New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-03-17


should be in favor OF the admission of the
whole territory, the convention could 60
! on and frame constitution to submit to
Congress. If the majority should be in
favor of admission on the 10th parallel,
delegates from North Dakota could with
draw, and these representing South Dakota
would be ready to go on and adopt a con-
stitution. It is thought that this is the
only measure on admission likely to pass
both houses OF Congress at this session.
There is a bill before the house com mittee
on the judiciary which provides: All manu-
facturers OF boots and shoes who use in
such articles paper or any other material
except leather, and all dealers in such boots
and shoes shall cause them to be distinctly
marked or branded and invoiced as paper
soed boots or shoes, as the case may be.
Its provisions are to apply only where said
boots are manufactured for sale or are sold
to citizens or other than citizens ofthe state
in which they are made or to citizen OF a
foreign country. Violation OF the act is
punishable by fine and imprisonment, the
fine being placed at $50 to $500, and Ten to
one hundred days
The debate on Qillwyn's motion in the
commons brought out the fact that there
is q strong leaning in parliament toward
llshment OF the Church OF England. Many
Libarals oppose the motion, not from lack
OF sympathy, but merely because it was an
infraction OF the pledge given by the govern
ment on assuming power not to deal with
the church question in the present parlia-
ment. The Liberal press, however, re-
fecting the real opinion and purpose OF
the Liberal party predict that disestab-
lishment is certain to be considered in the
next parliament and bill passed severing
the official connection between state and
church.
Gustave George Wolfram, proprietor OF
a railroad and steamship ticket office and
collection agency in New York, has alb
da. His liabilities are aoout $4,000 and
his assets SO, 900 or $4,000.
P. N. Pitman, an employee OF G. w.
Moore's insurance agency OF Detroit Mich,
has been arrested at Kalamazoo on q
charge OF enbezzling 81, 900 from the New
York Life Insurance company.
Samuel c. Schaefer, real estate agent OF
Kansas City, who was recently sentenced
to the penitentinry for swindling j ohm F.
Blair, the Blairsville On. J.) millionaire,
was bound over in the criminal court at
Independence, Mo-, to answer a charge OF
conspiracy for the murder OF Mr.. Blair and
the employment OF all assassin. aSchaefer
is in the Kansas City Jail in default OF 81 O.
900 bail.
Washington Special: The bill to allow
Col. Steele OF Dakota to buy section 16,
which is a school section, in the town OF
Steele, on the Northern Pacific, has met
with a terrific reverse. Col. Steele secured
from the house committee on public lands
and also from the senate committee favor
able reports on proposition to let him
buy that section at $3.50 an acre, the fact
being that he had settled on itsupposing it
was section II, and he had put $50, 900
worth of improvements on it. The other
day Chairman Cobb, OF the house commit
tee on public lands, received budget OF
affidavits from Steele going to show that
Col. Steele knew he was settling on the
wrong section, and did SO with the inten-
ton OF defrauding the government, ETC.,
etc.
Apostotfice has been established at Gro
Hidden made postmaster. The following
postotfces have been established Da-
kota-Holmes, Grand Forks county,
L. p. Hampstead postmaster; Thorson,
Day county, NJ Thorson postmater
Postmasters Commissioned-Dak
Steele, F. S. Corwin; Tower City, F. Vallan-
digham. MINES ota-East Grand Forks,
7. F.. Geisert; Geneva, Elizabeth Reed;
Grove Lake, A. Harrington; Sherburn, NJ.
NJ. Jenkins. Unconstitutional, F. Kip
stein.
The Dolph bill establishing regulations
for bridges over navigable waters has been
amended>in committee SO as to-fs such a
case as that OF the Stickney bridge at st.
Paul and the bridges over the St. Croix.
A senate committee begins to investigate
Pension Commissioner Blacks charge that
his predecessors made the Office political
machine.
Mai. William Ludlow, OF the corps of en-
gineers, q. S. A., is appointed engineer COM
missioner ,ofthe District OF Columbia.
The report OF the committee on com.
merce upon the interstate commerce bill
presented to the house says: It is be-
leyed that the enactment and enforcement
OF such q law will provide for the just and
necessary abridgenent of the monopoly
powers of these corporations and protect
and extortionate actions, and will at the
the management OF railroad corporations
in anything that is reasonable o.. Just
The committee believe it wiser and better
law through the instrumentality OF the or
binary course OF justice and by the judges
and iuries 81 the country than by the or
more accessible.
There are $50, 900 Creoles in Louisiana.
principally residents OF New Orleans.
The university ofSouthern California has
received requests Of land and money to i