New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-11-11
From Washington.

The national museum in Washington has
$4,000 birds eggs packed away in trays.
Tele graphic information was received al
the navy department that the Dolphin con.
troversy has been settled satisfactorily. ia
both sides.
Vice President Hendricks will live at Will
lard's hotel in Washington this winter, not
withstanding the fact that Washington
society thinks it is vulgar for a prominent
official to do SO.
Col Il. e. Whitman, retired, formerly oi
the Third cavalry, has purchased a lotnear
Iowa Circle and will build handsome
house, next year. He intends to enter the
real estate business there.
There were seventy one assertions of en-.
listed men in the depa rtmsnt of Texas
during the quarter endeds Sept 80. Dur.
ing the same period of 1884 there were
sixty cases in the same command, except
that the Third cavalry was then in Ari
IONA.
At the conference at the navy depart.
ment, between Secretary Whitney, the
chiefs of the bureaus of steam engineering
and OF construction and repair, and the
members OF the naval advisory board, the
plan for the completion of the unfinished
cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta was
t1AA 0uSCO duu ueC1ucu upOu.,
The president has appointed the follow.
ing presidential postmasters: Patrick Glib.
bons. Keokuk, Iowa, vice S. NJ. Clark, sus.
pended; NJ. HI. Mould, Baraboo, Wis, vice
D.. u. WEIGH, suspended; O. F. Blakely,
Darlington, Wis, vice S. w. Osborne, sus.
pended; T. S. Brogan, Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
vice ID. Bowman, commission expired.
Acting upon the reports OF agents in the
Ind
quested the war department to remove
the boomers from the Oklahoma lands.
Information is contained in the agents re-
ports that large numbers of persons sup
posed to be boomers, but claiming to be
freighters, are crossing the Kansas border
into the Indian Territory.
The quartermaster general, in annual
rep Ort. says the necessity Of assembling
troops at larger and more permanentposta
near Indian reservations and in proximity
to the great strategy points of the country
adjacent to its public reservations, harbors
and posts becomes daily more and more
apparent. He urges that troops garrison
ed in casemented forts be kept in barracks
outside the classmates in time of peace for
sanitary reasons. He says barracks should
be built at once.
The colored people of Washington are
very much lnCensed over the refusal OF the
Columbia Law School Of that city to admit
colored students, and along correspondence
has been con@ucted by DR.. yelling nf that
institution. young man was desiriousto
avail himself of its advantages. DR.. Well
ing takes the ground that there is a law
school at Howard university, especially
ior colored students, which is, supported by
the government, and says it is necessary to
exclude persons OF color from his college.
The postmaster general appointed the
following fourth-class postmasters: Iowa
Truro, George Patterson; Saint Charles, S.
s. Switzer; Gopher, Charles w. West; Ochey.
dan, A. N. Randall; Ramsey, John B. Mon
sci; Irvington, K. Carter; Hamilton, B. F.
Trout; Flagers, George 3. Nails; Salix f.
NJ. Carr; Oakland Mills, r. O. Pinson;
Anmeville, Adolph Zeitzler; Kellerton, F.
G. Smith; Ringsted, Paul P. Bogh; Creamery,
Cornelius II. RUSSELL; Cambria, w. G. Rat.
cliffe; Livermore, William Brackett; East
Export, Conrad Schuepf; Pilot Grove, w.
D. Jackonian; Grand Junction, Stephen
Conaynard; Cedar Bluff, j. G. Fink; Iowa
Center, Minnie L. Severance; Wellsburg,
George Wells. Dakota Elizabeth, Miss
Nellie Crager.