New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-11-24
The East.

"A bO1 III GiIAIta, ~. L. Has recently lOSL N
eye from epizootic poisoning. It seems the
lad had wiped his face with handkerchief he
had used to clean off expectoration that his
horse had coughed on his coat-sleeve.
DIPHTHER1A has recently assumed an cpl
demic form in Brooklyn, and the mortality
was said to be as great as it was in Memphis
during the yellow-fever pestilcnce. The au.
thorities had withdrawn the children from the
public schools, and other measures to arrest
the progress of the disease had been taken.
ACCORDING to the official report the popu-
lation OF New York City is 1,206,57. Num-
Der Of males, $50, 762; females, 1915; excess
of females, 25,053. The native residents arc
III i43, and the foreign-born 47S,S34.
A YOUNG man named Charles Herseberger,
nineteen years of age was running q foot
race in New York City the other day when,
after going about twenty yards, blood YES
sci burst in the region of the heart, and he
fell to the ground dead.
ACCORDING to New York dispatch of the
18th the Erie Canal and its branches will
close for the season on the 3D. of December.
AT its recent session in Philadelphia the
American Humane Society appointed COM
mittee to urge upon Congress the passage OF
more efficient law to prevent cruelty to an
finals during transportation to market.
ACCORDING to the official canvass Of vote,
in Connecticut, the Garfield Electors have a
plurality of Z, 655 and 4 majority over all OF
1852.
On the 18th tho eldest daughter Of United
States Senator Don Cameron was married at
Harrisburg, Pa, to William II. Bradley. son
of Justice Bradley, of the United States Su-
preme Court.
On the 18th Captain Young, of the Inflated
steamer Narragansett, was held to bail by
the United States Commissioner at Norwich,
Conn.,, to answer to the charge of criminal
negligence and misconduct, and causing the
collision with the Stonington.
TIE following is the official vote of New
York City for President: Hancock, 1905;
Garfield, 81, 1886; Weaver, 6l0; Dow, &C. To-
tai, 2O5337. Hancock's plurality, 1850;
majority, 4o,G93. Total vote of the city in
1876 17l,t9l.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by Gov
ernor Davis, of Maine, declaring that 57,015
votes were cast in favor of, and 35, i02 against,
the amendment to the State Constitution,
making only plurality of votes necessary to
eject Governor, and that the amendment
has become a part of the Constitution.
On the 18th the New York Grand Jury in.
dicted Kenward Philip for libel against Gen
eral Garfield.
The great actor salvini arrived in New
York on the 18th.
In New York on the evening of the 18th q
conference of magnates representing all Pa
cific Roads and every Mexican railroad grant
was held and was presided over by Genera
Grant. 1t was unanimously resolved to fust
in one scheme all the interests represented
and a subcommittee was appointed, will
General Grant as chairman, to perfect pla1
at once.
ABOUT two years ago John Shufeldt, o
North Adams, Mass, was tried for the muir
der of his wife, The evidence against hin
was not sufficient to convict, and he was &C
quilted. The Sheriff at North Adams ha
lately made the discovery that Shufeldt'
wife, for whose murder he had been tried, Wa
alive and we'll,