New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-11

1ngtOn that regis tiers and receivers OF land
offices along the Northern Pacific road in
Minnesota have been re sewing filings Upon
| lands lying within the inden nifty limits of
| that road, although no order mas been is
sued at the interior department. yet de-
declaring these indemnity lands open to
| settlement. The secretary OF the interior
| viii issue at an early day an order direct
| ing the land officers to receive no filings
upon indemnity lands. The decision Of
| the attorney general in the matter OF these
| indemnity lands may be delayed some
| months yet.
A call has been issued for a convention
OF farmers to be held at Topeka, Kansas,
| May /, Tor the purp ose OF organizing
| farmers trust. Circu lars have been sent
| to the governors OF all the states west OF
| the Mississippi and to Illinois and w iscon.
| sin to send delegated to the convention.
The steamer City OF Rio de Janeiro
| brings China advices to the effect that the
| British steamer Swallow struck on some
rocks off Naoma islands Feb. % and sank,
and that 81 persons who put of from the
vessel in small boats are supposed to be
! lost. The captain and number Of the
crew and passengers saved themselves by
clinging to the rigging. The body OF the
engineer who was aboard one OF the miss
| ing boats, was recovered.
There is much speculation in the Ameri-
I can colony in London over press dis
patch from. Gibraltar announcing the de-
parture from that place for Tangiess OF a
detachment OF British engineers. No one
is able to say why they are going and it is
/ feared that in the event of an attack up-
/ on HANGERS by American war vessels that
| the presence OF the English engineers will
still further compicate matters. Amer
cans there do not expect that the issue of
| the Morocco affair will be very serious.
l pu la 70 al itco lo,,L
are unanim Gus in the belief that the only
course left open to the Uuted States au-
/ thoritles in the circumstances has been
taken.
Directory estimates place the popula.
ton OF ST. Louis at 449, 100, an increase
OF 20, oS2 in the past year.
i e. j. Cunningham, the editor OF the
Times OF Chippewa Falls, Wis, who was
connected with the Indian Pine scandal,
and who is charged by Agent Gregory with
having offered him 81, 500 to allow the
Caliigan Bros. to continue operations on
the reservation, has been summoned to
Washington to appear before the commit
tee to explain his position. There are a
number OF Others who have been connected
with the scandal who will probably be
summoned before the investigation closes.
/ Thomas Hill, OF Cadet, Wisconsin. com.
mitted suicide by shooting himself with
a revolver OF SO calibre. He was 40
years old, a blacksmith by trade,
and had been separated from his wife two
years. Domestic trouble is supposed to be
the cause.
/ Johnny Curtin, a famous American thief,
has been arrested in Manchester, England,
for swindling bank out OF $4,000 Cur
tin has served time in New York, Illinois,
Pennsylvania and French prisons for dia-
mond thefts. He was one Of the thieves
who accompanied ex-Ald. Jaehne, the con-
victed boodler. to Europe. where they
did the continent, substituting paste for
genuine diamonds, Jaehne disposing of the
proceeds OF the robberies for the other two
Benjamin Hopkins late assistant cash
Ter OF the Fidelity National bank Of Gin.
cinnati, convicted of violation of the ma.
tional banking law, was sentenced to the
penitentlary for seven years and two
months. He appeared broken down from
illness.
Bridge watchman Edward Brislan was
Killed at Crookston, Mimi, by an engine
that ran him down. His head was severed
and the body horribly mangled.
The mystery surrounding the identity OF
the insane poetess 5cide, Miss Bull, who
died in New ork, has been solved She is
a second cousin to Gen. w. T. Sherman.
She vas thirty-six yeass old. Her father,
Platt Bull, married an own cousin to Gen.
Sherman.
Nine Diss De Bar, the alleged medium,
comes from Harrods burg, KY Her maid
en- name was Ann Odelia Solomon j. Sea-
yer Page, OF New York, has given her a fair
challenge to test her powers He proposes
to furnish marked canvas on which a
spirit picture is to be produced by her in
i fluence before disinterested witnesses Nine.
Dlss DE Bar has not signifed any willing
ness to accept the challenge. The relatives
OF Luther r. Marsh, who has unbounded
faith in the woman's powers, are taking
steps to prevent the woman from securing
any more OF the old mans property.
The latest reports from Rich HILL No.,
1 place the total number Of deaths from the
coal mine explosion at twenty.four. 1t is
now reasonably certain that no more
| bodies are in the ruins.
/ Judge Stephen G. Sharp, OF LEXINGTON
| Ky, chairman Of the state Democratic ex-
ecutive committee, has been appointed
treasurer by the Governor to succeed the
deiaulting treasurer, Tate. The nom;na-
ton was confirmed by the senate.
Emperor Frederick has ordered the re.
building OF the Berlin cathedral on a scale
more worthy OF the Empire.
Head man War ne-gar- boo, OF the Chip
peWa's died few days ago at Crooked
Lake, northeast OF Brainerd. He had
lived at his late abode very many years,
and was an Indian OF large influence. He
was specially anxious that the Chippewas
| should be removed to the White Earth
reservation, and aided the recent Indian
commission very greatly in their efforts to
secure the treaty. The old man was near.
ly a hundred years old.
| Several more villages in Hungary have
| been flooded and the inhabitants are
starving, At Hethrarus 100 houses have
bean burned and 700 people rendered
homeless. The villages OF Mezo- Bereny and
Hun dsorf have also been destroyed by
fire.
Phillips and Barnitt, the American
sporting men, have sailed for New York.
They declare that it is impossible for an
American pugilist to win in Europe. They
maintain that Keenan, kilrain and Sulli.
van all really won, notwithstanding the
fact that draws were declared
Col. Harry Clarke, late manager OF the
Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph Company,
has been appointed to an important posi-
ton in the navy pay office.
There is no doubt that the President
will sign the river and barber BILL provid-
ed the Senate does not unreasonably in.
crease the items as they now stand.
Nine. Putkry, the Hungarian tragedi-
enna who Wa reporfo6 TO h. NO ~, IL