New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-01-07
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Tuesday, December 30,


while attempting to row across Niagara river
broke an oar in mid-stream and was carried
over the falls
The Reading railway,,receiver has s. :ved
q notice on the employees Of that road, number
ing about $1,000, of reduction in wages and
salaries Of from TO 20 per cent
At Dallas. Tex, on Sunday evening, a
daughter OF Bell, Boyd. the famous Con::A.
crate spy, was married to Ray Charta::&,
who claims to be a British nobleman.
Fragments OF the remains of Mr. an:.
Mrs. Glover, who persisted in the opsr..
house fire at Racine were discovered in a
cellar directly beneath the room they occa-
pied. s..a
1t is said that the executor of Francis D.
Moulton's will has been offered s., 900 for tho
famous "letter Of contention" penned by Mr..
Beecher in the trouble with Mr. Tilton All
the correspondence in this unpleasant affair
is among MI. Moulton's papers
Wednesday, December 81.
A Christmas tree was lighted by cleo.
tricity in New York last Thursday
Col. Hatch is organizing an expedition
at Leavenworth, composed of six troops Of
cavalry and company of infantry, to re-
move another band Of raiders from Indian
territory.
In the United States district court at
Cincinnati, five men were sent to joil for
from one to six months for illegal voting, and
two others were given half year. each for
hindering citizens from depositing their
ballots
ST. George Best. of Cincinnati, after
being sentenced to three years In the peni-
a pYy To Il nrrnS~N DsA-
swallowed poison in the courtroom and was
only saved by the heroic efforts of phvsi-
clans.
The car driver strikers at New Orleans
Monday through cars off the tracks, and NAL
treated the drivers, and number Of arrests
were made. In the evening an agreement
was made, and the strike ends with the men
receiving an advance of IS per month.
Thurslay, January 1.
The pension payments for December
were over SSOOO,OOO.
A 1O-months' old baby has been taken
to Christian K Ross as the boy he lost ten
years ago.
Reports made to the bureau of agricult.
ure at Washington place the total cotton
production Of the United States for the year
at $3.50. 600 bales.
Mahoning Valley iron manufacturers
will reduce wages ~ per cent Jan. II for all
employees except members Of the Amalga-
mated association.
A colony of 5000 Firms is about to be
established in Hancock county, Michigan.
A priest and his advance guard have landed
at Portland, Me-, on the way to select a SITE
A petrified corpse was found in marsh
near Lancaster; Pa, last week. 1t is believed
to be the body Of q drover who mysteriously
disappeared neasly fifty years ago, and who
was at the time believed to have been MUIR
dered.
10 prevent a recurrence of the robberies
which have been recently committed, armed
mea now patrol Fulton. w. Va, and even
women carry revolvers. Suspicious charac-
teI8'have been driven out, and if they re-
turn will be shot. The first thief caught will
be hanged immediately.
Near Blakesburg, Iowa. band Of
masked men seized Pleasant Anderson Mon
day. night, hurried him to a school-house,
where q mock trial was INDUCED in, the sem
tence being death. They then hanged him
to tree A year ago Anderson was &C.
quilted of the murder of Chris McAllister,
but feeling prevailed in the community
that he was guilty, and the lynching was the
result.
Friday, January 2,
A dollar worth $500, according toa
recently issued catalogue, is the silver dollar
OF 1904.
A prohibitory liquor ordinance has
gone into effect at Hot Springs, Ark, with
limit of two years
An English firm has begun the manu-
facture OF casks nnd barrels Of steel They
are lighter than wood and more durable.
A lady in Denver theatre the other
night wore in her hair six tiny humminp
birds, which formed half wreath about her
head
Reports have reached London that the
French government i negotiating for lands
for naval station of the northwest coast Of
Panama.
The police Of London were hoaxed by q
bag containing two pounds of iron hlings
with fuse attached, which was placed un-
der an arch at tho Waterloo depot.
The New York Sun thinks that the
opium habit is increasing rapidly IN that
city, and that there will soon be need Of q
moral and spiritual battle against it.
pr. Carver announces that IN two weeks
he will atteMpt to sh0at 6l,0uJ balls thrown
into the air. using rife aud single bullet, In
six days This is an unprecedented feat Of
endurance in rifle shooting.
Edward Goodsreed, who killed Silas
Stetz on the fair ground at Rloomip yton,
Als, hye years ego, has baen papdonad from
Joliet By Governor Hamil ton Who ms ono