New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-10-13
EPIT0ME OF THE WEEK.


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Interesting News Compilation.
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From Washington.
TIE total cost Of the United States postal
service for the year ended the 3Oth Of June
was 81, 296, 200. OF this sum there were paid
for railway service, SIC, $50, 2n; steamboat
service, $751;, 23l road routes, $780,, 400. The
increase In cost over the preceding year was
81, 2s3,39z IN.
ONE Of the Ute Commissioners arrived at
Washington on the 4th, with the treaty pa
pers signed by 81 of the Indians. Arrange
ments were being made for the payment to
the Utes of the SIS, O0) required by the treaty.
The work Of surveying the new reservation
will take some time, and it is the purpose OF
! the Government not to remove the Indians
until next spring
IT is estimated by Treasury officials that
| t35 600 of foreign gold arrived In this
country from July up to October 4.
IT is stated that over 12,0oo, 900 bushels of
grain were shipped to Europe from this coun-
try during the month of September. There
were 300 vessels employed in the transport
DURING the last fiscal year the coinage of
silver at the United States minis amounted
to about $2S.0D,0O0 Adding the net exports
Of silver bullion and probable consumption
In the arts, ETC., the production OF silver for
the year probably amounts to about So, Co.,
000-$2, 000, 900 less than the previous fiscal
year.
The East.
DIR. GoERsEN, Of Philadelphia, charged
with poisoning his young wife in order to Sc
cure her property, has been convicted of muir
der In the first degree.
ANNOUNCEMENT is made Of the failure Of
Robinson, Lord & Co., extensive dealers in
wood and willow ware, New York.
JUST before final adjournment the Pan-Pres-
byterian Council, recently in session at Phil
adelphia, resolved that no action on the sub
ject Of Bible revision should be taken by the
Council until the work is completed.
A MAN named Joseph L. Martinez died
recently at Jersey City, N. j., Of hydro
phobia. he was bitten twelve years ago.
The dissensons which existed among tho
Republicans Of the Sixteenth New York Dis
trict have been settled by the withdrawal of
the opposing candidates for Congress and the
nomination of DR.. s. o. Vanderpool a. COM
promise candidate.
A. j. CLEMENTS is the Greenback candidate
tor Congress in the Fourteenth New York
District
SIX THOUSAND HORSES were down with the
spizootic in New York on>the 18th, and 1900 in
Brooklyn and Jersey City. In Philadelphia
i've per cent. of the horses were said to be
affected.
DAVID DOUGLASS & Co., New York linen
importing firm, suspended on the 4th.
CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on
the 9th as follows: Second Massachusetts
District, Congressman B. W. Harris, Repub-
lican; First Connecticut, George Beach,
Democrat; Thirteenth New York, Edward
7. Gaul, Democrat; Sixteenth Pennsylva-
mia, David Kirk, Democrat; First Massachu-
sets, Charles G. Davis, Democrat; Fourth
Massachusetts, Leopold Morse, boiling Dem
ocrat.
ON the 9Th the Ladies' Deposit Company
Of Boston, an institution which did large
business by reason Of It's paying eight per
cent. per month interest on deposits, sus-
pended business. A large crowd Of women
surrounded the place all day, and some Of
them became very much excited. The victims
are schoolteachers, seamstresses, and others
who worked for living.
Two OF the largest buildings in Waterbury,
Conn.,, comprising Holmes, Booth & Haydon's
machine works. with large quantity of cost
ly implements, we're lately destroyed by fire.
Loss estimated at 100000.
The nomination for Congress recently ten
dered A. A. Ramsey by the Third Massachu-
setts District Republicans has been declined.
On the 5th Charles H. Voorhis, Congress-
man from the Fifth New Jersey District, was
indicted for embezzling moneys of tho Hack
ensack Bank.
A REDUCTION OF ten per cent. In tho wages
Of the operatives of the A. W. Sprague Man.
ufacturing Company's mills of Natick, r. L.,
caused them to quit work on the 9Th, and tho
mills shut down.
Ar the close of the first day for the regis
tration of voters in New York City 72,57O
names were registered. This is large in.
crease over the number who registered the
first day in 1876
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS were made
on the 9Th Us follows: Thirty-third New
York District, George Van Camper, Demo-
erat, vies Prof. Balcam, declined; Twenty
nth New York, William G. Ruger, Democrat;
Sixth Massachusetts, Eben F. Stone, Repub-
lican; Second New York, Dennis OBrien,
Democrat.
The announcement 10 made that D. P.
Dewes has withdrawn from the canvass as
nominee of the Greenback party for Judge Of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
PROF. BENJAMIN PIERCE, the celebrated
mathematician and professor at Harvard COL
lege, formerly Superintendent Of the Coast
Survey, died few days ago.
TIE transactions of the New York Clearing.
House during the year ending October 1
amounted to $3s, 1913, 667, 252.3S the largest
sum ever reached IN one year. ~
JOHN Cook, living At New Brunswick, N.
J., recently ran nail into one of his feet,
and died few days afterward of lockjaw.
ON the 9th James Mcdowell, a messenger
tor the Marine Bank of New Y ork, was robbed,
while in a Wall street stage, of pocket-book
containing $21.953.
The Triennial Convention of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church met at New York on
The 9th.
On the 9th fire broke out in the Chase
Min, Lowell, Mass, completely destroying
tho structure. The walls of the mill fell
upon the Faulkner Mill, setting that on fire,
also, and burning 1t to the ground. The loss
on the Chase Mill is 100000, and on the
Faulkner Mill about $1OO, 900. Over 400 per-
sons were thrown out of employment by the
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CONGRESSIONAL nominations were made on
the 9TH as follows: First Rhode Island Dis
trict, Nelson W. Aldrich, Republican; Twelfth
New York, M. s. Gardner, Greenback; Four
teenth New York, Congressman William
Lounsberry, Democrat
The General Episcopal Convention, at its
session in New York on the 9TH, adopted a
resolution instructing the Committee on Can
ons to investigate and report whether Right
Reverend Samuel A. McCoskry, late Bishop