New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-12
From WASHINGTON.


public debt on the Sd. Total debt uncluding
interest of $21, 500 399) So, 121, 4Sl, 475. Cash
in Treasury, $222, 1893, 739. Debt less amount
in Treasury, S1,S99, ,736. Decrease during
December, IS, 699, 43O. Decrease since June
80, $780, So, 99O,559.
COLONEL ISRAEL VOICES, of the First Ar
tillery, has been retired, at his own request,
after forty years. service.
THE standard silver dollars distributed
from the United States minis during the
month of December last amounted to 1,S07,.
49,; for the corresponding month in 1879 the
number was 1,9s5,92l.
THE receipts from internal revenue for the
month of December, 1880, were ST., 905, OH,
and from customs S13, III, 9O8.
On the 5th Judge William B. Woods was
sworn in and assumed the duties of his
new position on the United States Supreme
Bench
On the 5th Frank w. Palmer was rcnomi-
mated as Postmaster at Chicago. Among the
combinations by the Senate was that Of
Henry H. Huidekoper as Postmaster Of Phil
adelphia.
SINCE the time for fling applications for
arrearages OF pensions expired over eleven
thousand papers have been received.
THE official order appointing court mar
tial for the trial of Cadet Whitaker has
been promulgated. The court is ordered to
meet in New York City (Army Butlding)
January 20, instead of West Point, 18th, 40
first announced.
PRESIDENT and Mrs. Hayes have an
nounced their intention to visit Europe dur
ing the coming summer.
nv no E%h Trosooff ron had
Washington with copy of the treaty lately
made with China
GENERAL NATHAN GoFF, of West Virginia,
Secretary of the Navy.
THE President has ordered the removal of
Foreman Cook, of the Char|estown navy yard,
for intimidating employs: at tho polls. Three
naval officers will convene as q Board to in
vestgate the char es
The East.
A SENSATION was caused in the Pennsyl-
vania Senate on the 4th by E. B. Coke, a
member-elect, refusing to take the "iron.
clad" oath that he had not used money in
securing his own election. Republican off,
GERS were elected in both houses of the Leg
| islature.
FEW mornings ago a tenement house on
Madison street, New York, caught fire from
gasoline, which was being used by plumbers
to thaw out gas-pipes. The fire spread rap
idly, aud the inhabitants of the crowded
building sought to escape by jumping from
the windows but ten persons-women and
children-were burned to death. Several
| other persons were Injured. The plumber
was arrested, but his assistant had fed.
The New York House of Representatives
was organized on the 18th by the election OF
General George H. Sharpe as Speaker. He
was Speaker of the previous House.
The members of the late Centennial Com
mission have presented General J. R. Hawley
| with an elegant silver vase.
UPON the understanding that $4,000, 600
shall be raised in New York for the proposed
Worlds Fair, the Central Railroad has sub
scribed $25O,000. Messrs. Grant, Tilden and
Vanderbilt are spoken of in connection with
the Presidency of the Commission.
A FEW days ago a Philadelphia lad, fifteen
years old, was fatally stabbed by another
boy, aged fourteen, with whom he was quar-.
reling.
The Legislature of Massachusetts, was or
| gained on the 5th by the election of Repub.
On the 9th Patrick Hayes and Daniel Sui
| Ivan, one Of whom murdered his wife and
the other his mistress, were hanged in Phila-
delphia. A double execution took place also
In Newark, N. j., the victims being Margaret
| Meierhofer and Frank Lammens, who muir
| dered the formers husband.
| A VAT of varnish in the brewery of Petel
Dodgcr, in New York, exploded on the morn
Ing of the 9th. -Four men were enveloped ir
flames, and scorched to degree which LEFT
no hope for their recovery.
! The boiler of an Allentown (Pa.) rolling.
mill exploded few evenings ago, and one
man was killed, five were fatally wounded
and five others seriously injured The boiler
was cut in halves, each of which WAS thrown
| two hundred feet.
| On the 9th Charles A. Brown, of Brooklyn
N. Y, shot his son for protecting his mother
from his violence.