New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-07-14
West and South.


ACCORDING to the census returns
New Orleans has a population of $50, 239,
against 1917, oil ten years ago.
On the 9Th General Sherman was re-
ceiyed with military honors at Winnipeg,
Manitoba. He was met at boundary of the
Dominion by the Premier and Mayor of Win
nipeg, and escorted by cavalry to the Cap
ital, where he was received by body of
infantry.
ACCORDING to the complete census
returns from every district in Chicago
On the 9Th the boiler of a threshing
machine exploded near Dunkrk, o., killing
seven persons and wounding eight others,
three fatally.
The Iowa Republican State Conven-
ton to select candidates for State officers
will be held at Des Moincs on Wednesday,
August IS.
The Republicans of the Third Min
nesota District have unanimously rcnomina-
ted Congressman w. D. Washburn In the
First District Mark H. Dunnell was renomi-
mated by the regular Republican Convention
and W. G. Ward received the nomination at
the hands of a boiling portion of the Convcn-
ton. The Republicans of the Ninth Illinois
District met on the 18th and nominated John
H. Lewis for Congress, and the Democrats Of
the Fifteenth District John R. Eden and
William Gilmore, there being a bolt in the
last-namcd District.
ACCORDING to the census returns
Toledo has population of 53,635, being a
gain of % 900 in ten wears.
The army worm has made its APP
mento.
On the 9TH the Virginia Readjusters
met in State Convention at Richmond, adopt
ed platform relating to local issues mainly,
but favoring Hancock, and nominated full
Electoral ticket. They also resolved to nomi-
| nate candidates for Congress in all the Dis
tricts in tho State. There were 600 delegates,
including fifty colored men, present.
ACCORDING to dispatches from various
| points in the Northwest in the Chicago Times o.
! the 9Th it appeared that the wheat crop prom
ised to be an average in quantity and quail
ty. In some localities there were complaints
of rust and chinch bugs, as is usually thu
case, but the general outlook was favorable
one. The reports from Minnesota, Dakot:
and Nebraska indicated that the yield would
be the best in many years.
A FARMHOUSE near Franoonia, Chi
sage County, Minn., was destroyed by fire
few nights ago, and two girls, aged three ant
eleven years, respectively, were burned t,
death, and a third, aged seventeen, wa:
frightfully injured. r.........
The loss to farmers by the recent
breaking of the Sny levee is estimated a
100000 on corn, 100000 on wheat an,
100000 on buildings, fences, etc.
HERMAN L. HUMPHREY has been re
nominated for Congress by the Republican
of the Seventh Wisconsin District, and Cyru
c. Carpenter by the Republicans of the Mint
Iowa District. Ex-Congressman H. B. Strai
has received the Republican nomination Il
the Second Minnesota Congressional Distric.
! The Coroner's jury in the case of tn
persons killed by the explosion Of the boile
of the steamboat Mary, at Lake Minnetonka
Minnesota, finds that G. B. Halstead, tn
owner of the boat, was criminally negligen
in not permitting an inspection Of tho boile
by competent engineer.
One of the suits brought by frien,
of Mayor Kalloch for libel on that gentlema
has been dismissed by San Francisco Court
the Judge declaring it as his opinion that tn
suit was not brought In the interest OF th
people.