New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-20
The East.

GEORGE D. ROBINSON has been renomt-
mated for Congress by the Republicans Of the
Eleventh Massachusetts District.
JUDGES BLATCHFoRD and Choate, OF the
United States Circuit Court of New York,
have dismissed an order granted on the 9th
directing Chief Supervisor Davenport to show
cause why he should not be removed from
his Office on the ground that he was unfaith-
full or incapable in the performance OF his
duties as Chief Supervisor. The charge
against Mr.. Davenport was that he had seized
and taken from one John Walsh and Others
naturalization papers in their possession, on
the claim that such papers were fraudulent.
ACCORDING to the official records 400 per-
sons lost their lives by railroad accidents in
New York State last year. There were S26
persons seriously injured from the same
cause.
SUPERVISOR DAVENPORT in recent instruc-
lions to his deputies in New York, directs
that men holding certificates improperly OBJ
tanned shall be taken into custody, together
with the eliminating and inculpating papers,
but that the certificates shall in no case be
arbitrarily seized.
s. 8. Cox and Fernando Wood have been
renominated for Congress in the Sixth and
Ninth New York Districts. Abram 8. Hewitt
is the Democratic nominee in the Tenth Dis
trict, and BENJAMIN Wood and Nicholas Null
Ter (present incumb ent) are rival Democratic
candidates in tho Fifth.
A DECISION has recently been rendered by
the New York Supreme Court to the effect
that he who sells diseased cattle forfeits the
paw for them and is liable in damages for the
spread of the disease.
A FEW days ago two-year-old child OF Mr..
George Selway, of Elmira, N. Y, died in great
agony, exhibiting all the symptoms of hydro
phobia. He had short time before been
bitten in the face by dog.
AT a school election in Fayetteville, N. y,
few days ago the woman's ticket was
elected by 1876 majority. One hundred and
two women voted. At Port Jervis, where
fifty-two women voted, the woman's school
ticket was defeated, and the anti Catholic
ticket elected.
WHILE Mrs. George Reilly was temporarily
out of her house at Prenticeville, Pa, the
other evening, the building took fire and was
entirely destroyed. Two little children in
the house at the time were burned to crisp.
EASTERN Congressional nominations were
made on the 18th as follows: Tenth Massa-
chusetts District, Congressman Amasa Nor
cross, Republican: Twcnty-fourth New York,
Benjamin F. Lewis, Democrat; Eight Massa-
chusetts, Charles T. Russell, Democrat, and
Rev. G. w. Stacey, Prohibition; Third Mas
sachusetts, Henry D. Cushing, Prohibition;
First Massachusetts, Congressman W. w.
Grape, Republican,; Eleventh Pennsylvania,
w. j. Scott, Republican,; Sixteenth Pennsyl-
vania, r. j. c. Walker, Republican,; Seventh
Massachusetts, g. w. Aldrich, Democrat;
First New York, John A. King, Republican.
Up to the night of the 18th thirty deaths
had occurred as the result of the Pittsburgh
railroad accident, and number of others OF
the wounded were not expected to recover.
Mrs. Roup, one of the parties injured, had
gone crazy. The nagman whose duty it was
to warn the second train says he was too ex.
cited and forgot to do his duty.
THE Republicans of the Fourth Massachu.
sets District have nominated Francis B.
Hayes for Congress- Wendell Phillips is the
nominee of portion of the Greenback party
in the same District.
The Boston "Ladies' Deposit Company
a concern which had been doing business with
women only, and pretended to pay eight pei
cent. month on deposits, was entirely closed
up on the 18th. Suits were commenced
against Mrs. Emily E. Howe, Manager, and
Miss j. H. Gould, Agent, of the Company,
and attachments placed on all the real and
personal estate of the concern The liabili.
ties were supposed to be very large, and the
assets, even though the real estate, which If
in Mrs. Howe's name, can be held for these
claims, will be merely nominal.