New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-07-02
THE murderer Of Mrs. Hull, Of New

York, was arrested in Boston on the 23d. He
is negro named Chastine Cox, and was
formerly employed as private waiter at Mr.
Hull's house. A portion of the jcwelrY stolen
from the house at the time of the murder was
found in a pawn-shop in Boston, and Mrs.
Hull's watch was found on his person. Ec
made full confession, saying that he entered
the house on the night of the murder for the
purpose of robbery only, and that he did not
! intend to kill her.
A CALL has been issued for a State
Convention of the Greenbackers of Wiscon-
sin, to meet at Watertown on the 18th of
July, to nominate State ticket.
PROFESSOR SWIFT, of Rochester, N.
T., has recently discovered new comet. 1t
is in constellation Perseus, right ascension
two minutes thirty seconds; declination
north, fifty-eight degrees. 1t is quite bright,
and has a short tail, and is moving east of
north aboutone degree per day.
INFORMATION has reached the Treas
ury Department that new counterfeit five
dollar legal-tender note has made its appear
ance in various localities. It purports to be
of the series of 1876 and bears the names of
Allison, Register, and Wyman, Treasurer. It
Is executed on printed imitation fiber, which
is lighter than the genuine. 1t is pronounced
to be dangerous counterfeit.
A FRANKFORT (Ky.) dispatch of the
23d says that, day or two before, party of
unknown men attacked the house Of Samuel
Faulkner, at Sand Rifle, twelve miles dis
tant, severely wounded Faulkner, and then
set the building on fire. The house was con-
sumed, and Henry Russell and Faulkner's
two children, aged twelve and three years, re-
spectively, persisted in the flames.
The Convention of Nationals. who
withdrew from the Columbus Convention
was held in Toledo, Ohio on the oath. The
body refused to nominate State ticket. but
adopted platform declaring that the United
States should exercise its most vital function,
the coinage Of money, independent of any
foreign power; that it should supply the en-
tire currency medium; that all bank issues
should be suppressed; that the so.caled specie
resumption is fraud and a swindle; that the
locking up OF the peoples money in the Treas
ury is an atrocious crime; that the coinage of
the silver dollar of 4l219 grains should be un-
limited; etc.
Miss MARTHA PEET, Chairman of
the Wisconsin Women's Centennial Executive
Committee in 1876, committed suicide at Be-
lott, on the Oath, by hanging. She was tenn
porarily insane.
THE First National Bank of Month
cello, Ind, failed on the Oath.
Rev. HENRY OHAUNCEY REILLY was
consecratcd Episcopal Bishop of Mexico, at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the oath.
A SPECIAL coach attached TO the
Lake Shore e. Michigan Southern express,
containing funeral party bound east, was
thrown from the track and overturned near
Hamburg, N. Y, on the afternoon of the 25th,
the intense heat having spread the rails. o.
shall, of Medina, N. Y, were fatally, and five
others severely, wounded.
G. L. HART and wife, of Kansas City,
Mo-, died on the morning of the 25th, from
the effects Of drinking tea made of stramo-
mum, which Mrs. Hart had prepared thinking
it was bOneset.
A JOINT caucus of the Democratic
members of the United States Senate and
House of Representatives was held on the
afternoon Of the 25th, to receive the joint
report of their Advisory Committees on the
subject Of making further provision for
next years Judicial expenses. The report
presented recommended the passage of two
bills in lieu OF the bill that had just been
vetoed, one to provide for the ordinary e.
penses OF the Courts, and the second ap-
propriating 5000, 600 for fees of United States
Morshals and their Deputies, but prohibiting
the use of any money appropriated for the
payment of Marshals for services In connec-
ton with elections on election days. A reso-
luton was rejected-41 to 70-declaring in
favor of the passage again of the recently
vetoed bill. The report of the Advisory Com
mittee was, after an animated discussion,
finally agreed to, the bills to be reported to
the House through the Committee on Appro-
priatlons.
The River Improvement Convention
proposed to be held in Quincy, ILL.,, in July,
has been postponed until some time in the
Fall, the exact date to be announced here
after. The reason for the postponement is
said to be the fact of the non-ad journment of
Congress, and the consequent inability of
members Of either house to attend.
THE New Hampshire Legislature
adopted resolutions on the 25th, sustaining
the course of the President. The resolutions
received the party VOTE
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, on the evening
of the 25th, Ralph Woods, seven years old,
undertook to kindle a fire in the stove by
pouring kerosene upon the hot embers. An
explosion followed, and the burning oil was
scattered in every direction, fatally burning
Ralph, and slightly burning younger
brother.
At meeting of the Democratic
State Central Committee at Columbus, Ohio,
on the 26tL, John G. Thompson was elected
Chairman. j. Frank Mckinney was appoint,
! ed Chairman of the Executive Committee, and
Irving DUNCAN Vice chairman. During the
| evening, General Ewing and General Rice,
candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Gov
ernor, respectively, addressed the Democracy.
The Maine Republicans held their
State Convention at Bangor on the Goth, and
nominated D. F. Davis, of Corinth, for Gov.
ernor, on the third ballot. The platform
adopted declares that this country lisa Nation,
and not confederation of States; that it is
the right and duty of the Government to pro-
tect the citizens and insure an honest and
| pure ballot; that the action of the Democratic
| majority in Congress is a revolutionary at
tempt to coerce the Executive; pledges to the
President and the Republican members Of
both houses of Congress hearty support in
their efforts In opposition to the alleged revo
lutionary course of such Democratic majority
The boiler of Government tug-boat
exploded on the Missouri River, four milel
below Nebraska City, Neb., on the 9th. caus
| ing four fatalities, and seriously scalding sew