New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-11-24

harrington. Seventh cavalry, to report at
once to the adjutant general of the army,
was, it is understood, issued at the in
stance of the state department. Lieut..
Darlington will accompany United States
Minister Maury to Bogota az military at
tache OF the legation. He will be absent
about two years.
A general army order has been issued
establishing an army regulation, which
will go into effect Jan. 1. It provides:
When an officer is granted leave ofabsence
it should be charged to the year or years
in which it first accrued in order of priority
of date. and any balance OF accrued leave
remaining shall stand to his credit for fu-
ture leaves; provided no credit shall stand
longer than four years from date OF accru-
ing. It is stated at the war department.
that this order is intended to give any Off
Ger the full benefit OF the cumulative leave
privileges in which they have been restrict
ed for ten years past.
Russia has designated Prince Nicholas of
Mingrelia as her candidate for the throne
of Bulgaria. The other powers have
unanimously approved OF him as the sue
cessor to Prince Alexander, and have in
vited Russia to now propose satisfac-
tory solution of the conflict with the Bull
garian regency. Gen. Kaulbars threatens
to leave Bulgaria unless the government
BUSINESSES the communicating Oh HNl1ODODO-
lis, who arrested a Russian official.
It is probable that the civil service COM
missioners will proceed to Philadelphia in
few days to begin an investiga tion in
to the charges mad against Postmaster
Harrity by the Pennsylvania Civil Service
Reform association. In addition, several
other communications charging political
discrilninat ton and violation of civilservice
rules have been received by the commits.
slOners.
1t is understood that the naval esti-
mates are $1O,000,OOO LEGS in amount
than the estimates last year.
Mr.. Blaine writes a. letter denying that
he ever sneered at civil service reform.
An order has been issued by the secreta-
ry Of war detailing Lieut.. D. L. Howard,
OF the ordinance department, for duty on
the board OF officers now engaged testing
rifle cannon at New York city. He takes
the place OF Lieut.. Medcalfe, who was re-
Gently killed by the explosion near Sandy
Hook.
George Golfer, a newly appointed postal
clerk operating on the st. Paul limited
train between Minneapolis and Chicago,
was arrested at Chicago by inspector
Doubleday and Smith, charged with riding
the mails. Extensive thefts OF valuable
letters, principally those directed to A. NJ.
Dauphin, OF the Louisiana Lottery COM
pany, had taken place OF late. Golfer con-
fessed.
At Chatham, North Carolina, a white
man named Moor, was sent to the chain
gang for having traded wives with another
man. When the Judge asked him what he
had to say he replied that he did not know
his act was crime. A man came to his
house with woman who was better look
ing than his own wife, and bantered him
for a trade, SO he 'swapped" and paid
$3.50 to boot. AS this was his first
swap" he hoped that the court would
impose light sentence.
At Antelope, Ariz., three Mexicans rode
up to the store Of C.. D. Stanton. Two OF
them entered the store and opened fire on
The third Mexican fired through the win
dow. Stanton was instantly killed. KEEL
ly returned the fire; killing one Mexican.
The United States supreme cort dec id es
the Peronto case, involving the title to
land near Fargo, in favor of the Northern
Pacific.
London Cable: The British government,
in concert with Austria, Italy and Turkey
will resist the candidature OF the prince OF
Mengrelia or OF any other Russian subject
for the Bulgarian throne. The entente
with Austria grows daily closer, and now
amounts virtually to an offensive alliance
against Russia. Sir A. B. Paget, the Brit
ish ambassador at Vienna, and Count
Kalnoky in conference at Vienna ex-
changed an agreement that il Russia should
occupy Bulgaria or should seize her ports,
Austria will send two army corps to join
the Servian troops and they will advance
into Bulgaria, while England will send her
fleet simultaneously to enter the Black Sea
and guard the Danube and prevent the
passage OF Russian troops. Turkey at the
same time is to concentrate her troops on
the Roumanian frontier.
E. j. Farnes, g. prominent book dealer OF
Minneapolis, died at Madison, Wis, Of
malarial fever, aged thinty-six years. He
was a graduate of the Wisconsin State uni
versity, studied theology in the best col
leges OF Norway and Germany, and married
Miss Carrie Rothe OF Deerfield, Dane coun-
ty, in 1882, after which he located in
Minneapolis.
At Chicago Perry O'Mearal, switchman
on the Lake Shore railroad, shot and kill
ed an unknown man, supposed to be one
OF the stock yard strikers. In a saloon
discussion O'Meara unguardedly revealed
that he was a non-union man from Toledo,
and on leaving the saloon was set upon
by five supposed strikers.
Hon. George D. Wise was arrested at
Richmond Ona warrant charging him with
being a bout to commit breach OF the peace
The arrest was the result OF the publica-
tion in the papers OF a card by Mr.. Wise,
denouncing in the strogest language Col.
William Lamb, ex.mayor of Norfolk. Mr..
Wise was put under $1,000 bond to keep
the peace.
The battleship Tennessee, the largest
vessel in the American navy and one of the
best known OF the North Atlantic squad
ron, has made her last voyage. She is rot
ten.
John Parnell, eldest brother of Charles
Stewart Parnell, arrived in New York from
Ireland. He says that he found Ireland
greatly improved since he was there a year
ago. People are not only more hopeful of
having home rule, but arc greatly deter
mined to have It, The rent question is
the great difficulty at the present time.
He himself and his brothers, Henry, Tuder
and Charles, were not able to get one-third
the amount they expected from their es.
tates. Some districts of the country are
reduced to wretched want.
At meeting OF the American Shropshire
Sheep Registry association at Chicago, the
officers who held place last year were re-
elected, including President s. H. Todd, OF