New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-02-10

convict named German, who was rummag-
ing in the house. and held him until help
came.
4 Police Justice Mech of Chicago brought
suit in the circuit court to recover $27, 900
from Rey. Dr.. A. p: Kittridge, who, he
claims, ibeled him in his sermon Dr.
Kittridge is pastor of the Third Presby ter
ian church. II
Lieut.. Commander r. NJ Cults, while on
on a visit from Mare island to relatives in
San Francisco, was suddenly seized with
internal hemorrhage, from which he died.
Seven hundred and fifty applications
have been made for admission to the new
Soldiers home at Erie, Pa, which only
4 holds two hundred.
! Valentine Keyser, a prominent farmer
OF Wabash county, Ind, is thought to have
been murdered. His charred body was
found in the ruins of the house, which had
been burned.
Forty of the sixty-eight Modoc and
sioux Indian children who for three years
past have been receiving instruction at the
expense of the United States government
Ind, are now being prepared for return to
the Indian Territory, having completed the
course OF study assigned them.
August Belmont, the New York banker,
got judgment by default for $154 ,451, to-
gether with costs and disbursements,
against Ben Holiday in Portland, Or.
Some years ago Belmont sued Holiday in
the superior court in New York city, and
got judgment. Ben Holiday never settled
it, so recently the suit was renewed in
i Portland.
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from the United States ola quarto volume
(namc not stately bound in sealskin, with
lining OF damask satin, and ahand- painted
inscription. The work is regarded as a
triumph OF American book. binding, and
copies have been presented to the German
emperor and to the emperor OF Russia.
The Winnipeg councilmen propose to pay
'ess for the electric lights OF that city or
else do without them.
Wallace Ross and Fred Plaisted say they
will make an attempt next August to go
through the Niagara whirlpool in a boat.
They claim that Capt. Webb was drowned
through an accident, and that the boat they
have contracted for in the United States
will carry them through safely.
A young man named James Isaacs, who
lives on the Frazer river, has confessed that
he shot his brother, whose recent myster-
GUS shooting created a sensation in the
province.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c., says the
snow blockade has been raised on the Can
adam Pacific and all the trains are run
ming on time again.
Queen Victoria has chosen as the
date of the performance OF "Mors ct
Vita which she will attend at the
Royal Albert hall. Friday, March 90,
that being the eve OF the third anniversary
OF the death OF John Brown.
Commissioner Sparks records an opin-
ion that the so-called "Texas Oklahoma
! Homestead colony" which promises for
a Zee OF 81 to take a person into member
! ship and provide him homestead in Ok
| lahoma, is u fraud.
Gen. Hazen, the CHIEF signal officer, has
made contrat with Prof. King, the ae-
ronaut, to write out his experience in MAX
ing balloon ascensions and to prepare q
treatise upon the atmospheric conditions
above the clouds He is to be paid 500
| Tor the job.
z. NJ. Smith, a we'll known attorney OF
Elizabeth, Stearns county, was shot by R.
o. Kempfer. The cause Of the shooting
grew out OF a divorce suit pending, in which
Mrs. kempfer is trying to secure a divorce
from her husband Smith was acting as her
attorney. 1t is supposed that Kempfer
I
| shooting. Kempfer met Smith at Burson' s
store, and without word OF warning, shot
at him five times, three shots taking effect
| -One ina shoulder, one in the abdomen,
which came out at his back, and one in the
side. Kempfer was secured and is now in
jail. Smith win probably die.
Peter FL. Smith, a Tower City butcher, is
missing, and his chief creditor, Mayor SUIT
phin OF Duluth, is anxious about him.
The Tucson, Ariz., Star claims that the
killing OF Capt. Crawford by Mexicans was
premeditated. The war department at
Washington thinks it was purely accident
AL
Hon. John D. Philbrick, formerly super.
intendent Of the Boston schools, died at
his country home in Danvers, Mass. OF
/ paralysis, in his 6Sth year. Mr.. Philbricl1
was born in Deerfield, N. H. He was grad
uated at Dartmouth
w. II. jackson, private secretary 81
Louis Rlel, has arrived in Chicago to Sc
cure aid for the prisoners still held for com
plicity in the Northwest rebellion.
James Howard Mcmillan OF Detroit is
the richest sophomore at Yale college and
he spends $4,000 pin money q year.
/ Senator John T. Miller Of California,
now dying, is worth Sc, 100000.
I Ohio senators have agreed upon plan
Of compromise at Columbus.
\ A desperate convict at Pittsburg serious
1 ~ wounds two OF his keepers, but is over
powered before injuring them fatally.
4 A Cleveland youth is charged with forging
his mothers name to 100000 worth OF
paper.
The normal school at Madison, Oak,
succumbed to the flames.
4 James Donnel1y and Tom Flynn, two
well known heavy weight pugilists, fought
4 a short but bloody fight in aroom up town
at New York. Flynn was the victor.
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