New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-11
THE NEW WORLD.

THE NEW WORLD.
A PANAMA dispatch, received on the
I'd, says Dc Lcsscps had eight working par
ties-over one hundred and thirty-fve men-
surveying the Isthmus for the Inter-Oceanic
Canal.
PRINCESS LOUISE, the wife OF the
Governor General of Canada, reached Hall
fax on the I'd. She was accorded a princely
reception.
On the evening of the I'd Mr.. Parnen
delivered All address concerning the evils and
injustice of the Irish lant-tcnure to large
audience 10 the hall Of the House OF Repre-.
scntatives at Washington. Speaker Randall
presided, and several members OF Congress
were present.
On motion of Mrs. Belva A. Lock-
wood, Samuel r. Laurey, colored man and
President Of colored college or academy at
Huntsville, Ala, was on the I'd admitted to
the bar Of the Supreme Court in Washing
ton. He Is the fifth person of his race who
has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme
Court, but 80 far none of them have had any
cases.
j. The public-debt statement for Janu-
airy makes the following exhibit: Total
debt Qncluding intcrest), $2,2O4, SIG, 500. Cash
in Treasury, 1903, 74226S. Debt, less amount
in Treasury, 81, 900, 7s4,241. Decrease during
the month, 81, 014,264. Decrease since June
80, 1879, s26423,o15.
ABOUT twenty colored persons, in
Guiding four women and three infants, arrived
at New York City on the I'd, the first party
reaching that city of colored people leaving
the South
REV. COwLEY, the keeper of the
New York Shepherd 8 Fold, pleaded not guilty
on the I'd to twenty-five indictments charging
him with starving and ill-treating the chill
dren In his care.
DURING the ten days preceding the
I'd Mr.. and Mrs. Yost, of Alpine Township,
Kent County, Mich, lost seven children from
diphtheria. Their ages ranged from three to
twenty-threc years.
The total coinage at the United
States Mint and branches for the last month
was 9,576, 800 OF this amount 81, $50 600 were
in standard silver dollars.
SECRETARY SHERMAN issued circu-
lar on the Sd, inviting proposals for the sale to
the Government of five and six-per cent. bonds
to the amount of si1 100000.
The Connecticut Republican State
Convention for electing delegates to the Ma
tional Convention will be held at New Haven,
April T. The New Jersey Convention is to be
held on the 9th of May.
CHARLES DECKER, prominent citi-
zen of Newark, N. j., blew his head off on the
Sd with O cannon loaded to the muzzle with
powder and slugs.
VIOLENT snow and wind storms pre-
vailed throughout the East on the I'd and Sd.
At New York, on the Sound and along the
Jersey coast the wind blew hurricane on the
Sd. Nearly all the summer resorts suffered
severely. brakeman was blown from a
Hudson River Railroad train and killed. At
Atlanticville, N. j., the Captain of brig shot
himself when he saw that his vessel must be
wrecked.
The Milwaukee (Wis.) County Hos
pital was destroyed by fire on the morning Of
the Sd. The building contained thirty in
mates, and Of these all escaped except Mrs.
Christine Nelson, a feeble-minded woman,
ninety years old, and Fred Scharff, an insane
man, both of whom persisted in the flames.
A BAND of regulators to the number
OF about twenty entered the dwelling of
family named Donnelly, at Lucan, Ont, on
the night OF the Sd, and murdered the father,
mother, one son and niece, and then set
fire to the premises. The neighborhood had
suffered severely from thieves and incendi-
aries, and as the Donnellys were supposed to
be the. guilty parties, the wrath of the mob
fell on them. A boy named Connors, belong
Ing to the village, was staying in the house
over night. When the attack was made he
crept under the bed without being discovered.
When the murders were committed, the house
fired and the gang decamped, the boy
emerged from his hiding place, started for
the village and informed the authorities.
Another son, residing about three miles from
the homestead, was called to his door about
the same hour and shot dead.
The Pennsylvania State Republican
Convention met at Harrisburg on the 4th, and
selected Delegates-at-Large to the National
Republican Convention, instructing them, BY
Q vote Of 1873 to 113, to vote for u. s. Grant,
and to cast their votes as unit. John A.
Lemon was nominated for Auditor General;
Hon. Henry Greene, for Judge of the Supreme
Court, and E. L. Benson and Henry w. OIL
yer, for Electors at-Lsrge, Resolutions were
adopted, deprecating further financial legisla-
ton; advocating continued adherence to the
tariff policy of the last twenty years;
opposing the establishment of new tariffs
through commercial treaties; reaffirming adj
herence to the following principles: the.
Union Of the States, protection to person and
property In every portion of the country, the
strict performance Of all obligations, security
and freedom of thought, speech and press,
free and pure ballot, honesty in elections, and
an honest count Of ballots; congratulating
the Maine Republicans on their late victory:
deprecating the growing tendency TO set aside
elections on technicalities and informalities:
ETC., etc. 0
IT was announced on the 4th that the |
proprietor Of the New York Herald had given
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