New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15
THE NEW WORLD.

panied John Wise, Jr., to explore the Ma
coupin Creek bottoms in search of the lost
balloonists, to the effect that they had found
no trace of the balloon Or its occupants in
that section, and they did not believe they
had come down south Of Springfield. The
balloon was seen Sunday night (2Sth ult) by
farmers east of Girart', very high in the air
circulars were also found near nliopolis. This
explodes theory advanced by some that the
missing travellers had landed in Macoupin
County.
THE O'Leary walking tournament
began in New York at one O'Clock on the
morning of the 9Th. Thirty-fve men started.
MEssRs. MOODY AND SANKEY began
a series of revival meetings in Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 5th.
The baseball season closed few
days ago, the Providence Club securing the
championship. This club won fifty-ive out
of seventy-eight games; the Boston Club
forty-nine out of sevcnty-eight, and the Chi
Cages forty-fve out of seventy-seyen.
AT San Francisco on the 9Th Profess
sor Colgrove and C. II. Williams made bal
loon ascension When about two hundred
feet high the balloon collapsed, and both fell
to the ground, sustaining injuries from which
they shortly after died.
On Robert Bonner's private track
near New York, the other day, John Murphy
drove Rarus mile in two minutes and eleven
and half seconds. Edwin Forest was after
ward driven mile in exactly the same time.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 9Th
saws the Government Sub Treasures were all
supplied with gold, and were paying it out
freely on current obligations.
The Great Eastern comes to public
notice once more as transport for cat
tie, to run directly between London and
Texas. It is calculated that the vessel
will take at one voyage 1900 head of
cattle and $4,000 sheep.
RETURNS received on the morning Of
the 9TH from the election in Connecticut indi-
Gated that the Constitutional amendments
providing for biennial elections for the Legis.
lature, and extending the term of office Of
Judges of the Supreme and Superior Courts
to the age of seventy-fve years, had been
overwhelmingly defeated.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court
has rendered a decision in the riot losses in
Pittsburgh during the great railroad strike
holding Allegheny County liable for the de-
struction of property in the case brought he-
fore the court.
The official canvass of the votes cast
at the late election in California shows that
the candidates for Governor received the fol.
lowing vote: Perkins, Republican, 67,973;
Glenn, Democrat, 1852; White, Working
man, 1920 The Legislature is Republican
by about twelve majority on joint ballot.
The Maine official canvass has been
completed, and shows that Davis, Republican
candidate for Governor, lacks l, 1l9 votes of
an election by the people.
THE Massachusetts State Democratic
Convention met at Boston on the 7th and
nominated John Quincy Adams for Governor,
by reclamation. The rest of the ticket was
constituted as follows: Lieutenant Gov
crnor, W. P. Plunkett; Secretary of State,
General NJ. T. Donohoe; Treasurer, David N.
Skillings; Auditor, VIM. R. Field; Attorney
General Richard Olney. The platform
enuncates the doctrines of States-rights and
hard-money; rebukes the Republican party
for destroying the commerce of the country
and for paying the fishery awards to Great
Britain, and calls upon Congress to rescue
the freedom of elections undeterred by Re-
publican clamor or Presidential vetoes.
GENERAL GRANT and party returned
to San Francisco on the eth from their trip to
the Yosemite Valley.
The Louisiana Democratic State
Convention, at Baton Rouge on the 9TH, NOM
mated L. A. Wilt for Governor.
The Chicago Inter- Ocean of the 9th
says balloon, supposed to be the missing
Pathfinder (Wise's balcony, was seen on
the night of the 2Sth ult. to pass over Miller
Station, thirty miles distant from Chicago, by
Louis Faber, an engineer on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Railroad. He and the
operator at the depot saw the balloon quite
distinctly about midnight, the moon shining
brightly. The air-ship was less than mile
away, and appeared to be sailing in north
casterly direction very rapidly toward the
lake, which is only about half mile from
Miller Station. A fireman on Mr.. Faber's en-
CINE also saw the balloon, and corroborates
the above statement.
Or the thirty-fve contestants who
started in the O'Leary walking match at New
York on the morning Of the 9Th, only eleven
remained on the track ON the morning of the
18th. Murphy, who had the lead, had made
446 miles. Faber was second, with 400 miles
to his credit, and Howard third, with 42O miles.
AT Bradford, Pa, on the 9TH Robert
Butler deliberately shot and killed his brother
Henry. Both were intoxicated.
A RAwL1Ns (Wy. T. dispatch of the
Sth announces the arrival of courier with
news that General Merritt had relieved Cap
tain Payne's beleaguered command. Before
reaching the intrenched camp he had Sc
we're fight with the Indians and killed thirty
seven Of them. The last report was subse-
quently contradicted.
The Chicago & Alton train which left
Kansas City, Mo-, at $40 p. m. on the sth,
was robbed Of its express money at Glendale
fifteen miles cast of Kansas City. The train
was stopped by about twenty masked men,