New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-04-21

BILLS granting pensions to q number
of persons were passed In the Senate ON the
18th, and the Geneva Award bill was further
discussed. :. Bills were passed in the House.
providing construction fund for the Navy,
m biz III Was debste sd1 IN
| Committee OF the Whole, and an evening ses-
sion vas held for the consideration ct bills re-
| several of which were passed. &c.
| Domestic.
CHAsr1NE Cox (colored), who was
convicted Of the murder of Mrs. DR.. Hull,
and Pietro Balbo, wife-murderer, have
been re-sentenced to be hanged in New York,
May %. The Court OF Appeals was asked to
give them new trial, which was refused in
both cases.
IT was stated on the 18th that there
were 5000 immigrants then in New York
waiting transportation to Iowa, Dakota, Wis
sonsin and Minnesota, and each arriving
steamer brought large additions to the num-
Der. Among the latest arrivals were thirty
families from Finland, bound for Minnesota.
| suits Of skin. ..- r
THOMAS BOYD, q foolhardy athlete,
jumped from bridge to the water, 120 feet
below, at Munfordville, KY, on the 18th.
He escaped injury. ~. &c.,. ..
ON Mount Washington, in New
Hampshire, on the 18th, the wind blew furi-
ously and the thermometer registered twelve
degrees below zero.
AFTER monthly advance in the
price Of nails since last fall, the Western Iron
Association has, owing to the stagnation In
<ho II
A SQUAD of revenue officers recently
surrounded the stronghold Of Buck Single
ton, the notorious moonshiner, in the noun
tains of North Carolina, and, after sharp
fight, drove the outlaws from their position.
One Of the Federal troops was killed and
several wounded. The crooks retreat, which
was surrounded by q heavy palisade, con-
tanned sixteen stills and 1900 gallons of
whisky, all of which were destroyed.
"A New ORLEANS boy, who was exer-
cising in gymnasium on the 18th, was acct
dentally strangled to death by getting his
head In swinging-rng.
THE Government receipts from the
tobacco tax for the first six months Of the
fiscal year, compared with the corresponding
period Of the last fiscal year in all the dis
tricts which returned $4,000 and upward
during the fiscal year, show total increase
Of S776, 100.
The Board of Directors of the Ma
tional Rifle Association have decided to &C.
cept the Irish challenge, the match to take
place the last week of June-on Irish soil.
IT was stated on tho 18th that Den
yer boy, three years of age, who recently
swallowed solution of concentrated I've,
must die Of starvation. His throat had grown
together, rendering it impossible for him to
take nourishment, except few drops Of milk
or soup, and the surgeons Of Cincinnati,
where he had been taken for treatment, said
there was no hope for him. 9s
THE Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
has awarded Charles H. Worthen $45,ON
damages for the loss of leg by railroad
collision at Detroit several years ago. On
two previous trials the verdicts against the
company were for $4,000 and $4,000. "
DISPATCHES of the, 18th state that
frost for three consecutive nights had seri-
ously damaged fruit in the vicinity of Au.
gusta, Ga.
EXTENSIVE forest fires were prevail
ing in New Jersey on the 14th. A district of
dense pine forest and cedar swamp fifty
miles lonS nj ten miles wide, had besa
burned over, and the fires were still raging.
Thousands of game and other birds and many
cattle had been suft0cated. The smoke was
90 dense that the sun had not been seen for
two days. The district burned over was
sparsely populated. r
A MAN and woman who arrived at
Baltimore few days ago, with 1900 other
immigrants, have been sent to the smallpox
hospital in that city. 1t is feared that germs
of the disease may have been disseminated
among their companions, who left immedi-
ately for the West. is. -. -
A SEVERE shock OF earthquake was ex-
perienced at San Francisco on the 18th.
Buildings rocked, but no serious damage is
reported.
On the 18th Warren (Va.) woman,
who interfered when her husband was pun
ishing their son, was thrown by the Infatuated
father from a ladder on which she was stand
ing and instantly killed.
A BILL to suppress stock gambling
has been defeated in the California Legis-
lature. =. a5%,y
A NEW York telegram of the 18th
says the butter merchants of that city were
seeking an alliance with the dairymen Of the
country, that Congressman may be Influenced
to enact laws to prevent the adulteration of
butter and to regulate the sale of oleomar-
garine. ~
DANIEL MILLER and Charles Frazer
were digging well near Gordonsville, Pa, q
few days ago. Miller descended, and, not
being heard from, Frazer went down to ascer-
tain the cause of the trouble and was speedily
overcome by gas before assistance arrived
Both are dead.
By an explosion of gas at the works
of the New York Gas-Light Company on the
afternoon Of the 18th three men were serI-
ously burned, one fatally.
WHILE some men were raising q
bridge in Newmill, N. j., the other day, the
steel and iron works Of the beam fell, killing
William Obendenfer and Lewis Powell.
Two ENGLISH merchants, who ar
rived In New York on the 14th, blew out the
gas when they retired at their hotel at-night.
They were found insensible next morning, and
one was said to be likely to die.
GENERAL SCHOFIELD stated on the
18th that the public had got wrong i'm
preston that the investigation then in prog
ress at West Point In the Whitaker case was
the hrst. The fact was that, upon the pre-
sumption that the guilty parties were in the
corps Of cadets, the Commandment of the corps
had used all his powers in 9 thorough and ex-.
haustive investigation, and then sent his
report Of failure to ferret out perpetrators to
the Superintendent General schodeld then
ordered Court Of Inquiry to Investigate the
imputation cast upon Whitaker. A wealthy
citizen Of New York had offered 5000 re-
ward for tho detection and conviction Of the
persons who assaulted Whitaker.
THREE men were fatally burned at
the Pehnsylvania Steel Works, Harrisburg,
on the 18th, BY the overturning Of ladle
containing from six to seven tons Of molten
steel. Seven other men we're seriously, but
It was thought not fatally, injured ct the
same time.
A PEW days ago William Chambers,