New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-09-24
THE NEW WORLD.

WILLIAM kEENE, Assistant Cashier OF
the Minneapolis (Minn.) Northwestern Ma
tional Bank, was arrested on the 18th for en-
bczzling S135, 900 of the funds of the bank.
Hc says he lost his money in Chicago wheat
deals.
A REUNION Of the prisoners of war
during the rebellion will be held at Toledo,
Ohio, on the LIST and I'd of October next.
AMRs. BoNEsTEEL, effort Scott, Kan,
gave her two children morphine ON the 18th
and they died. She then tried to hang herself,
but was discovered and cut down before life
was extinct. She had been deserted by her
husband.
The printed report of the Commits
sioner of Education for 1877 shows tho in
come for all the States and Territories IVY
oming not included) to be $S6, SOC, 1866; ex-
penditures wyoming OF included) $SO,233,-
ass. School population for thirty-eight States
and Territories, 14,727,74S; number of nor
NAL schools, 152, with ], 1S9 instructors, 37OS2
pupils and 2, 7G3 graduates, of whom 1874 are
teaching. Ohio reports the greatest number
of normal schools-fourteen.
ERNEST Won SCHoEN1NG, of Brook
Ign, in swimming match at New York a
few days ago, won the championship of
America and II 500. Captain Webb, of En-
gland, and Daily, of California, were his COM
pctitors. e... .
A LITTLE seven-year-old boy died of
hydrophobia in Philadelphia, few days ago,
the result of bites by dog inflicted about
two months before.
The Grand Lodge of the United
States of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows began it's tifty-ifth annual session at
Baltimore on the 18th, John B. Harmon,
Grand Sire, presiding. The report Of the con-
dition of the Order at the present time is as
follows: Number of Grand Lodges, 50; Sub
ordinate Lodges, 6,975; Grand Encampments,
80; Subordinate Encampments, 1858; Lodge
limitations IS, $50; Lodge members, 442,291
Encampment members, S2,40S; total relief,
1,74o,4o5; total revenue, 81, 266 9s6 decrease,
1850
GENERAL SICKLEs is visiting Paris
with the view of organizing joint French
American Commission under the Presidency
Of General Grant, to make definite choice
between the Panama and Nicaragua Canal
schemes. ~
AUSTIN BURCHARD, uncle of Presi-
dent Hayes, an old and honored citizen Of
Windham County, VT, died at Fayetteville in
that State on the 18th.
JEFFERSON DAVIS is represented as
saying, in a recent letter, that his name will
not be, with his consent, included among the
candidates for United States Senator from
Mississippi
The Kennebec one Journal of the
10th publishes official returns from the entire
State with the exception of twenty small
towns and plantations, with the following re-
suit: Davis (Rep.), 6S,O12; Smith Green
back), 47,0sS; Garcelon (Dem.), 21,1S1.
Davis plurality over the Greenback ticket is,
according to these figures, 2O924, and over
the Democratic ticket, 1881. The returns
from the remaining towns will not essentially
change the result. Davis will lack thousand
votes Of having majority over both COM
petitors.
The monthly report of the Depart
ment Of Agriculture, issued on the 18th,
shows the general average OF the cotton crop
to be eighty-Ave, against nincty-onc the
month previous. The average condition Of
corn In the whole country on the LIST was
nincty-ay against ninety-threc in August.
The tobacco crop averaged eighty-seyen, an
advance Of ten per cent. over August and Of
The Democratic State Convention q
Massachusetts was held at Worcester on thu
nth. General B. r. Butler was nominated
s for Governor; A. 9. Woodworth for Lcnten
B AntrGoyernor, and Michael ]. Donohue fol
Secretary Of State, The platform adopted