New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-08
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The Richland and Nelson miners at Day
ton, Tenn, to tho number OF 1. 200, are on
strike against a reduction in wages,
The people OF Chippewa Falls object most
strenuously to Fred Weyerhauser's contem-
plated removal o. the headquarters OF the
lumber pool from that place to ST. Paul
The State bank of Madison at Jackson,
Tenn, has suspended. Liabilities, 5000, 900:
assets, 1925, 900 Tho suspension is tenn
porary-
1t has been necessary for personal
friends of tho widow Of Gen. John G. Ere
mont to come to her assistance and prevent
actual want of necessaries OF life until con-
gress shall have passed her pension bill.
Cardinal Laviserie bears message from
President Carnot of France to the pope
promising concessions to the Catholics on the
condition that they abandon their hostility
| TO the republic.
Owing to considerable pressure having
been put upon them. the municipality Of
Genoa have at last begun the work ofrestor-
ing the house in which Christopher Colum
bus lived. 1t was rapidly falling into decay.
The new process of making aluminium from
common clay is to be put to the proof, in
order to settle the discussion which has arisen
over the claims made by Prof. ]. NJ. Hirsh OF
| Chicago.
Following in the line of some of the m ost
prominent firms in Chicago, the firm of ohm
Y. Farwell & Co., has decided to incorporate
Jan: l: Capital stock, SIS. 600, 900 but none Of
| it will be offered for sale.
1t ia stated on good au thority that East
ern capitalists have organized company
| with 100000 capital for the purpose Of
conducting the business OF manufacturing
4;,,o 1ofo 1,o, u
| pany will be at Baltimore. it will run it's own
| tin mines and will try to control the Amer
| lean timed plate trade
There is CHASTITY cause of feeling between
citizens OF one OF the wards in Eau Claire,
| Wis, and the board of education. The resi-
| dents of the ward claim that the board is
digging a we'll in an old graveyard. The
other day skeleton was found and the
bones thrown aside and the work continued
| Now the people are demonstrating. They
arc averse to sending their children to the
school and having them drink water from
| the we'll. The health officer has been asked
| to act.
A conference of delegates OF German Turner
societies of Chicago, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
| Iowa and Dakota, was held in La Crosse.
These comprise what is known as the North
ern district of the North American Turner
union. H0 OUJeCU WIS 10 TX upon pluc6
| for holding the first funniest next year. ST.
Paul was decided on. and the executive board
| of the district of Minnesota was given charge
| of the arrangements. The Northern distr
has 10. 900 members. and over 1000 gym
| nasts. 1t il proposed that the first sh all sur
| pass anything OF the kind ever held in the
| Northwest, and to that end arrangements
! will be set on loot ut once.
There is remarkable parsonage visiting
! in Keokuk, Iowa. 1t is Miss Ella E wing, the
Missouri giantess, She ID accompanied by
| her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. BENJAMIN Ewing
of Lewis county, Mo. Miss Ewin was born
in that place on March 9th. 1872. Until she
was nine years of ag. she was an ordinary
child, but since that has developed ra pidIy
and now in her nineteenth year. she is even
feet eight and onc-half inches tall. and her
weight is 232 pounds. Her father is six feet
one inch, and her mother five feet three. and
none of the relatives on either side have been
noted for extraordinary size. The iair mon
| ster is well formed and rather pretty. but
quite bashful, and strongly objects to being
| exhibited as freak.