New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-09-02


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Prof: Cal, q tho Iowa university Greek
chair, is dead. ~ #. q.
E;. Secretary Observation-Disclosures any
ton; he has too much:to do.
Mrs. Sarah Althea Hill proposes 20 pub.
lish her .rseollect ions 81 Sharon.
Mrs. q TsStewarthas subscribed 81 900
|. to the. Grant monument fund.
| There. was a.hard frostin' the Red river
valley, but crops were too far advanced to
receive damage.
Hon. James g. Blaine will take = trip
through several counties in Ohio just be.
fore the.election.
At Washington, Ind, during an alter
cation Walter Meredith shot and mortally
wounded Daniel Fagens.
The Nashua On. H.) Telegraph says that
biennial sessions Of the legislature in that
state have effected saving of SIS, 900 q
year.
Germany good-naturedly explaines to
Spain that she took the Caroline islands
because they seemed to be lying around
loose.
Most Of the Grape used in draping build
ngs IN memory Of Grant has been sold to
the shoddy mills, where it is worked into
cheap cloth.
It is reported that John NJ. Palmer of
Illinois is to be appointed minister to Aus
tria. It is not known that he has applied
for the Office.
Rev. John r. Strider, D. D., Of Staunton,
| Va, has been elected professor of moral
philosophy and bellies lettres in Wash.
| ington and Lee university.
The house Of John Curley, near Grattan,
Mich, was burned. Mr.. Curley, seventy
eight years old, was alone in the house at
| the time, and persisted in the flames.
Ex-Gov. Seymour of New York, although
seventy-five years, old, made the most
vigorous and ringing speech at the recent
canal improvement meeting at Utica.
| There will be civil service examinations
| at Milwaukee, Sept 3; Bismarck, Oak,
| Sept. 8; Helena, Mont. Sept. Is: Portland.
Sept. 10, and Seattle; WASH, sept.l22.
An able-bodied young man has been APP
pointed postmaster at Milford, Ohio, in
place OF Miss Boyer, who has held the posi-
ton since Gen. Grants second presidency.
| Maj. E. I. Gum, proprietor and editor OF
| the Transcript. published at Olympia,
| Wash, died aftera breif illness, Of neuralgia
ofthe heart. Maj Gum was an old and
prominent journalist. ,5
| The steamship Alexandria reports the
1 wreck OF the Scotch steam dredge Beaufort
on Aug 8, off the Bermuda islands. Capt.
Penny and the crew OF ten or twelve are be-
| ieved to have all been lost.
| Rev. S. S. Idleman, minister OF the NJ. o.,
church at Green Springs Run, w. Va, com.
mited suicide by jumping from a window,
| fracturing his skull. Hewas laboring under
a tit OF temporary insanity.
! The first controller Of the treasury decid Is
that the employment of "a Of the persons
on therolls OF the Alabama claims court is
| illegal, and refuses to grant warrants for
the payment of their salaries
| The postal cards this year will cost the
government $47.7l pG Thousand. Last
year they cost $54, 43. Two-cent postage
was a hard blow to the postal cards. The
issue has been gradually. decreasing ever
since letter postage was reduced.
| A freight train on the Chesapeake& Ohio
railroad ran into another freight train
standing on a datrack sever miles west
killing Engineer Spottswift and Brakeman
George Wheeler, and fatally injuring Thorn.
as Halloran.
The acting postmaster appointed the fol
| lowing fourth class postmasters: Oak ota
Stanton, Mrs. l.. A. Frazer. Iowa
! Western College, Jacob Kauffnlann; Ossian,
James Malloy. Oregon-Medford, D. H.
Miller; Goshen, j W. Matlock;5 Newport,
Edward G. Phelps.
| Indian Agent Stottsheimer of the South:
ern Ute agency at Ignacio, Colo, has sent
! in his designations. Gen. Miles will recon-.
mend that an army officer be appointed to
take charge OF affairs at the agency, and it
is thought President Cleveland will carry
out the recommendation.
Proceedings have been commenced in the
| court OF chancery by Washington B. Will
| Jams, receiver OF the defunct City Bank OF
Jersey City, N. Y, against the directors and
| officers to recover about 100000 lost by
the bank, owing to the embezzlement oil
! Boyce, the president, and Shaw, the cashier.
Three children of }. H. MCGOWAN of Tai
| lodega, Ala, saw their father kill and dress
pig. The next day the children wished to
repeat the act, and, having no pig, two OF
them took the younger one and cut it's
throat and then hung it. up The feet as
by the,another.S< &c DOE
President Cleveland is camping OUT at
WilEispond, in the. Adirondack mountains,
three days Journey from the nearest rail.
roadsdepot. He has as companions ,DraS.
| B. Ward and Mr.. E. p. Bacon, 81 New
York: The president was i'll for the first
few days he WAS in camp, but Is now look
| ing well, fishing during the day, land i'm the
evening enioys3a social games ofeuchre.
AGAR filed with specimens q60regonsasgri.
cultural products started al al eastern
journey overt Che Oregon Short line iRcharee
| ofE. w. Allen. TWAS fitted, up under the
direction Of the Oregon state board of i'm
| migration and will exhibit at OMAHA, Coun.
Gil Bluffs, Oskaloosa and Des Moines. It
| will be at indianapolis Sept. 20 to. Oct. q,
| St. Louis 9Th to 10th. and Lo uisville1 9th "a
| 2Oth.s
| The correspondence between Mr. Black,
commissioner OF pensions, and Hon. Louis
st. Martin, member of congress from the
First Louisiana district develops the fact
| that DR.. William III. Here, indicted for
presenting fraudulant claims against the
government, was appointed examining sur
geon on recommendation purporting to
! be from Mr.. St. Martin, but which turns
out to be a forgery.
The acting postmaster general appointed
II l. III