New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-10
Domestic.

IT is reported from New York that
water gas can be manufactured for forty cent:
per thousand feet. The New York Gas Com.
pany has secured the right and proposes to
furnish cheap illumination henccforth.
EDWARD DOUGLASS, Of Philadelphia,
ana Frank Harris, Of Jersey City, INDUCED in
p,ize-fsht in the former city Il few days ago.
Both men were terribly punished, and Harris
had his skull fractured, sustaining fatal in
jures.
A WOMAN who claimed to be the
widow OF Joseph L. Lewis (thc EoboNcn mill
ionaire, who left his property, valued at ST.
100000, to the United States), and who some
time ago laid claim to the dead mans estate
on the ground OF being his wife, recently
turned States evidence at Trenton, N. j.,
duplicating the parties whose dupe she had
been, and detailing, apparently without
reservation, her own part in the matter. The
confession created a decided sensation.
ACCORDING to recent report of the
Comptroller of the Currency the amount of
additional circulation issued during Feb
ruary was s7o",49O; amount surrendered and
destroyed, S797,4l2; amount of legal
of retiring National Bank circulation,
els,365,257. The increase in the National
Bank circulation during the year ending
March l was S7,63i,Gl7; increase in Legal
tender notes deposited during the same
period, e6,O53,445. The total amount o
National Bank notes outstanding March !
was 1912, 81 1867, not including circulation OF
National Gold Banks, which amount to o.
426, l9O. United States currency outstanding
on the 18th ult. Old demand notes, $6l, 235:
legaltrnder notes, all issues, $346, 68l $40;
one-year notes Of 1863. *47,525; two-yea,
coupon notes Of '63, 81, $50; compound-inter
est notes, SIS ',4S0: fractional currency, all
issues 1855 3S5; total, 1862, 7OS, SOL.
In the summer of 1877 the wages of
employees on the Lake Shore u Michigan
Southern Railroad were reduced ten per cent.
About year later one-half Of this reduction
was restored, and the other hall has recently
been added to the pay of the men.
The public-debt statement, issued on
the 1st, shows the following: Total debt lin
GLIDING interest Of ST. 49, 7S7), 50, l9l 463, S74
Cash in Treasury, *l96, 1913. Debt, less
amount in Treasury. 81, 995, ll2, :21. Decrease
June 80, 1879, s32,O95,035
The Virginia Legislature has re-
pealed the Moliitt Bell-punch law and re.
estabished the license system.
The total coinage during February
at the United States mints was 50, 1863, &c., o;
that amount 81, 3oO, 400 was in standard silve,
dollars.
lie United States Supreme Court de-
cided the National Bank taxation cases on
the Pa, holding that the laws of New York
and Ohio, which virtually discriminate against
bank stock in favor Of other mOneyed capital,
are in conflict with Federal acts bearing Oh
the subject.
1T was stated on the I'd hat the snow
blockade on the line of the Northern Pacific
Railroad was the worst ever known in that
section: Traffic had been SUSPENDED be-
tween Bismarck and Fargo since the 18th of
February.
The new Railroad Commission of
Georgia has fixed the maximum tariff for pas
sengers in that State at four cents per mile,
areduction on rates heretofc re charged,
In a recent letter to Representa-
tive lie Fever Commissioner of Agriculture lie
Due says the wants Of the Agricultural De-
partment are many and urgent. A suitable
building is needed for the accommodation of
employees, for the storage and handling of
seeds, and for the continuous exhibition of
the agricultural produce of this great Nation
4 The Commissioner urgently recommends the
addition Of divisions of forestry, meteorology
and veterinary division, and in summingup
their needs, in a single phrase, says, g the
department needs opportunity"
At Z conference in Washington on