New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-16


that class Of criminals.
Two men named James III. Holland
and Charles G. Wobroth, who had confessed
to the murder of man in New Mexico q few
DAYS before, were recently hanged by mob
Of citizens at Denver, Col.
Four Cheyenne Indians were hanged
at Miles City, D. T., on the 7th, having been
tried and convicted on the charge of wound
ing Sergeant Kennedy, of the Signal Service,
and killing private who accompanied him.
AN old man named Joseph Atkins,
aged seventy-one years, living near Green's
burg. Pa, recently shot and instantly killed
his wife, aged seventy-three, and, after tell
ing his nearest neighbor that he had killed
the sold woman" placed the muzzle of the
gun under his chin and deliberately fired and
killed himself. The trouble leading to this
tragedy is believed to have arisen from a
quarrel about little piece of property where
they lived.
The hundredth anniversary of the
burning of Fairfield, Conn.,, by British troops,
under General Tryon, was celebrated at
Bridgeport on the 8th.
A DRUNKEN woman of Jersey City
few days ago visited several saloons in New
York, trying to sell her one-year-old babe for
glass of beer. She was arrested and prom.
ised to reform. +
The Fitchburg Railroad and the
Massachusetts State authorities have come to
Engagement for operating the Hoosac Tun-
mel.
The Arctic exploring yacht JEAN
nette sailed from San Francisco, CAL. on the
Sth. ~.
The boiler of steam-fouring mill
at Carlisle, KY, exploded a few days ago,
throwing the engineer, James Summers, {.
distance of forty feet, mangling him terri
bly,. He died in two hours after the acct
dent.
Mrs. SARAH A. DORSEY, of Mis-
sissippi, who died recently, left will be-
queathing her whole estate, including two
large plantations and an elegant villa at
Bcauvoir, to Jefferson Davis.
The sixth National Convention of
the German Young Mems Christian Associa
ton Of America assembled at Cincinnati on
the Sth.. The annual report of the officers
gives marked evidence of the growth of the
organization during the past year. The fol-
lowing officers were elected: President, F.
Mashmeyer, Jr., of st. Louis; Vice-President,
H. w. Tuerchtcr, of Cincinnati; Correspond
ing Secretary, L. Below, of St. Louis; Treas.
urer, L. Schwartz, of st. Louis. 49,
The reported finding of Charlie
Ross in the Province of Montreal turns out
to be hoax perpetrated by q college student,
who furnished the item to q country paper.
On the 9TH, William G. Reeves shot
bis wife four times with pistol, at St.
Louis candy factory where both were en-
ployed. The cause of the shooting was jeal-
ousy. After the deed was done, and when it
was thought she must die of her wounds,
Reeves flung himself on his knees at his wife's
feet and begged her forgiveness for his act.
The wife, wounded as she was, jumped to her
feet, flung her arms around his neck, and as
sured him that he had not only her forgive
ness but all her love. It. was thought on the
morning of the Sth that the woman might re-
cover
The Secretary of the United States
Treasury has decided that the act exempting
quinine from duty, which took effect July 1,
does no: affect importations made before that
date.
THE Postoffice Department has de-
cided that packages of tobacco bearing inter-
nal revenue stamps can 20 through the mails
rs fourth. class matter.
SECRETARY SHERMAN has stopped
the practice of clerks in the Treasury Depart
ment employing substitutes.
A LARGE number of Mormons ar.
rived at Castle Garden, New York, on the
9th. There were 6S3 adults, who came in the
steamer Wyoming. OF this number, 3S1 came
from Scandinavia, eighty from Switzerland
and Germany, and the others from England
and Scotland. They started at once for Utah.
Most of the men are farmers.
SEVERAL cases of sunstroke occurred
in st. Louis on the 9th, four OF them being
fatal.
GREAT excitement prevailed in Mem
phis on the 9th over the fact that death had
occurred in that city from what is said to
have been well-developed case of yellow fe-
yer, the victim being shoemaker named
Frank Muibrandon. He was taken sick on
the 5th. An autopsy was held by several
physicians, and all agreed in pronouncing the
disease to be yellow fever. None Of the fam
lily of the deceased-consisting of a wife, four
children and sister-in-law-had so far de-
yeloped any symptoms of the disease in their
persons, and the medical fraternity were of
the opinion that Mulbrandon's case was spo-
radio One. -.- g. 49,. ..-<
AT Ellington, Rock Island County,
ILL.,, on the 9th, Lee Robbins, aged twenty
three years. shot and instantly killed his sister
Matilda, aged twenty years, and then shot
himself, dying in half an hour after tho trag-
edy. It seems the sister was engaged to be
married, and was at the time she was shot
getting ready for the ceremony, to young
man named Richards, and that her brother
had several times tried to induce her to break
the engagement, which she persistently re-
fused to do. The murderer and suicide was
very pleasant and respectable young man.
MANToN MARBLE, of New York, was
married to Mrs. A. w. Lombard, wealthy
widow OF that city, on the morning of the 9th.
JOSEPH A. BUzzELL was hanged at
Concord, N. H., on the 10th, for the murder
of his atliauced wife or the I'd of November,
1874.
JUDGE REUBEN NOBLE, the Demo-
cratic candidate for Judge of the Iowa Su-
preme Court, has declined the nomination.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 10th
says DR.. Hamilton, Supervising Surgeon-Gen-
eral of the Marine Hospital Service, did not
apprehend repetition Of the yellow-fever
epidemic of last year in the South. He
thought there might be sporadic cases, but
considered that the precautions taken would
prevent any spread of the disease.
By the explosion of a powder mag
azine near the Standard mine at Bodie, Cal,
on the 10th, the Incline works were blown to
atoms. and everything near them was leveled
to the ground. The Summit works, short
distance of, were shattered to pieces, and
many men were killed, and number of 9th
ers wounded.
FIVE new cases Of yellow fever and
one death were reported in Memphis on the
naoruipne Of 10&l, h,,4l ato