New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-04-27
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

The typhus fever has made its appear
ance in New York. It is the most dreaded OF
all diseases by doctors, for it does not respect
the profession.
The Bankers and Merchants Tele.
graph Company, of New York, organized with
capital of 81, 000,0 600, has begun the construc.
ton of twelve-wire line between Boston and
Washington.
The butter-dealers of Washington
market, New York, have resolved not to deal in
oleomargarine.
The medical profession in the State Of
New York is making an earnest effort to secure
the repeal of theslaw forbidding vivisection.
An affray at Troy, N. Y, growing out
Of quarrel over last falls election resulted in
the instant killing of one man, two others being
fatally shot.
Two explosions of nitro-glycerine al
the Dittman powder-works at Binghamton
N. T., were followed by the ignition Of 10,00(
pounds Of sporting powder. No lives wor'
lost. The shock was felt forty miles away, ant
buildings were shattered and trees uprooted il
wide circle.
West.
Chicago papers chronicle tho deaf h o
Col. Il. ". Farrar, for many years business
manager Of the Eoening Journal o! that city
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, has
istsd An order closing all the Sunday theaters.
Judge Mallory, of Milwaukee, has
declared the Wisconsin Anu-Treating law ii.
operative and void, on the ground that the bill
~ enacted presupposes the existence of law
which, since the revision Of the Wisconsin
statutes, has not been in existence.
The Central Pacific road, with 2,6A
miles Of rail, reports gross earnings for March
q e1,e4s,oo0.
The Federal Court at Indianapolis has
ordered the sale of the Fort Wayne, Muncie
and Cincinnati road within sixty days.
The northern wing Of the Illinois
Southern Hospital for the Insane, located at
Anns, H., was destroyed by fire. One patient
persisted in the flames. The loss is estimated
at $500, 900.
Reports from every section in Kansas
indicate that the wheat crop promises exceed
ingly well. Only very small proportion has
been winter killed.
q. r. Blakeslee, postal clerk on the
New York and Chicago fast mail, was arrested
at Toledo with several packages of opened let
ters in his possession and at once confessed
his guilt. He was formerly Lieutenant
Colonel in the regular army, and owns large
farm near St. Johns Mich.
Floods in the rivers of Illinois and
Wisconsin have caused great damage to prop
erty and some loss Of life. A part of the Rock
river dam, at Beloit, Wis, was carried away,
and five men who attempted to cross the river
In row-boat were drowned. A bridge span
ming Rock river, at Rock Island, Ill.,,
went down, carrying with it seven persons, two
of whom were drowned. At Watertovn, Wis.,,
one bridge was destroyed and two others in
jured. The Chicago and Desplaines rivers, at
Chicago, were higher than they have been in
twenty years.
Thirty lodges Of Maricopa Sioux In
dams lately surrendered at Fort Keogh. They
are allies Of Sitting Bulls band. It is said
that s. B. himself will shortly come in and give
himself up. He has only $50 braves left with
him.
The Elkhart paper-mill, at Elkhart,
Ind, has been partially destroyed by fire.
Cause Of the fire, spontaneous combustion.
Loss estimated at $4,000; fully insured. The
mil was owned by the Hon. Rufus Beardsley
and the Hon. John Cook. The work Of re-
pairing the building will begin at once, and the
mill will be ready again within few weeks.
A shocking accident, resulting in the
death Of half dozen people, happened ON the
Rock island division Of the Chicago, Milwaukee
and st. Paul railway, about . mile below Al
bany, Ill. The Meredosia river is crossed st
that point by trestle bridge, 200 or 800 feet
long. This bridge had become go weakened by