New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-06-04

Il, On tho evening 81 the 18th. she - dix.
ty-fve years old.
a WASHINGTON telegram 81 the 26th
says It was authoritatively denied that tho
President had decided not sto approve the
findings Of the Court Of Inquiry - the Fitz-
John Porter case 8
DURNG . recent raid on the South
Fork Of the Salmon River, In Oregon, by mem
bers Of what Is known as the Sheep Eaters
tribe Of Indians, two white men, named Hugh
johnson and PASCAL Dawson, were killed.
FUNERAL services were held over the
remains Of William Lloyd Garrison, ct Rox-
bury, Mass, on the 2sth. Eloquent eulogies
were pronounced by Mrs. Lucy Stone Black
well, Rev. Samuel johnson, Theodore d. Weld
and Wendell Phillips, after which the body
was followed by large number Of people to
its last resting place.
THE President, on the 10Th, vetoed
the act making appropriations for the Legis-
lative, Executive and Judicial expenses Of the
Government for the fiscal year ending June
30, 1880.
On the evening Of the 10Th ult.. cy-
clone swept over portions Of Holt and Noda-
way Counties, Mo-. near Barnard and
Bolckow, about twenty-five miles north of st.
Joseph. It moved At velocity Of sixty miles
an hour, demolishing houses, uprooting and
twisting off trees, and destroying property Of
all descriptions. It moved In northeasterly
direction, and, when several miles east Of
Barnard, suddenly disappeared. Its track,
covering territory half mile wide, was
scene of desolatiOn. A number Of casualties
l occurred.
The Kinds Temperance bill" that
allowing women to vote on the question Of
license, was killed in the Illinois House of
Representatives, on the Both ult., by vote Of
80 to Sc.
AN Island Pond (Vt.) telegram Of the
3Oth ult. says there had so far been eleven
deaths Of the children who drank from the
poisoned brook in that vicinity q few days be.
fore. OF these, five were the children of John
Aldrlch his entire family. Edward Moore
lost two; Fred Simpson, one; L. Wilson,
one; John Cole, one, and Mr.. Park, one
OtherS could not live. Twenty-seven chill
dren were poisoned BY drinking from the
brook. Potato tops, poisoned by Paris-green,
which were thrown into the stream, were re-
garded as the cause Of the poisoning, rather
than the carcasses of dead animals. Terrible
distress prevailed in the town, and work was
suspended The farmer who allowed the car
cases to be thrown Into the water would be
arrested.
DECORATION DAY (30th ult.) was
very generally and appropriately observed
throughout the entire West and East and
many portions of the South. The exercises
mainly consisted, as usual, of PROFESSIONS,
addresses and the strewing of flowers on The
soldiers; graves.
AT the session. at Saratoga, N. T.
IN the 30tn ult., of the Women's Home Mis-
zion Society of the West, resolutions were
adopted instructing the Executive Board,
whenever the new organization authorized by
the American Baptist Home Mission Society
should be properly formed, to transfer the
works, assets and papers to such organize
ton, and also instructing such Board to afiec-
tionately invite their auxiliaries and branches
to transfer their relations to the society in
New York. In the meantime full set Of Of
ticers were chosen to keep up the old organ
ization until they see ft to dissolve. Mrs. J.
n. Grouse, OF Chicago, was elected President.