New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-01-21

voted to unseat Mr.. Hale. They also reported
In faver Of unseating Mr.. Dunnell, q Repub-
lican member, but the House recommitted the
repart and adjourned.
The Iowa Legislature assembled and
organized on the 18th, and the Wisconsin Leg
islature on the 14th. Republican officers were
chosen in both bodies
TELEGRAPHIC communication with
Oregon, after weeks interruption, was re-
stored on the 18th. On the 9th the city of
Portland was visited by destructive hurri-
cane, which caused nearly $1OO,Oo0 damage
One man was killed and several were seriously
hurt by falling buildings. The storm ragged
with great violence in the interior, and grea4
damage to property resulted and several lives
were lost. The lines of railroad extending
from Portland to Dallas were buried under
fallen timber so deep that new lines will have
to be constructed.
A SANTA FE dispatch of the 18th
states that Major Morrow caught up with Vic
toria's band on the lead waters of the Per-
shaw River two days before. Victoria made =
stubborn fight from noon to shutdown and
then fed toward the head-waters of the
Anima. Several dead Indians were left on
the field. The United States forces had one
man killed and several wounded.
The Louisville Savings Bank sus-
pended on the 18th, upon the discovery that
j. H. Rhoer, the Cashier, was defaulter for
over $4,000. After acknowledging the de-
felt, Rhoer started for the Jail to surrender
himself to the authorities, but the Directors
overlook him and informed him that he
would not be prosecuted, and that the stock
holders had decided to make good the deficit.
Upon representations made by the
Bee-Kcepers' Association, the Post Office De-
partment on the 18th reconsidered it's order
that queen bees be excluded from the mails.
On the 18th the House Committee
on Indian Affairs began an investigation into
the causes of the recent Ute outbreak. Gen
eral Adams was before the committee, and
| gave long statement of the grievances OF
the Indians Miss Meeker was present, but
did not testify. Reporters were excluded.
The New York Graphic of the 10Th
had report from Menlo Park to the effect
| that the carbon horseshoes, the main reliance
of Mr. Edison in perfccting his electric light,
| had failed, and that in consequence he had
| decided to suspend their further manufacture
| Mr. Edison, however, was not down-hearted
| Another report was to the effect that Mr. Edi-
son denied that the lamps had gone out and
| that the carbon horseshoes had brok EN-; it
| was true that some of the lamps had been
| cracked, and that air had thus gained on
| trance to the flame, but this did not affect his
| invention, and was only mechanical fault
trouble with the glass, which he hoped, by
| continued experiments, to remedy.
Mr.. LAMsoN, President of the Fusion
Senate of Maine and claiming to be Acting
| Governor, notified the Sheriff of Kennebeo
County on the 18th to remove his deputies
| from the State-House. That official declined
to recognize his authority and ordered his
men to remain at their posts. On the same
| day Mr.. Lamson fled in the Supreme Court a
paper protesting against the consideration by
that body Of the questions submitted to it by
the Republican members, whom he desig-
mated as an illegal and revolutionary body.
During the day General Chamberlain issued a
circular to the people, assuring them that
there was no probability that trouble would
occur, complimenting Mr.. Lamson for his
moderation and courtesy, and advising poll
ticans and others to keep away from Augusta,
as their services were not needed and their
presence only increased the anxiety felt by
all good citizens. The Fusion Legislature
met at the usual hour, but little was accom-.
plishcd. In the House Republican
member from Westbrook was unseated
and his place given to a Democrat The
bribery investigating committee of the
House held a meeting in the afternoon.
Clark, the "counted inn member from No.
bleboro, testified that about week before
the meeting of the Legislature his brother
came to him and informed him certain man
wanted him to 60 and see him CLARK and
tell him if he would resign his posi-
ton and give up his certificate he
should have a good place in the Bos-
ton Custom-House as long as the Republican
party was in power A few days after a
man came to see him, whose name witness
refused to give, and renewed the offer of a
place in the Custom-H House ard also $1,000
in money, $500 down and $500 after organ
ization of the Legislature. Witness de-
| clined the offer, and the man wanted him to
come afterward to house in Augusta. The
man said the money he offered was his own.
Clark was pressed to give the mans name,
but positively refused.
ACCORDING to Mobile telegram of
the 18th the exodus of negroes to the North
from Eastern Mississippi had been over LOCO
during the preceding three weeks. One hun
dred colored emigrants from North Carolina,
en- route to Indiana, reached Petersburg, Va,
on the morning of the 18th. They reported
that several hundred more would shortly
hllow.