New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-06

ia ABOUT SO,UOU persons were present AZ ne
publican gathering at Warren, O., on the.
2Sth, over which ex-P President Grant presided.
Senator Conkling made the principal speech.
General Grant, in recent letter to the.
Chairman Of the Republican National Com
mittee, has declined to preside at any more
campaign meetings than those for which ar
engagements had already been made, of which
the above meeting was one.
AT Indianapolis on the night of the 18th
ult. Mr.. James Forester and his wife took
rooms at the Pyle House, and, having blown
cut the gas on retiring, were found in an up-s
conscious state the next morning from having
breathed the escaping gas. MI. Forester
was dead, and his wife was not expected to
live.
THE Supreme Court of California has re-
Gently decided that no county or municipal
officers are to be voted for at the election this
of county convention work by the various
political parties.
The epizootic has broken out among the
horses in indianapolis. .. (
A NATIONAL REUNION of the surviving prfs-
oners of the late war was held at Indianapolis
on the 10th ult. General Streight presided,
and an address of welcome was delivered by
Mayor Caven. Several hundred persons par
ticipated.
The South Carolina Greenback State Con-
vention which met at Columbia on the Goth
ult. nominated full State ticket headed by
L. w. r. Blair for Governor.
THE Greenbackers of the First Illinois Dis
trict have nominated Richard Powers for Con-
gress, and the Republicans of the Third
Arkansas District have nominated Thomas
Boles.
THE boiler of Shaber's Touring mill at st.
Paul, Mimi, exploded a few mornings ago,
totally wreckipg the engine-house and killing
the engineer, Jacob Rapp, young man
twenty-four years Of age.
THE Nebraska Democrats have nominated
Thomas Upton for Govern or.
The Greenbackers of the Fourth Wiscon-
sin District have nominated George Godfrey
for Congress, and those Of the Fourth South
Carolina, J. H. McLane. General John F.
Farnsworth is the Democratic candidate in
the Second Illinois District.
Foreign Intelligence.
A STATEMENT has been recently made by
the United States Consul at Lyons, France,
that the cereal crop of that country this year
will amount to 1O2, OOO, 600 hectolitres, an av-
erage yield. Nevertheless, there will be q
large demand for American wheat. In Ger
many the cereal crop is mediocre one, and
in Russia somewhat of failure.
A TENANT farmer named Sweeney was ar
rested on the 9th on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the killing of the Irish landlord,
Lord Mountmorris. Sweeney was under no.
tice of eviction. In this connection It was
stated that landlords throughout the west Of
Ireland were terribly scared, and were calling
on the Government for the re-enactment of
the Coercion act.
AN Orange meeting, attended by about 500
persons was held in the north of Ireland a
few days ago, at which resolutions were
passed calling on the Government to suspend
trial by jury in murder cases, and declaring
that Americans and other foreigners who
evinced sympathy for tenant agitation should
De expelled from the country.
FIVE men were suffoca ted while cleaning
one of the sewers in Paris few days ago.
THE London Nark Lane Ezpress of recent
date says the wheat crop Was disappointing
to the farmers, and that large quantity
of foreign wheat would be required to mix
with the homegrown article to make it avail
able.
IT is stated that, in view of the unsatis-
factory condition of affairs in ireland, the
British Parliament will be convoked in No
vember.
AN explosion in a coal-mile near Herme,
Prussia, occurred few days ago, by which
eleven persons were killed and eleven others
seriously injured.
A BERLIN telegram of the 18th says the
Powers had on that day peremptorily de-
manded of the Sultan the immediate recall of
Ria Pasha, the Turkish Commander, and the
surrender of DulcignO.
ACCORDING to Candahar dispatch, receiv-
ed in London on the Goth ult., tho Afghan
priests were preaching fresh rising in
Afghanistan, and the condition of the British
army had again become critical.
ONE Cannon has been arrested and COM
mitted to Jail in Galway, Ireland, for the
murder of Lord Mountmorris.
TIE wife of the Russian Consul at Van, q
city in Turkish Armenia, was recently assas-
sinated by robbers.
A CANDAHAR telegram Of the 30th ult. re-
ports gathering Of the friends of the de-
posed Yakoob Khan at Farrah, at which It
was agreed to organize attacks upon the
British until Yakoob was proclaimed Ameer
again.
GAR1BALD1 and his son Menotu have re-
Gently resigned as members of the Italian
Parliament, and it was rumored that they
were connected with revolutionary move
ments.
AN Italian iron-clad, said to be the most
powerful one ever constructed, was recently
successfully launched at Rome, in the pres
ence of King Humbert and large gather
ing of his subjects. The armor Of the new
iron-clad (the Italia) is said to be three feet
thick.