New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-07
THE NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
A PORTION of the railroad bridge
spanning the Firth of Tay, in Scotland, was
blown down on the night Of the 2sth while 4
train from Edinburgh to Dundee was crossing,
ard all the passengers were drowned. The wind
blew so furiously that the wreck could not be
reached by steamers.
News was received from General
Roberts on the 2Sth conveying the intel)i-
gence that he had fought and defeated the
Afghan insurgents on the 23d and Oath; that
he had taken possession of the citadel OF
Bala Hissar and had virtual control in Cabul ;
that the mother and wife of Yakoob Khan
had been placed under arrest.
TIE death of William Hepworth Dix
on, the English historian and traveller, was
announced on the 9th He was ffty-ninc
years old, and the cause of his death was apo
plery.
DISPATCHES were received from Cen
eral Roberts at Cabul on the Goth ult. stating
that his losses at that point during the pre-
ceding four or five days had been seventy
seven killed and two hundred and twenty
wounded In consequence of heavy snow
fall most of the insurgents had escaped out OF
reach.
LONDON dispatches of the goth ult.
say the loss of life by the Tay bridge disaster
had been considerably exaggerated in the re-
ports previously transmitted It was believed
ut that time that the loss of life would not
exceed ninety. The bodies Of six victims had
been recovered.
A BOILER explosion in Paris on the
Goth ult. killed six persons and wounded two.
On the evening of the 30th ult., as
the King and Queen of Spain were driving
through the gate Of the royal palace, a
young man fired pistol at the former, but,
as his aim was poor, no damage resulted.
The would-be assassin, who is but nineteen
years old, was promptly arrested.
A CAPE Town dispatch, received on
the Both ult., says that, at recent meeting
Of the Beers, it was resolved to maintain the
demand for the independence of the Trans
vaal. The same dispatch adds that Sir Gar
net Wolselcy, at a recent public dinner at
Pretoria, stated that in the future the Trans
vaal would be regarded asa Crown colony.
IT having been reported that the Gar
had ordered the mobiles to divide their prop
erty among the peasants in Russia, and those
on the lands Of Count SchouvaloH seeing no
signs Of division, large number OF them at
tackled the castle of that diplomatist on the
Both ult., and literally sacked it.
TIE aurora newspaper, the organ Of
Pope Leo XIII, appeared in Rome on the
morning Of the 1st.
AFTER a thorough test Mr.. Manke.
lyme, Of the Mineral Department of the Brit
ish Museum has decided that the crystalized
forms of carbon claimed to be diamonds arc
not those gems, but only q slicious com
pound.
THE Tay bridge lately blown down
near Edinburgh, Scotland, is to be rebuilt.
A DISPATCH from Cabul, received IN
London on the morning Of the 1st represents
the Mahommedans as abandoning the city in
crowds, fearing that some retribution would
be visited upon them because they sympa-
thizcd with the insurgents.
TEHERAN (PersiaD dispatches, re-
ceivcd in London on the list, state that the
famine in the northern provinces of that
country was increasing in severity. Great
Britain and the United States were looked to
for relief.
ALoNDoN dispatch of the 1st says it
had been learned that If the Afghan rebels
had whipped the British they would have
stipulated, as basis of peace, the return OF
the British to India, promise that the
Amccr should be restored, and that two Brit
ish Ollie rs should be delivered to them as
hostages for the fulilmcnt of the pledges
The sweeping British victories deprived tho
insurgents OF an opportunity TO prcsr',t thei
cheerful proposition.
THE announcement is made that the
ex-Empress Eugen:e will soon pay visit tt
9outh Africa to mark the spot where thu
Prince Imperial was killed by the Zulus.
TILE NEW WORLD.
\ RECENT Washington telegram says
Senator Edmunds was reported to have writ
ten a letter to a personal friend in Vermont
saying that, in view of the very great pressure
brought to bear upon him by his politica
friends, he had decided not to resign his place
in the Senate until the expiration of his term
even to accept a vacancy upon the United
States Supreme Bench.
y FIRE in Boston Oh the night of tht
2Sth destroyed the extensive publishing house
of Houghton, Osgood & Co., the paper ware
house of Rice, Kendall & Co., and numerou
other large and valuable buildings. The los
was estimated at from 81 900 0J0 to 81, 250, 030
Two MURDERERs, one a half-bree(
and the other white man, were lynched o,
the morning Of the 2Sth, at Golden, Col.
MIR. NJ. B. GOULD, a prominent bust
ness man of Chicago, and General Waite, o,
the eth, played a practical joke on colore'
janitor who had charge of the latter gentle
mans rooms, by leading him to think Their
were burglars concealed in the bathroom
The janitor tried to get into the room but wa
not able to, and threatened to shoot if tn
, supposed burglars did not come out. NJ,
Gould was holding the door, when the janitol
having procured revolver, fired, the bal
mi assing through the door and into Mr.. Could
,as lad, inficting wound which was almost in
'opuLntly fatal
y: sAs.1srATcHEs from t ii Gte
received on the 2Sth, state that Genera
Hatch, Of the Peace Commission, woul'
start for Alamosa on the Both, having give1
up all hope of securing the Indians whom
Ouray agreed to surrender for trial TO
their participation in the Thornburgh ant
Meekcr murders. The Generals with
drawal was considered tantamount to
declaration of war. There were several hun
dred savages in the vicinity Of Los Pinos, tn
whites at the agency numbering only twenty
five, and it was feared that the latter an,
General Hatch and his escort would b
mastered. 1t was reported that troops ha
been ordered to the rescue of the General an,
the people at Los Pinos, but as the snow wa
very deep they were not expected to max
much progress.
The argument in the case of tn
manager of a lottery company against tn
Postmaster General was concluded in Wash
ington on the Goth ult., and the decision wa
reserved.
IT was stated on the goth ult. that tn
capitalists who compose the Edison Electri
Light Company were SO sanguine of the sue
cess Of the Professors experiments that the
would not sell share of the stock for les
than fifty times its nominal value. The tots