New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-02-26
THE NEW WORLD.

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In letter to the National House Ct
Representatives, on the 18th, Sec'y Sherman
states the estimate of expenditures for the
next fiscal year amounts to 1854 ST., 419. The
estimated receipts are: From customs, $780,
100000; internal revenues, $1O6. OOO, 600; mis-
cellaneous sources, SIS, $780, 900; total re-
ceipts, $685., 500, O00-leaving deficiency Of
$27.O62. 419
HON. h. G. BURcHARD, present
. Member of Congress from the Fifth Illinois
District, was, on the 18th, nominated as d.
rector of the United States MINIS. vice DR..
Lindermann, deceased.
The temperance of the yellow
fever in the South is emphatIcally denied in
dispatches from New Orleans and LOUSY lie.
THE New York Tattersalls was
burned, on the night of the 18th. Over SIX
ty horses persisted in the flames.
AT Detroit, on the evening of the
18th, Marie Azurine, while performing q
fell headlOng, q distance OF thirty feet. The
result was a broken collar-bone, three ribs
fractured and fatal internal injuries.
AT Baltimore, on the 18th, five
Judges of Election were convicted and SEN
fenced toimprisonment for interfering with
the United States Supervisors of Election at
the late Congressional election in that city.
THE New York Court of Appeals has
overruled the ruling Of the court below which
convicted DR.. Lambert, President of the
American Popular Life Insurance Company,
and has ordered a new trial. DR.. Lambert was
convicted Of perjury in swearing to the COM
pany's annual statement, which was alleged
to be false.
A MEETING was held at Syracuse, N.
r., on the 18th, in which such men as Bishop
Huntington, Bishop Peck and Chancellor
Haven participated, at which war was de.
+. clared upon the Oneila Community.
WILLIE ZE1GLER, boy, eleven years
of age, committed suicide in Philadelphia
few days ago, by hanging himself in the Gel
lar. He lived with his grandmother, who was
absent from home at the time the deed was
committed. The reason assigned for the sui
eide is disturbance Of mental balance pro-
duced by eading religious books.
In the Jail at Columbus, Ohio, lies q
negro, named Sam HALL, convicted, on cir
cumstantial evidence, OF the murder of q
man, named Holmes, in 1876, and sentenced
to be hung therefor. Hall says that he was
sentenced to the Penitentiary, in 1872, for
horse-stealng, and that he escaped In 1877,
and was, consequently, In Jail in 1876, when
the murder was committed. Investigation
has shown that his story Is true, and he will
not, OF course, be executed. Had he not
been in Jail at the time OF the murder he
would have been hung for crime he did not
commit.
AT New Orleans, on the 18th, the
United States District Attorney presented
thirty-two additional indictments, involving
100 arrests, for violation Of the Election law In
the Parishes Of Caddo, Tensas, Rapides aud
Natchitoches.
AN investigation of the accounts of
Conklin, late County Treasurer of Oswego
County, N. T., shows shortage OF S133, QUO.
The President has approved the act
allowing women to practice before the su-
preme Court.
EPHRAIsI HYsTER and wife, of Som
crville, Me-, left home, on q recent morning,
to do some trading, leaving their three chill.
dren, aged four years. two and half years
and eight months, alone in the house. By
some means the building caught fire, and,
with Its contents, was destroyed, the three
/, children perishing in the flames. About year
ago another child Of the same parents wa
burned to death.
TnE Soldiers Orphans Home, near
i Xcnia, Ohio, was destroyed by IRE on the
morning Of the 10Th. There were eco children
in the Home, and many narrow escapes are
reported. The teachers and officials lost al
their personal effects, many Of them narrowly
escaping with their lives The loss 10 the
state 10 about t75, 900; no insurance.