GENERAL MCDOWELL has recently
sent dispatch to the War Department in
Washington to the effect that the Hulapai
Indians, In Northern Arizona, were starving
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