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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Matters are coming to a crisis in
Canada, and change in political gov
eminent is pending. The tug will come
in settling upon what the form of rule
shall be, whether imperial federation,
annexation. or independence. The first
is Objectionable and the last seems
difficult. Annexation would be the
most feasible and the easiest to accom-
plish. When the time is ripe therefore.
we had better invite 'em to join us.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

The motion for new trial in the
Cronin case will be argued on the 18th.
By all means it should be granted;
granted with the hope that jury will
be found that will contain no weak or
bought-up Culvers; a jury that will try
the case upon its merits and not after
their own little prejudices; a jury that
will give the verdict that the law de-
mands whether they believe in thatlaw
or not; jury that, even if it does not
believe in capital punishment, still be-
leives in carrying out the law, and
holds that as long as our statutes fix
the penalty of murder at death, murder
ers should die. Such a jury would give
to the Cronin murderers the sentence
that they deserve.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

While nearly all of the Minnesota
delegation were we'll taken care of in
the Christmas outlay, poor Davis got
nothing,-nothing but the cold shoulder.
Washburn secured his choice of appoint
ments; so did Hall and Comstock.
Dhnnell was placed on several nice
committees and so was, Snider. Lind
goes in for a number of them and sue
ceeds also in working Noble for an i'm
portant and desirable decision. All
found their stockings filled but Davis.
He gets nothing, not even the right to
name Donahower for the collectorship.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

La Grippe seems to be another word
for death itself. In Paris the strange
disease ended the lives of $50 people in
twenty-four hours, and in nearly every
large city of the United States it is tax.
ing hold with fearful effect. In New
York and Boston especially, the num-
Der of eases is astonishing, while from
all parts of the country come the re-
ports that the Russian disease is pres.
ent in some form or other. The name
is strikingly appropriate.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01


At recent wedding in this vicinity, q
number Of young people went in for a
regular old time charivari, and from the
reports that we hear of the racket, there
must be such a thing as 'sgoing to far. =
It is all right to give a newly welded
couple reception Of noise and music,
that isn't expected to be the most agree
able, but, when the chariYari extends to
the throwing of rocks at q building
and the breaking of windows and doors,
it seems that violence would be perfect
" warrantable with the offended par
ties. In iowa this is the case. The
courts Of that state, do not consider it a
violation Of any law if one of the happy
family discharges q charge Of shot into
a crowd of charivarists, who are rudely
disturbing the sacredness Of a honey.
moon, and we believe the courts are
right. Something Of the kind should
3 AIRED here. It would have the right
sof an effect and would stop what.
er there is Of rowdiness in the prac-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01
VOL. Kill, NO. /.

With this issue the Review closes the
twelfth and enters upon the uncertain
ties of the thirteenth year OF its ex-
istence. What years those twelve have
k"en, the files of the Review in them.
selves will show. Perhaps varied
history. For itself they have been filled
with ups and downs; with misfortune
and good luck; with pleasant periods
and as well with seasons of discourage.
ment. from all, the paper has come
forth, perhaps disfgured, but we hope
rather improved by the hot and scorch-
ing fire that it has passed through and
through. Whether this way or that, it
matters not. Those twelve years are
part of the past, and are none OF ours.
We will leave the dead to bury the
dead. For the present we are on top
and propose to continue to furnish the
news at the regular rates. Not always
all, for that is frequently impossible;
but the most and the best for the least
money. With the continuance of the
good will Of it's present patrons, the Re-
view can do this; with their help it can
improve. To them it owes it's thanks
for the past, which has not been devoid
of pleasant relations, and to them it
must look for appreciation in the fu-
ture, hoping and promising that it will
be earned. ~. .s.- E-
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

After all its scramble and fight, the
Montana legislature is no nearer har-
mony than at the commencement of the
deadlock. The democrats insist on
having their way, and republicans are
by no means inclined to yield. The re-
suit Of the aff1iction will be two sets of
United States senators.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Advertise Minnesota, says the great
Pioneer Press. Yes, and we hope it will
practice what it breaches. It wouldn't
hurt at all, if the Pioneer was to let up
a little on its Dakota pufs and confne
itself more closely to booming our own
resources.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Culver, Of Cronin jury fame, did
not lean towards capital punishment
and voted accordingly. That's where
he made a mistake. The place to
change our laws is in our Legislative
halls and not in the jury room.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Unless 1t be through the death of the
other candidates it is mighty doubtful
whether Donahower will ever get a
smell of the collectorship. Things
don't appear to be coming our way.
They go with the landslide whether we
would have them or not.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

John Culver, of the Cronin jury,
saved the necks of the suspects bv his
cranky vote, only to swing his own into
the moose of public displeasure and rid
icule, which is waxing decidedly warm.
Before the papers have got through
with him, he will probably wish that he
had acted differently.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Republication is becoming a craze
Brazil caught it, Canada wants it, and
now Italian subjects are calling aloud
for free government. If reports can be
believed, the good work is going on
most satisfactorily.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

General Fonseca says he is glad of
the honor of being titled the "Boulan-
ger of Brazil" Perhaps, when the
Brazilians get to playing the French
act. he will change his mind.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate, which every business man would
like 20 see become a law. 1t provides
for a uniform system Of bankruptcy
throughout the country.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Through the efforts of Congressm an
LIND, of this district, the Secretary of
the Interior has made decision which
compels the reconveyance by the Vino
ma & st. Peter Railway Company to the
United States Of 12,480 acres of land,
lying in Southern Minnesota, from
which settlers have been evicted. The
case first came up in a petition from
settlers on the land, which they claimed
had been improperly certified to the
state for the benefit of the company.
The settlers claimed to have lived on
the land prior to It's being certified as q
part Of the railroad grant, and that in
such cases it has been enormously GER
tilted to the company. The grant was
held by the company to have been adj
iusted. and that therefore the case was
settled. Secretary Noble shows that as
the company filed two lists of lands,
claimed within recent date it must be
held as an unadjusted grant, and rem
ders his decision for reconveyance. The
matter was in charge of Mr.. Lind, who
urged a prompt settlement, and the fact,
that he succeeded in securidg 50 impor.
tant q ruling, entities him to the. hearty
thanks Of his constituents 1rhesettlers
can feel grateful. E will protect them
on their lands and enable Them to- pro.
lcure titles to dheir homes.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01
The wife of Dom Pedro, the ex-emper.
or, died at Oporto, Portugal, Sunday.

The Redwood Gazette looks well in
its new dress. The Gazette deserves to
look well.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01

Washburn now urges that Marcus
johnson should be appointed collector
in order to satisfy the Scandinavians.
Now that's queer. What was the mat
ter with Stevenson? He is as much Of
Scandinavian as johnson ever was,
but on the district attorneyship deal
Washburn didn't think it necessary to
satisfy anybody but himself. Is it like
ly that he will act any differently in re-
gard to the collectorship? Is it at all
probable that he cares whether Sean
dinavian or anyone else gets it, SO long
as he is Washburn man? Doesn't it
look as if the Junior senate was playing
his cards for all there was in them for
the junior senator and for him alonep
We are inclined to think it does.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26

will act more quickly. Nicotine in pure
state also has caused death in few seconds.
Third would say that coniine is proba-
bly, the most difficult poison to detect after
death. 1t is an alkaloid OF conlum or hem
lock, of which it is the active principle.
Conium maculatum is the botanical name
of hemlock, which is'an umbellilerous plant,
that Is native of Europe and has been
naturalized in the United States. Hemlock,
or conium is believed to be the narcotic used
by the Athenians to destroy the lite of con-
demped individuals, and by which Socrates
and Phocien died. There are number of
other alkaloids that are, perhaps, as diff
cult to detect.
FOURTH do not think that the .ncients
knew OF any poisons or had any with which
we are not acquainted now. The cases
sometimes mentioned In which poison was
to be given at a certain time, with view to
its producing death day, or several days,
later, have never been substantated when
looked into by scientists. In times gone by
it was very much easier to mystify people
than it is to-day, and to this fact alone is TO
be attributed the belief of many that the art
of poisoning is, to some extent, lost one.
Yours very truly,
WILLIAM SIMON.
BALTIMORE Md.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
GOT THE WRONG cows.
A Big Shepherd Dog Out for Frolic Gets
Good Trouncing.

A Big Shepherd Dog Out for Frolic Gets
Good Trouncing.
New York SUM-
Passengers who were waiting for New
Jersey Central Railroad train at the Perth
Amboy depot on Thursday saw two cows in
field opposite the depot get the better of a
large shepherd dog in fight that the dog
started. OF the dozen cows in the field one
strayed away from the herd and stood near
the fence along the railroad track. The dog
ran up the bank and barked in her face
until she turned and ran.
The dog followed, swapping At her heels,
and she stopped suddenly, and. turning on
the dog tried to hook him. The DOG lodged,
and then jumped and caught her by the ear.
The COW shook him loose, and again tried
to hook him, but the dog got another grip
on her ear. The fight was continued Tor
five minutes, and the rest of the herd
watched it, switching their tails and mov-
ing their ears back and forth.
Finally, one of them started toward the
ombatants. She walked unconcernedly
enough until within few feet OF them, and
then, suddenly lowering her head, she
rushed at the dog, caught him on her horns,
and tossed him over the fence on the track.
He gave one or two ki-vi's, and scudded
down the track with his tail between his
legs. The two cows looked after him mo-
ment and then Joined the herd.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
Romance and Reality.

80 S. FOURTH STREET, COLUMBUS, o., !
October 2, 1885,
| DEAR DoCToR-There is nothing in the
whole field of romance and reality that
| affords wider scope to the Imagination of the
play or story weaver, as he sits at his loom,
than the old yet ever new incident of
murder by poison, for there is no other
which can be presented in so many ways or
so readily portrayed in impossible lights
with so strong a semblance of probability.
We are all familiar with the heroine who
| places small vial to her lips and instantly
| drops back dead and the jealous lover who
presents his mistress with a lovely bouquet,
one inhalation of whose fragrance stretches
her corpse at his feet. And yet these
! hackneyed incidents of fiction are not so i'm
possible as may at first appear to skeptical
minds. Prussic acid of ull strength
known to chemists as the officInal or 100 per
cent hydrocyanic acio-will act with
almost lightning-like rapidity, and
the great chemist, Shiel, the discoyerer
o. that beautiful shade of color known
as Shiel's green, is said to have dropped
dead instantly rom inhaling the fumes of
few drops of such acid.
But 1t is not only the sudden, rapidly-act-
ing polsons that have received the attention
o. the novelist and playwright. Slow poi
soning is a theme that has o ten stood them
in good stead. Who that has read it Can
ever forget Dickens clever short story of the
Rev. Julius Slinkton, OF the victims he de-
stroyed by slow poison, and how he was fin
ally unmasked?
Answering your questions: First think
the oxides OF carbon the most uniformly
painless, though the dioxide cannot be
strictly classed with poisons.
,Second-Hydrocyanic acid acts more
rapidly than any poison with which am
acquainted.
Third-The poisons most difficult of de-
lection are Iound among the vegetable and
animal alkaloids.
Fourth-Poisoning as an art is less per-
feet now than formerly, but the scientific
acumen of the present would clear up much
that in the days of the Borgias seemed mys-
terious and marvellous.
Very sincerely yours,
FRANCIS w. BLAKE.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
Poisoners of the Past,

DIR. John j. Reese is generally recognized
as one of the highest living authorities on
all that pertains to medical Jurisprudence
and toXicology. For many years past he
has been professor of those sciences in the
University of Pennsylvania located in
Philadelphia. He agrees with the authori-
ties above quoted on the first questions
Eliminating answers to them his letter is as
follows:
DEAR DoCToR-'Is poisoning a lost
art?'' Well, 1 do certainly think that the
art and facility of administering poisons
with secrecy, subtlety and without pain,
was formerly practiced to greater extent
than at present. In the time of the Borgias
and the de Brenvilliers. as we read, there
were ''professed poisoners;" but in our time
the knowledge of poisons is much more
widely diffused, and has consequently lost
much of it's mystery. AS regards the nature
OF these secret poisons. think the general
opinion at present is, that arsenic, morphine
conium and a few others were probably the
articles employed in small and repeated
doses. 1 cannot believe that they produced
their fatal effects without pain" or with
out any overt symptoms; but no doubt
these were generally mistaken Gas at pres
enD for disease.
Very respectfully yours,
JOHN j. REESE.
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
PittsburS's Borcia a Monomaniac,

DR.. William Simon, NJ. D., Ph. D. ably
fills the chair of Professor of Chemistry
and Toxicology in the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, Baltimore. Md, and has con.
tributed largely to the literature of those
i'm portant studies. He differs slightly from
DIR. Greene with regard to the most painless
poison as will be seen below.
DEAR DoCTOR-It has often transpired in
the annals oil crime that poisoning has been
found to have become positive monomania
and that the successful poisons of one. hay-
ing escaped detection, at once becomes eager
to make his victims many, even though he
have no other motive for DESTROYING them.
A notable instance was one Mrs. Grinder a
respectable woman of the middle-class. who
was hanged in Pittsburg, Pa, quarter of a
century ago, after she had success ully
poisoned many of her neighbors who had
been her best and most intimate friends
This was cause celebre, and attracted
general attention throughout this country
and Europe at the time.
Answering your question submitted
to me beg to say: First-Carbon money
ide is in my opinion the most
painless of ell poisons, as to the best OF nv
kno o1ledge there are no cases on record
showing any suffering whatever on the part
of the dying from the effects of this gas. and
l had under my observation one case in
which a man had been rendered sensele,s
from the effects of this gas for hours, and ON
being restored told me that he had not felt
anything but what he felt every night in 90
ing to sleep. Morphia might rank next to
carbon monoxide in painlessness, though
this would depend largely upon the indf.
vidual and the dose Administered,
Second-Hydrocyanic acid in pure state
is generally looked upon as the most rapid
in its action, and know of no poison that
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
Every Poison Can be Detected.

DR.. William H. Greene, demonstrator of
chemistry of the University of Pennsylvania
and one of the most scholarly chemists of
our time, sends the following interesting
letter:
DEAR DoCToR-In reply to your Gues-
tions, would say: First, the most painless
poison is probably morphia or some SINH
lar narcotic. Second, hydrocyanic or prussic
acid Is the most rapidly fatal of all poisons
in its action. Third, chemical and phvsio-
logical tests may now be applied with such
certainty to detect poison in iood and drink
and in the human body after death that If
scientific examination and judicial inquest
be possible the administration of almost
any poison is attended with the risk OF pos
sble detection.
The poisons which would be>most likely
to escape detection would be those most
closely resembling the ptomaines of
poisonous lungi do not believe, however,
that there exists poison or that one can
exist that could not he positively
identified after death either by the LESSONS
produced in the organs affected, or bv the
extraction from the corpse Of the victim of
the poison ITSELF aud by the study OF its
properties.
| do not think that the people of any
other age could have taught us anything in
this matter. The crimes OF the Borgias were
well known ut the time of their perpetra-
ton, and the Borgias were well-known TO be
poisoners, but their power protected them.
Except under conditions that would now be
only of very rare-almOst impossble-oc-
cprrence, such murders by poison could not
be perpetrated. A BOrgia would most in
evitably be detected, exposed and punished
at the present day.
Very sincerely yours
WILLIAM Ii. GREENE,
2O4 NORTH THIRTYSIXTH STREET, PHIL
ADEIPHIA.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
ART OF THE BORGIAS.
POisons That Destroy Life Most
Quickly and Painlessly.
THE DEADLY CHARCOAL FUMES
On Which the Dread Messenger Rides
Swiftly and Unheralded.
THE ACTION OF HYDROCYANIC ACID
WRITTEN FOR THE p1spATcH.J


The art of poisoning ls one OF the most
fascinating subjects to which the pen has
ever been applied. Recognizing this l have
prevailed upon medical friend, now pre-
pairing work upon this subject, to allow
me to publish the appended symposium of
letters which he has received from some OF
the most eminent chemists in this country
in answer to the following questions, which
he bad propounded to them:
First-What poison do you consider the most
painless?
Second-What one do you deem the most
rapid i'll its action?
Third-What one is the most difficult of de-
lection after death?
FourtiI-Do you think that poisoning is lost
art? That is. had the ancients, or the Borglas,
or any other persons in other ages. poisons of
which we have no knowledge and which were
superior to any of ours in painlessness, rapidity
of action or difficulty of detection?
The answer of DR.. Francis W. Blake, A
NJ, NJ. D., Professor of Chemistry and
Toxicology in the Columbus Medical Col
lege, Columbus, o., who is one OF the best
known and most eminent authorities in the
West on all that pertains to poisons is a
fitting introduction to the series of opinions.
His letter is as follows:
FRANK FERN.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
cOAi4f
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.
AmyI Nitrite Favored.

DIR. Henry Lehman, the well-known
analytical chemist and expert, who so ably
fills the post of pathological chemist to the
hospital of the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, presents the claims of amyl
nitrite as painless, rapidly acting poison,
as will be seen below:
DEAR DoCToR-Amyl nitrite would rank
very bigh as painless, rapid poison. From
its highly volatile nature it would also be
difficult to detect. Hydrocyanic acid and
chlorotorm are also rapid and painless
Some of the rarer vegetable poisons are very
difficult to detect. l do not think the
ancients had any high development of
the art of poisoning. There may be some
lost arts. Those of coloring glass and tenn
pering copper are sometimes mentioned, but
l am not inclined to think thatin toxicology
there was much headway until modern
times. Truly yours,
HENRY LEFFMANN,
115 Walnut street, Philadelphia.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
Cyanide of Potassium.

DR.. P. B.,Wilson, professor of chemistry,
toxicology and microscopy in the Baltimore
University, of Baltimore, Nd, thus pre-
septs the claims Of potassium cyanide as the
most rapid and painless poison:
DEAR Doctor - Observation has con-
vinced me that potassium cyanide is the
most painless poison on account of Its in
Simultaneous action. 1t is quicker than the
ordinary hydrocyanic acid of medicine,
though the latter, in its most concentrated
form, would be as quick.
Hydrocyauic acid would be the most diff
cult to detect, because it decomposes SO
rapidly. Conium and some of the other
rarer alkaloids would also be difficult to
detect, but fortunately lew of these are
available for criminal use. Yours truly,
P. B. WILSON.
BALTIMORE, Md
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-26
How Severe Colds are Broken Up in Mon

From the Virginia City, Mont, Madisonian.l
When We find a medicine we know to DOS
sess genuine merit, we consider it a duty.
and we take pleasure in telling the public
what it is. Such a medicine we found
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy last winter.
when Ia grippe was prevailing. We are
satisfied that we warded off several at
tdcks that were threatening by the uss
of this syrup, and we have since relieved,
in few hours, severe colds, and in the
course of two or three days entirely broken
them up by its use, as have several of our
friends to whom we have recommended it.
1t is all that it is represented to be by the
manufacturers. If you have a cough and
want to stop it Chamberlsins Cough
Remedy will do the work. For sale by
E. G. Stucky. 1901 and 2401 Penn ave-;
E. G.. Stucky & Co., cor. Wylie ave.
and Fulton ST.; Markell Bros, cor. Penn
and Frankstown aYes.; Carl Hartwig,
40l6 Butler ST.; John c. Smith, cor. Perm
ave. and Main St, and JAS. L. Mcconnell &
Co., 455 Fl tn ave-, Pittsburg; and in
Allegheny by E. E. Heck, y and 1874 Fed
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