New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

w. M. Regan, has been chosen man
ager Of the Minneapolis Exposition with
a salary of $4,000.
Tascott has been found again at Phil
adelphia. Reports say ''sure" this time.
The proclamation Of the president,
making tho Dakotas, Montana and
Washington, states of the Union, may
be issued to-day.
Newspaper talk now has it that
Burke, the Cronin suspect, confessed to
his fellow prisoners in the Winnipeg
jail. The mysterious bail is being grad
ually unraveled.
The immense Touring mill and eleva-
tor of the Porter Elevator Co., of Wi
mona, was burned on Wednesday. The
total loss is $2OO,OOO with an insurance
of S134,5OO.
Elections will be held next Tuesday
in Massachusetts,, Ohio, Iowa, New Jer-
sey, Mississippi, Virginia, Pennsylva-
MIA, New York, MARYLAND and N ebras-
ka.
II Over 1000 venirelnen were examined
in selecting jury for the Cronin trial
and 500 were rejected because they had
read the papers. Down with any such
provision as that! Down with the jury
system any way!
A. c. Davis, the young man arrested
some months since at Mankato for
sending obscene matter through the
mails, was convicted last Friday by the
q. S. District Court. This is the second
time he has been found guilty.
There are now six candidates for the
speakership of the next house Of repre-
sentatives. They are Thos. Reed, Of
Maine, Mckinley, of Ohio, Cannon, of
Illinois, Burrows. of Michigan, Hen
derson, of Iowa. and Dunnell. of Mimi
esOta.
AO PoSo o1ACO IL III LL ~ L GlCl las
been settled by the recommendation by
Congressman Lind of Judge VIM Ores.
ham, a brother to Walter Q. Gresham
Of national fame. The appointee is at
present county superintendent of
schools, and is quite a leader in Nicol-
let county politics. Collins, of the St,
Peter Tribune, who was also a candi-
date, didn't happen to get there
The last Supreme Court decision on
the Brown county tax case, of the 18th
inst. by which that county is awarded
taxes on the company's lands since the
year 1879. appears to open the door to
Redwood county to obtain taxes on these
LANDS for an additional year. Judge
Webber having so decided, if the Su-
preme court will hold to the same opin-
ion in a nearly identical case, Red
wood county will be made nearly SIS, coo
| richer. Auditor Tibbetts informs us
that Cottonwood county has already set
tied with the land company, and that
representatives of the company now Of.
fer to settle with this county for taxes
back to 1880, about $4,000, but will
contest payment of taxes for the dis
puted year prior to that.-GAzETTE.
How different the administration of
President Harrison from that of his pre-
decessor! For months after Mr.. Cleve-
land became president be and his party
were content to stand in mutual admi-
ration, the one of the other. He ad-
mired his party because it adored him,
and was admired by his party because
he happened to be it's leader when vic
tory came after full quarter century
of defeats. No other reason existed for
admiration on either side. Bpt presi-
| dent Cleveland was ..better than his
party Mutual admiration would not
bring other victories. He must have a
policy, aDd in raising up one he Crap
| pied with things that were beyond his
mental capacity to handle. He endeav-
ored to 20 down to posterity as the one
above all others of generations of states
men who could and did forever settle
the tariff question. Crushing defeat
was the result. The Republican party
returned to power, and in less than a
year we see the strong contrast of its
| positive character with the negative Of
the Democratic party. Already the
force of its policy is felt over the world,
and is not confined to party strife at
home The All-Americas Congress,
now sweeping across the continent, and
the Trans Continental Congress, in ses-
sion, are two mighty conceptions. and
their work will add additional lust1e to
the Republican banner. Both were de-
vised for the oood of n, q n Kind and will