New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-04-13
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

Charles Scribner & Sons have. sold
their interest in Scribner's Monthly 81. Nicho-
las and the Illustrated Magazine for Boys and
Girls to Mr.. Roswell Smith, the business mana
ger of these periodicals. The editorial and
business management will be continued as ct
present.
Capt. Boycott, whose treatment in
Ireland by tho members of the Land League
gave rise to the term "boycotting," arrived in
New York last week.
On the ground that the compensation
offered is inadequate the Mayor of New York
has vetoed the bill permitting the Edison Elec-
trio Light Company to lay tubes in the streets
A boy of IA shot and killed his sister,
girl of II, in Sunbury, Pa, while the family
were seated at dinner. His reason was that
they would not give him enough to eat.
Internal revenue officials found an
illicit still in ravine about fourteen miles from
Somerset, Pa, and captured four moonshiners
and $50 barrels of whisky.
A Gutenberg Bible, printed in 1850,
brought $4,000 at an auction sale in New York.
West
Charles Schoonover, of Michigan,
who is delivering temperance lectures in Gen.
trail Iowa, is but IA years of age.
Grain-dealers at st. Louis send out
reports of great damage to winter wheat in st.
Clair and Clinton counties, Ill.
In the bill redistricting the State of
Wisconsin, the Legislature, by an unaccount-
able blunder, omitted the town OF Ridgeway,
in Iowa county, and DISTINGUISHED 500 voters.
At Irving, Mich, Martin Texter was
visiting at the house Of neighbor named Ben
jamin Trego, when the latter stepped from the
room, returned with an Ak, and split Texter's
head to the chin. Jealousy was apparently the
cause.
In the case of the slaughter on the
St. Paul and Manitoba road, the Coroners jury
find criminal carelessness on the part OF Con-
ductor Calvin and BraAeman Pcarce The
former is Ill jail
The food in the Upper Missouri has
swept away nearly all The buildings in Vel
million, Oak.
Smith T. Manson, General Passenger
Agent OF the Wisconsin Central railroad, WIS
killed while trying to board a freight train.
A vigilance committee has been Or
ganized at Sidney, Neb., for the purpose of
driving thczes, cut-throats and desperadoes
from the place, they having run the town for
some time past.
Mrs. Sargent, of Santa Barbara, CAL,
was brutaily murdered by sheep-hcrler, who,
in turn, was hanged by mob of indignant
citizens
In the Mormon Conference, at Salt
Lake City, john Taylor, President Of the
church, declared that the Saints proposed to
obey all God's revelations, including even the
! ole Oh Eo?::Galny.
Nearly ali tie live stock III the Mis-
souri, river Wiley Letwecn Jefferson and Fort
Thompson i reported to have Leon destroyed
by the h,oa
Moody a,'0 ;;:ankcy have finished four
months OF con::u,us labor in San Francisco.
A coal Fl III in Cleveland has sued two
railroads r.::ills int> that city, claiming $>27-
300 Tor freight discrimination in favor OF other
dealers.
A company which proposes to build o
railway FROM Pckin to Grafton, ILL.,: has been
Incorporated at Springfield, with capital of
81, ooo,0oo
Van Hise, Linn and Corwin, who
were arrested at Cleveland for connection with
the Missouri land frauds, have been discharged
for lack of evidence, Detective Tyrreu failing to
appear TO testify.
The municipal officers of Dodge City,
Kan, having refused to surrender to their sue
cessors, a body Of seventy armed men proceeded
to break the locks of the Jail doors, and have
issued q notice to oil thugs to leave within
twenty-four hours
Fifty fe-t OF the Government riprap at
Omaha has been washed out by the floods
Two men were swept out among the ice cakes
and drowned.
A Winona (Minn.) dispatch of the 9Th
| inst. says: "The work of raising the blockade
on the west end of the Chicago and North
western railroad is proceeding slowly. There
still remains $40 miles in a blockaded state.
OF this all but fifty miles can be easily raised.
The fifty miles consist Of ice and frozen snow
that will have to be picked step by step. There
are from 400 to 500 men at work, and it is
thought that two weeks will see the road open
to Pierre, Oak. No trains have been run to
Watertown, Oak, since the Doth of January.
AL stations Of the blockaded portion report q
scarcity of -four, oil and groceries, but no suf-
fering from the lack of these or other living
| necessities"
All Luck, Chinaman, was hanged at
Nevada City for the murder of countryman.
Col. M. G. CARRIER, Postmaster at Mad
ison, Ind, and proprietor of the Courier, died
from a paralytic stroke.
Great activity is apparent in the work
Of grading the Northern Pacific up the valley
Of the Yellowstone, where 5000 men will soon
be employed, preference being given those who
intend settling in the region.
The conductors and drivers on tho
West Division Railway Company, Of Chiesgo,
struck for an advance Of 20 per cent. ip their
pay. Over half the city was deprived Of street.
car facilities for thirty-six hours, aud people
had to foot it to and from their places
Of business. The synpathies Of the conmuni-
ty were with the strikers, and the corporatiea
finally yielded to the demands Of the a.
vloyes.
A strike of the journeymen carpenters
Of Cincinnati resulted in the concession Of
/ S2.25 per day by 1875 builders.
! South.
During q feshet Of the Coosa river,
in Georgia, il inundated the farm Of Mr.
Frank Perry. As the waters receded buried
battlefield came TO view. skeletons and part
!. q slsletons Y s1evn upon The held, -
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