New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-10-31
News Generalities.

A laughable incident occurred at Washburn,
Wis, which will cost q contractor quite
sum- He had a contract for repairing the
Congregational church chimney, and told
one of his men to tear the old one down. The
man misunderstood him and tore down the
chimney of the Catholic church instead It
will have to be rebuilt at the expense of the
contractor.
The obsequies of Ri. Rev Bishop Welles, of
the Episcopal diocese of Milwaukee, took
place at Milwaukee. The services at the
cathedral were very impressive, and the cor
tege, preceded by a procession ofrobed priests
behind cross bearer, attracted much at
tention as it slowly proceeded through the
city toward Forest Home cemetery.
The United States Circuit Judge Sawyer
rendered a decision at San Francisco in the
care of ten Chinese, sailors on the Panama
steamer Colima, who had shipped for round
trip voyage and who were refused landing
by the collector on their return on the
ground that they had been outside the
United States. Judge Sawyer permitted
them to land, holding that the ten sailors
had not left the United States in the COM
mon acceptance of that term, and that they
were under American jurisdiction us well as
in an American vessel and in American ter.
ritorY.
The first train to pass through the Wickes
tunnel, on the Montana Central railroad,
was the excursion to Boulder. The passage
occupied just twelve minutes, ana was made
safely. The tunnel is eighteen miles from
Helena, on the Montana Central branch to
Butte, and runs through large mountain
the Boulder divide. 1t is 5000 feet long,
and is the largest in Montana. 1t runs
through solid rock and it's constructions
cost about million and half 1t was
built by Larson, Keefe & Co. of Helena.
Work was commenced in May, 1887, and
daylight was let through it in September,
1883. The trains viii henceforth rum
through the tunnel regularly. It is the in
tention Of the company to line the tunnel
with masonry which will necessitate further
outlay OF a quarter ola million dollars.
Alarming reports come from Enterprise.
Florida Rumors that yellow fever was
widely prevalent there have been rife. In re
Spouse to query DR.. King Wylly of Sanford
Give miles across Lake Monroe from Enter
prise)l says: Yes, several cases. See my
letter to DR.. Porter" According to his
report the fever has existed in Enterprise
since last June Nearly, twenty cases are now
reported, and two or three Deaths Doctors
Cowan and Long have the fever. The pop
uation of the town is about seven hundred:
The people are panickstricken. They have
kept their troubles secret until now There
are no disinfectants in the place Mayor
Llllenthal OF Sanford has requested aid of
the Jacksonville authorities. Enterprise is
in Volusia county. Orange county has
quarantined against it. Thirty men, armed
and mounted, guard all avenues of exit The
action of the authorities there in concealing
this state of affairs is seyerly censured on all
sides.
The people of Brownsville, Tex, are great
~ excited over the bombardment of q resi-
dence near that town by invisible hands. One
night the lightkeeper's house at Point Isabel,
occupied by Mrs Schneider, widow of the late
keeper, was struck by shower of shingle
nails The occupants paid little attention to
it until the next night, when about
dark the shower of nails began again.
Next night the bombardment was continued,
brickbats being added to the shell and nails
and every now and then an old scrap of iron
or copper casting. crowd collected and a
deputy sheriff from Brownsville, who was
sent down to Investigate, made careful
search, but could discover no source from
whence the shower of missiles came The SUI
perstitious mariners at the point insist that
ghosts are the offenders. AS the light is not
IN operation they firmly believe q legend
started, that during the war it was put out
one night by light keeper in league with
Wreckers, and a schooner was enticed ashore
and stoutly maintain that the ghosts of the
drowned sailors are kicking up the present
trouble az a mark Of their disapproYal of the
absence of this needed beacon.