New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-01-26
West and South.

ONE OF the sons of farmer named Ehredt,
living near Galena, ILL.,, few mornings ago
playfully pointed gun, which he thought
unloaded, at his brother while in bed, telling
him if he did not get up he would shoot him.
The gun was loaded, and went of, the bullet
lodging in the brothers throat, and killing
him almost instantly.
HEAVY snow-slides have recently taken
place in American Canyon, Utah. One on
the morning of the 10th killed two men. The
bodies OF some who were swept away on the
18th lie buried beneath one hundred feet of
snow.
ALVIN HAWKINS (Republican) was in
augurated as Governor of Tennessee on the
18th.
ON the evening of the 10th, while Rev. E. s.
Curtis, of Lapeer, Mich, was at church,
Mrs. E. P. Barnard went to his residence,
charged his wife with having wronged her,
threw gasoline over the venerable lady, and
set it on fire. She then returned to the
church and joined in the service. Mrs. Cur
tbs survived her injuries only short time.
Mrs. Barnard was put in jail, but was thought
to be ineane.
CHAuNcEY GAYLORD, residing, near Chris
man Station, Ind, buried five children, who
died of dphtheria, in one grave on the 18th,
and two more were not expected to survive
the day.
On the 18th the Michigan Legislature
elected Henry P: Baldwin <Rep.) United
States Senator for the short term, and Omar
D. Conger Rep.) for the full term: tho Min.
nesota Legislature reelected 8. j. r. Nc
MILAN (Rep.); the Indiana Legislature
elected General Ben Harrison (Rep) to sue
coed Mcdonald (Dem.), and the Delaware
Legislature reelected Thomas F. Bayard
(Dem.).
On the 18th the Judge created a sensation
In the Criminal Court Of Chicago by peremp-
torily discharging panel of jurors on the
ground that they were irregularly drawn.
ACCORDING to the report of the Governor
OF Nevada to the United States Senate the
result OF the vote on the Chinese question
was as follows: There were 1873 votes in
favor of Chinese immigration, and 1889
against it, while only 955 persons failed to
vote on the subject.
On visiting, few days ago, q wolf-trap set
by him the night before, Jacob Floyd, of
Concord, Iowa, was surprised to find neigh.
Dor caught by both hands and in state Of
exhaustion. He had been out hunting,
found the trap, and, examining it, was caught
and held fast He was badly frozen, and but
for the timely arrival of Floyd would soon
have been dead man.
FORT BUFoRD advfces, received on the 10Th,
state that Sitting Bull had started for the
British Possessions, accompanied by forty
lodges. Fifty lodges refused to follow him,
and were expected to surrender to the United
States authorities within few days.
Mrs. BuETTNER, of Detroit, was advised
few days ago to take an alcoholic sweat for
some ailment, and she ignorantly placed q
saucer full of alcohol on the floor, set fire to
it, and then stood over the saucer, wearing
her ordinary clothing. The flames set fire to
her undergarments, and in q moment the un-
fortunate woman was mass of flames. She
was alone in the house, but neighbor heard
her screams, and arrived before her clothing
had entirely burned of, She was badly and
fatally burned, her whole body, from the
neck down, being mass Of blisters and half
roasted flesh.
In session at Freeport on the Goth the nli-
nois State Grange Endorsed the Reagan bill
to regulate commerce between States.
The California State Senate has laid upon
the table two concurrent resolutions protest
ing against the ratification of the treaties with
| China.
| On the 10th George Reynolds, of Salt Lake
formerly Secretary to the President Of the
| Mormon Church, completed his term Of two
years in the Utah Penitentiary for bigamoul
marriage and was released. His friends pre-
sented him With purse of $500.
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