New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-27
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An american dramatlc agent IS suing GOu-
nod for breach of contract to conduct sixty
concerts in America for 1,000,000 francs.
Two young ladies-one from Kentucky and
the other from North Dakota-will have an
equestrian race at the Minnesota state fair.
The Northern Pacific & Manitoba railway
is turned over to the Northern Pacific under
hundred years lease.
Intense heat is reported throughout Aus
tria. There have been many fatal cases OF
sunstroke
The railway strike in Wales has been set
tied by arbitration. Sixty thousand men
have been idle for nearly two weeks.
An enormous flow of natural gas was
struck at Summerland, three miles from
Santa Barbara, Cal. The flow is estim ated
at 3, 100000 feet per day.
The ship Francis has arrived at Tacoma,
WASH. from Yokohama, Japan, with $685.
S5S pounds of tea consigned to Eastern cit
les.
A dispatch from Cairo states tn at reports
from reliable source at hand that Os-
nan Digna has arrived at Tokar from Om-
durham at the head Of a formidable army.
Mrs. Robert T. Lincoln has arrived in
Mount Pleasant Iowa, from London wi tn
her two daughters and will visit her father,
ex-senator James Harlon, FOR some time.
DeverelI & Hall, manufacturers of cassi-
meres, etc.. Hinsdale, Mass, have assigned.
The mill will shut down alter running out
the stock on hand.
|. Judge Rose of the United States district
court of North Dakota, pronounces the state
law prohibiting the Importation of lqu ors
unconstitutional.
At recent meeting in New York Of the ex-
ecutive committee of the Ora Mt Monument
association, resolutions were adopted pro-
testing against the rem oval of the remains
of Gen. Grant.
The steamship Nevada, of the Guion lne
which left New York Aug. 6, bound for
Liverpool, has arrived at the latter port.
Her officers report having sighted icebergs
fully loo feet in height during the voyage.
Six or eight representative British farmers
and three delegates of leading agricu ltural
societies will visit Canada for the purpose of
reporting upon Manitoba and the North
west as suitable field for settlement.
The first annual convention of the Ma
tiona1 Association OF Letter Carriers OF the
United States has been begun i'll Boston.
One hundred delegates from sixty branches
of the organization are present.
Another 'socean greyho und," the Teutonic,
has smashed the record, aking the run be-
tween Queenstown and New York in days,
10 hours and minutes. This is a gain of
thirteen minutes over the City of New York.
A syndicate has been formed with capital
of SIS 100000, which will buy up all the
coffee it can secure OF planters in Brazil, re-
10 70 ND into +lo ~
United States, instead of the importer, and
it will be disposed OF by the agent.
dispatch from Erzeroum says that the
government is supplying the Kurds with
Martini rifles. The Christians have cut the
telegraph wires. Four Armenians who had
made themselves objectionableto the author
tiles were strangled in prison.
reporter made q tour of the New York
Central railroads lines from Albany to
Schenectady, inclusive. The freight blockade
at these points is almost complete, and what
few trains are run are sent down and up on
the passenger tracks.
Ex-Ald. Badnoch of Chicago testified in
suit to enjoin the construction of the Ran
dolph Street & Ogden Avenue Elevated rail-
road that, when he was chairman of the
committee on streets, A. NJ. Wright, presi-
dent of the company, offered him a large
block of stock to support the ordinance
granting the franchise.
1t isreported that theworld's fair will belo-
Gated on tract Of land east of Rogers
Park, on the lakeshore and just inside the
city limits of Chicago. The tract spoken o
is tract of $50 acres, with mile and a.
half of frontage on the lake. The owners are
understood to have offered it free of all
charges.
The house committee on education, whose
bill providing for the endowment of agricult-
ural colleges has been introduced, has pre-
pared report on which these institutions
are discussed under the bill. Minnesota
North and South Dakota will receive S15,-
600 each for the first year and an addition
| al 81 900 each year for ten years.
The authorities OF the Swiss canton Of
schwyz have issued positive orders forbid
| ding the oft-told and generally accepted mar
ratiye of William Tell from being taught in
the public schools as part of Swiss history.
The order treats the narrative of Tell and
Gess'or as pure fiction, for which there is not
asuspicion of historical foundation.