New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-08-25

! Two very preIUy n1eceS With him.
The following persons have been admit
| ted to. practice before the interior depart
ment: Charles G. Rodolph, Muscoda, Wis;
Reuben d. Blanchard, Boscobel, Wis; Sid
| ney Williams and Isaac Balthis, OF the
firm OF William g. Balthis, Colfax, Iowa.
I The president has appointed ohm Goode
OF Virginia to be special consul on the part
of the United States in the suit instituted
| at Columbus TO test the validity OF the
/ patent granted the Bell Telephone com.
pany.
There is much excitement in telephone
| circles over the report that Prof. Gray's
original application for telephone patent
had been reinstated at the patent office.
! The reported action IS not equivalent to
issuing a patent to PROT Gray, but it re.
| opens the case in the patent office indie.
! pendently OF the suits in the courts, and
/ that a decision favorable to Prof. Gray
will be had in the department. before the
matter is settled in the courts.
Old-time boatmen say the Missouri is
lower now than before in % years or since
1858.
Senator Van Wyck wants to be re-elect-
ed by popular vote.
The Chicago newspapers figure up pop.
! ulation OF 1O3, SIT for the school census
| just completed.
No immediate danger now exists to the
towns IN north Wisconsin included in the
track OF forest fires. Heavy rains fell in
sections OF middle and northern Wiscon-
sin, and while not extnguishing the flames
| snbdued them considerably.
Senator Jones OF Florida has finally con.
cluded to open law Office in detroit
Jonas Window, an old and highly re.
/ spected citizen, and brother of ex-senator
William Window, died at his residence in
Sterling, ILL.,, after a long and painful i'll.
ness.
Capt. Watts, ex-Confedel ate, at the sol.
dlers reunion at Meyers Lake, Ohio, was
presented by Capt. Knapp OF the One Hun.
dred and Fourth Ohio with his sword
Knapp captured from him during the war.
at Graysville, Tenn, on the Cincinnati
southern railroad, son OF Rev. T. NJ.
| Bandy, Baptist minister, attempted to
whip John Davis, young man, for visit.
ing his sister. Davis fatally wounded
young Bandy. Then the old man took a
hand and in duel with knives he and
Davis were fatally cut.
William B. Johnson OF Rockford, Mich,
was shot and killed by John Boyd.
One Sunday recently 100000 pounds
OF fish were landed at Gloucester, Mass.
Since July 1, lice have killed the entire
hop crop OF Central New York.
Ed Kent, we'll known stone mason in
Eau Claire, Wis, while in a state OF intox.
ication, deliberately discharged a muzzle-
loading shot gun at his wife twice, one
charge passing through her clothes and
some OF the shots lodging in her lower
limbs. He then went into his room and re-
L loo lal 1ov al, I,
neck and discharged it, and died.
Count Won Wedel, an aide OF Emperor
William and military attache to the Ger
man embassy at Vienna, has been appoint
| ed to succeed Gen. Won Werder as military
attache to the embassy at st. Petersburg.
This shows that Gen. Won Werder was not
recalled on political grounds, and that
| Germany's relations with Russia are en-.
tirely unchanged.
The queen held a counsel at Osborne cas-
| tie with members OF the ministry. The
| terms OF the queens speech, to be read at
the rcassembling OF parliament, were agreed
upon.
The Irish Times reiterates the statement
that Parnell will shortly become Catholic.
! Mr.. Gladstone is in London. busily pre-
pairing for the new session OF parliament.
He has written to the mayor of Cork say
ing that he cannot visit Ireland. He adds
| that he hopes for a short holiday on the
continent.
! The American consul at Apia. Samoan
| Islands, left for San Francisco July 90, and
| instructed the king and cabinet to shoot
down anybody that attempted to haul
| down the American flag during his absence.
| Gen. Boplanger, French minister of war,
has prohibited the publication giving his
| biography and referring to a scandal with
which his name was connected.
| At Boston Mckee, Minchew & Taylor,
manufacturers OF furniture and mirrors,
have failed and gone into insolvency.
Their failure is due to the complications
OF p. F. Williams, A. Noble and Others
The president has appointed John T.
! Doyle OF New York secretary OF the civil
service commissioa and Henry Ehninger OF
New York United States consul at Gin
Feugos, vice William 2. Pierce. suspended.
P. j. Fallon of Hollyoke, Mass. became
insane from overstudy, while qualifying for
| the priesthood and ran about the country
naked, and was with difficulty captured.
| There is rush ofprospectors to Socorre
county, N. NJ, where, on the east slope OF
the Magdalena ridge, vein OF free gold six
feet wide ha been struck.
| IL is learned at the treasury department
! that the new silver certificates authorized
at the last session OF congress will not be
ready for issue before November. The Is
certificate contains vignette OF Martha
Washington, the 80 certificate vignette
of Mai. Gen. Hancock in full uniform, and
the $40 certificate a yignette OF Vice Presi.
dent Hendricks.
Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, government
director of Pacific railroads, who left
Omaha recently on his annual inspec-
ton tour over the Union aud Central Paci-
fc railr oads,is laid up at North Platte,
having been seriously Frustrated by heat.
He will be obliged to abandon his inspec-
ton tri;s, and will return East as soon as
he is able to travel. He is seventy nine
years old and in feeble health.
Business circles of Boston were surprised
by the report that William Gray, treasurer
OF the Indian Orchard & Atlantic cotton
mills, was defaulter. The defalcation will
amount to over 100000. The capital OF
tho Atlantic company is 81, 600, 600, and
that OF the Indian Orchard $500, 900. Gray
was elected treasurer of the companies
about five years ago, and the utmost con-
fdence was placed in him. He has been
prominent in social and business circles
has been park commissioner and is a di-
i rector in the New ENGLAND railroad Ha &c