New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-28

hallucination that her stomach was gone
No amount of persuasion could convince
her to the contrary, and she from
that time persistently refused to take food
After she had suffered from starvation fol
nearly two weeks she was prevailed on tC
take little meat, which she was in the habit
of holding in her mouth short time, swal
lowing nothing but the juice pressed out OF
1t. This and few ounces of liquid was all
that entered her stomach during her long fast
of four weeks. She remained conscious till
within an hour of her death. ....
THE Supreme Court of the, United
States has rendered decision that soldiers
who enter soldiers homes cannot be deprived
of their pensions, thus sustaining former
ruling of the Commissioner of Pensions that
such pensions should not be paid to the Off
GERS of the homes, but to the pensioners
themselves.
BEFORE the House Committee on In.
dian Affairs on the 10Th General C. B. Fish
arraigned the Indian Bureau for incompe
tency, and charged it with responsibility fol
the Ute revolt. Among the reasons assigned
by him for the rebellion of that tribe was
that they were cheated out of their lands
that the Government failed to pay them
their annuity; that from 1876 TO 1878 supplies
were not furnished them; that the sale Of
arms and ammunition on the White River
reservation had been forbidden, and thai
Agent Mceker was an iniudicious and unfit
man. Commissioner Hayt denied many Of
the Generals assertions, and attributed the
abuses in the service to his predecessor in Of
flee.
THE jury in the case of Rev. Mr.
Hayden, on trial at New Haven, Conn, fol
the murder of Mary Stannard, after being
out three days and three nights, were obliged
to report themselves on the 10Th as unable
to agree, and were accordingly discharged
For the first three or four ballots after thei
retirement they stood at eight and nine fol-
acquttal and four and three for conviction
and at the last all but one of the twelve were
ready to bring in verdict of acquittal.
AN Oswego (Kansas) dispatch of 8
recent date says negro emgrants from Texal
continued to arrive in that county in great
numbers on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Railroad, and by trains across the Indian
Territory. The winter was mild, but house
room was not to he had for them. Some
were living in tents and wagons in the woods
Some deaths had taken place, and some sui
fcring from poverty
The Illinois State Board of Agricult.
ure reports that the corn crop of the State
for 1879 amounted to the grand total Of 3O5,
913,377 bushels, for which the producers re-
ceived $97,4S3,052.
SETH a. TERRY, the Secretary of the
Territorial Savings, Building IL Loan Asso
citation at Washington, ID. G., has been de-
clared to be a defauter in the sum of $25, OOO
Two CHILDREN Of A. j. Wilson SET
fire to their fathers stable at Chatham, Ont,
a few days ago, and were burned to death.
THE Fusion Senate and House con.
vened In Union Hail. at Augusta, Me-, on the
10th. In the Senate only short session was
held and no business of Importance was trans
acted. In the House resolutions were adopt
ed creating committee to submit certain
questions to the Supreme Court, and com
mittee to consider the question of pay and
mileage of members. In the Republican
House communication was received from
ton of the charges of bribery preferred
against him in the Fusion Legislature. A
resolution was adopted declaring the State
Government fully established, and denounc.
ing all other bodies pretending to be part OF
the State Government as unconstitutional
Four members of the Fusion House appeared
and took part in the proceedings. The safe
in the office OF the Secretary of State was
opened by machinists. There were no yalua-
bic papers in it, nor the seal of the State OF
official election returns. A new seal was Or
dered by the Legislature.
On the goth the Harrisburg (Pa.)
Grand Jury again found true bills against
Kemble and several prominent politicians
and legislators for corrupt solicitations and
bribery of members of the Legislature in the
interest Of the Pittsburgh Riot Losses bill.
The bills first found were quashed for in
formality.
HE Legislature of Maryland has
elected Mr. Arthur German Democrat) to
the United Senate Senate, to succeed Mr..
Whytc, whose term expires on the 4th of
March, 1881.
A CH1NAMAN who was to have been
executed at Portland, Ore, on the Goth, COM
mittcd suicide the night before by strangling
himself in his cell.
A Los P1Nos telegram of the 18th
says Chief Douglas came to Chief Shawana
nos camp on the 18th two miles below
the agency, and sent him to the office for ra-
tions. Major Sherman, in Charge refused
his request, and on the 18th Douglas came to
the agency and renewed his demand in per.
son. He was again refused, which created
much dissatisfaction among both the Tn.
compahgre and White River Utes. There
was much uneasiness among the Indians in
regard to the pending negotiations at Wash
ington, on account OF designing parties hay
ing circulated report that as soon as Ouray
returned the Utes must go.
The Cincinnati Times of the 21st
says it had positive information from a,,-
thor.tative sources that the National Demo-
cratic Convention will be held at Music Hall
in that city.
AMONG the Executive documents laid
before the National House of Representatives
on the 2lst was q communication from the
Secretary of the Treasury stating that the
United States Sub-Treasurer at New York
had for some time employed the New York
Clearing House to facilitate the transaction
OF his business. That arrangement with the
Clearing House was entered into in Novem-
Der, 1878, after he had obtained the verbal
opinion OF the Attorney General that such an
arrangement would not be contrary to law.
A TELEGRAM received at the Interior
Department in Washington on the 21st states
that Walter r. Irwin, of Illinois, Chief of the
Private Land Division Of the General Land
Office, was found dead in bed at Mobile on
the morning of that day.
THE Maine Republican Legislature
elected Samuel A. Holbrook State Treasurer
on the 2lst. No other business of Importance
was transacted. The Fusion House met in
Union Hall, and motion was entered to re-
consider the vote ordering the preparation of
questions for submission to the Supreme
Court, and on this motion several members
spoke and said the people mad had enough of