New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-06-12


Gov. Merriam has signed the death
warrant Of Albert Bulow. He will be
hanged at Little Falls, July 10, for the
murder Of Frank Eich, at Belle, View
last fall.
At Pittsburgh, church people prevent
ed the performance of wholesome
drama on Sunday to aid the starving
victims Of the Conemaugh floods.
Well might the Hebrew exclaim, IF
dat be Christian charity, den Ivas right
glad Ivas sheeny.''
The rush for the office was probably
never greater than right now. That it
should be so is strange indeed when it
is considered that the seekers are not of
a class in need of the emoluments.
They are unnsally men that have a
paying business, which they abandon
and neglect. only to obtain q worthless
and to them an expensive Office, to Sc
cure which they must fawn and cringe
to party chiefs and bosses. What is
there in Office holding anyway that af-
fords so much attraction to some men.
The next congress can do no better
work than to close the doors against
immigration that brings into this coun-
try such cast off and degraded paupers
and tends as displayed their british
qualities in robblng the dead victims
of the Johnstown food. They are a
class that burdened and disgraced the
countries from which they came. and
why should we be forced to harbor
them in their evil practices? Let con-
gress get move on itself and do some.
thing towards preventing them from
settling in our midst.
The St. Paul News has reason to feel
proud over the stand it took against
hospital management. The other pa
pers, that were so positive that the asy-
lums had the best of care and unmerc-
fully scored the News for trying to
malign the fair reputation of the SUI.
perintendents, ought to feel like crawl
ing into a hole and drawing the hole in
after them. Now that the Repatriation
of those same men has been somewhat
spoiled, they are trying to cover up
their great bullabaloo by being loudest
in the cry of horror.
There are men vile and barbaric
enough to take advantage of the saddest
scenes and make them scenes Of plum
der and robbery. The ghouls that fol-
lowed in the track of the Conemaagh
flood and mutilated the bodies of the
dead and wounded that they might Sc
cure little jewelry are hardly less like
human beings than the dogs and wolves
that feast upon the dead carcasses of a
battlefield. They displayed the darkest
workings Of human nature from which
one turns with feelings Of horror and
disgust. Severest punishment is not
enough for such crime, and the swift
retribution that visited them was more
than merited.
A commission, consisting of H. NJ.
Rice. of St. Paul, Bishop Marty, Of Da-
kota, and DR.. Whiting, of Wisconsin,
has been appointed to negotiate with
the Chippewa Indians for the opening
of their reservations in this state. There
are not more than five or six thousand
Indians and they have in their posses
sion from four to five million acres of
land, largely timber but including con-
siderable good farming land. It is the
object of the commission to induce the
tribes to concentrate at White Earth,
giving each family the choice of 160
acres of land. It rests with the Indians
however to accept or reject the propo-
sition at wish, as no attempts vii! be
made to coerco them. The commission
will commence work at once.
The investigation at the Rochester
hospital is still in progress and we are
learning lots that we ought to have
known before. Now that the ball has
once been started stories Of cruel treat
ment are not slow in coming to light, and
the institution, instead Of being home
for the rational cure Of mental diseases
and a humanitarian treatment of fellow
beings who have lost all reason, ap-
pears rather in the light of one where
the managers and attendants them
selves have become so hardened as to
ha lost IN all cha,.ifu and cvmnathv