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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
BARNUM'S BEARDED WOMAN.
Death and History Of this Remark.
able Woman.

Syracuse IN. W Telegram to Chicago Tribune.
The bearded woman who
was years ago P. I. Barnum's
greatest attraction, was buried in
the little village Of Liverpool, on
the shore on Onandaga lake yester-
day. She first appeared in Bar
NUNS museum in New York. Like
all curiosities the time came when
she was no longer an attraction,
and she retired from the public gaze,
and not long afterwards became a
resident of Liverpool. The maiden
name of this remarkable woman
was Rebecca Wertgaat. She was
born at Pembroke, Genesee county,
New York, in May, 1924. When
she was quite young she removed
with her parents to Ogdensburg,
where she remained till 1841. In
the mean time she had married a
man named J. r. Lyon, and in
this year she removed with him to
New York, where she remained till
1860. Nothing unusual in the lite
or person Of Mrs. Lyon had been
observed till she reached her forty
fourth year, and then very heavy
dark beard suddenly began to appear
on her face. Neither her features
nor her nature bore any appearance
Of masculines tendencies, and she
was greatly embarrassed by the
growth upon her face. She en-
ployed various means for remov-
ing the fast.growing beard, but
without avail, and it was not long
before it reached her waist. It was
soft and silken like the hair of
child. A suit was instituted against
Barnum for an alleged imposition
upon the public, it being stated
That the woman was an imposter.
After his museum was consumed
by fire, Mrs. Lyon became one Of
the attractions of Col Woods
museum in Chicago, and she was
the wonder Of that city for some
time. She went from Chicago to
museum fin Boston, and a little
while later became connected with
Forepaugh's circus, with which
she travelled over the United States
and Canada. While in Canada
an order for her arrest was made by
civil officer, who declared that he
was imposing on the credulity Of
the people, and not until resident
of the place stepped up and declared
that she was just what she appeared
to be was the order rescinded. Mrs.
Lyons death occurred on Friday.
She was fiftv.Siy We arS old
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

Glencoe Register: Hon. Henry
Poehler has been interviewing our
citizens. We understand that he
feels quite confident of his election,
and as Hancock is to be elected he
is fully persuaded in his own mind
that it will be for the interest Of ON
people to support him, and he was
very much surprised 10 learn from
the lips of his German friends, who
supported him two years ago, that
they could not do it again. Mr..
Poehler IS to be disappointed in his
vote in Nc Leod county.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
Washington Letter.

w. u. o., Sept. llth, 1880.
The publication Of the letter of
Congressman Becltzhoover demo.
cratic member from the 10Th Dis
trict Of Pennsylvania in which he
says that with the present Demo-
cratic House, pension bills do not
have much favor,'' and that <'the
rebel General who is at the head of
the Pension Committee of the Sen
ate is still more averse to allowing
any such bills to pass has created
considerable stir in political circles
here. In spite Of his denial and
denunciation of the letter as an Gin.
famous forgery every one believes
he wrote it, indeed the proof is so
positive that his denial places him
in the same category with Wade
Hampton. The fac-simile of the
letter published in the New York
Tribune of yesterday has been COM
pared with several of his letters on
file in the Departments, and experts
say the hand writing is identical,
and to clinch the proof Pension
Claim Agent Minnich testifes that
Beethoven wrote similar letter to
him, showing beyond question that
the thought was not a stranger to
the unlucky Congressman. Mr..
Beeltzhoover is pleasant gentle
man and has many friends here, all
Of whom regret his unfortunate de.
NAL, knowing that it will bring his
political career to an untimely
end.
But he told only the truth. Re-
publicans know the temper Of Con-
gress since the Democrats obtained
control, in spite of declarations
Of friendship has been hostile to
every interest of the Union soldier,
especially the Pension interest.
Every session since 1876, the atten-
ton of the rebel Brigadiers in Con-
gress has been called to the neces.
sity for increased force in the Pen.
sion Office. Three years ago last
January bill was introduced in
the House to give additional clerks,
the passage Of the bill was urged
for reasons that would have been
sufficient to loyal men. But the
Rebel Brigadiers as Mr.. Beltzhoo-
yer says, were avelse to such bills,
arrived at stage when a pension
claim filed to-day may be reached
and disposed Of in the ordinary
course Of business, ten or twelve
years hence, Last session the
Brigadiers were compelled to take
some notice of the condition Of the
pensioners, but instead of acting
promptly upon the facts that had
been before them three years, they
set up an investigation Committee,
in the interest Of reform and
there rested their endeavors. Mr..
Beeltzhooyer's position in Congress
gave him all excellent opportunity
to form a correct opinion in regard
to the disposition Of his. associates
toward the men who conquered
them. He seems to have used his
advantage to good purpose, and hap
PLY for those soldiers whose love
for Hancock has slackened their
faith in the party they fought I'M
der, he has given the result of his
experience to the public. With
the Rebel Brig adiers III full power,
what hopes have the thousands OF
manned Union soldiers now asking
assistance for the granting of their
claims. This letter, true in every
line, adds another to the many pow
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
Secretary SchuIZ in St'Paul.

Hon. Carl Schurz, secretary of the
interior, arrived here from the West
yesterday at 9 A. NJ, and at noon
resumed his return journey to
Washington. Secretary Schurz has
been absent from Washingt on
several weeks, during which he has
visited most of the important offices
connected with the interior depart
ment in Colorado, Utah, California,
Montana and Dakota. During his
journeyines he has also visited the
Yosemite valley and the National
park. From the latter he came by
way Of forts Custer and Keogh to
Bismarck, and thence to St. Paul,
the railway journey being made in
company of General Manager Sar-
gent in his business car, which was
also furnished for his conveyance to
Chicago.
AS Secretary Schurz had been
delayed on his river trip from Keogh
to Bismarck, until it was important
that he should proceed Immediately
to Washington, he could not re-
main here to accept a compliment
airy dinner and reception, which
was rendered him in behalf Of the
business men Of st. Paul. During
his short stay at the hotel he was
called upon by Governor Pillsbury,
Mayor Dawson, and a few person
al friends, after which he had an
interview on Indian affairs,gat dc.
partment head. quarters with Gen,
Terry. subsequently, accompanied
by Gen. 3. H. Sibley, Maurice Au-
erbach, Esq, and Hon. Albert
Schefer, Secretary Schurz had a
carriage ride about the city, during
which the party called upon Mrs.
Ramsey, at the home residence 81
the secretary Of war. Upon re.
turning to the Merchants he took
9 lunch, and left at 1896 P, M.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

Last Wednesday, train on the
Central rail- Dad, coming from Wells
to Mankato, ran off the track at
lied Jacket Mills, about three miles
from Mankato. Some inhuman
scamp had broken the switchlock,
and then turned it from the main
track on to a stub switch. The
engineer jumped from the engine
into q culYert, breaking the knee.
cap into three pieces. The fire.
man also jumped off but without
receiving any injury. The engine
ran into the bank at the end Of the
stub.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
West and South,


A TEST RACE of 1856 hours duration
between men and horses was concluded in
Chicago on the night of the 18th, one of the
men leading the score by ten miles over the
next best score by one of the horses. The
score of the men who continued to the end OF
the contest was as follows: Byrne, SIS miles,
6laps; Krohne, $3.50; Colston. 1904; Jack
son, 203-2. Horses score: Betsey Baker, 56S
miles; Rose of Texas, SIS miles, 4 laps; Bate
mans entry, 527-3; Crockett, 1882 Byrne
took the first prize. of $4,000; the owner
of Betsey Baker the second, $1,000; Krohne
the third, $780, and Colston the fourth, $780,
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 18th as follows: First Illinois
District, Congressman William E. Aldrich,
Republican,; Third Illinois, Charles B. Far
well, Republican,; Fourth Wisconsin, Con-
gresham P. V. Deuster, Democrat.
The defaulting ex-postmaster at
Deadwood, Dakota, has been sentenced to
three years. imprisonment and to pay q fine
OF s., 900.
YOUNG DEJARNErrE, who killed his
sister at Danville, Va, because she had be-
come an inmate of disreputable house, has
been sentenced to be hanged on the Goth of
October next.
A LITTLE after midnight on the 14th
a mob of 100 armed and masked men rode
into Springfield, Tenn, broke down the door
of the County Jail and took from their cells
six colored men who had been charged with
murder, and carried them away with them.
They were believed to have been hung. A
seventh prisoner was riddled with bullets and
left dead upon the floor of his cell.
On the 18th the Ma tional Committee
Of the Greenback- Labor party issued con-
gratu'atory address from their headquarters
in Washington to the Greenbackers of the
country, felicitating them upon the victory
they claimed to have achiev ed in Maine.
TIE Missouri State Greenback Cen
trail Committee have placed in nomination q
full Electoral ticket, with Andrew Royal and
O. II. Barker as Electors-at-Large.
The old shipping house of George
Howes s. Co., San Francisco, suspended or
the 14th The firm held the agency of Sutton
& Co, New York. Assets and liabilities no.
known.
On the 18th Waitesburg, Washington
Territory, was almost entirely destroyed b,
fire. The flames originated in the Pear
House. A strong wind prevailed, and the
fire spread rapidly in all directions, destroyin.
all but four Of the business houses and thu
greater portion Of the merchandise contained
IN them. One Chiuaman was burned t
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The st. Peter Tribune says that
son of W: c. Gault, aged twelve
years, near Ottawa, while going for
the COWS lately, had a dog With HIM
that Was attacked by three wild
cats. The boy and the dog faced the
enemy bravely and killed all the
wild cats.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Purdy, two old and
helpless persons living in Austin,
were burned to death in their house
on Sunday before last. After the
fire, their bodies were found in the
cellar. They were both born in On.
tario in the year 1906, and had
been married since 1925. The or
igin of the fire is unknown.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

Rev: Stephen H: Tying the elder, of
New York, now in his 81st year, en-
Joys apension of IS, 900 year from
st. Georges church, over which he
was IS years the pastor. His three
sons entered the ministry. The el-
dest died and the others are still in
the work.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
death The loss was between el5aooo and

death The loss was between 3tA,ooo and
$2040O0
On the 18th Henry Mackabee, 3 pris-
on official at Mount Sterling, KY, took two
convlcts with him to wood ten miles from
tho prison for the purpose Of cutting poles
The prisoners, who were armed with axes,
fell ON Mackabee and hacked him to pieces,
and made their escape. Mackabee's body
was discovered the next day.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were
made on the 14th as follows: Sixth Wiscon-
sin District, Richard Gucnther, Republican;
Fifth Wisconsin, Elihu Coleman, Republican;
First Alabama, James Gillette, Republican;
Third Missouri, Gustave Sessinghaus, Re-
publican.
The National Republican Club Con-
vention assembled at Indianapolis on the
10th. General j. r. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana,
was chosen President, with the usual number
Of Vice-Presidents and Secretaries. An adj
dress and platform were adopted and Ma
tional Committee was formed, of (which Frank
lin MacVeagh, of Chicago, was made Presi-
dent and T. N. Nichol, of Racine Wis, Sec
CONGRESSIONAL nominations in tho
West and South were made on the 18th as
follows: Third Maryland District, Joshua
Homer, Jr., Republican,; Fourth Maryland,
Enoch Pratt, Republican; Sixth Maryland, j.
M. Schley, Democrat; Fifth Maryland, W. R.
Wilmer, Republican,; Third Arkansas, Con-
gresham J. E. Cravens, Democrat; Wash
ington Territory, Thomas Burke (Delegate),
Democrat; Eighth Wisconsin, w. c. Silver
ton, Democrat; Third Wisconsin, NJ. M.
Cothren, Democrat; Second Iowa, Roderick
Rose, Democrat; Eighth Iowa, Robert Perez
val. Democrat.
F. L. SHAW has declined the Demo-
cratic nomination for Congress in the Second
Maryland District.
A MILD type of yellow fever was re-
ported on the 10th to be prevailing in the
neighborhood of the quarantine stations on
the lower Mississippi, about seventy-fve
miles below New Orleans.
VIRGIL AND HOUSTON GULLY, indict-
ed for the murder of Gilmer, have been &C
quilted by. a jury at De Kalb, Miss
The celebrated mare Maud S. trotted
mile in 2:11115 on the course OF the Chicago
Jockey and Trotting Club on the 10th.
AMONG the Congressional nomina-
lions on the 10th were the following: Re-
publican-First Missouri District, ex-Gov-
ernor Fletcher. Greenback-Second Mary
land, E. A. Treadway; Third Maryland, ]. H.
W. Onion; Fourth Maryland, Samuel w.
Pierce; Fifth Maryland, Oliver Bryan; Sixth
Maryland, Nathaniel Sener
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
Why The Soutf, is Solid For H ancock

Consider what Lee and Jackson.
Would do we're they alice. THESE
ARE THE SAME PRINCIPLES
FOR WHICH THEY FOUGHT
F'OR FOUR YEARS.. Remember
the men '0ho poured forth their life
blood on Virginia soil, and do not
abandon them now. Remember that
on your cote depends the success of
tho Democratic partly (Wade
Hampton, at the meeting in the in.
terest of Democratic harmony in
Virginia, at Staunton, July 26.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

One man in Green Lake county,
Wis, has had 1 400 cranberry Pick
ers at work, ana another 900. They
had already picked more than last
year, and had not yet reached the
best marsh. Such immense quanti-
ties ought to lower the prices some.
what
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The English wheat crop is report
ed by the Mark Lane Erpress to be
disappointing, considerable por.
ton OF it being blighted. The
yield has been overestimated, and
the quality is bad. Barley is light
and discolored. The Scotch and
Irish crops are good, and nearly all
are now harvested under very favor
able conditions. The root crops
throughout the islands have been
greatly benefited by heavy rain
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

I'm MY OPINION THE BEST
INTERESTS OF THE WHOLE
COUNTRY, NORTH AND
SOUTH, DEMAND THE sue.
CESS OF THE TICKET HEAD
ED BY GARFIELD AND AR
THUR. ~. s. GRANT.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
'Rah For the Minnesota Girl.

Miss Jewett came off victorious at
Dubuqe, Iowa, in the race between
herself and Miss Pinneo. The dis.
lance had been cut down to Is miles,
on account of the lateness of the
hour. Miss Jewett travelled that
distance in 36 minutes.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The burial of Ole Bull took place
at bergen, Norway, on the 23d of
last month. 4 salute was fired
from the fort and from ships in the
harbor. Bjornstjerne Bjornson,
Norway's greatest living poet, ::deliv.
cred an impressive address at the
grave. There We're about 10000
people present and the procession
was immense. King Oscar the II
sent a telegram of coincidence to the
widow of the deceased.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

Maud S. trotted mile last Satur-
day on the track Of the Chicago Jock
ey Club in 2:10a, the best time on
record. She trotted the second quar-
ter in the unprecedented time Of 800
seconds, 1903 gait.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
Foreign INTELLIGENCE.

A DAUGHTER was born to the King
and Queen Of Spain on the 18th.
On the 18th the Catholic Archbishop
of Quebec issued pastoral letter, deploring
the emigration going on from that province
to the United States, and advising that it be
stopped
ACCORDING to the Mark Lane Er-
press of the 18th the English wheat crop was
disappointing, a considerable portion Of it
being blighted. The yield had been greatly
oyerestimated and the quality was indiffer-
ent. Barley was light and discolorcd. The
Scotch and Irish crops were good, and nearly
all had been harvested under very favorable
conditions. The root crops throughout the
island had been greatly benefited by q recent
heavy rain.
EARLY on the morning of the 18th
four pounds of dynamite, connected with a
tube filed with percussion caps and powder,
were found under a rail on the London &
Northwestern Railroad, near Bury, England.
The express train to Scotland had passed
over it, but the tube was shaken from the
track by the motion of the train. There was
no clue to the villains who had placed the
dynamite under the track.
ACCORDING to a London dispatch Of
the 18th the Porte had finally decided to resist
to the last the surrender of Thessaly and
Epirus to Greece.
ALL attempts to resume negotiations
between Russia and China have failed.
On the 18th the Gar appointed a
commission to investigate the subject of the
finances of the Empire with the view of in
PRODUCING extensive reforms in the Russian
financial administration. j;
The Siberian plague has made its
appearance in village near Odessa.
A MAN named Henry Perry, who had
been convicted of an outrageous robbery of a
bank messenger on the Underground Rail-
way in London, was recently brought before
thirty lasEes with the CATO tails and
penal servitude of twenty years. On receiv-
ing his sentence the prisoner screamed aloud
in agony and fear. In concluding that part
of the sentence imposing punishment with
the lash, the Judge said: "lsentence you to
receive this form of punishment before your
long term of imprisonment begins, in order
that, coward as you are, oumay feel the pain
and know what it mcans'
Sir F. X. SEYMOUR, British Vice-Ad-
miral, has been appointed to the command
of the International fleet in Turkish waters.
The imports into France during the
eight months ended August 81 increased by
26O, 100000 francs over the imports of the
corresponding eight months in 1870, and tho
exports by 10S, 000 900 francs. ,
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul railroad company sold more
than $12, ZOO worth of tickets from
Minneapolis to the fair grounds dur
ing the week of the fair.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The following State elections will
yet be held before the Presidential
election ON Nov. I'd: Colorado, Octo-
Der 9Th; Georgia, October 9Th; and
Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia.
October 18th.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
LATE r.,

AFTER session of two or three days
the committees of the regular and re-adjuster
factions of the Virginia Democracy adjourned
sine die on the 18th, without coming to set
Element. 1t was stated that all hopes of a
compromise had been abandoned.
Boston celebrated it's two hundred
and filtieth anniversary on the 18th. An i'm
mense crowd was in attendance and the ccre--
monies passed off satisfactorily. ~
AN explosion in one of the buildings
of the Union Metallic Cartridge Company at
Bridgeport, Conn.,, on the 18th, demolished
the structure and killed three men and two
boys. The force of the explosion was tcrrif-
ic. A lake near by was literally strewn with
fragments of the ruined building. Two of
the bodies of the victims were also found IN
the lake, one with head and arms gone.
NINE men were instantly killed in
the shaft of the Consolidated Imperial Mine
at Virginia City, New, on the night of the
10th. They were being raised to the surface
in the cage, when the cable broke, precipita-
ting them to the bottom a distance of 800
feet.
The following Congressional nomi-
nations were made on the 18th: First Georgia
District, George r. Black, Democrat; Fifth
Maryland, W. R. Smith, Republican; First
Alabama, F. H. Threat (colored) Republican.
The Republicans of the Fourth New
Jersey District have nominated General Jud
son Fitzpatrick for Congress
A RECENT Washington telegram says
the First Comptroller Of the Treasury had
just decided that no decree of court can re-
quire the United States to pay the amount Of
registered bonds to judgment creditors.
The work of taking the census of the
Indians Of the United States will be COM
menced October /.
A VIENNA telegram of the 18th says
the Turks and Greeks had had fight at
Tussi, and that the latter were defeated with
q loss of thirty men.
A CoNsTANT1NoPLE telegram of the
18th says the Kurds had recently devastated
thirteen Armenian villages.
OFFICIALS of the Interior Department
at Washington are said to feel very ntident
that the treaty with the Ute Indians would
finally be signed, since they had received in
formation to the effect that over two hun
dred Southern Utcs had already given their
signatures to the propositions.
The returns from Maine received on
the 18th indicated that Davis, the Republican
candidate for Governor, would have plu-
rality Of between 800 and 400. Four hundred
and ninety towns and plantations had been
heard from which give Davis, q, Sol; Plaisted,
72,5SS; Scattering, 1888; Davis plurality 713,
The small towns yet to hear from gave Davis,
last year, 40; Fusion 1876; Scattering SO-a
Fusion plurality Of s95, which deducted,
leaves Davis plurality Of 3lS. The Legisla.
ture Is Republican in both branches and the
Constituti onal amendments are carried.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

The estate of the late Zach.
Chandler pays tax of 81, 1926 in
Detroit.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22

It is reported that the Prince Of
Wales is in debt to the tune of 81,
100000.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-22
AUG, SCHELL.

RG make ;sa. s:;;s:S IL: ss
tai not required. We will stars
lluU LII you. $l2 a day and upward}
sD3 made by the industrious at home
Men, women, boys and girls wanted eve rywhere
to work fer us. Now is the time. You can de-
vote your whole time to it or only your spare mo-
ments. No other business will pay you nearly as
we'll. No one willing to work can fail to max
enormous pay by engag ng at once, Costly outh
money easily and hOnorably. Address True e. CO
Augusta, Maine.
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