New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-20

iappear:in the=appendix 81 one 81 The forth
coming reports Of the geological survey is
one by Prof. oseph +. Iddings upon IN
:obsidian cliff OF Yellowstone Park. The
cliff 10 an elevation half q mile long and
from $50 to 200 feet high, the material Of
which Prof. 1ddings says, is as good q
glass as any artifcially made The cliff
presents a partial section of a surface now
of obsidian which poured down an ancient
slope from the plateau lying east. 1t is
impossible to determine what the original
thickness OF this flow may have been. The
dense glass which now forms the lower por-
ton is from Is to 100 feet thick, while the
porous and pumiceous upper portion has
suffered for ages of erosion and glacial ac-
ton. A remarkable feature of the cliff is
the development OF prismatic columns
which form its southern extremity.
An Ell Paso special reports the assassi-
nation of President Gonzales in an in,
terror town in Mexico.
Rev. Augustus Stopford Brooke, the en-
inent Unitarian preacher of Dublin, has
become crazy and has been confined in an
insane asylum.
The Posts Vienna correspondent as
serts: Turkey has rejected Russia over
lures for joint action against England and
Austria. The inducement offered was the
by Turkey Russia to proclaim protec-
torate over and to occupy Bulgaria; Egypt
to be occupied by mixed French and
Turkish garrison under the supreme COM
mand OF a French general, and Greece to be
given back her lost territory. The pro-
posals also referred to Russian campaign
against India. France supported Russia
strongly and offered financial assistance to
Turkey"
John Behan. who is said to be CORE.
spondent OF the Irish World, of New York,
was arrested at Kildysart, County Clare,
on charge of disordely conduct in the
streets.
The official report of the medical ex-
perts appointed to investigate the insan-
ity OF King Otto has been made public.
1t says the kings disease is incurable par
anonia, which does not affect the duration
OF life.
Germany has decided to supply her whole
army with repeating rifles. It is rumored
that all the government manufactures and
arsenals are to be run continuously day
and night on the work OF converting the
Mauser rifles, the weapon at present in use
by the army, into repeaters, holding ten
cartridges each.
Charles L. Webster, OF the publishing
firm OF Webster & Co., has just returned
from Rome where he made arrangements
with the pope for the publication OF his
mem oirs, which have been prepared by DR..
O'Reilley. Mr.. Webster says the converse
tion was carried on entirely in French.
The pope was dressed in q long white cas-
sock and wore white skull cap. His hair
was silver white, cut short and combed up
behind his ears. His figure is tall and thin,
and his complexion very pure and white.
There was not the slightest sign OF failing
intellect about him, aged as he is and phys
ically weak. The pope spoke of America
and called it the promised land" and
wonderful country.
At Monticello, Ill.,, 200 disguised men
overpowered the sheriff, broke into the
jait. took therefrom Henry Wildman, the
wife murderer. and hanged him to small
shade tree near the jail.
At North Adams, Mass, the body OF Bay
ard Putnam, chief OF the government top
ographical survey, was found hanging to
tree short distance from the biologists
camp where he had been working.
The New York Sun prints moro CORE
spondence relative to the Grant embalming
bill. Col. Fred Grant sent letter and
check for $500 to Mr.. Dana to cover the
Suns payment of the bill of Holmes & Co.,
but Dana refused to accept the check and
returned it.
Abram s. Hewitt has agreed to accept
the Tammany hall nomination for mayor
OF New York, and has written letter an
nouncing this fact. Mr.. Hewitt stipulates
that the rest OF this ticket shall be satsfac-
tory to him.
At Eastport. Me-, four sardine factories,
Smiths saloon, Paine's large store, War
rem Browns house, r. B. Carke's house,
and other dwellings have been destroyed,
also the Passamaquody hotel and tele-
graph Office. Some thirty buildings in all
were burned. Loss $1S5, 900.
In London the case of Edward Solomon,
the composer, who was arres ted for bigamy
at the instance of his first wife, was again
called up, but the witnesses for the prosecu-
ton, who were expected from America, had
not arrived. The magistrate said that
ample time had been allowed to produce
them, and that it would be unjust to keep
the prisoner in custody. He therefore lib
Grated him on his own recognizance.
President Elijah Smith, OF the Oregon
Transcontinental,h has retired from the pres
idency Of the Central Iowa, and President
Stickney, of the Minnesota & Northwestern,
was elected to fill the vacancy.
Commissioner Sparks has replied to
Cows. Warren and Hauser Of Wyoming and
Montana, denying that the growth of their
territories had been retarded by the COM
missioner's land policy. He shows by fig
ures that the contrary is true. The entries
at these land Offices in Montana in 1884
we~s as follows: Bozeman, 49S; Helena,
3,0Ol; Miles City, l, $40; total, 5,O78. In
1886, the number OF entries was as follows:
Bozeman, l, 1858; Helena, 3, O56; Miles City,
2,127; total, 7,141. The increase has been
over 1000 entries in Montana.
Canon Bianchini, while leaving St. Marks
cathedral at Venice, was stabbed TO the
heart by man who cried, "Behold Thy
Victim" The assassin was arrested, and
proved to be Sig. Veanelle, formerly dea-
con, whose conversion to Professionalism
caused futter among Catholics few
years ago. On examination Veanelle de-
posed that he came to Venice with the in.