New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-05-12
of clerk of the district court and the an
pointment Of Robert McGraw to the posi-

John Dubois, the wealthy lumber mer.
chant, died at Dubois, Pa, after a inger.
ST. 100000 N'''' ~ "0''D
Maud Cook, aged nine, has been found up
in the Tennessee mountains near Manches-
ter composing music of a high order and
playing the piano with wonderful taste
Her father has been offered $4,000 fol
her.
The steamship Claribel, which arrived at
New York from Falmouth, recently, stilled
terrific seas she encountered by pouring oil
on the water.
The friends OF ex-Vice President David
Davis are alarmed over the condition Of
his health.
The Pennsylvania railroad authorities
report very light immigrant travel.
At New Orleans Samuel Boyd, of the firm
of Boyd & Henry, made affidavit charging
B. Mcconnell who has for the past twenty
years been confidential clerk of the firm,
with embezzling s35, 900 since the LIST Of
last September.
Hotchkiss, the peppermint king OF Wayne
county, n. Y, has engineered corner on
peppermint, and the price has advanced
l5 per cent.
President Porter, OF Yale, will present
his resignation at the annual meeting Of
the corporation on May 20.
: Five passenger steamers arrived in New
York, Sunday, bringing 2, 400 steerage and
335 cabin passengers.
The loss to workingmen per day by the
strikes is $2O0,OO0, or. 81, 200, 900 a wesk.
A dispatch from >Burmah states: The in.
snrgents have possession OF Mandalay and
have destroyed by fire 1000 houses. The
hostility OF the natives who remain loyal
to the dethroned King Theebaw is intense
because of China openly avowed endorse
ment of Great Britain's seizure of Burmah
The officers commanding the British forces
have telegraphed to Lord Dufferin, the vic
eroy, that they are powerless to prevent
the rioting OF the natives, and have urgent
~ asked for reinforcements.
Tho president has recognized Ferdinand
van Nordenhacht as consul OF Germany at
Chicago.
Frederick Ellison OF Indiana was nomi
mated as consul at Ascension.
The National Red Cross Association OF
Washington has telegraphed message oil
sympathy and proffers OF aid to the wound
ed policeman at Chicago and the families
OF the officers who lost their lives.
G. Yanth OF Sandusky, Ohio, tries to Kill
his divorced wife and then kills himself.
Mayor Harrison OF Chicago orders the
discontinuance OF gatherings and process.
sions in the streets as dangerous.
The Massasoit house sale at Alma, Wis,
is blown open by burglars and 1925 is
stolen.
Seventeen hundred men in the Deering
harvester works, Chicago, quit work, and
the proprietors get police protection.
lie Paris states that the powers, except
France are about to enforce vigorous
measures to compel Greece to comply With
their wishes respecting her quarrel with
Turkey. France will remain neutral.
NJ. Granet, minister OF ports and tele-
graphs, has granted a charter to a French
company to lay anew cable between Brest
and New York via Gundeloyse.
Mr.. White, minister OF the Dominion in
terror, said in the house at Ottawa, that
thirteen half-breeds were admitted to have
taken part in the rebellion. OF these, two
were refused scrip on account OF the same
In reply to Charlton, the finance minister
said the gross public debt was 1921, 4S3,
600, and net public debt, S2O5, $4,000
The Pail Mall Gazette says Mr.. Cham
berlain and his political adherents WILL we
believe, vote in favor OF the second reading
of the home rule bill as an abstract reso.
luton, limited by a pledge affirming Ire.
lands right to be represented at Westmia-
ster After the bill is read the second time
it will be withdrawn temporarily, and the
question OF home rule postponed for year,
in order to allow public opinion concerning
it to mature.
telegram was received from Gen. B. F.
Butler, saying that he would like to be
heard by the senate committee on finance
against the confirmation OF Gen. Rose
Grams. It is expected that Butler will be
here in few days to take hand in what
promises to be a lively fight. His opposi-
tion to Rosecrans undoubtedly grows out
OF the report which the latter threw into
the house OF representatives the last night
OF the last session, charging him with mis-
appropriating 100000 as treasurer Of
the board of managers of the soldiers
home.
The Coast and Geodetic survey, after
seventy-dve years existence, has not COM
pleted even the first survey of our coast
line, and the survey has cost $24, OOO,O 900.
Archbishop Gibbons has been in Wash
ington several days preparing plans for
the proposed national Catholic university.
There is no nomination pending before
the senate that has been so persistently
opposed or has been subjected to so many
various forms OF action as that OF z. NJ
Zulick OF New Jersey to be governor of
Arizona. The nomination was, however,
confirmed.
The senate committee on foreign rela-
tions unanimously ordered favorable re-
port on Senator Frye's bill to promote the
political progress and commercial prosper
ity OF the American nations. 1t provides
or a congress OF American nations.
One hundred congressman are registered
to speak on the tariff bill.
Judge Baskin, a prominent democrat OF
Utah, and the man who brought the Mount
ain Meadow massacre to trial, made an
able argument before the house judiciary
committee in favor Of The Edmunds bill
The measure is meeting with vigorous OPP
position in the committee by the Mormons
through their attorneys, ex-Gov. Boutwell,
JEFF Chandler and Delegate Caine.
DR.. John Jones, an old resident OF ST..
Paul, died recently DR.. Jones WAS an
Enslishman by birth. but emigrated to the
United States when a youth. He entered
the regular army, and served continu ously
for seventeen years. At the breaking out
OF the civil war he was an ordnance SER
geant and was stationed at Fort Ridgely
In 1868 he was made captain Of the Third
Minnesota battery, and did frontier service
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