New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-09-29
OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.

EPlT0ME OF The WEEK.
Interesting News Compilation.
From Washington.
On the 18th Acting Postmaster General
Hazen issued an order to exclude from
the mails all registered letters containing
postal money orders addressed to agents Of
alleged fraudulent lotteries at Louisville and
Covington. KY, and New York City.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has is
sued circular instructing the Assistant
United States Treasurer at New York to pay
out at his counter, until further notice,
standard silver dollars, or silver certificates In
sums OF ten dollars, or any multiple there
| OF, for like amounts of gold coin, or gold
bullion, deposited with him.
MICHAEL JOYCE and John G. Berry, while
handling Calling gun at the United
States Arsenal, Washington, D. c., on the
18th, were shot and instantly killed.
IT is stated that more than 6,000 patents
will expire during the present year, many
of them being important
ACCORDING to Washington dispatches OF
the I'D the demand for standard silver dol
lars was steadily increasing. During the
week ended September IS 1922, 900 was issued,
against 100000 for the previous week. 1t
was said the Treasury Department had d.
rected SIS, 100000 silver certificates to be
printed, the first order for which, based on
the gold deposit In New York, had just been
received by the United States Treasurer. 1t
was for s25,OO0 certificates to be paid in st.
Louis at the Sub Treasury.
Ex-PREsIDENT GRANT has recently written
letter to Marshall Jewell, Chairman of the
Republican National Committee, declining to
preside at any campaign meetings.
The East.
A FEW days ago Wilkesbarre (Penn.)
family ate some corn-meal In which arsenic
had been mixed for the purpose of poisoning
rats. Three, Miss Sylvania Carl, her sister
and Mrs. r. s. Woodward, died from the ef-
fects, and it was thought on the Goth that
four others could not survive.
On the Goth more than half the horses
of Boston were suffering from disease
strongly resembling the epizootic, although
of mild type. Veterinary surgeons believed
that every equine in the city would be at
tackled by the disease. 1t was feared it
would spread to other parts Of the country.
EX-SENATOR LAFAYETTE s. FOSTER, of
Connecticut, direct descendant of Miles
Standish, died a few days since. He was
Senator at the time of the death of President
Lincoln and on Mr.. Johnson's elevation to
the Presidency became ce-President of the
United States, which position he held for a
few months until his term expired.
ON the Goth the Republicans of the Four
teenth Pennsylvania District nominated
ex-senator Simon Cameron for Congress.
Mr.. Cameron declined, and the nomination
was given to Samuel F. Barr, for many years
his private secretary.
GEORGE W. HEWITT has been nominated
for Congress by the Greenbackers of the
First Connecticut District.
THE ladies Of the Congregational Churches
of the United States have been invited to
attend Woman's Home Missionary Conven-
ton, to beheld in the First Church, Lowell,
Mass, October 5.
On the 21st the New Hampshire State
Prohibitory Central Committee met in Con-
cord and nominated Congressman, Electors
and State officers.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made
on the 2lst as follows: Fourth Connect
cut, George W. Peck, Democrat; Thirty
first New York, Congressman Richard Crow
ley, Republican,; Twelfth Pennsylvania, D.
w. Connolly, Green back; Third New Jersey,
Congressman Miles Ross, Democrat; Third
Massachusetts, Major A. Dearborn, Demo-
crat.
On tho 21st the Maine State Greenback
Convention met at Portland and adopt
ed resolutions indorsing the proposed Fusion
Electoral ticket. After the adjournment of
the regular Convention Scion Chase and
about twenty others, calling themselves
"straight Greenbackers," nominated anoth-
Or Electoral ticket.
The Massachusetts Greenbackers met in
State Convention at Worcester few days
ago and nominated full State ticket, head
ed by General Horace B. Sergeant for Gov
ernor. Resolutions opposing the use Of
liquor and tobacco, indorsing Scion Chase's
bolt in Maine and condemning General But
Ter for joining the Democratic party were
tabled.
TIE Democrats of the First New Hampshire
and the Fifth New Jersey Districts have NOM
mated A. H. Sulloway and Augustus w. Cut
Ter Tor congress, respectively.
A YOUNG Chinaman, q student at Spring
field, Mass, has lately embraced Christianity,
and, in consequence, has been ordered home
by his parents He consulted with Secretary
Evarts, and found that the treaty between
the United States and China stipulated that
the Chinese in this country should enjoy en-
tire liberty of conscience, and be exempt
from all disability or persecution on account
of their religious faith or worship.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on
the 23d as follows: Third New Jersey
District, w. L. Hope, Greenback; Sixth New
Jersey, Edward Balbach, Jr., Democrat;
Ninth Massachusetts, M. j. McCafferty,
Democrat; Thirty third New York, H. A.
Balcom, Democrat; Thirty-second New York,
Jonathan Scoville, Democrat.
On the 23d the one hundredth anniversary
of the capture OF Majo Andre at Tarrytown
was appropriately celebrated at that place. A
statue Of Patriotism was unveiled on the spot
where Andre was captured, and at the same
hour of the day. The grafton was delivered
by Mr.. Chauncey NJ. Depew. Messrs Nlden
and Clarkson N. Potter also delivered ad-
dresses.
Snow fell on Mount Washington, N. a., on
the morning of the 23d.
MRS. GRACE, of Philadelphia, mother of
two little girls who were killed in the recent
railroad disaster at Mays Landing, N. j.,
died recently from the shock to her system
produced by the death of her children.
West and South.
On the evening of the 10Th the National
Liberal League, in session at Chicago, adj
journed to meet next year at q place to be
announced by the Board of Directors. r. G.
Spencer, Chairman of the Committee on
Future Works, failed in an attempt to have
the resolution relative to the repeal of the
Objectionable Postal laws modified in man
ner similar to that proposed by Colonel Inger-