New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-24


members of Congress in the enterprise with
view to ultimate appropriations by the
General Government.
Personal and Political.
On the 18th the Pope named Right
Rev. Michael Heiss, Bishop of La Crosse
Wis, as Coadjutor, with the right of success
sion to the venerable Archbishop Hcnni, of
Milwaukee, Rev. John A. Watterson, Pres-
dent of Mount St. Mary's College, Emmetts-
burg, Nd, was also appointed Bishop of Co.
lumbus Ohio.
Rev. DIR. MORGAN DIX, the rector of
the New York Trinity Church, and other citi-
zens OF New York have recently been made
the subjects OF great annoyance by some
anonymous person, who has written forged
letters and postal cards to various people,
on all sorts of pretexts, in their names. The
motive OF the writer is unknown.
HON. JOHN B. HAwLEY, United States
Assistant Secretary of State, rendered bis
resignation on the 18th.
The President has confirmed the SEN
tence of the court-martial dismissing Major
Reno from the service.
A BILL repeating the law prohibiting
the intermarriage of whites and blacks has
been defeated in the Rhode Island Legis-
lature
DENIS KEARNEY. the San Francisco
agitator, recently arrested on charge of
using incendiary language in his sand-lot
harrangues, was tried for the offense and
convicted on the 18th, and was sentenced on
the 10th to six months hard labor in the
House Of Correction and to pay fine Of 81 900.
| The magnitude of the sentence was
surprise to Kearney and his counsel. In
| expectation of nominal sentence the latter
had neglected to demand jury trial, and
having now no recourse in that direction they
at once filed an appe al to the Supreme Court,
furnishing bonds in the sum Of 5000.
The Massachusetts, Prohibitory State
on the Goth of April.
TIE Missouri Democratic State Con-
| vention to elect delegates to the Cincinnati
| Convention Is to be held at Moberly on the
26th of May. The Convention for the nomi-
| nation of State officers will be held on the
2lst of July, at Jefferson City.
The Republican State Convention of
Louisiana will meet at New Orleans on the
Gath of May.
The Michigan State Greenback Con-
scntion met at Jackson on the 18th. H. c.
Hodge, of Jackson, was made Chairman, and
David Parsons, of Wayne, Secretary. The
time for the meeting of tho National Con-
vention being so near, no report was made
by the Committee on Resolutions. The fol-
lowing delegates to the National Convention
were chosen: H. 8. Smith, Grand Rapids;
M. w. Field, Detroit; Walter Childs, st.
Joseph County; Hubbard Ia ylor, Bay City.
The Connecticut House of Repre-
sentatives on the 18th passed-by a vote of
100 to 9S-a bill for female suffrage on license
matters.
WASHINGTON specials of the 18th an
nounce that ex-senator Christiancy, who is
now Minister to Peru, has authorized an at
torney In Washington to bring suit for divorce
against his young wife. It is said to have
been no secret for long time among Mr..
Christiancy's friends that he did not live hap
! PLY with his wife, and that unhappiness COM
menced very soon after their marriage
THE Wisconsin Legislature adjourned
sine die on the 17th 81
AT meeting In Chicago on the 18th
| Of the Illinois State Central Committee of the
National Observation-Disclosures party It was de-
cided to drop the word "National' from the
name, and call was ordered for the State
Convention to meet at Springfield on the 2lst
| Of April. H.
The committee of the Maine Legis-
lature charged with the duty Of inquiring into
the conduct of Ex-Governor Garcelon and
Council made report on the 18th, to the
effect that alterations, erasures and forgeries
were made upon the election returns for the
purpose of counting out Republicans; that
defects In the Fusion returns were surrepti-
tiously corrected, and affidavits secured to
throw out the Republican towns; that the re-
| suits thus reached invariably counted out
Republicans and counted in Fusion candidates
and that the illegal and fraudulent acts were
part Of premeditated plan to secure Flu.
sion Governor and Legislature, and the Gov
ernor and Council must have been parties to
| 1t.
The Rhode Island Republican State
| Convention was held at Providence on the
18th. Governor Van Zanft declining to be
a candidate for reelection, Alfred II. Little
was nominated for Governor, and Henry q.
Fay for Lieutenant Governor. The other
candidates nominated are the present incum-
bents. Delegates to the National Convention
were elected. They are understood TO b
| unanimous for Blaine.
The Illinois State Democratic Con-
yention to nominate candidates for State off,
GERS and choose delegates to the National
Convention will be held at Springfield on the
| 10th of June.
a REPORTER Of the Washington Star
stated on the 18th that !" Mrs. Christiancy had
said she was compelled to leave Peru on &C
count Of the extreme cruelty Of her husband,
who even went SO far as to threaten her life.
She avowed to him her purpose to procure :
divorce on her return to the United States.
and to make known to the world his cruelty
to her, as well Is the true inwardness Of his
recent bargain with the late Senator Chandler,
whereby the latter secured his reaigna-
ton g Senator IL order that 10