New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-04-07
Personal and Political .

! Personal and Political.
L1EUTENANT-GENERAL SHERIDAN and
his travelling companions, who were with
General Grant in Cuba and Mexico reached
Chicago on the Goth.
The New York Democratic Conven-
ton to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention will meet at Syracuse, April 20.
| DURING the discussion of the Geneva
! Award bill in the United States Senate on
ing the Senate, suddenly sank into his chair
and seemed for moment to be unconscious.
The prompt application Of ice-water restores
him, and he was conveyed to a cloak-rOom,
where physician decided that he was suffer-
ing from rush Of blood to the head. The
incident caused profound sensation in the
+ Senate chamber and throughout the city. At
a late hour in the evening Mr.. Thurman was
| resting easily. s.4z .g
| The sentence of dismissal from the
United States Army of Major Marcus A.
Reno, of the Seventh Cavalry, was pro
| mulgatcd from department headquarters at
St. Paul on the Goth. The sentence was to
take effect April l. %# . 81
The convicted Pennsylvania bribers,
who were to have been sentenced at Harris
burg on the Goth, failed to appear in court,
as they had promised. Their bail was for
fcited, and warrants were Immediately Issued
for their arrest. They had probably fed and
| got beyond the jurisdiction of the court.
ON the 30th ult., the National House
Committee OH Elections again postponed q
final vote ON the Donnclly- Washburn contest
! ed election case. : o"
PRESIDENT HAYES, accompanied, by
Secretaries Evarts and Ramsay, ofiieiatcd at
| the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of
| Art at New York on the 30th ult.
THE Kelly New York State Commit
tee issued call on the 3Oth ult for Demo-
cusc on the Goth Of April-the same place
| and time for the meeting Of the regular Dem
ocratic State Convention. s..1
The Georgia Democratic State Con-
vention has been called to meet at Atlanta
| on the 9th of June.
RICHARD VAN RENSSELAER,, the last
member of the old Patroon's family, died at
| Albany, N. Y, a few days ago, aged eighty
| three years. 1t was against his family that
| the famous anti-rent war was waged.
THE city election in San Francisco
| on the Goth ult. resulted in victory for the
Citizens ticket over the Workingmen's can
didates by majority Of from 1900 to 1900.
GENERAL GRANT received an enthu-
siastic welcome at New Orleans on the 3lst
uft. ...- 49,
The Kansas State Republican Con-
vention met at Topeka ON the 31st ult. and
| chose delegates from the State at Large and
from the various districts to the National
Convention. The delegates are said to be
favorable to the nomination of Senator Blaine.
The Nebraska Democrats met in
State Convention at Columbus on the 3lst ult.
Resolutions were adopted sustaining the two
thirds rule in the National Convention; ad-
vocating hard money and low tariff; denounc-
ing the alleged wrong inflicted upon the
party and the country at large by the Repub-
licans in 1876, and pledging the Democrats OF
Nebraska to right those wrongs as far as pos
sible, and punish the wroDg-doers.
THE Committee on Elections of the
National House Of Representatives took final
action on the LIST upon the contested election
case of Donnelly vs.. Washburn, Of the Third
Minnesota District. A resolution was first
adopted 80 to s (there being two pairs)-de-
claring that Washburn was not entitled to
the seat; It was then resolved-8 to 4 Zone
pair and one absent)-that Donnelly was not
entitled TO seat in the House. Instructions
were given for the preparation of 4 report,
which will declare the seat vacant and recon-
mend that the matter be remanded to the peo-
pie Of the district for new election. A mi
nority report will also be made.
AFTER the adjournment of the Kan
sas State Republican Convention on the
morning of the LIST the third-termers of the
Second and Third Districts held meetings,
passed resolutions complimentary to General
Grant, and elected delegates to Chicago to
contest the seats of the regularly chosen
Blaine men. A great deal of ill-feeling was
manifested on both sides.
The announcement was made on the
LIST that the Nebraska delegates to the Gin
cinnau Convention, while uninstructed, were
known to be enthusiastic Tilden men.
THE Count and Countess de Lesseps
and party sailed for France on the LIST. The
Count expects to return to New York about
December.
The Vermont Democratic State Con-
vention, to select delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention, is to be held at Montpelier on
the 22d Of this month.
The Senate on the 1st rejected the
nomination of A. G. Wells, son of ex-Gov-
ernor Wells, as Surveyor of the Port of New
Orleans.
EUGENE FAIRFAX WILLIAMSON, the
offensive correspondent Of the Rev. DR.. Dix,
of New York, has been indicted and ar
raigned, and has pleaded not guilty. 81.
Foreign.
DEGREES against unauthorized relig-
ious societies in France were published on the
morning Of the 90th. The one relating to the
Jesuits dissolves the association and directs
that the establishments occupied by its mem
bers be vacated within three months.
DIsp ATCr4Es IF the A0th lllt sovs riots