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

Condensed General News.
Mr.. Gladstone has issued his cleo.
ton address to the voters of MidIo-
THAN, giving the elements of the pol
icy upon which he asks that constituency
| to return him to the house OF commons to
fill the vacancy caused by the fact OF his &C.
cepting Office. In this the prime minister
will state: The new government will insti-
4 tute an inquiry into the entire land ques-
tinn in Ireland and into the question
whether there exists any necessitH for. the
Introduction OF any specially coercive meas
ures in legislation for the Irish people: but
the main policy OF the government shall be
Il to endeavor to reach the source and seat
! OF the mischief generally admitted existent
in that country.
Pierre and Jean Baptiste Vandal, who
were sentenced to seven years imprison-
i ment in the penltentiary for having taken
part in the Northwest rebellion, have
been pardoned. 1t is expected that the re-
lease of other prisoners confined for the
/ same offenses will follow
/ indicted for killing Marein Archer, of Or
! snge county, Indiana, in 1882, has been
captured near Little Rock, Ark.
A terrific explosion occurred recently at
the Miami powder works, at Goes Station
near Aenia, Ohio, where the large powder
mills were blown to atoms and Gustav
Snyder, superintendent OF the works, SO
badly bruised that he cannot recover The
powder house OF Stanley, Sarrell & Co.,
New York, exploded at shaft No. 20 OF the
new acqueduct, on the Fordham Landing
road. The shock was felt for a radius Of
many miles in all drec lions, and the dam
! age to the surrounding neighborhood was
heavy.
The Ohio committees are still wrestling
. with the legislative deadlock.
A New York bay tug ran down a row
boat and drowned five Austrian seamen.
The United States court in INDIANAPOLIS
entered judgment in favor OF the plaintiffs
in the case OF forty-two wholesale firms of
New York, Boston, Chicago and other cities
against Michael Fletcher OF Lebanon, Ind
1T was charged that Fletcher obtained $780,
900 worth of goods from the firms and dis
posed of them without paying for them.
A vote>in the house shows that the silver
men have a large majority.
- Senators Edmunds and Pugh, by direc-
ton OF the committee on the judiciary,
called upon the presi dent to inform him
that the committee would feel called upon
to report against the nomination of judge
a.,
was appointed to the district bench last
summer The only objection to Judge
Merrick was his age, for after u service OF a
little more than two years he would be
retired upon a life pension, and the COM
mittee did not think the appointment of
men OF his age should be approved of by
the senate. The president promptly re-
piled that Judge Merrick was giving salts
faction and he did not see that his age dis
qualified him in the least Therefore he
could not Justly withdraw his name.
Ellen Gehan, waiting maid of the late
Mrs. Roebling, wife OF the famous ohm w.
Roebling, mechanical engineer has brought
suit to recover $4,000 from the Roebling
estate, she alleging that Mrs r. promised
to leave her well off.
P. N. Smith, the attorney, shot at Eliza
beth, Stearns county by r. 0. Kempfer
will not recover. Kempfer is forty-eight
years DID, and was formerly a resident OF
Madelia. Watawan county. When TWEEN
ty-four years old he represented the
Twentieth district in the legislature.
Archbishop Gibbons says that $500, 900
will soon be raised for the proposed Ro-
man Catholic university. Bishop Marty
Of Dakota is collecting money from the
German Catholics.
The wife OF Senator Mcpherson gave an
elaborate and beautiful breakfast party to
young ladies, in honor OF her guest, Miss
Dillon the daughter OF Prof. j ohm F. Dillon
Of New Y DIRK. Two tables were set with
eight debutante's at one table and sixteen
young ladies at a larger board. The tables
were decorated with large central cushions
OF roses and other choice flowers and bas-
kets OF maiden-hair fern graced the ends OF
the tables.
Washington Star: A newspaper CORE
congressman for 'spread eagle" burst OF
eloquence, and then found out that the
passage was,a quotation from Macaulay.
Snow fell to the depth OF four inches at
Nexcalings, four miles from the city Of Mex
leo. This is the first snow that has fallen
in that vicinity since 1856. The weather is
much cooler than is generally experienced
in that latitude
The agreement between France and Ger
many regarding their respective possessions
on the west coast OF Africa and in the South
sea has been submitted to the reichstae.
The agreement cont aims an amicable under
standing with respect to the rival claims OF
the two powers to the territory lying on
, Biafra bay, Germany surrendering her as
sumed sovereignty and protectorate over
) all that part OF the country lying south OF
the river Congo, and France aband oning ali
claim to any territory north OF that river
Scott, clerk OF Arrapahoe county, Colo,
although indicted for falsifying the records
1flnd admitting it, has obtained bail and
holds onto his Office. He can't be dislodg-
ed until convictedG and Denver people are
excited.
Capt. Hendson, who has arrived from
Legiep, one OF the islands OF the Marshall
group, relates the circumstances Of the
seizure OF Legiep by Germany last Septem-
Der. He states the German vice consul, a
captain and thirty armed men landed from
a German war ship and raised the German
flag against the protest Of DR.. C. H. Ingalls,,
an American who ia one of The three Can