New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-02-18

for "conduct unbecoming an officer and a
gentleman" and asking If such papers had
been received at the Department. To this the
Secretary of War directed reply to be made
that such papers had been duly received on
the date named.
COwLEY, the ex-Superintendent OF
the Shepherds Fold in New York, lately in
dicted for maltreating and starving the chill
dren under his charge, has been admitted to
bail Rev. Drs. Dix and Rowland assumed
the responsibility Of his appearance for trial.
The City Hall at Albany, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire on the morning of the
10th. When the dome fell several men were
crushed, one or two of them seriously. It
was limited that the blaze was of incendiary
origin.
Two MEN were killed and four dan
gerously injured on the 10th at Montreal,
Canada, by the explosion Of boiler in pa
per mill. .-.z
In the lower house of the Wisconsin
Legislature on the 10th the bill to renee, s lie
Tramp law enacted last y yea vas defeated.
,,. a n p =. between two women at Han
cock, w. Va, on the 7th resulted in the prob
ably fatal wounding of BOTH Their quarrel
was over young man.
F. D. MOULTON has been elected
President of the International Dairy Fair As
ISOLATION.
MARD1 GRAs was duly celebrated at
New Orleans Memphis, Galveston, Little
Rock and other Southern cities on the 10th.
In New Orleans the city was crowded with
people, and the day and night pageants were
as brilliant as any preceding ones.
A MEETING of the Northwestern
Dairymen's ASSOCIATION was recently held at
Harvard, ILL.,, at which resolutions were
adopted declaring that the use of oleomarga-
rine is injurious to health, and it's sale should
he regulated by law; recommending State
Legislatures to pass laws forbidding its sale
as butter for human food; advising that it's
manufacture be carried on under the SUPER
vision of Boards of Health, and advocating
the passage of laws prohibiting the use of the
word butter as applied to any oily substance
not the product of cream or milk, and requir-
ing all who manufacture, and all who sell,
oleomargarine, whether by the package or
otherwise, to mark on each and every pack
age, wrapper or parcel containing the same,
in plain, large and distinct letters, and in a
conspicuous place, the word "Oleomarga-
rinc."
The Senate, in executive session on
the 18th, rejected, by strict party vote, all
the Presidents nominations for Census Super
visors for the eight districts in Ohio, the
Democrats claiming that the President, in
nominating eight Republicans and not a
single Democrat, had violated the spirit of
the Census law, and ignored the distinct
understanding of both parties in Congress,
when the bill was passed, that Supervisors,
as well as enumerators, should be appointed
irrespective of party affiliations.
BONDS to the amount of over SILL
G00,000 were purchased in New York on the
18th, by the Assistant Treasurer of the United
States, on sinking fund account
BURGLARS blew open the vault in the
National Bank building at Westport, Conn,
few nights ago, but the conclusion was so
great as to arouse the villagers, and the
cracksmen secured only So, 800 in money.
A ST.. LOUIS telegram of the 18th
says that J. P. Kruger, President of the
Broadway Savings Bank of that city, which
failed year ago, had been found guilty of
swearing falsely to statements of the condi-
ton of the bank and sentenced to three
months Imprisonment and fine of $500.
A JUDGE at Charlottesville, Ind, has
lately decided, in accordance with recent
ruling of the State Supreme Court, that no
prosecution could be maintained against
licensed saloon-keepers for selling liquor to
minors, or for keeping open on Sundays or
after eleven o'clock at night.
A LARGE crowd of men and boys
marched to the office of the Central Pacific
Railroad Company In San Francisco on the
18th, and demanded the dismissal of all Chi
namen employed by that corporation. The
Company took the demand under advise
ment. =,
A WASHINGTON Associated Press dis
patch of the 18th says the House Committee
on Ways and Means had disposed of the re-
funding question. The rate of interest was
decided in favor of three, and-a-half per cent.
by vote of eleven to two. The question of
time was settled by the decisive vote of
twelve to one in favor OF 2040 bond. The
interest on these bonds is to be paid
quarterly, and they will be used in funding
the fves and skies, amounting to about $780,
100000. The committee decided also to rec
ommend that authority be given the Secreta-
~ of the Treasury to issue 500, COX, 600 of
four-per-cent Treasury notes, redeemable at
pleasure, to assist the reduction of an annual
Interest burden in the manner proposed by
Representative Kelley.
PRESIDENT HAYES issued procla-
nation on the 18th, notifying all persons in
tending to settle in Indian Territory, in VIC
lation OF the laws, that they will be prevented
from SO doing by the military forces of the
United States.
On the 18th the Wisconsin Assembly,
by vote of 80 to 6, adopted resolution to
amend tile Constitution so as to provide for
biennial sessions.
AT San Francisco on the 18th large
crowd OF men and boys visited several manu-
featuring establishments employing Chinese
laborers, and demanded their immediate dis
missal. It was believed that this demonstra-
ton, as we'll as that of the day before directed
against the Central Pacific Railroad Company,
was intended to influence the State Legisla-
sure in its action on the anti Chinese bills
pending before it,
A SHOOTING affray occurred on a re-
cent afternoon in Oakland, CAL, between two
men, one an Alameda policeman. A number
Of shots were exchanged, and one of the bull
lets passed out through an open doorway and
struck Mrs. Stetson, who was passing at the
time, killing her instantly.
a LARGE meeting Of unemployed
workingmen was held in Dublin on the 18th,
at which resolutions were adopted declaring
that it was work, and not charity, that Irish
laborers wanted. III s
Ex-PREs1DENT GRANT and party
sailed from Havana for Vera Cruz on the 18th.
A COUPLE Of representative Ponca
Indians appeared before the Senate Commit
tee on Indian Affairs on the 18th and stated
that, when the Ponca chiefs signed the paper
asking TO be removed to the Indian Territory,
they did 60 under ! misap They
were unable to read, and the whites having
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