New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-19
West and SOr1th.

Miss MARY STACK, of East st. Louis, Ill,
While kissing the lips of dead and well-loved
cousin the other day, fell dead upon the floor
from grief.
AT Alpena, Mich, q few days ago Mrs.
Alice Williams. as supposed sacrifice to the
Lord, severed her tongue with razor.
MEssRs. CR1TTENDEN, of Missouri, Cullom,
OF illinois,, and Porter, of Indiana, were in
augurated on the 10th as Governors of their
respective States, with the customary impos-
ing ceremonies.
MASONIC. LODGE No. 4, of Petersburg, Va,
in which George Washington was initiated in
1859, has determined to erect a memorial
temple.
ACCORDING to dispatch received on the
18th from Major nges, dated Poplar River
two days before, he had captured twenty
more Indians, some of them badly frozen.
Allison, who left on the 7th to continue nego
tietions with Sitting Bull, had not been heard
t.om.
Both houses of the Texas Legislature Or
gained on the 18th by the election of the
Democratic nominees for the chief offices.
The Superior Court of Cook County. ILL.,.
recently awarded verdict of $4,000 to a col
ored man named Cooper, who was elected
after the great fire.
basha County, Minnesota, killed himself on
the 18th by firing bullet into his temple.
On the 18th the Kansas House of Repre-
sentatives was duly organized by tho election
of j. B. johnson Republ ican) for Speaker.
HE bill prohibiting pool-selling has passed
the Ohio Legislature and received the an.
prevail of the Governor.
FEW days ago Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hayes,
confined in the Minnesota Insane Asylum,
was choked to death by another inmate named
Mrs. Olive A. Andrews.
On the evening of the 18th General Gar
field was waited upon in Cleveland by colored
Republicans from Alabama, whose spokes-
man said they had come in the interest Of no
man, but pleaded for education for their race
and for consideration of the material inter-
ests of the South. The President-elect in re-
spouse warned the colored men to permit no
one to create race feeling among them.
The Republicans of the Indiana Legislature
have nominated General Ben. Harrison for
United States Senator, and those Of the Ohio
Legislature, Hon. John Sherman. The latter
had no opposit.
JAMES G. FAIR has been elected United
States Senator from Nevada, and General
John F. Miller United States Senator from
California.
ALLEN Il. THURMAN was on the 18th nomf-
mated for United States Senator by the Demo-
Gratis of the Ohio Legislature.
The West Virginia Legislature met on the
18th and elected the Democratic nominees
for presiding officers.
BOILER in the Union FIGURING Mills of
Detroit exploded on the 10Th. Three men
and three horses were killed, and the build
ing was completely wrecked.
The Democratic members Of the Delaware
Legislature renominated Senator Bayard on
the 18th.
The Farmers Convention at Topeka, Kan,
on the 18th adopted resolution favoring
Congressional enactment controlling all
Interstate transportation and rates of
freight based upon the cost of constructing
railroads.
The Wisconsin Legislature met on the 18th,
and the Senate elected Thomas B. Scott Pres
ident pro tenn. j. B. Bradford was chosen
permanent Speaker of the Assembly.
A FEW days since the farm residence of
John Wiskow, near Oshkosh, Wis, was
burned to the ground. An investigation
showed that, in fit of insanity, Wiskow had
killed his wife, attempted the life of his
daughter, fired the house and buildings,
and then killed himself.
GOVERNOR CHURCHILL, of Arkansas, was
inaugurated on the 18th.
On the 18th both houses of the Michigan
Legislature adopted q resolution requesting
the State delegation in Congress to aid in ex-
tending the land grant for railroad from
Ontonagon to the Wisconsin State line.
GEORGE AsHBAUGH, foreman of factory
At Indianapolis, was recently caught by q
| shaft revolving three hundred times per min
ute, stripped of all his clothing, and had both
feet pounded of. He lived but five minutes
The Southern Pacific Railroad has been
constructed to point wit hin forty miles of
Ell Paso.
JAcKMAN & Co., live stock commission
| dealers, and the Cheever & Burchard Cutlery
Company, of st. Louis, have failed Liab;li.
| ties $25, 900 and $S5, 900, respectively.
A PASSENGER train on the Panhandle
Road ran into three freight cars near Union.
port, Ohio, a few days ago. The engineer
| and the fireman were severely injured, and
! several passengers were wounded The en-
| CINE, postal-car and three freight-cars were
destroyed.
A FEW nights ago Della Dewham, living
near sedalia, Tenn, poisoned her brother be-
| cause he was determined to marry contrary
to her wishes, by mixing arsenic with bread.
! He lived twenty hours.
On the 18th Senator Mcmillan was re-
! nominated to the United States Senate by
the Republicans of the Minnesota Legisla-
| ture.
| On the 18th Frederick Wintz, President OF
the New Orleans City Railway Company,
was arrested for the cmbezzlement of $50,
900.
| FROM the message of Governor st. John, OF
Kansas, delivered on the 18th, it appears that
Kansas has = bonded debt of 81, 900, 600 and
has $500, 00U in the Treasury.
! Foreign Intelligence.
! A CHRISTIAN Liberal CLUB has been
recently formed at Berlin, to combat the anti
! Jewish apitat on