New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-11
THE NEWS.
a Brief Summary.
Events Of tho Past Week,
General, Personal and Political
Interest,
At Home and Abroad.
Financial, Commercial and Indus
trial Points,
Grimes, Casualties and Gossip,
Carefully Selected, CONDENSED ana
Arranged for tho ReadeIs
Of this Paper.
FOREIGN NEWS,

S~~OS~ AOV~8s40AO
Of this Paper.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Smallpox Is epidemic in London.
A terrible epidemic, similar to typhus,
Is making great havoc among the horses Of
Paris
Eighty persons were drowned by the
wreck Of the British steamer Tavarna of the
coast Of New Zealand.
President Grevy has accepted, in the
name Of the French people, tho Invitation Of
the United States to take part In the Yorktown
celebration next fall.
Women are now allowed to study and
take degrees In tho Spanish universities.
The investigation into the death of
Abdul Aziz shown that plot was contemplated
for the assassination Of the imperial Princes
and the proclamation of new CaliphL
A battle between 5000 Albanians and
IN army Of Turks Of equal strength resulted
In tho defeat Of the former. The combined
losses were 1900 killed and wounded
The arrest and incarceration in prison
Of John Dillon, Irish Member Of Parliament.
produced unusual excitement throughout Ire
land.
Fresh excuses against the Jews have
been committed in Argenau, West Prussia.
The anti-Jewish riot in Eizabothgrad, Russia,
proves to have been more serious affair than
was first reported. Two hundred persons we're
injured.
Vigel, q bootmaker in Vienna, killed
his wife and four children and cut them in
pieces
Edwin Booth achieved an immense
success in his great character 81 Othe1lo. In
London.
A committee of the International Mon
etary Conference, In session at Paris, adopted
two lists Of questions to be submitted as basis
for discussion. Great cordially prevails among
tho delegates
More than $4,000 convicts are await.
Ing transportation to Siberia, in Russia.
Turkey has Internationally accepted
the solution Of tho frontier question arranged
by the powers
The British war sloop Doterel was
blown up on the 18th Of April In the Straits Of
Magellan. She had 1855 officers and man, II
whom only eleven were saved.
Maspero, the Egyptian explorer, has
opened some more Of the eakkara pyramids,
and claims to have discovered texts which CON-
plctely upset the Masonic theory Of the religious
belief In the days Of tho Kings OF the 9Th d.
nasty.
The anti-Jewish excitement Is sprea4
ing in Russia. At Smela, Korssum, Uman and
Litin tho Hebrew inhabitants have been threat
ened, and the Russian Government has dr.
patched troops to all these points to restrai.
tho intolerant and bigoted inhabitants.
The committee appointed to arrange
programme for the Monetary Conference at
Paris agreed upon that drafted by Vrolik, the
Dutch delegate. It consists Of five questions
relative to the cause and effect Of diminution
and oscillation in the value Of silver the effect
Of unlimited coinage of both gold and silver
upon their stability measures to reduce tho
minimum Of oscillations in the ratio Of value
between the two metals; and, finally, ~ to
what that ratio should be-
Further information regarding tho
catastrophe to the British war-sloop, Doterel.
II to the effect that eight officers and 1875 men
were killed, and three officers and fourteen men
saved.
A Paris dispatch says that delegate
OF the revolutionary committee stated to the
Car the demands Of the Nihilists, and was re-
warded by arrest
The peasants of the Baltic provinces
of Russia demand absolute ownership Of the
lands now held on lease
The National Land League of Great
Britain has issued a manifesto relative to the
arrest IF Dillon. 1t is signed by Justin Nc
Cartby. 1t urges Irishmen to evict their land
lords rs they have themselves lbeen evioted,
and to wreah vengeance at the polls on tho
apostates from Liberalism whom they helned
to raise 70 power.
Herr Most, the publisher of the Frej-
~ has been indicted at London for melting
to murder. The Grand Jury added rider to
the bill, stating that such publications are un-
English and ought to be vigorously dealt with.
At the second plenary sitting of the
monetary conference In Paris the series q
questions reported by the committee vas
adopted as the programme. The delegates for
Germany, Austria, England, India, Canads,
Greece, Portugal, Sweden and Switzerland e.
planned the views of their respective Govern
menta. The speech of the German delegate
was ordered printed and distributed among the
members of the conference, as it contained
statements Of the highest Importance.
There will benomore public executions
In Russia.
1ocusts have devoured the rice and
corn crops Of Bolivia.
A movement is on foot for the confed-
GRAFTON Of the spanish-American republics
Cork, Kilkenny, and portions of Kings
and Queens counties, Ireland, have been pro-
claimed under the Arms act.
A Nihilistic movement by sailors Of
the Russian feet Is predicted as likely to fol-
low tho arrest Of the Grand Duke Constantine.
DOMESTIC INTELL1GEN0H.
Hast.
The Gnard elevator in Philadolphia.
and several warehouses in tho vicinity, were de-
Gkoyed by fire. The loss was 100000.
Royal S. Carr, convicted Of numbering
v. ". Murcommuck, Dec. 7, 1879, was hanged
at Windsor, Vt
John W. Minturn, one of the famous
shippers Of New York, killed himself with Z
revolver in his private Office. As he had large
means and happy domestic relations, the died
is attributed to temporary insanity.
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