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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
Antiquity of Civilization.

Edinburgh Review: We cannot but be
struck with the immense antiquity O! civil
iZation IN Western Asia whence as a CEN
ter, trade art and literature spread west
ward to the Greeks and Italians and east
ward to India and China. The monuments
show us that at least as early as $50 3. c.
distinct civilizations existed III Chaldera,
in Syria and in Egypt. 1t is true that the
early date which has been ASST med to
Menes by scholars who reckon thirty years
as the average reign OF an Egyptian
monarch (wliereas the dated reigns
often do not exceed five or six)
rests OH no secure basis and extravaganza
estimates, based on equally unsa e deduc-
tons. have beer offered by some OF our
cuneiform scholars. who would carry back
Akkadian civilization TO 1000 B. c. But
these ex.ravagancies do not discredit the
facts thai are deduced from better data, and
which show that even earlier than the pc
Rod assigned as the time when the pastoral
Hebrew patria,chs found their way along
the Euphrates and through Syria to Egypt
there We're organized states, walled towns.
chariots and horses. riches OF gold and sill
yer, bronze and iron. of corn. wine. and
oil, not only among the Akkadians and in
Egypt, but also in PhGnicia and in Pales-
tine.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
OPIUM IN INDIA.
Very Serious Charges Preferred Against
the British Government.

Very Serious Charges Preferred Against
the British Government.
New YORK, ov.9-Hiral Kukmar of
Calcutta spoke on the opium traffic in In
dia in the Madison Avenue Episcopal
church of this city tonight. He charged
the British government with encouraging
the consumption Of opium among its SUBJ
jects in India Tor the sake Of the revenue.
In order to encourage and stimulate the
cultivation of the poppy plant upwards OF
500, 600 acres Of the best lands in India, he
said. are devoted to its cultivation, and the
annual average production is 10000. 900
pounds which is consumed in India, China
and Burmah.
The government Of India, in TACT is the
sole manufacturer and wholesale trader in
the banetl drug. The vice of opium
smoking, he declared. was increasing to an
alarming extent in India. He said that
merely for the greed Of gain the people of
the United Kingdom have sacrificed every
principle OF morality. The unmitigated
misery and distress produced by the spread
OF opium tells heavily on the people OF
India
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
RAILROAD RUMBLINGS.

The directors of the Chicago & Alton de-
clared the usually quarterly 81 per share
payable to stockholders of record Dec. L.
PROMOTIONS on the Green Bay, Winona
& St. Paul have been made. F. B. Sey-
mour becomes general superintendent and
J. B. Last is made general freight and
passenger agent. .
The statement that the Messrs. Knight,
general freight agent and freight traffic
manager of the Wabash, had pleaded guilty
to the indictments charging them with
violation of the interstate commerce law
mot guilty" and bond was furnished in
81, 900 each.
THE $500" recently announced that hunt
ers' rates from st. Paul, on and after this
date, would be reduced for the round trip
to one fare and half. The excursion rate
will extend eastward as far as Pembine,
Wis, 2S9 miles, and 274 miles west, to
Oakes N. D.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
PERSONAL MENTION.

T. A. SWEENEY, theatrical man, and
Helen Russell, leading with Rose Coghlan,
were married at Burlington, Iowa.
II. A. P. CARTER, so long Hawaiian min
lister to the United States, dies in New
York.
c. T. YERKEs, the street car magnate OF
Chicago, is going to New York to remain
permanently.
Col. SIDNEY D. Maxwell resigned his
position as superintendent of the Chamber
OF Commerce of Cincinnati, having served
ior the last 20 years.
AT Fort Riley, Kan, Col. Dallas Bache,
and Miss Bessie Forsythe, daughter ofGen.
Forsythe, of Wounded Knee fame, were
married.
THE retired commander of the Seven
teenth infantry, Gen. Mizener, is in pri-
vate asylum, IN Wyoming, under treatm ent
for softening of the brain. His ailment has
seriously impaired him mentally and
threatens his life.
PHILIP ARMOUR the Chicago millionaire
spends his afternoons playing bean-bag
with the babies in a day nursery he recently
had started in that city He has kept the
fact>very quiet, but he was caught in the
act by a friend the other day. He got the
idea while in Berlin last:July, and had it
carried out at once.
THEjIllinois Woman's Exposition Board
has received a queer application for space.
A woman who removes wrinkles from
other ,womeh's faces applied for space on
the ground that hers wasa "woman's in
dustry." She brought along subject Or
frightiul example, in the shape of a wo-
man of about sixty years, with wrinkles on
one side of her face and the other side
smoothed out. The secretary referred, the
blcacher to. the full board
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

THOMAS FLYNN, Of Milwaukee, aged go,
while eating his supper swallowed his false
teeth and choked to death.
A NAN and horse are kill ed and inciner-
ated in most horrible manner by tele-
phone wire in Panama.
NINE passengers were killed, as the result
Of the wrecking Of the express train near
Jassy. Hungary. 49,.
FIRE at Marquette, Mich, destroyed the
railroad company's barn on Third street;
loss, 81, 900. A valuable team was burned
also a quantity, of hay, several wagons,
some tools, etc"
In Kansas City a small frame house
burned Mrs. Amelia Taylor, the oCcu-
pant, lost her life in the fire. It is believed
that she was murdered and the house set
on fire to conceal the evidence of the crime.
The British ship Strathblane, sixteen
days from Honolulu, went ashore twenty
five miles north of Astoria. Of thirty-one
people on board six were drowned, includ-
ing the captain. The vessel is total loss:
The life saving crew at Fort Candy did
good service
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
AROUND TILE GLOBE.
a Record Of the Weeks Happe Jennings
That are Now Part ofthe Worlds
History.
The More Important Foreign and
Domestic Events Arranged for
Rapid Reading.
WASHINGTON.

THE secretary of the interior has issued
an order opening to entry under the home
stead law the surplus lands of the diminish
ed Ft. Assinaboine military reservation in
Montana, aggregating 81, 200 acres.
The president has recognized Salvador F.
Maillefort as consul for Mexico at Eagle
Pass, Tex; Carlos Fernandez Pasalogna,
consul for Mexico at Deming, N. NJ; Ra-
fael G: Acosta, consul for Mexico at Phila-
delphia. ~~ ~.
The congress of Brazil, having refused to
ratify the plan for the settlement of the
boundary disputed with the Argentine Re
public, the question has been referred to
the president of the United States as arbitra-
tor. The arbitration proceedings will be
held in Washington this winter.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

THE actual weight OF paper money
which the Treasury sends by express
every year to all parts of the country
is in the aggregate enormous. Since
July it has dispatched $38, 000y 900,
nearly all of it in SMALL notes, to the
South and West for the purpose of
moving the crops. The banks lend
this cash to the farmers on whatever
they grow, and thus the products OF
the field are harvested and shipped
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
SPORTING TRIPLES.

"LUckY" BALDWIN decided to retire fam
Gus Los Angeles from the turf, and she will
be shipped to California at once and bred
to Grinstead
PITCHER AMOS Rus1E was signed by Fred
PETER for the Chicago association team.
He will receive $4,000, and will be, caught
by Gunson, late of Kansas City.
W.. ]. FITZPATRICK, the we'll knownjock
ey, has signed a contract to ride next year
with David Gideon; terms, So, 600. Fitzpat-
rick agrees to get down to 11S pounds, but,
it is said, will ride at lis. s..-
JOHN T. BRUSH has announced that he
has secured Comiskey to play with and
manage the Cincinnati team next season.
Comiskey had a long conference with
Brush. The stipulated salary was not given
out, but it is said to be not less than 81, 600.
ROGER Common, first baseman, and Daniel
Richardson, second baseman, of last sea-
sons New York team signed personally
guaranteed contracts with the Wagner
Brothers to play with the Athletic club ,Of
Philadelphia for three years. Hoy, the
mute outfelder, has also signed an Athletic
contract.
d LORD HAWKE, with his team of cricket
ers, arrived at Queenstown on the steamer
City Of New York. after a stormy passage
from New York. He declared his tour in
the United States had been highly success
full and that he will revisit America in 1898
with another eleven of picked ,cricketers.
EIGHT players have been signed to date
tby,the new Chicago association team, as
follows: Rusie Of New York and Hart OF
Kansas City, pitchers; Dan stearns, first
base; Pfeffer, captain and second base; Kilt
redge and Gunson, catchers; Browning
and Wilmot fielders. -.s
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
OUT OF 4 WINDOW,
Sensational Suicide Of Drink razed
Minneapolis Man in a Hudson
Hotel.
He Sets Fire to His Room, Jumps
From the Window and Dies in
an Hour.

HUDSON, Wis, Special Telegram, Nov 8.
#-Nels Johnson, a Swede, was killed at $50
this morning by jumping from his room in
the third story OF the. Com I'll ercial hotel to
the alley below.
Johnson left Minneapolis last night for
Ashland on the North Wisconsin train He
took with him bottle of liquor, which ap-
peared to completely demoralize him, for
instead of continuing his journey to Ash
land he got off at Hudson, and late in the
night showed up at the Commercial hotel.
where he was given room. At O'Clock
he was called, and later was heard by the
chambermaid to be moving in his room,
but he did not come down to break asst
About $50 Landlord McKinnon happened
to be passing through the enclosed alley
and saw smoke coming through the sash
in Johnson's room. He rushed quickly to
the scene, only to find the door securely
locked and barred. He kicked two or
three times before he broke it open, and in
the meantime he heard terrible crash, as
of breaking glass. On entering the room
he found the carpet and bed on fire. and
that his guest had just leaped through the
closed window to the planked alley-thirty-
five feet below.
Inc man lived about an hour. lie was
we'll dressed, OF good physique, and did not
appear like man given to continued dis
sipation. It is thought that he became
crazed by the liquor he drank and cont
mitted his deeds OF violence while tempo
rarilY crazed. Papers upon his person
showed him to have relations in Sweden,
and to have been located at Minneapolis
and Wakefield since coming to this coun-
try three years ago. He was about thirty
years of age. The papers in his possession
indicate that he was a man OF industry and
economy. The authorities properly cared
for the body.
The Hudson authorities are anxious to
learn something about johnson, but the
telegram OF Chief OF Police Carroll, sent to
Minneapolis is not able to elicit much in
formation, Tor the reason that there are no
less than fifty Nels Johnsons in Minneap-
oils.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

ATsome points in Bulgaria the snow Is 10
feet deep Many persons have died from
the effects of the cold and ,thousandssof
cattle have been lost.
y The Spanish government hasrefusedto
grant an exequatur to the United States
consul in the Caroline islands, and has
notified the government at Washington to
that effect.
& A DISPATCH from Yokohama says that ac-
cording to an official estimate 200 persons
were killed by the recent earthquake in
Japan, 5000 were injured and sc, 600 houses
were destroyed. No Europeans were killed.
WEsLEY's CHAPEL, in the City road,
London, the cathedral of Methodism, was
reopened, having been completely reno
waited. a series of services We're held by
the president of the conference.
It is reported that Baron Hirsch is ar
ranging for an international Jewish
congress to be held in 1892 in London, the
object being to consider and, ifpossible. to
solve the problem ofJewish colonization.
DIVINE to areligious riot in the village of
Mazanderan, Persia, the house of Gen.
Saadat Yooly Chan was set on fire, and the
Killed. =:
IT is reported that nearly 1000 of the
Russian troops on the Pruth have persisted
oftyphus. When the bulk of the force
was removed some distance inland the
sick were left almost without help, and
these are perishing daily.
The Sudo Sauzo, who gained world
wide notoriety through his attempt upon
the life of the czarowitch at Otsu, Japan,
| and who was sentenced to imprisonment
| for life, died in prison recently of pneumo-
mia. --
The Chronicles Berlin correspondent
says that the burgomaster of Crofeld has
ordered strict examination of American
| pork imports, in consequence of discovery
| of diseased sides certified to be healthy by
| American officials.
A MEETING of the Socialist members of the
! French Chamber Of deputies was held to
consider methods for the reform of the
| party. Several different proposals were
| discussed, but no decision was reached.
The general impression is that the efforts
to reconstitute the party will fail
The latest advices from the famine dis
trict in Samaria state that nearly all the
able bodied peasants are now at work on
government roads and that the death rate
is diminishing although many horrible
cases of starvation are still reported. AS
! these statements are from semi-official
| sources, they may be too rosy-hued.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
The Dead Actress.

CHICAGO. Nov.:9.-The mystery Surround
ing the death of the actress Fannie Cart
wright, whose body was found in remote
railroad yard last week. is still untathomed.
Last night the police thought they had
possible clue to the solution OF the case in
the story told them by one Harry Burns
that Beatty, who was last seen with the
girl before her death, placed her dead
body on the track with the assistance of a
absolute companion but they are now
convinced that there is nothing in Burns
story. The police have learned that at the
time of her meath she was engagedto marry
a young man named Page. and they are
now anxiously looking for Page in the
hope that he can throw some light on the
MYSTERY
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

A NUREMBERG glass cutter one day,
by accident, dropped little aqua
fortis upon his spectacles, and, finding
it corroded and ,softened the glass,
conceived the idea ofetching upon it.
He drew figures upon the glass with
varnish, applied the fluid and cut
away the glass above the drawing.
When the wannish WAS removed the
figures appeared, raised upon "a dark
ground.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
Plucked of $4,000.

TRENTON, NJ, Nov. 9.-Joseph Mayer.
proprietor OF the pottery :or robbing which
several arrests were made in Philadelphia,
estimates his loss at SIS, 600. He says that
a conspiracy between his invoice clerk.
William w. Sweet and crockery dealers in
Philadelphia and Trenton has been in ex-
istence about six years, and that they
divided the profits on wares which he was
accustomed to forward to them. Sweet
would charge them on Mayors books, with
only a small traction OF the value of the
goods shipped. Sweet and wife are held
here, and. besides the crockery dealers ar
rested yesterday, Others will be, arrested to-
- : -
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

A WRITER in the Contemporary Re
view attempts to demonstrate by
statistics carefully gathered in Aus
tralia that men will accomplish more
In the long run if confined to eight
hours labor per day than when work
ing longer hours. He claims that ex-
perience shows eight hours to be the
most satisfactory working day, both
to the employer and the employed.
His statistics probably do not include
newspaper men and farmers.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
A Public spanker.

Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: A
San Francisco policeman has evolved and
put i'll practice an idea that is worthy Of
emulation by guardians OF the public order
in every city O. the United States. a small
boy ran in 'front.' OF q moving street car with
no other purpose than to show bow nearly
he could come 10 being crushed to death
without actually suffering that catastrophe
The spectators were llorrihed. the motor
man was filled with a frenzy Of cxaspera-
ton and fear A policeman who was pres
.ent seized the boy, placed hllu across his
knee and gave him sound spanking.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

The genius OF poetry is not looking
up just at present with a confident
smile. A half-penny journal in
England offered FL, 900 for the best
poem offered, and the prize went to a
composition of five lines. This is the
biggest SUM per line ever paid for
poetry, but one Of the judges says all
the verses submitted were bad, and
this one appears TO vebaen selected
on account Of one conspicuous merit.
--bereYity. 81
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
AUSTRALIA has built and equipped.

AUSTRALIA has built and,equipped a
feet of five armed cruisers and two
torpedo gunboats. These form an
integral part OF the English navy, but
the Australian colonies pay annually
$455,0OO toward their maintenance
and $165,O0o into sinking fund:
This is the first attempt ON the part
OF a British colony to. assume any
part of the imperial burden ofdefense.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

The highest building in the world
has just been completed on the Signal
Peak of Monte Rosa. An Alpine
club and Queen Margaret of Italy
contributed the money for this hut,
which boasts of an altitude of nearly
fifteen Thousand feet. 1T is supplied
with a copper roof, toIprotectit. from
lightning.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

ENRAGED husband, Revolver truly
aimed. Bullet speeds straight to-
wards woman's heart. Corset steel.
Saved At frequent intervals this
story is repeated, and yet Miss Field
blindly inveighs against the corset.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

"a THE New York Age, we'll known as
an organ OF the colored people, doubt
less says the last word upon the sub
ject whenitremarks regarding the pro-
posed exportatio OF negroes to Africa:
."It is better to stay right here, and
we are going to stay" This is definite
and probably the exact truth in the
m ttar
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

The legislature OF Tennessee is as
lawless q body as the mob OF free
miners who liberated the. leased
convicts, and upon that legislature
the blame should rest. If the mem
bers had attended to the business for
which the extra session was called the
recent trouble would not have
occurred.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
win Act and Then F,c1lt.

PORTLAND, Ore, Special Telegram, Nov.
u ck Dempsey and young Mitchell left
fc They are on their way to Brooklyn to
join Harry Williams Variety company,
when they will play two months en-
gagement through the East. They expect
to return in about Jour months and then
young Mitchell will be prepared to meet
any middleWeight in the world. @
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

ROBERT BONNER offers $4,000 to
the horse that will trot mile in 2:O5
within two years. If Mr.. Bonner will
extend his offer so as to include poll
tical hobbies he will find his record
shashed into smithereens in short
order.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
Didn't Run Smoothly.

CoLUsA, Cal, Nov. o. H. F. Farnsworth,
aged twenty. son of a well known farmer
here, this afternoon shot and wounded.
probably atally, his fiancee. Miss Emma
Neal. He then shot himself, dying in
stantly.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
occurred

= The Jewish Messenger says that
fully three-fourths OF the Russian
Jews who come to this country, and
who have been arriving this year at
the rate of 10000 per month, "take
to tailoringjin some of it's FORMS" 1t
proposes the establishment OF great
clothing and cloak factories in the far
West
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
Owing to Mckinley.

LONDON. Nov. 8.-The News commenting
on the board of trade returns says: ssThe
decrease Of 20 per cent in our trade with
America may fairly be attributed to the
MCKINLEY law. The diminution in the
demand from other countries must be as
cribed to financial depression
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

PROFESSOR KOHLBRANCH, who has
been making some curious expert
ments with lightning, finds that the
amount of electricity in an ordinary
flash is 80 small that it would require
37-fashes to keep common mean
descent lamp burning one hour.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
A Gold Bar.

CH1oAG Q, Nov. 81. B. Hume, chief de-
teclive officer OF Wells. Fargo g. Co. of San
Francisco and G. D. Wilson, agent of the
State OF California. passed through Chicago
from Pennsylvania to-day with w. P.
Mattson, who, on Aug. 81 last, while clerk
in the express office at Mohawk, embezzled
a gold bar valued at about 81 900.
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
THE TOlLERS.

WITH the exception Of one man, all the
Providence Typographical Union, No. 33,
employed by the Evening Telegram, Left
their work. @ga
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
gucceadAd nv (sorst-

LoEDoE, Nov. 8. Sir John Gorst is to sue
coed W. Z. Jackson. the new chief secre-
tary for Ireland, as financial secretary of
the treasury.
Sir John is at present nnnrr secretary Of
state for India. 8
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11

1T took two sailors who were wreck
ed in the South Sea five months to
reach Honolulu in an open boat. They
touched at several islands, obtaining
supplies and food. il
New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-11
NEW YORK.

BALTIMORE, Special.-The Democratic
ticket received increased majorties in fit
teen counties. The plurality of the state
Democratic ticket is over Is 600. Brown,
governor, has II, 455 plurality in the city;
Poe, attorney general, Ii, 72G; Latrobe, may
or, has 5000 majority; Kear, states attor-
ney, 9.1O6. The Democrats also carry the
First Legislative district by 1923 the Sec
ond by 4,61O and the Third by 900.