New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-06-02
Domestic,

The recent railroad disaster near
Santa Cruz, CAL, is attributed to the too
great rate of speed at which the train was
moving round a curve in the road. The
number of fatalities up to the 25th was fif-
teen.
The receipts of the May Musical
Festival at Cincinnati are stated to be about
$52,00o, the expenses $3S,OOO.
The United States revenue cutter
Corwin has sailed from San Francisco in
search of the missing whaling feet.
The Methodist Conference at Gin
cinnati on the oath fixed on Philadelphia as the
place for holding the next Conference, and
adopted resolutions calling on Congress and
the President to enforce the law against
polygamy in Utah.
The oil-works of Bush & Denslow, in
Brooklyn, N. Y, were burned on the evening
Of the 25th. The fire spread to shipping and
to undergrad, causing heavy loss. 1t was
reported on the morning of the 26th that sew
eral men were killed by the explosion of an
oil tank.
A CYCLONE at Mitchell, Dakota, on
the 25th, killed two persons and injured sew.
eral others.
A BARREL of gasoline in the cellar of
q residence at Piqua, Ohio, exploded on the
18th, setting the house on fire and burning
two boys to death.
The forty third annual Diocesan Con-
vention of the Episcopalians of Illinois met
In Chicago on the 25th.
A BOY six years old has been recently
kidnapped at Stockport, N. Y. by two I'm.
known men.
A Los VEGAS dispatch of the Goth
says the number of murders committed by
the savages in New Mexico was greater than
at first supposed, and included the killing of
six herdsmen at Tularosa, fifty-dve persons
in Sorocco County, and seventy-eight at So
corto. The ranches in these districts had
been completely broken up.
THERE were so, 900 children in line at
the annual parade of the Brooklyn Sunday
Schools on the 18th.
The miners at Leadville struck for
four dollars day on the 18th.
The Presbyterian General Assembly
South have taken decided grounds against
the preaching of women. It's next meeting
will be at Covington, Ky.
In New Hampshire and Massachu-
! sets on the Goth the thermometer ranged
from 80 to 102 deg. in the shade. In New
York it stood at 81.
7. G. THURsTON, who some time ago
! killed his business partner at Leavenworth,
Kan, met Colonel Anthony on the street
| in that city on the Goth, and fired two shots
| at him. Both bullets missed Anthony, but
one hit aud fatally wounded an attorney, and
the other lodged in an advertising solicitors
head. Thurston gave himself up at once,
and was removed to Fort Leavenworth TO,
safe-keeping
AT Washington, D. c., on the 26tb
Hanlan won the boat-race with Riley without
much effort, being two and one-half minutet
ahead of his adversary. ...-
SEVERAL deaths from sunstroke 90
cured in Jersey City, Newburg, New Yorl
and Brooklyn on the 9th. The heat in al
these cities was intensely oppressive, thu
Thermometer indicating ninety-tive degrees
In the shade. The death rate in New Yorl
was more than doubled.
IHE sugar-cane- growers of ulinoi!
met at Springfield on the 9th, and perfected
an organization. e.. !. |@..s
CAPTAIN BR1rToN, of the United
States army, has returned to Fort Bufori
from Poplar Creek Agency, whittier he wa
sent by General Hazen to present the terms
on which the Government would receive thu
surrender of the hostile Sioux stationed q
that place. The Captain reports that HI
could not prevail upon them to talk, as h,
had no food or tobacco to distribute to them
but says they are hungry, poorly clad ant
tired of war, and will in duo time accept tn
demand Of General Hazcn for an uncondition
al surrender.
A LARAMIE CRY (Wy. T.) dispatch
OF the 9th says the Indians in the Nortl
Park were on the war path. Several mel
had been murdered. Troops had been or
dered from Fort Sanderson to protect tn,
settlers.
ANTHONY CoMsTocK has recently
caused the arrest Of member of prominen
New York firm for Offering obscene pictures
/ for sale.
The War Department has counter.
inanded the order issued some time ago, pro
hibiting the driving Of Texas cattle across til,