New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-12-29


is plain and simple, and the volume might
be used with profit as reliable class book
in public and private schools. As house.
hold reference it Is invaluable, and chill
dren as well as grown people can read and
! understand it. While this publication is
in measure an advertising medium for
the Railway Company, that fact does not
detract from it's value, and copy OF Why
and Wherefore" will be sent free to any
address by enclosing ten cents in postage
to A. V. II. Carpenter, General Passenger
Agent, Milwaukee, Wis.
At Galveston, twenty-eight dwell
ings and two grocery stores on Avenue
* were burned. Loss, $4,000; insur.
ance, $4,000.
At Victoria, Ark, all the business houses
in town were simultaneously set on fire and
burned. Loss, S15O,O00.
At Philadelphia, q five-story building oc-
cupied by John NJ. Maris & Co., druggists
supplies, and Kneedler, Patterson d Co.,
dry goods, with the >contents, was burned.
Loss on building, $40, 600. Maris & Co.'s
loss, $40, 900 on stock. and Kneedler, Pat
terson g. Co., $4,000.
The struggle for the senatorship in New
York is becoming interesting. At first it
have walk over, but the latest Indications
are that Levi p. Morton is pressing Miller
closely, with Congressman Hiscock a good
third.
The private bank OF Valentine G. Hush
OF Minneapolis suspends payment, but it
is claimed that depositors will be paid in
full.
In the special term OF the supre me court
OF New York Judge Van Brunt gavea decis-
ion that the assignment OF the firm OF
Kossuth, Marx & Co., the well known jew
elers and diamond dealers, was null and
void, and ordered it to be set aside. The
| firm failed for 81, O0O,O
The governments OF Holland and Belgium
have signed declaration agreeing to sup
press the traffic in girls for immoral pur-
poses.
1t is reported on the reassembling OF the
reichstag letter from Emperor William
will be read declaring it the duty OF mem
bers to support the military bill.
Judge Butt in London, formally dis
missed the petitions for divorce presented
by Lady and Lord Campbell, in view OF
the verdict rendered by the jury recently
finding neither of the parties guilty OF
adultery. The judge granted Lady Campbell
$50 costs in her suit against her hus-
band, and the full costs OF her defense
against her husbands suit. He also
granted full costs to the duke OF Marlbor-
ough, Chief Shaw and DR.. Bird, correspond
ents in Lord Campbel's suit against his
wife. Gen. Butler, another correspondent.
did not apply for costs.
Maurogeni Bey, first secretary OF the
Turkish legation at Madrid, has been APP
pointed Turkish minister to Washington.
Fourth-class postmasters appointed:
Dakota-Flandreau, Matte E. Cooley.
Iowa-Lockridge D. Dunlap Shellrock, j..
Terolman; Taylor, S. Mathew; West Bend,
A. B. mccarthy.
Agent j ohm f. Kinney, OF the Yank ton
Indian agency, has had a conference with
Gen. Atkins, OF the Indian office, upon
the needs OF the Indians under his
charge. He asks for permission to purchase
for the Indians 100 brood mares and lum-
Der for finishing 100 houses in process OF
construction on the reservation. His re-
q uest will be granted. Agent Kinney reports
that the acreage under cultivation this
year is largely increased over last year,
and that the corn, Oat and wheat crops
are fully GO per cent better than last year.
Charleston earthquake relief commit
tee report $S15, 900 received for the SUI
ferers. OF this the smallest amount. 81.
came from Holland, and the largest from
New York, $3.50, 559.55
w. d. Bailey & Co. g creamery at Darien,
Wis, was destroyed by fire.
The sudden decline in the value OF stocks
in New York quite naturally caught a large
number OF the Chicago operators.
At Pittsburg the card rate on window
glass has been advanced 10 per cent, to
take effect at once. This is an increase Of
80 per cent over last years prices. The
RI 10 To no
as to the panufa :turer as their wages are
on a sliding scale.
. The London Post in an inspired article
warns Turkey from further counting with
Russia. The British government, it says,
has undergone great sacrifices to uphold
the integrity OF Turkey, even against the
opinion OF d large portion OF the English
people, Any hesitation on the part OF
Turkey will now compel England to adopt
course to counteract Russia by measures
that will speedily impress the porte with
the fact that its present d oubtful policy is
the worst for it's own interest.
At Crookston, Judge r. Reynolds SEN
fenced the following prisoners: Joseph
Laundry, assault with intent to kill, eight
years and six months; Charles Kennedy,
grand larceny, two years; David Hutchin-
son, horse stealing, two years.
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ton Co., was killed while at work in we'll
The writing telegraph system has just
been introduced into Pittsburg and West.
ern Pennsylvania. The operator simply
writes with a pen upon strip OF moving
paper and the characters he makes are re-
corded at the other end OF the wire in fac
smile. There is no noise. The system is
the invention of Edward Cooper OF Eng
land, and it is likely to play the mischief
with the telephone
The governments will soon institute pro-
ceedings in b ston to test the validity OF
the patent granted the Bell Telephone
company. Solicitor General jerks has
prepared the draft OF a bill against the
company. Action will b. deferred until
special government counsel have expressed
their views in regard to the proposed bill.
A travelling man named Byrne, repre-
senting Chicago grocery house, who had
been on a spree sever al days, dropped dead
on the street at Omaha.
Judge Manning, United States minister
to Mexico, i'll a long letter to P ercy Roberts
OF New Orleans, denies the story that at a
banquet given in his honor he got drunk
and afterwar1 had delirinm tremens He