New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-18

Wednesday, June 18th, 1879.
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.
A LONDON telegram of the 9TH says
divers had recovered the bodies of three men
from the cabin of the steamer Pomerania,
sunk by collision of Folkestone on the 25th
Of November, 1878.
ALEX SOLOUvIEFF, who recently at
tempted the assassination OF the Gear, was on
the 9TH tried, found guilty and sentenced to
be hung, and was hung the next day.
BOLIVIA has authorized privateers
sailing under her flag to seize Gillian mer-
chandise, even In neutral ships and not con-
traband of war.
The London holders of Louisiana
protest to the Governor against any attempt
of the State Constitutional Convention, now
sitting in New Orleans, to arbitrarily reduce
the State debt as arranged under the act of
January, 1874.
AN eminent London veterinary sur
geon has written letter denouncing the i'm
portation of American pigs, because they are
usually affected with trichinosis.
A ST.. PETERSBURG dispatch of the
9th says number of secret gunpowder fac
tories, operated by Nihilists, had been discov-
cred at Towic, in Siberia.
FORTY thousand camels belonging to
the British transport service died during the
Afghan war.
The French Chamber of Deputies
Paul de Cassagnac for words used during de-
bate.
THE Orange Free State Assembly
has adopted resolutions expressing hopes for
the restoration of the independence of Trans
vaal.
QUEEN VICTORIA has conferred the
order OF Knighthood upon Prince Alexander,
Of Bulgaria.
Four soldiers and several civilians
have been lately killed in disturbances occa-
stoned by the collection of taxes in Sicily, and
troops have been sent from Catania to sup
press the disorders.
The Bishop of Amiens, France, died
on the 10th.
ANNOUNCEMENT was made on the
10th that the st. Gothari Tunnel would be
completed by the end OF November.
The Emperor William celebrated his
golden wedding at Berlin on the 18th. The
display was grand, and the attendance of
princes and potentates from abroad large. At
night the city was splendidly Illuminated.
The Emperor signalized the event by giving
10000 marks to the poor of Berlin, and re-
leasing many political prisoners.
JOHN ENNIS, the Chicago pedestrian,
saved the lives of two ladies near the lock at
Hampton Court, London, on the 18th.
SAMUEL JOHNSTON & Co., London
sugar merchants, failed on the 18th. Liabili-
ties 81, 100000.
UNITED STATES MINISTER HORACE
MAYNARD and the members of the American
Legation dined with the Sultan of Turkey on
the 18th. Mr.. Maynard communicated q
message from President Hayes, expressing
the friendship of the United States toward
Turkey, to which the Sultan made appropriate
response.
In consequence of Russian pressure
servia has yielded the disputed frontier dis
trtcts to Bulgaria.
RUSSIA has joined Germany in pro-
test against the decree of the Khedive of
Egypt, In respect to the public debt of the
latter country.
A LONDON telegram of the 18th SAYS
England had lately annexed the Coco Islands.
The Admiralty had given orders to complete
with all expedition tho works of colonial de
tense commenced when war was expected be-
tween England and Russia.
AN Athens dispatch of the 18th saws
the Greek question was passing out of the
hands of diplomatists and into the hands of
the military. There was an active movement
of Greek troops in the direction of the dis
puted frontier.
LIE total number of pardons granted
by the Emperor William on the occasion of
bis golden wedding was 700.
The Prince of Orange, heir to the
the throne of Holland, died in Paris on the
18th.
A CAPE Town telegram published
on the 18th announces the capture of two
Zulu chiefs and 300 of their followers.
TIE Algerian insurgents number 800
foot and 100 horsemen.
REPORTS have reached the Indian
Government of fresh massacres of roya)
Princes at Mandalay.
A CoNsrANr1NoPLE telegram of the
18th says the Sultan had indicated that he
was inclined to grant the reform demanded
by Crete.
The Khedive of Egypt has, it is re-
ported, decided to- abdicate, leaving the sue
cession to his son and retiring on a pension.
A BERLIN dispatch of the 18th says
the Emperor aud Empress were highly graft
fled at receiving from President Hayes mes
sage congratulating their Majesties on their
golden wedding.
THE NEW WORLD. "
THE iron manufacturers of Pitts
burgh, Pa, signed the scale of prices demand
cd by the puddlers on the 7th, and declared
the lockout ended.
JUDGE BLATcHFoRD, of the New
!ork Distr1ct Court, has given pro .torma
decision overriding the plaintiffs demurrer to
defendants amended answer in the suit to test
the validity Of the reissue of legal tender
notes, and dismissed the complaint in order
that an appeal may be taken to the United
States Supreme Court.
HE five persons indicted in the
United States District Court for the Northern
District OF Illinois were, by ajury. declared not
guilty, on the 9TH, of fraud in the construc-
ton of the Custom-House at Chicago. The
trial lasted twenty-eight days.
On the afternoon of the 9TH, as two
messengers from the Illinois Central Railroad