New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-25
WEST AND SOUTH.


on the 10Th that several large manufacturing
establishments had shut down and dismissed
their hands, and would not resume until the
validity Of the Anti-Chinese law had been
passed upon.
A Los P1Nos dispatch of the 10th
says that promptly at the expiration of ten
days, as promised, Captain Jack rode up to
the agency with three of the twelve prisoners
demanded by the Government, viz. Chief
Douglass, Tim johnson and Thomas. Jack
was very reticent, and declined to state how
or in what manner the capture was
effected. Sowerwick returned several hours
later, but brought no prisoners. Jack
assured General Adams that, owing
to the depth of the snow on the mountains
and scattered locations Of the camps, it would
take at least three weeks to capture the re-
naming nine prisoners. Chief johnson, one
of the prisoners demanded by the Com
mission, sent regrets at being unable to &C.
company the party to Washington, giving as
reason that he was the medicine man, and
had q very sick patient, whom he could not
leave.
A LARGE quantity of provisions and
clothing was distributed to the destitute
colored refugees in Kansas City on the 17th
The heavy floods on the Ohio, Ten
nessee and Cumberland Rivers were receding
on the 18th. house containing a family Of
nine persons, near Maytield, KY, was washed
away on the night of the 10th, and oil the in
mates were drowned.
The statement that thousands of ad-
venturers were gathering in Southern Kansas
preparatory to a raid on Indian Territory was
confirmed by dispatches from that quarter on
the night of the 18th.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has
recently decided that the legal name of
person consists of one Christian name and
surname. Any one may have as many middle
names, or initials, as are given to him or as
he chooses to take. They do not affect his
legal name, and may be inserted or not in a
deed or contract without affecting its validi-
ty. Nor does a mistake in the middle initial
OF name, in a deed: in any way affect its
validity.
The Georgia Republican State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Augusta
on the 2lst of April, to choose delegates to
the National Convention and transact other
business 81.
The colored men of Texas in State
Convention at Galveston on the 18th, adopted
resolutions approving of emigration from
States east of the Mississippi river, denying
the necessity of emigrating from Texas, show
ing the advantages offered by the State to
those seeking new homes, and inviting their
colored brethren to turn toward Texas instead
Of more northerly States.
Two MEN of Marion County, Ohio,
claim to have solved the problem of perpetual
motion. A model of the machine which they
have in operation has been sent to Washing
ton for patent The machine consists of q
large iron wheel containing large number
of Sides inclined planes, ETC., and it is claim
ed that it will set itself going.
NEAR Leedsburg, Va, on the night
Of the 18th a negro who had feloniously as
saulted white woman was lynched. The
woman was among the lynchers, and was per
mitted to fire at the victim as he was drawn
into the air. She fired fourteen revolver
shots into his dangling body.
A BOILER in Peoria Oily distillery
exploded few evenings ago, wrecking the
/ building Two men were instantly killed,
two fatally injured and three others seriously
burned. w
A NUMBER of colored emigrants from
Mississippi arrived at Leavenworth, Kansas,
on the 10Th. They designed settling on the
line of the Kansas Pacific Railroad.
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