New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-10
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The equalization board announced the as
sessed value Of all real and personal estate
in New York state at $3,6S3, 653,O62.
Performances for the trial of Burchell, ac-
cused Of the murder of Benwell, have begun
at Woodstock, Ont
The City National bank of Hastings, Neb,
has closed its doors. The failure was precip.
itated by the county treasurer withdrawing
deposit of $25, 900.
United States Judge Thayer at st. Louis
has made an important decision, holding
that trust cannot compel it's members to
live up to their agreement.
The Pennsylvania G. A. R. has adopted a
resolution, favoring the transfer of the re-
mains of Gen. Grant from New York to Ar
lington, provided that this removal meets
with the wishes of Mrs. Grant.
The jury in the case Of Anton Maus, who
was reported to have been murdered and
robbed at Preble, Brown county, Wis, has
returned verdict finding the cause of death
to have been apoplexy, and that the bruises
on his head We're caused by the fall.
The sultan of Turkey, after listening to the
protests of the Armenian patriarch against
the abuse of Christians in Armenia, promised
that reforms should at once be introduced in
the government of that province. The patri
arch thereupon withdrew his resignation
A combination of window glass manu- 'ac-
turers has been effected. The company will
control the output of all the window glass
factories in the Western and Northern dis
tricts Immediately and all the factories in
the United States ultimately.
At Moncton, N. B., Eta Simpson, aged
seventeen, has been asleep for over a week
and has not yet awakened or taken any
nourishment. Miss Simpson has for some
months had mania for eating brown pa
per, and it is supposed thut this mania has
something to do with her illness.
A strange and fatal epidemic broke out
among the horses in Eau Claire, Wis Four
valuable horses are dead already and two
are dying. The horses only live one hour
after being attacked. They bloat up, fall
over on their backs with their legs in the air,
struggle a few minutes and are dead.
The conference report on the river and
harbor bill will recommend agreement to
all the principal amendments which in
crease the appropriations and surveys for
works in Washington, Montana, the Da-
kotas and Minnesota. The needs of the
newer portion of the country will be more
recognized than has hitherto been the fact
The sixteen shot tower companies of the
United States have formed a national trust
with capital of $3,O0O,OOO. Like the
national lead trust. the shot tower trust is
q complete consolidation under one central
| management, and the six teen companies
going into it surrender their individual exist
ence and cancel their capital stocks.
The prohibition enforcement league at
/ Deadwood S. D., cast consternation am on e
the liquor dealers by the unexpected service
by the sheriff of some thirty Injunction or
ders, forhidding them carrying on any fur
| ther business. The sheriff has closed up all
saloons and taken possession Of all stocks
of goods.
Maj. Powell, of the geological survey, has
decided on an Investigation to find out il the
proposition to irrigate a large part of South
Dakota BY means OF an irrigating canal tap
ping the Missouri is feasible. The scheme as
laid before director Powell was to cannect
the Missouri with the James river by canal
which would not only furnish q means of ir-
rigation, but would increase the possibilities
for navigating in the James