New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-24
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The Northern Pacific Railway, it is said,
will soon control the St. Paul and Duluth,
a deal to that end being in progress.
The population Of the State of Connecti-
cut is given by the census bureau as 745, S61;
an increase Of 1913, 161.
Cholera is prevalent in Shanghai and also
in the Northern districts of China Several
Europeans have succumbed to it.
The Rio Grande is higher than it has been
for ten years. The lower parts of Eagle
Pass, Tex, We're inundated AID consider
property was destroyed,
Miners at Spring Valley, ILL.,. charge that
the coal company, ofwhich W. L. Scott. is
president, issystem aticallv prosecuting t hem
and they threaten to strike again.
At .Ellensburg, Wash, Samuel Kreidel, deal.
er in dry goods and clothing, has made All
assignment. Liabilities, $4,000; assets,
$4,000.
The Anchor Beef Packing company of St.
Joseph, Mo-, whose house was opel ned at the
stockyards q year ago last spring, has per-
| manently retired fr ON business.
The officers of the Delaware county, Iowa.
| fair are under arrest and will be placed under
heavy bonds for permitting gambling on
their fair grounds.
The official population of New York city
shows an increase of25.47 per cent T he
total for 1880 was ], 206, 299 and for 1890
1,513,501.
The Dominion government will shortly an
nounce the abolition of the export duty on
! pine logs in order to meet the alternative
provision in the Mckinley bill regarding
Canadian sawed lumber.
3 A committee of the Duluth chamber Of
commerce, in report, attacks the county
official fee system in most drastic fashion,
and the chamber takes measures t huye the
system abolished by the legislat ure.
Chicago officials are making q crusade
against the moke nuisance. Many million
ARE merchants. incudingJ v. Farwell & Co..
Marshall Field & Co. have been fined $50
each.
Neil Mcneil, contrac tor, has brought suit
! for $40, 900 against the Boston cham Der OF
commerce, that being the profit he claim he
would have madeif he had been awarded
/ the contract for the new chamber Of com
merce building, his bid .or which was the
/ lowest
dinner was given by the city of Stock
holm to the officers attached to the United
States steamer Baltimore, which conveyed
the body Of the distinguished inventor, j ohm
Ericsson, rom the United States to Sweden
Two hundred guests, including the ministers
4 Oh SIdUe, military ana naval Omctr1 and
j leading civilians, were present.
/ A telegram to the executive com mittee OF
the Native Sons from Charles A. Yogelsang,
4 of Los Angeles, announces the fact that the
! family of the late Maj Gen. John C. Fremont
Is absolutely destitute. The committee has
no funds available for the relief ofthe family,
although aid is imperatively needed. The
i retired pension granted to the general was
not continued to his widow.
At the Toledo session Of the Society of the
/ Army of the Cumberland Columbus was
i chosen as the place of the meeting next year,
and the date Sept % and "a. The follow
i ing officers for the ensuing year were elected
/ President, Gen. w S. Rosecrans. and one vice
president from each state representing in il e
j membership; corresponding secretary, Gen.
4 Henry M Cst; recording secretary, Col. j. al.
4 Steele: treasurer, Gen. j. S. Fullerton.
An epidemic has been raging in the eastern
part of Carroll county, Ohio. and many
deaths have resulted. The other day six
| deaths occurred: it was claimed by some to
be typhoid lever. Dr. Williams of Carrolton
was called to the home OF John Tool. He.
/ died of cholera after intense spasm s and
frequent fits of vom ting ?urging and
4 other symptoms of TINT dreaded disease.
DR., Williams pronounces it q genuine cflse OF
Asiarie cholera.
Reports received from reliable = citizens
in the nei ghborhood OF Bee Tree brook, a
/ tributary of the Sewanee river, in North
Carolina. state that for the third time since
the Charleston earthquake vast yoIr mes o.
black smoke, running to height o. 500
feet. having for some days been regua rly
i emitted from the seven mountain peaks oil
4 the Blue Ridge chain An effort is being
made to have Prof Q. D. Smith the geologist
A OF Monon county. and Gen. T. i. Clingmap
/ to investigate the mattcr,gas many OF the
people have become SO alarmed that they
1 say they will leave the neigllborho