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The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-05-04

One day last week the Oakland National
Bank received from Philadelphia a 81 bill Of
the old Oakland State Bank for redemption,
says the Gardiner Journal. The date of the
redemption expired over twenty years ago,
but new dollar was sent in place of the old
one.
Lawrence Bros. did mora business at their
mill at South Gardiner last week than any
week since they have been in business. The
total shipments for the six days were about
600 OOC feet of lumber.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

A return to the war department of
the names ofofficers on the active list
who served in the war gives a striking
proof of the extent to which our army
is now differed by men old enough for
active service over twenty years ago.
OF the total authorized force of 2,l77
officers, 1852 served in the army be-
ore June 1, 1865. There is not man
above and including the rank of lieu
tenant colonel who did not, and 213
majors out OF 235, 475 captains out
OF 617 and 1914 out of $50 lieutenants.
Practically, if a war broke out now
and the army were expanded to a
force three or four times it's size, 1t is
safe to say that every colonel and up.
wards would be above forty years old
and would soon have to be replaced
by younger soldiers.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Nothing Like Electricity.

A few days ago a broken electric lightwire
in Chicago became connected with an iron
pillar. This passed the electric current
along hand railing, and it returning by
A negro came along and leaned YEARLY
against the railing. Then he bristled up
with energy. His arms were closed around
the railing and his body was bent like the
letter S. He had no idea what was the
matter with him, and being Unable to let
go his hold, cried out loudly that he was
dying. A dozen men ran to his assistance
and were soon experiencing the tingling ef-
feet of the electricity. Some laughed,
Others cried, and many called for help. A
crowd soon gathered, and a few additional
victims We're hanging to the railing. Finally
the crowd mum ered nearly five hundred.
A police wagon arrived Just as an enter
prising man had discovered the cause OF the
trouble and released the victims by discon-
Meeting the wire a
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
The Loyal Legion Commandery.

The COMMUNICATIVE chief OF the military
order OF the Loyal Legion OF the United
States was organized at Philadelphia, in
the rooms OF the Pennsylvania Historical
society, Gen. w. S. Hancock presiding.
About fifty delegates were present, includ-
ing Gen. Sheridan, Gems. Cochrane, Haw-
ley, Fairchilds, Rear Admiral Nicholson,
Col. 4. G. Goldman, Gen. F. A. Walker OF
Massachusetts,, and many other prominent
officers OF the army and navy during the
rebellion. The officers OF the new com
mandery are:
Commander-in.chief, Gen. W. S. Han
cock, q. S. A.; senior vice commander-in-
chief, Gen. r. B. Hayes, Ohio; junior vice
commander-in-chief, Gen. Joseph R. Haw-
ley, Connecticut; recorder-in-chief, Col. j.
P. Nicholson, Pennsylvania; chancellor-in-
chief, Capt. Peter D. Keiser. NJ. D., Penn
sylvania; treasurer-in-chief, Gen. John j.
Melham, New York
TIE states represented were Pennsylva-
MIA, New York. Maine, Massachusetts,, Con-
necticut, California, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota and the Dis
trict OF Columbia.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Story of the Vermont Defaulter.

Winnipeg Special Lawrence Brainerd,
the absconding ST. Adams (Vt.) bank
president, arrived here recently coming
from Windsor, Ont, around the north
shore Of Tx ca by the New CANA
dian Pacific railway. In an interview he
tells the story OF his kidnapping and escape
in Minneapolis. While driving few miles
from Winnipeg with Detective Newberger,
he was met by three with a team, who
asked him to 60 with them. He refused and
they forced him, driving him to St. Vincent.
He tried there to escape from his captors,
but was prevented, and they drove him to
Crookston, from which point he was taken
to Minneapolis. While standing on the
platform there a former friend stepped up
and asked him to go with him. The de.
tectives were absent and he went driving
to St. Paul, where he stayed three days,
after which he went to Chicago, where he
also stayed a short time. He next went
to Detroit and crossed to Windsor on the
Canadian side. After spending three weeks
there he came to Winnipeg to join his
wife.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Riel Must be Executed.

The privy council has dismissed the ap.
peal of Louis Riel, the leader of the half
breed insurrection in Canada, against the
sentence OF death passed upon him by the
Canadian courts.
The London Times says:
The judgment in the Riel case leaves
Canada free to act as she thinks best. 1t
is the universal opinion in England that
Riel deserves death, and if he be executed the
jnstice of the decision will not be questioned
here.
The London Daily Telegraph says:
On the whole, the judgment is upheld by
reason, and comes from lawyers of such
undoubted ability that it may be assumed
to cover the justice of the case. The end
OF the chapter rests with Canada. Riel
cannot complain if Canada, now master OF
the situation, exacts the last penalties.
A dispatch from Regina says Riel dis
played great agitation on receiving the
news. He fears that the last rung in the
ladder OF hope is gone, and expressed the
private opinion that he would have to
meet the fate that the recent sentence i'm
posed. L. 0. David, president of the Riel
Defense association, says he has received
trustwo rthy information that it is the
governments intention to carry the law
into effect against Riel.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Ez-Gov. ordway'. Washington Talk.

Washington Special. Ex.Gov. Ordway
is here. He has spent the summer in New
England, placing with banks there the
bonds OF a number OF Dakota counties.
The lowest price he has had to take was
97h and most sales have been above
par. New England capitalists now
look more favorably on Dakota securities
and Mr.. Ordway says there is no trouble in
selling per cent. bonds of good counties.
The scare over the Yankton repudiationh has
about died out now that the matter has been
cleared up in satisfactory shape. Ex-Sena-
tor Rollins is engaged in loaning money on
the Red river section of Dakota and Mime
sofa and doing a heavy business. He regards
that region as a safe one for placing loans.
Mr. Ordway predicts for Dakota, in the
coming year, quickening in values, and
says there will be q great many pur-
chases OF farms, There is likely to be q
good deal OF building in Dakota next year.
With tho best wheat in the United States,
and large gain OF experience from the fol
lies OF the boom period, the people of Da-
kota are likely to be much more substan-
TALLY prosperous in the future than in the
past. Mr.. Ordway will visit Dakota in the
course OF a month. He said the president
had made very judicious selections for fed
eral Offices in Dakota; good men have been
appointed, and it will be good thing for
the territory. "Mr. Cleveland seems TO have
taken good advice from good men, said the
ex-governor; "but have not been to see
him for three months" Mr. Ordway thinks
Gov. Pierce will not be disturbed for some
time, and that when he is Col. Benton will
be the man to take his place.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

An intimate friend of the Grant fam.
lily makes the following statement:
Grant had 5000, 900 worth of first
class railroad mortgage bonds, which
were the result Of several operations
with prominent and wealthy friends
in New York. These securities he kept
in a box, which for safe keeping he
placed in vaults where Wards papers
and yaluables we're. When he came
down to the Office to get his box
the day after the failure, it was gone,
and the securities have never been
heard from; That day, Ward, in the
only interview he had with Grant at-
ter the failure, acknowledged that he
had taken the securities, sold them,
and made way with the money. This
is the reason why Grant was so COM
pletely bankrupted.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

In his argument in the Hoyt will
case at New York, General Butler made
these characteristic remarks: "Any
will made in general restraint OF mar
riage is void. The law wants every
body to get married, and anything is
against law that preventsit. No man
has a right to say that his child--male
orfemale-shallnot be married. Jesse
Hoyt was a grocer's clerk himself. He
made his money from what his broth
er-in-law gave him to start with. Still
it would not be thought now that a
grocer's clerk is fit for a rich mans
daughter. l believe they don't hold
anybody but coachmen fit"
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

The long-continued arbitrary policy
of King Christian, in refusing to dis
miss an obnoxious cabinet, lin com
pliance with a vote OF parliament, and
levying alleged unc st!itutional taxes
because parliament refused to vote til.
budget, has ledto a number ofserious
riots and imposing demonstrations in
Copenhagen. The people seem deter
mined that their representatives in
parliament shall have some voice in
the affairs of the government, and
have becomeso threatening in their de.
mands that the king has ordered the
garrison at Copenhagen to be largely
increased. These popular demonstra,
tions are not confined to Copenhagen
alone but are general throughou Den.
mark. It is expected thata state siege
will be declared, and it's feared that a
revolution will ensue if the king per.
sists in refusing the concessions asked
by parliament. Anumber Of politica;
arrests have been made, tending to
further ineites the people, and blood
shed is anticipated.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
rho Grant trust FUND N Rixht & Last.

4 1n0 N1oMS trust FUND al Kt8ht 0t Last.
a meeting Of the subscribers to the $780,
600 fund which was raised for the benefit
OF Gen. Grant, and which, at the suggestion
and on the guarantee Of Gov. e.. D. Nor
gan,Swasinvestedi in Wabash bonds, was
hello. There were present: Jay Gould
Oliver HoytJ ohm Sherman, Judge Noah
Davis, George Jones, Henry Day, John e.
Terry, Russell Sage, Mr.. Wheelock and Sid
ed OF the fund on account of the criticisms
which had been publicly made.
Judge Davis offered resolution, which
was adopted, that the fund should be
placed in trust company 1.-THE United
States Trust company and the interest
should be paid to Mrs. Grant, during her
life, then to the children of Gen. Grant, and
after their deaths to be distributed to their
children, per stripes, not per capita. Judge
Davis and Henry Day were appointed a
committee to draft the legal document
making the legal transfer. George Jones,
representing seven-eighths of the subscrib-
ers agreed and the resolutions were pass
ed unanimously. The meeting adjourned
to be called again shortly, or as soon as
the document can be drafted.
During the conference Mr.. Jones said
that at no time since the fund was invested
had Gen. Grants FANNY failed to receive
the interest promptly on the day it was
due. It mattered not whether the interest
was or was not paid to the trustees every
time it fell due the trustees saw that Gen.
Grants family got their money without
delay; that Mrs. Grant had already made
a will in which she gave this fund to her
daughter and to the wives of her sons.
Such disposition of the fund would keep
it out of the hands of the creditors of Gen.
Grants sons, and the latter were perfectly
satisfied with the pre- visions of Mrs. Ora nt's
will.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
The civil service principle is making

Z
The civil service principle is making
Roadway in the matter of elective ju.
dicial Offices. The papers report nu-
m erous instances of nominations
made without regard to party con
siderations. Nominations for judges
by political opponents have become
SO common that they are not men,
toned as anything unusual. Some
credit is due to the lawyers, but more
to the people at large, who are quick
to understand and appreciate the adj
vantages Of securing the best legal tai
ent for the bench, without, regard to
political affiliations.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
saved From the Lynchers.

At st. Charles, Winona county, Mimi,
Edward Watts was arrested for trying to
commit rape on the seven-year-old daugh-
ter of Jacob Hendee, and soon after howl
ing and determined mob, fully masked and
provided with ropes, congregated around
the Jail, and were determined to do Judge
.Lynch's work. Inside the Jail, where the
prisoner was confined, we're Marshal
Parr and Deputy Hendee, who by some
mears attracted the mob 8 attention to the
front part of the building, Marshal Par1
and his prisoner escaping through q rear
window and taking to the woods. 1t was
but moment before the mob were aware
that their man had slipped away, and, de.
termined not to be frustrated, took to the
woods in pursuit, some on foot and Others
on horseback, but Parr and his prisoner
made good their escape, walking to Lewis
ton, a distance OF nine miles, and taking til.
4o'clock train for Winona where he wal
safely lodged in the county Jail.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Suits Against DR.. Loring.

United States District Attorney Sawyer
at Boston, has brought two suits against
Hon. George B. Loring. lately United
States commissioner OF agriculture. The
first is for $4,000 against Dr. Loring as
principal, and John A. Loring and
Thomas Saunders as sureties, upon a
bond given to secure the faithful perform
ance Of the duties OF commissioners Of agrii-
culture by the principal. The declaration
alleges that Loring did not make a true
and faithful quarterly account Of all the
money received by him, as required by the
bond. The second suit is against Loring
Individually and for $50. 600 The suits
& are brought to recover sec, 600 whiclrit is
alleged was misapplied by Dr. Loring to
purposes not provided BY law. The an.
swer in thescases have not been filed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

A ffty-four ton breech-loading rife
gun, twelve-inch bore, was cast for the
United States government at the
South Boston iron works recently in
the presence OF a large number of army
and naval officers. The cast was sue
cessful, SO far as outward appearan-
ces are concerned, but this cannot be
definitely determined until the gun is
tested. This is one Of the largest guns
cast in this country.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Milwaukee has increased It's popula-
ton during the last few years to the
extent OF $4,000 and now feels that
she is on the high road to metro politan
greatness.

That the supply Of children in this
country exceeds the demand is eyiden.
ced by the fact that, in almost every
locality, there are not school houses
enough to accommodate the would be
pupils. This demand is more pressing
in cities than in the country, owing to
the tendency of population in that
direction.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Hotels i'm the National Park.

The new syndicate which has been formed
to take hold of the hotels in the Yellow
stone Park is composed OF the following
gentlemen: John d. Terry and Charles
Gibson. st. Louis; Mr.. Casey. Minneapolis;
ick Billings, New York. The names 81
the last three viii be recognized AZ
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
omsi.l EntAusi.s.a Absut Datst..

Mr.. Dodge, tho statistician q the bureau
pf agriculture, draws some interesting IN.
krences in the current crop report from
the late census Of Dakota, he says:
The progress Of settlement in Dakota has
bean q marvel of activity and entsr-
prise. In 1880 the population Was
1877. The present territorial census
makes it 415,664, Of which there
is in Southern Dakota 262, 515, and 1885,.
149 in Northern Dakota. The number OF
farms in 1880 was II, 435. They are now
reported at SO ,467, of which A. ,656 are in
the Southern section and 1851 in the
Northern section. So eager has been the
quest for free farms in this easily cultivated
and fertile region, that the territory out
ranks II Of the 80 states in the number OF
existing farms. It will be surprise to
many that the number Of farms in Dakota in
1885is greater than was the number in Ne
braska in 1880. It exceeds the number in
Maine; and, ofcourse, that of every other
New ENGLAND state. Itsurpasses the aggre-
gate of California at that date, and OF
Maryland and OF Delaware. It is greater
than the combined number OF Massachu-
sets, Rhode Island and Connecticut, and
more than all the farms of Oregon, Nevada
and Colorado in the West, and Rhode Is
land, Delaware and Floridain the East, the
sixstates taken together;n nor are thesefarms
all skeleton hOmesteads. There are five
times as many people in the territory as
there are farms, and production looms
grandly. In the estimates of this depart
ment of more than 100000, 900 bushels of
wheat last year, Dakota took position as
the eleventh in rank in wheat production.
No state east of the Alleganies or south of
the Ohio stood before it. and even Wis
cOnsin held a lower place.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Items Of General Ncwa.

Ellen Terry, the actress, is i'll and unable
TO play, but is improving.
The backbone of the Pennsylvania coal
miners strike had given out.
Churchill, the murd erer of Dennis Brooks.
was killed by a mob ia Pike county, Ark.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Four Persons Burned to Death.

A terribly quick-spreading fire broke out
in the one-story and-a-half brick cottage
at No. Sc Vernon Park place, Chicago,
recently, owned and occupied by W. S. Bates,
in which four persons were burned to death.
The family consisted of five persons and a
servant girl, and all but two met most
horrible death.
The fire marshal, Campion, found Mr..
Bates in the alley at the side OF the house
suffering from several bruises, but able to
tell the story OF the catastrophe. wringing
his handsi in agony over the loss OF his fami-
~ and suffering keenly over his own severe
hurts. He said that the servant girl start
ed a fire in the kitchen and went out
doors q moment, leaving the door open.
She returned in a minute or two and found
the kitchen in blaze. The girl ran away
screaming with fright, and Mr.. Bates was
aroused, rushed into the kitchen and tried
to extinguish the flames. When the fire.
men entered the house they found the
charred bodies OF the entire family, with the
exception OF Mr.. Bates They were:
Mrs. Mary E. Bates, aged thirty five;
John Bates, aged five; Edward Bates, an
infant; Mrs. Dreylson, aged seventy, mother
OF Mrs. Bates
The body of Mrs. Bates was found lying
two feet from the front window on the first
floor, burned to q crisp. The charred re-
mains of her babe were lying close by. The
remains Of Mrs. Dreylson, the mother OF
Mrs. Bates, were found upstairs. She evil
IDENTIFY died of suffocation, as the body was
not mnch burned. The boy was found in
the ruins OF a bed.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Shooting Of : Highwayman.


There was a great sensation in CedaA
Rapids, Iowa. Burglars and highwaymen
have been very numerous OF late and they
have grown very bold. Recently two of
them held up a citizen on one of the main
streets and robbed him OF S33. An officer
arrested them, and also two others. While
on the way to the Jail they turned upon the
officer and dubbed him. AS the one who rob-
bed the citizen started to run, the officer shot
ly. He had roll of stolen bills in his
hand when he fell. He is unknown, except
that he was called "Doug." Hewas about
thirty years of age, and looked like a dis
charged convict. During the shooting a
ball hit young man named Arthur Mann,
cigarmaker, in the back, and he will
probably die. He is unmarried, and re-
moved here from Independence, this state,
only q few weeks ago.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

those 81 the strongest Northern Pacif-
ic stockholders. Messrs. Perry and
Gibson aro capitalists. Mr.. Gibson is re.
puted TO own controlling interest in the
New York World and is the prominent
figure in the Park syndicate. Messrs. Casey
portation and coal operations in Ohio, and
probably with the Standard Oil company.
The syndicate has made arrangements to
take control of the Park property, and it
is doubtful if their plans fail from any
cause.-Livingston Enterprise.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28
Tho Dead of the Indian War.

Fargo, OAK, Special. MCCARTHY e.
Donnelly of St. Paul completed their con-
tract for the removal OF the soldiers re-
mains inferred at old Fort Abercrombie
to Fort Lincoln. There were seventy
nine buried there, and all but three OF the
bodies were found, and these are supposed
to have been washed away while the GEM
etery was on the lower ground, during
the early days of the FORT Many OF them
scriptions were totally obliterated and it
was very hard to identify the remains. The
officers bodies were those of Lieut.. Robert
Cairns, of the Seventeenth infantry; Lieut..
T. J. Elliott, OF the Twentieth; Quarter
master Franks. of the Seventeenth; sew
eral children of Capt. J. H. Patter-
son and Lieut.. Brush. The burial cases
of the officers and children were found
to be well preserved, while those containing
the privates were generally decayed. All
were placed in new boxes, and straw was
placed around them SO that nothing would
rattle during transmission. The remains
OF several Indian scouts were removed
Matotabnahees must have been a very
powerful man, the skeleton indicating a
height of at least seven feet and a very
heavy frame.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-10-28

be recognized or permitted to practice as
an attorney or agent in such cases as shall
have been pending in the department be-
fore or at the date he left the service; pro-.
vided that this rule shall not apply to the
officers, clerks or employees OF the patent
Office"
London cable.-Greek met Greek in the
electoral campaign and all political Eng
land is ringing with the echo of their blows.
Lord Chamberlain addressed the Liberal
association at Birmingham and Lord
Randolph Churchill spoke at Kings Lynn.
The speeches were aimed at each other, and
are very lively reading. Mr.. Chamberlain
referred to Lord Randolph Churchill as
''the author OF the extraordinary ligma.
role, his electoral address, colorless
document and "a penny novelist, = and
ian ignorant school boy" Lord Randolph
charged Mr.. Chamberlain with interested
motives, with being intensely dishonest and
fagrantly immoral, and said his radical
suggestions were utterly hopeless and
utterly absurd. Mr.. Chamberlain's reply
to the Marquis OF Salisbury's attack at
Brighton was most effective.
The hardness with which Mai. Gasman
has been sending the settlers Off the Grow
Creek and Winnebago reservation has ex-
cited suspicion in some quarters that
things are not as they should be. The
agent had peremptory orders two months
ago to clear the reservation Of trespassers
and troops were placed at his disposal if it
should be. necessary to use them; yet hard
| II any impression has been made on the
settlement. The charge has been made in
Washington that a number OF officialsi in
the Indian bureau vert in collision with
Gasman to allow the settlers to stay until
congress meets, when u lobby will be pre-.
pared to get a bill through congress declar-
ing the Winnebago lands settled, or under
President Arthnr's order, public lands and
i the settlers now on them entitled to them,
the Indians to be indemnifed.