New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-31

was lately sentenced to sixty days imprison-
ment IN the Chicago Jail Tor having attempt
ed to bride . juror ina civil case before one
Of the city courts. a private detective named
Patten, who Is said to have been the gobe-
tween and TO have paid the money, was ar
rested at Wamego, Kansas, on the 23d.
The annual report Of the packing
trade In Chicago shows falling of Of 4OO,-
600 in the number Of hogs slaughtered 90
compared with last year, the decline being
chiefly attributable to the warm weather and
the strikes. Prices have ranged higher this
season than last. It is estimated that II the
entire hog product Of Chicago were packed in
cars there would be train two hundred and
seventy-two miles In length.
A WASHINGTON dispatch OF the z4tn
states that the Interior Department had been
informed that large numbers Of Sitting
Bulls band had applied at Fort Peck for ra-
tions, Offering to surrender their arms and
ponies. These surrenders, Secretary Schurz
stated, would have to be made to the
military posts. The Secretary said he
had every reason to believe that
the balance of the Ute Indians
engaged in the Meeker massacre would be
brought in without delay. One Of the Indians
captured by Jack, and then in Washington,
had been identified by Mrs. Meeker as having
acted In friendly manner toward the ladies
during captivity. Ouray and the other Ute
chiefs who had been In Washington for sew
eral weeks left for Colorado on the evening
of the oath.
The first coal charter Of the season
was made at Buffalo, on the oath, at seventy
five cents per ton to Chicago.
HEAVY snOW-storms were prevalent
throughout the Eastern States on the night of
the oath.
The family Of Edward Westlake, six
persons, in Brooklyn, N. Y, have been
poisoned by an infusion Of jimson weed.
except one on the Oath.
DIR. CABLE, a prominent Pittsburgh
(Pa.) physician, fatally poisoned his ten-year-
old son on the 24th, by administering tea
spoonful Of morphine by mistake for some
Group remedy.
AT Winfield, Kan, few days ago a
barn and smaller building were carried
away by cyclone, and neither had been
found, not even fragment, after ten hours
search.
In the case of the City of Chicago
against the sureties of David A. Gage, lately
defaulting City Treasurer, the Illinois su-
preme Court has decided that the fact that
the bondsmen signed in blank, or with GER
tain blanks to be filed, did not invalidate the
bond. The Court held that the sureties
signed the paper knowing it to be bond, and
that the contingent circumstances were such
that they must have known that Gage was to
act as Treasurer. They made themselves re-
sponsible for the faithful performance of his
duties 40 such official, and in reality each one
constituted Gage HE agent to complete the
bond. s.
A New YORK telegram of the 25th
states that Edison had said he had ascer-
tanned the cause Of the cracking Of some of
the globes containing the incandescent car
bons, and had found means of removing the
cause Of the fracture. This, he said, would
obviate the necessity of annealing the globes,
and keep their cost at twenty-five cents
apiece.
A SPECIAL to the Denver Tribune,
dated March q, says Indians had attacked
party Of six men near Santa Barbara, N. NJ,
killing them all.