New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-09-12
News in General.

james P. Bennett, retail coffee and tea
dealer of New York, filed a general assign
ment to Joseph F. Becker Preferences are
given twenty creditors, the aggregate being
S2l 900. The house of J. P. Bennett is one
OF the best known in the trade and did an
extensive wholesale business. The liabilities
are not yet known, but are thought to be-
tween Sl50, 900 and 100000.
There. is trouble at the big Northern Pa
cifc bridge across the Missouri at Bismarck
because of q threatened land slide The east
approach and pier seem to be sliding away
from their base. The reservoirs of the city
water works, a few hundred feet from the
bridge, are credited with leaks that have
honey-combed the bluffs. A large gang of
men are repairing the damage and trying to
effectually stop the break.
The financial statment of the Chicago,
Burlington & Quincy railroad for the month
OF July as compared with the corresponding
period of 1888 is as follows: Gross earnings
$l,S63,5 500, a decrease of$3O4, 800; expenses
81, $40 1913. an increase of S312, S65: net
earnings 1858 ,3O7, decrease of $617, 166,
For the seven months ending July 81 the
gross earnings were $11 ,939, 466, a decrease
OF 1904, AL; expenses $1O,l92,729, an
increase of 81, ia, 274 net earnings 81 ,646.-
1877, a decrease of S., Bis, 715.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
says: 1t is asserted with great postiveness
in railway and financial circles that at the
| coming annual election of officers of the
Northern Pacific Railway company, to be
held Sept. 20. President Robert Harris will
be retired and Thomas F. Oakes now
vice president and general manager will be
elected to succeed him. Mr. Cakes lis said to
! represent a combination of all the interests
in the company-the Willard interest, the
Philadelphia stockholders, represented by
Charles B. Wright, and the Oregon Trans
| continental
| The telegraph operators along the line OF
| the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern rail.
road are in state of great anxiety over a
recent order from the company to sever their
| connection with the Order of Railway Tele-
| graphers or yacate their positions It is re-
| ported that the company has been making
preparations to accomplish this for the past
| three months and have secured men to fill
! every vacancy likely to occur under the or.
| der. Members of the Order of Railway Tele,
graphers in Chicago when approached on the
! subject were very reticent, and would neither
affirm nor deny the report.
/ The original package construction placed
| on the last Iowa liquor law is causing friends
/ of the law deal of grief. A Chicago import
ing company (which has an agency at Marshal
town, shipped a car load of beer and 200
! quarts OF whisky into that place to be sold
on the day when Barnum's circus was tc
show there. 1t is estimated that at least
| 1000 bottles were sold on circus day. In The
/ latter part of the afternoon the agent yolun
tarily closed to avoid the charge of keeping
nuisance. The beer came in q car with hay
so that it was sold in the original package
! without any tax.
The rumors as to the war between the Utes
and Piutes have been confirmed by the re
| ceipt of a letter by Gov. Adams from Natu
| rita, stating that the mail carriers had beer
/ informed by an Indian that the Utes hal
fought and beaten the Piutes The letter
adds that from the meagre information oh
tainable it is probable that one hundred
Indians were killed. The band of Utes en-
gagged in the battle was probably that lee
by Mancos Jim, who is notorious despera
do. They are q band of renegades who hay,
never been attached to any agency, and hay,
had their retreat in the widest portion of thu
| Lasal mountains.
Nearly 10 900 people were in line at Colum
bus, Ohio, at the opening of the centennia
4 anniversary of the first settlement made il
/ Northwest Territory Great enthusiasm
was manifested. Gov. Foraker reviewed th
4 parade from stand erected at the north ent
of the capitol Director General Hurst m adj
a short address in presenting the works o
/ the CENTENNIAL and Gov. Foraker accepted
| them with short address. There are TWEEN
i ty-elght special days set apart for specia
celebrations during the exposition duril.
which time President Cleveland, Cen Harrll
son, Levi z. Morton, james G, Blaine AMI
other distinguished gent emen will be present
The centennial will continue for seven weeks,