New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-01-15

Edward A. Cove. State treasurer; Charles 4
White; attorney general, VIM. A Mcclellan
! Adiutant General, Samuel D. Leavitt
KISCELLANEUUS.
At Shreveport, La, Jan. 4th, the snow
was inches deep. Il
The total loss by the fire of Saturday
Jan. 18th, in Chicago was $1,000. N
-Four tramps we're frozen to death a
Glasgow Junction, KY, Jan. 4.
1T showed all day at Mobile, Jan. 9th
with the thermometer 60 above zero. The
yellow fever is dead.
A Pottsyille, Pa, telegram says, zoe
men and boys of the Brooksidc golfers, struck
for back pay, Jan. 9Th.
Three Ocean steamers from Liverpool
to New York, were reported due on Satpr.
day, Jan. 4th. One was due Dec. 81.
The Minnesota hotel and eight smaller
buildings were burned on the night of Dec,
81, at Portland, Oregon. Loss $4,000.
William Welsh, aged T., and Patrick
Cooney, aged 16, were drowned at Cleveland
Ohio, j an. LIST. while playing on the ice.
The new First Presbyterian church, at
Quincy, ILL.,, just completed was destroyed by
Ere on the night Of Jan. I'd. Loss 100000
w. M. Solomon and S. W. Sewen were
killed, Jan. LIST, by an explosion of giant pow
der in the Occident tunnel, Virginia City, Cal.
At a fire in New York city, Jan. 7th,
by falling wall one fireman was killed, and
80, Sc
fatally. ....... ,,-....... .~ ~.
The. Second Baptist church IN ST..
Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the
morning Of Jan. 3. Its erection and finish
cost Sc, 5000. T*.G &f es
A fire at Chatfeld, Mimi, Jan. 2, de-
stroyed the postoftice, building with contents,
and seven adjoining bulldogs. Loss $4,000
partly insured. - f+ .,.
In New Orleans the weather clear and
cold On the night of Jan. 5th, the. thermvm-
etor fell to 900 above zero which is the low
est temperature since 1857.
Joseph Vanheusen, of Greenbush, N.
Y, went to Olga grave on the night of Jan.
4th, and was found the next morning frozen
to death. He was g. years old.
The snow blockad; from Cleveland, o (,
eastward, and from Buffalo, N. Y.,.eastward
has be en- raised, and railroad trains are again
running on the customary time.
At Columbus, O., Jan. 5, g. Corbitt,
driver on the High street chariot, was found
dead on his box; death being caused by par
alysis OF the heart induced by extreme cold.
About 40 railway postofice clerks,
route agents and local agents, will be dis
charged, and the pay of those remaining re-
duced to bring expenditures within the ap-
ropriations. @
A new venture in journalism made its
appearance at Louisville, KY, JAM 4th. 1t is
similar to the N. 7. Nation in appearance and
contents and is called the Age. The editors
are G. E. Sears and w. L. Price. ,r.
Mrs. Maggie Hegely, of Urbana, 0,
left her babe on the bed, in care of her four
year old daughter. The babe cried, the
daughter undertook to lift it off from the bed
to soothe it, let it fall, and broke its neck.
The N. Y. Tribune says the sub-treas-
ury has ceased to keep coin and currency re-
ports separate, and therefore will make no
daily report of the amount Of coin psid out
for interest and called bonds and received for
customs. .,t.xsfs ,eg ~
Tue business failures in great Britain
and Scotland during 1878 were 15,O57, OF
which 2,64S we're in financial AID wholesale
and manufacturing branches Of trade. The
increase is 1907 failures last year over the
proceeding year. W
A Springfield, ILL.,, telegram says, freight
traffic which was virtually abandoned on the
Springfield division of the Illinois Central for
several days, was resumed and extra trains
are moving to clear out the accumulated
freight along the line.
It is. reported tnat the peach trees in
southern Illinois are greatly injured by the
recent cold snap, and the prospects for crop
are exceedingly unfavorable Other fruit not
seriously injured. Winter grain is reported
to be in excellent condition.
A special meeting of the Cleveland
board of trade was held Jan. 9th to receive the
report of Geo. 81. Ely, delegate to the recent
lake improvement convention at St. Paul. Mr.
Ely was appointed delegate of the general
committee to meet at Washing ton at a future
date.
X A st. Petersburg dispatch of Jan. It'll,
says, the plague at Astrachan is assuming
serious proportions. Fugitives have carried