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


the House and Senate wilIset and act jointly
during the Southern tour. There viii be j
meeting Of yellow fever experts in Memphis
on the 10Th inst. 81.
1EKSGELl4ANEOUN.
The weather is very stormy through
out Great Britain.
There is more snow on the Vurges than
the oldest inhabitant remembers.
Three boys were drowned in Cam
bridge, Mass, Dec. slst, while skating.
The returns of the Union workhouse in
| the east Of London show widespread poverty
| and distress.
There was q heavy snow storm, Dec.
21st, throughout Ontario, causing great delay
to railroad trains.
The Touring mill of White, Nash s.
Co., of Lanesboro, Mimi, was destroyed by
fire, Dec. Goth. Loss, $4,000
At Oakland Park, CAL, Dec. 21st,
Rarus trotted the first heat in 2:14; the second
heat with running mate in 2:l411SS.
A statue to Charles Sumner was I'M
yelled in Boston, Dec. 23d, by the governor.
The statue is in the public garden.
In New York city, December 18th,
gold sold at par, the first time since the sus-
pension Of specie payment in 1862.
At Cahoes, n. T., Patrick Bourke and
family Of five children were burned with their
house on the night OF December 18th.
There was $4,000 fire occurred at
Oxford, Miss, on a late morning. By the
collision of two freight trains in Treyton,
Ontario, two brakemen were killed.
A great fall of snow is reported in
England and throughout the continent. All
railways in the north of Scotland are block
AIDED. Seventeen trains are showed up.
At Treichlero, Pa, December 10Th, the
clothing OF child of Mrs. Mench was acct
dentally set on fire, and in an attempt to ex-
tinguish the flames the mother and child were
burned to death.
At the Esd annual dinner of the New
England Society in New York city, Dec. o,
Secretary Evarts, Secretary Sherman, Senator
Blaine and many other distinguished gentle
men were present and spoke.
The secretary of the treasury has issued
circular to customs officers authorizing
them to receive, after the LIST of January,
United States notes as well as gold coin and
standared silver dollars in payment of duti es
on importations.
The Illinois s. st. Louis bridge has
been sold under decree of court, foreclosing
the first and second mortgage bonds. It was
purchased in the name of Anthony J. Thomas,
of New York, who paid $500 gold as earnst
no o;l ;cA
John Green and team, at St. Paul, Min
nesota, Dec. 18th, were run over by gravel
train at the crossing of the St. Paul & Pa
cifc railroad track, near the city mill. Both
of his legs were crushed, and if he lives which
is doubtful, one will have to be amputated.
| He also received other injuries.
The Anti -Monopollst newspaper,
established at st. Paul, Minnesota, five years
ago by Hon. Ignatius Donnelly, from the pub
lication and control of which he retired last
November, has been suspended. The publ
cation will not be resumed Mr.. Donnelly
announces that he will protect subscribers,
who have paid in advance, also, advertising
contracts.
December 10th, a passenger train on
the Grand Rapids & Indiana railway struck
cutter containing John McIntire, his wife
and three children, at Hunts crossing near
Plainville, Mich. McIntire was Instantly
killed, and his wife and one child fatally in
jured. The train was stopped and the dead
taken to Pla;nville, where medical aid was
summoned.
A Topeka, Kan, dispatch says: In re.
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Of Kansas, the authorities at Washingto have
ordered the captured Cheyenne Indians tc
Fort Leavenworth, with view to identifying
those guilty of outrages in the States, tina
such may be turned over to the civil authori
| ties Of Kansas for trial, and the remainde
returned to their agency in the Indian terri
tory.
A Portland, Oregon dispatch says, Gov
Terry Of Washington Territory, has beer
closeted with Gen. Howard in that city, con
sidering the alarming state Of affairs in tn
eastern part Of the territory, and the suspiclou
attitude of Chief Moses and his band. Step
have been taken to secure the safety of settlers
Two companies of infantry and two of cavalr,
will be dispatched to Kitti:tos Valley as sool
as possible. A post will be established nea
Ettensburg Camp Harvey will be abandoned
and the troops there stationed at the new post
| The secretary of the interior has tele
graphed to the Governor Of Washington Ter
ritory with regard to the reported outrage
by citizens upon Indians in the department o
Columbia, instructing the governor 70 use hi
utmost enieavors to prevent any assaults upol
the Indians and further Informing him tina
Z directed by the attorney general to prescott
u all Offenders in such instances NEGOTIATION