New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS.
The Very Latest Associated Press Tel
egrams in a Condensed Form.
From Washington.

The war department. has just completed
600 appropriated by congress for the equip
appropriation for Minnesota gives the state
1914, North Dakota, $2,S47 and South
Dakota, 3,797.
The commander at Fort Bennett, Dakota,
has received orders from army headquarters
to move the troops and vacate the post at a
moments notice. No other reason for the
or der is assigned than that the Sioux reser-
walton will be opened inside of sixty days,
when Bennett, not being on military reser-
walton, can be taken by settlement, on pro-
visions being made in the bill to reserve the
site OF the post. When moved the garrison
will go to Fort Sully, five miles down the
Missouri river.
commissioner Tanner has written letter
to Special Pension Examiner Shank Of Lima,
Ohio, refusing to accept his resignation,
onered because he was not in political
sympathy with the administration The
commissioner writes to Mr.. Shank that
wherever he has made a removal he has
called ca for the record of the incumbent Mr..
Shank's record is good, and he says Mr.
Shank need not fear for his official head as
long as he maintains the efficiency of the
service.
The president has committed to ten years
imprisonment the sentence of death imposed
in the case of Grace Smallwood, colored,
convicted in the district of Columbia of the
murder of ller infant child. He has also
granted pardon in the case of ohm Alaska
the indian convicted of resisting an officer
ana an sentenced to six years imprisonment in
Washington territory. The president has
oenled the application for pardo on in the case
OF oseph White and Shannon Foster, con-
Vlcted IN Arkansas of manslaughter.
Assistant Secretary Bussey of the Pension
bureau rendered an opinion Of great import
ance, broadening former cons tructions in
the line of duty cases. Mary E. Mcneil
applied for pension as the widow of Alex
ander Mcneil, who, while engaged in a wrest-
ing contest with comrade in camp, re-
celved injuries which resulted in his DEATH
The pension office rejected the claim on the
ground that Mcneil was not in the line of
duty at the time he sustained his injuries. but
Mr.. Bussey holds that he was and lays down
camp and not disobeying orders or acting in
violation of military regulations are always
in the line of duty.
Assistant Secretary Chandler reversed one
OF Sparks decisions in the case of Charles
Lehman, assignee of William Nv De Witt,
who made a pre-emption entry in the Helena,
Mont, district. De Witt proved up on the
land and sold it to Lehman, but Sparks
found a clerical error in the proof and held
the land for cancellation even after lehman
had made $4,000 improvements upon it.
De Witt refused to correct the mistake made,
and Lehman asked that patent be issued
on proof that Ese Witt had complied with the
law. This Sparks refused for the reason that
that thelaw and rules "allow the pre-em ptor
only, if living, to make publication notice
and pre-emption affidavit Secretary
Chandler holds different, and says the equity
in the case should allow Lehman to show
that De Witt ,complied with the law.