New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-05-26
NEW ULM REVIEW, "WEDNESDAY
selected delegates to the National Conven
ton. They were uninstructed, but are sup
posed to favor New Jersey man for Pres.

selected delegates to the National Conven
ton. They were uninstructed but are sup
posed to favor New Jersey man for Pres
dent
THE California Workingmen's State
Convention adjourned sine die on the Goth,
after choosing delegates to the Greenback
National Convention. Denis Kearney was
appointed one of the Dclegates-at-Large.
The Nebraska Republican State
Convention met on the Goth and selected
Blaine delegates to the Chicago Convention
The Virginia Conservatives instruct
ed their delegates to support the two-thirds
rule.
The Mississippi Greenbackers met in
State Convention on the 9th and appointed
uninstructed delegates to the National Con-
vention
THE Pennsylvania Prohibitionists met
in State Convention on the Goth and appoint
ed delegates to the Cleveland National Con-
vention. .-'"
THE Iowa Greenback State Conven-
ton met in Des Moines on the Goth, selected
delegates to the National Convention, and
nominated Presidential Electors and State
officers. .,.
BISHOP WILLIAM SANLEY, of the
United Brethren Church, died few days ago.
Foreign.
In pastoral issued by the Archbishop
Of Quebec on the 18th, accommodation is
threatened against all Catholics who attack
'r conspire against persons willing to work.
M. CONSTANT has been appointed
French Minister of Public Worship, vice La
Pere, resigned.
The Home-Rulers in the British Par
Lament have selected Mr.. Parnell as their
leader, instead of Mr.. Shaw, who has led
them heretofore.
The employees of large shoe-manu-
factory at glastonbury, England, 1,4OO in
number, struck on the 18th, because the pro-
prietors refused to discharge the American
Superintendent and abandon tho use of
American machinery.
The elections in Italy have resulted
in the return of IA Ministerialists, 112 Con-
stitutionalists and 81 members of the Left
A LETTER from Aleppo, received on
the 18th, says that the famine raging Their,
was appalling. Hundreds of men, women
and children were thronging the streets in
the vicinity of the Governors residence pray
ing and fighting for bread.
IT is stated that, since the departure
of Colonel Gordon from Egypt there has been
great revival of the slave trade on the Red
Sea.
The Bishop Of Tourney, in France,
has published letter ridiculing the preten-
sions Of the Pope to omnipotence.
ADUBL1N dispatch of the 18th says
that Mr.. Shaw. late leader of the Home
Rulers, had said that, If Parnell's policy on
the land question was identical with the
views expressed by him in America, he would
not remain a member of the party.
THIRTEEN of the men who wrecked
sentenced to death, and thirteen to twenty
years. imprisonment.
Mr.. MAYNARD, the United States
Minister at Constantinople, has gone to
Alexandria, Egypt to try an American &C
cused of numbering a native.
A PEsTH dispatch of the 10Th says
the famine in North Hungary was in
creasing. Fourteen hundred persons at
Szinna, Comitat and Zemplin had no other
food than grass, nettles and mushrooms.
Troops of emigrants we're leaving the coun-
try. The Government had ordered the au-
thorities to stop emigration, and the police
had ARE sted some of the emigrants.
FIFTY brigands have been recently
killed near Salonica, others captured and
their prisoners secured.
A CABUL dispatch, received on the
10Th, says the Afghan leader had disbanded
his army.
THE British Parliament assembled on
the Goth, and was opened by speech from
the throne read by the Lord Chancellor.
A TERRIBLE incident from Nihilist
life is reported from the Russian District of
Putiloff. At the moment of his arrest
young nobleman was shot by his own father.
The father then shot himself.
JAMES CARD, the British agriculture
ist, recommends the abandonment of the un-
equal competition with America in the
wheat market, and the production of arti-
cles which will not bear long storage or
carriage, such as milk, fresh butter, early
wheat, vegetables, hay, straw, potatoes, sugar
beets, etc.
ACCORDING to late St. Petersburg
dispatch the expeditions to Amur and Kuldja
would consist of $4,000 men each. General
skobeloff had been appointed Commander
in-Chief.
Rev. B. LARABEE, the well-known
American missionary at Ooromiah, in North
ern Persia, where the famine chiefly prevails,
writes that grain is selling at eleven times
the ordinary rates, and that the people are
living largely on roots.
An Englishman named Burmese and
two ladies, walking in the suburbs of Con-
stantinople, were recently set upon by Mus
SULLIVAN fanatics and robbers and nearly
killed.