New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-05-04
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WulColuW ISolC, Oh Cu0 Now 1OCk xT2O-
u,.e, will no more be known as frolicsome
bachelor. He was married to Miss Elizabeth
Mills at tho residence of her father, Mr.. d. o.
Mills, in New York.
The box factory Of E. O. Smith, at
Greenpoint, Long island, was destroyed by
fire. Three employees were injured in the at
tempt to escape from the building. An explo-
sion of the sawdust storehouse threw the walls
| over upon the crowd, three Of whom were
| fatally burned and ten others singed The
| loss is $4,000.
Joseph & Isaac Bloom, dry-goods deal
ers in Boston, failed for 100000, and the
senior member of tho firm committed suicide.
The Girard elevator in Philadelphia,
and several warehouses in the vicinity, were de-
stroyed by fire. The loss was 100000.
Royal S. Carr, convicted of numbering
| W. W. Murcomnluck, Doc. 7, 1873, was hanged
| at Windsor, vt.
Manager Haverly, Of Chicago, will
build in that city the finest theater in the
United States The sigte selected for this new
dramatic temple is Monroe street, opposite
Haverly's present theater.
A special train on the Denver and Rio
Grande road jumped the track near Ozirr, New
| $50 feet. Seven men and one woman were
| killed, and all the other passengers injured.
| The wounded were taken to Denver.
A fire at Salinas, CAL, burned the
residence of Mayor Ball, and his wife and two
daughters persisted in tho flames
While the population of Chicago has
increased 70 per cent. in the past ten years, the
growth of the churches in membership has
been only IL per cent.
A joint agreement has been signed by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul and sew
eral other railroad companies for tho erection
of union depot at Minneapolis. Tho struo-
| ture will cost about 100000.
E.. W. Bond g. Sons saw-mill, to-
| gether with 100000 feet of lumber, were de-
stroyed by fire at Fife Lake, Mich.
A physician Of Cincinnati claims to
| have found genuine trichinm imbedded in the
| backbone Of son1e fish.
! The Commissioner of Health of Chi
cago advises the people Of that city to abstain
from the use of water as beverage. The
river has got mixed up with the lake.
The Directors Of the Chicago Board Of
Trade have passed a resolution declaring the
action of the joint executive committee Of the
railroads in advancing rites to the East with
out giving the customary notice positive
breach OF good faith toward the shipping trade.
They also characterize its action as so PREACHER
GUS and tyrannical as to invite united effort by
the people toward commercial, political and
legal relief.
A colt with seven perfectly formed
feet is one of the curiosities Of Normal, Ill
One fore leg sports three feet, and the other
two.
Hon. William E. Cramer, senior pro-
prietor of the Evenisg Wisconsin, was placed
in cell in the Jail at Milwaukee,, on suit for
criminal libel brought by Matt Finch, an attor-
ney, and kept there nearly oil day.
The Grand Jury at St. Louis returned
seventeen indictments against Robert Lindsay
and nine against John Brady, for connection
with the Missouri land frauds.
| The beautiful little city Of Elgin, ILL.,,
has been the scene of a most distressing calam-
ity that caused mourning in many families.
When the iron bridge across the Fox river at
that point gave way, a short time ago, the City
Council ordered a small ferry-boat, to be pro-
PEELED by cable stretched from bank to bank
It had just been completed, and the
scow, frail little structure, only eleven by
eighteen feet, running on puleys on a wire ca.
bic, and propelled by the rapid current, made
several trips safely, though showing it was moi
safe. On one of these trips the boat, heavily
laden with human freight, WAS snatched by the
swift current, turned half round and filed Will
water. The panic-stricken children (for hall
her passengers were children on their way K
schooD rushed to one side, the rail broke
and the craft careened over. In a moment s
score and a half Of struggling human beings
wrestled with the swift current in the mao
waste of waters. There they were, in plai1
view Of hundreds watching from the shore, OF
both the east and west sides, right in the bust
ness portion of the city, and the erie
of victims and friends on the shor,
were heartrending. One after another tn
struggles ended. Boats put out as soo1
as possible, and many were rescued. Som
! good swimmers reached the shore from quar-
ter to half mile below. Six persons ar
known to have found a watery grave. Thei
names are: Thomas Murphy, aged IS; Johl
Corbin, aged IS; Leo Taylor, aged 16; Elme
Foster, aged Is; Guy Carlisle, aged Is; Fran
ces Creighton, aged IL.
| Aformidable strike of the conductors
drivers and stablemen of the st. Loui
street-car companies for an increase Q
wages or reduction of tho hours Q
labor was brought to On end only b
the calling out Of the militia and the appea,
ance of the Governor Of Missouri at the seen
of the trouble.
| The latest strike in Chicago is that {
tho nurses at the smallpox hospital.
The situation at Kansas City, on til
30th ult., was terrible. The Missouri rive
continued TO rise ut an alarming rate, and a
the elevators and the great packing house
were surrounded by water. OF the ten raj
roads running into the city but three were alb
to send out trains over their own track, II
Chicago and Alton alone running their Easter
trains direct from the Union depot Full
1000 people were homeless, and mar
Of them had Loot everything thu
possessed in the world. Box-cars, railway d,
pots, tents and everything that could be use
for shelter were being pressed into service, y
thousands were compelled to sleep In the ope
air and depend upon charity for food. Mar
of the houses had been moved to railws
tracks, but several had gone down stream, ar
more were expected to follow. The Hannib
: railway bridge, which cost 81, 500, 900, was In
perilous situation.
> A horrible tragedy is reported fro1
, St. Paul., Howard county, Neb. Mrs. Koc
+ the wife Of Christian Koch, a railroad nigl
Waterman, while laboring under at of ter
3 porary insanity, killed her three children |