New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-17
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to buy up small plants throughou the coun-
try, has been Incorporated at Springfield, III.
The island of schnett. at Pressbu re-, has
been inundated. The bodies of TWEEN ty- one
persons who were drowned during the food
have been found floating in the Elbe.
Judge Holmes. of the Supreme court OF
Massachusetts, has decided that state court
cannot enjoin national bank The decision
was the outcome OF q case connected with
the Potter Lowell failure.
During shower, quite number of live
fish fell in Cairo, ILL.,, of the sun perch and
buffalo species. They were stunned by con-
tact with the earth, but many were revived
by placing in water and are still alive.
The English syndicate which purchased
the Philadelphia brewery for So, 10000 has
failed to make the payments due. Unless
the m ney is paid by Sept. Is, the deposit
of $3.50, 900 will be forfeited
The labor congress in session at Ottawa,
Ont, adopted a resolution "rhat we demand
on behalf OF the people of this country the
right to hereafter elect our governor in.
stead Of having one appointment by the
British government
The National Swedish Mission union, in
session at Galesburg, ILL.,, has postponed
action for two years on a resolution looki ng
to closer relations with Congregationlsts
The next annual meeting will be held at
Phelps Center, Neb.
Many petitions asking for the speedy pas:
sage of the anti-lottery bill by the senate
are received every day by membe of the
committee which has the bill in charge. 9th
er communications asking why the bill has
not been passed are received from oil parts
of the country.
Black diphtheria is epidemic at Peoria, III,
and in consequence of the disease two pub
lie and two parochial schools have been
closed. Eleven families in one vicinity are
suffering from the disease. The board OF
health have taken steps to prevent a spre ad
of the disease.
Two of the largest natural gas wells ever
developed in the Pittsburg district have been
struck. One of the wells is located near
Bellevernon and is owned by the Philadelphia
company. The other is the property OF the
Bridgewater Gas company, and is in the
Wildwood field.
A convention to take from the constit,l.
ton ofKentucky several obnoxious features
placed there by the proslavery convention
of 1S49 and to make it conform to modern
ideas has convened at Frankfort. Ex-Goy.
Proctor Knott is the most prominent among
the halEdozen candidates for president OF the
convention.
AMortgage on the lines of the Great North
ern railway has been filed in the county au.
ditors Office at Seattle, Wash. The mortgage
is made to the Central Trust CONF any un-
der date of July l. The amount of the mort
gage is S3O,O00,OoO. The purpose of the
loan is stated to be for the Pacific exten sion
of the Great Northern from Assinaboine to
Puget sound. The extension, it is said, will
cost $25,OOO,OOO
A. j. Menocal and several other gen tlemen
of the engineering staff ofthe Nicaragua ca
nal construction corps have just reached
Washington from Grcytown on a short leave
of bsence. They report commend able pro-
gress already on the engineering process.
Several million dollars have already been
spent, and TIE active work of canal con-
struction is now well under way, and so well
started and under such favorable financial
auspices that the success of the scheme. they
say, is assured.
Thirteen Cinnamon passed through NJ on.
treal in bond on their way to Yokohama via
Vancouver. They came from New York and
are going home for a holiday, having made
considerable money in the tea and laundry
business. One of the Cinnamon who could
speak English said in forcible language that
China would soon retaliate on Englishmen
and Americans by preventing them from en-
tering China except under certain conditions
The Cinnamon felt very angry at being con-
veyed in bond like freight.