New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-12-03
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

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! Thomas 81. Allen & Co. of Memphis, one oil
the oldest cotton firms in the South. makes
an assignment, being $3.50, 900 in debt
! Six banks, one in Kansas and the Others
| in Oklahoma, either close their doors vol
UNFAIRLY or are taken possession of by fede1 al
| officers. ...H
Judge Killam, at Winnepeg in test case,
sustains the school act Of the Manitoba leg
slature The Catholics will appeal the case
to the privy council of Great Britain.
Col. John R. Baker, we'll known Philadel
| phia stock operator, is missing. He has
100000 ofpaper out, but his assets ars
thought to be sufficient to cover this.
In the Oklahom ma house Of Representative
bill extending suffrage to women in this
territory at all elections has passed 1t vii,
probably go through the council also
| The suit brought last spring by Mrs.
| O'Shea against her husband for the enforce
| ment of her marriage settlement and to com
| pei Capt O'Shea to transfer to her certain
lntrests, has been withdrawn.
| Stenely Kendrick and Bertha Scott, ar.
rested on suspicion of having murdered
Amos ]. Stillwel at Hannibal, Mo-. in De-
| cember, 1888, have been discharged in St.
| Louis. ~E.a..... Is
| The government steamer Mississippi has
arrived at Memphis from st. Louis, having
on board Gen. Comst ock the president and
other members of the Mississippi river com
mission who are on inspection tour.
The Minnesota oleomargarne law is IN.
constitutional, and Phil Armour is accord
ingly happy. Judge Nelson rendered the
| opinion from the bench at ST. Paul, upon the
conclusion Of the arguments in the petition
of c. E. Gooch for a writ of habeas corpus.
The freight blockade in the Chicago &
Eastern Illinois yards at Terrc Haute, Ind,
is complete, The local employees will say
nothing about the trouble. The strike was
not authorized by any Of the railway organ
izations, and seems to be without a head.
The will of Alexander Watson OF Eau
Claire, Wis, by which he leaves his wealth to
| his son and daughter, is contested by Mrs.
Clara Norton on the grounds that Watson
was not mentally capable of making a will
and that he was wrongfully influenced.
| The United States Corporation Bureau OF
Chicago reports the weekly list of completed
corporations in the United States for the
week ending Nov. 81 as follows. Total cor
| poratons. 200; total capitalizations, $S4,-
| 1000.
| If reports are true, j. ]. Hill has secured
the Pacific Short Line, new road now be-
ing built from Sioux city to Ogden, and will
make it a part of his Great Northern system
This line is now completed to Oneill. about
200 miles, and bridge is being built for it
across the Missouri river at Sioux City.
Fragments of a mastodon of tremendo Gus
size were lound by workmen digging ditch
near Manson. Iowa. Among the bones un-s
earthed at depth of fifteen feet were u mo-
| lar tooth weighing between seven and eight
/ pounds. and a tusk seven feet long The an
| lmal was evidently amphibious.
The Indians at the Standing Rock agency
are beginning TO conceive the idea which the
less excited whites have tried to explain to
them that their Messiah is q false expression
/ concocted by Sitting Bull and his prophets
to gain supposed power and following.
! Sitting Bulls failure to come to the agency
! for his rations strengthens this belief
jay Gould secures control of the Union
| Pacific railroad, and will force Charles
Francis Adams to resign the presidency to
/ make room for Sidney Dillon. He also eff.
/ tects an alliance of numerous Western an
!. southwestern lines, and will operate them
| all with the idea OF making money instead
of cutting rates.
/ In 1871 Omer T. Bailey was convicted OF
being accessory to the murder of Thomas
Harrison. q farmer of Dearborn county, In
diana, and was sentenced to the penitentiary
for life. Gov. Hovey has just paroled him
/ Mac Donald Cheek, who was the actual MUIR
derer and who is also serving q life sen tence.
has repeatedly written to different govern
/ ors declaring Bailey absolutely innocent
No one now objects to BaiIey's pardon. and
it is the common belief thatan innocent man
has been imprisoned twenty years Every
governor has been all but confident of his
innocence.