New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-04-20
DOMESTIC INTELL1GENCE.
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Hast.
Ex-Attorney General Devens has
been re-appointed to the Supreme bench of
Massachusetts.
j. l.. & L. F. Kuntz, the well-known
lager-beer brewers of New York, have made all
assignment to their father, their liabilities be-
ing $685.
Jay Gould has bought Col. Tom
SCOTS interest in the Texas Pacific railroad.
James O'Brien, better known as Bob
Lindsay, pleaded guilty in New York court to
perjury in tho famous Morey trial, and was
sentenced to State prison for eight years.
In a billiard contest at New York
schaefer scored 4, 1000 points while slosson was
making 2,780.
Under the escort of Senators Conk-
ling, Jones, Logan and others, the remains of
the late Senator Matt H. Carpenter, of Wiscon-
sin, arrived at Milwaukee on the 9th inst, and
were formally delivered to the Governor and
Legislature of the State that had elected Mr..
Carpenter to the Senate, by Senator Conkling,
in behalf of the Senatorial committee. The
body lay in state at the Court House on Sum
day, the 10th, and was viewed by $4,000 sor-
rowing people, after which it was buried in
Forest Hill Cemetery with imposing ceremo-
MES.
A strike Of the journeymen carpenter
OF Cincinnati resulted in the concession of
1926 per day by 1925 builders.
The iron-works of G. & G. Cooper &
Co., at Mount Vernon, Ohio, were destroyed by
fire, causing loss of $15O,000.
Gen. Ben Spooner died at Lawrence
burg, Ind, last week. He was Colonel Of the
Eighty-third Indiana in the war, and lost a leg
at Kenesaw. He was born in Mansfield, Ohio;
aged So.
Mrs. Charles Ballou, of Saranac,
Mich, known as the "NIammoth Queen" is
dead. When travelling with exhibitions she
weighed $40 pounds, but wasted away to 400.
Mark Beaubien, doubtless the most
noted of all the pioneers Of Chicago, who kept
the first hotel ana ran the earliest ferry across
the Chicago river, died at Kankakee, ILL.,, a few
days ago. aged 81 years. David Mckee, an
other Of the early pioneers of Chicago, has
also passed away, at the age Of 80.
Sioux City dispatches Of the 18th
inst. represent that snow covers the prairies to
the depth Of one to three feet, and farmers in
that section cannot commence blowing for
several weeks. An aid society has been formed
to distribute relief in tho flooded districts,
where the destitute number over 5000. A
Yankton dispatch of the 18th states that twenty
r ~ i,, %1,o
river fifteen miles below Yankton were impris-
oned by fields Of heavy ice. A colony of 100
people. who had been surrounded by water at
Mayville for two weeks, had been rescued. Two
relief parties were endeavoring to reach Neck
ling, where fifty persons were imprisoned by
fields of ice from FIVE to twenty feet high.
Probably 5000 settlers have been rendered des-
titute on the Dakota bottoms.
Charles Marmon, a Leadville stage
driver, entered the theater at Durango, Col,
and, ::without provocation, killed one man and
wounded another, both strangers to him. He
was hanged by vigilantes.
The annual report of the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe road shows gross earnings
Of So, 55G, 975 and q net income of $4,213,77O.
Tho length of the road is 1889 miles, and its
funded debt SIS, $4,000.
At short-horn sale in Waukegan,
H., one heifer brought s., 2so, and another
$2,25O.
The Chicago Times says !" A thor
ough canvass Of tho Ninter-wheat region has
been made by a representative Of the Times.
It is evident that the damage dono in Illinois
and Indiana is much greater than in the other
States, and has led to anticipations altogether
too dismal There Is good reason to believe
that the yield Of the country at large will DO
nearly as great as for the two years, as the