New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-01-21
IN GENERAL,

At Wilkesbarre, Pa, the Susquehanna is
seventeen feet above low water mark.
Street railway travel is abandoned.
The bucket shops have been victorious in
suit against the Chicago board of trade to
restrain the defendants from Withholding
market quotations.
Englishmen have formed company
with capital of $5,OOO,OOO to buy all the
principal SPOOL bobbin and shuttle manu-
factories of America.
The negotiations which have been pending
between Newfoundland and the United
States in the direction Of preferential trade
have fallen through. '
Allen & Co., bucket shop brokers of Buff
falo, N. Y, have decided to, close their
business. Their losses recently have
amounted to nearly $5OO,0O0. -,
At conference in St. Louis recently be-
tween employees and officials of the Waba-
sha satisfactory settl ement of wages, Eyas
reached. ~. ..,
Bills have been intro duced in the Oregon
and Washington legislatures providing for
a special tax to be used in displays at the
worlds fair.
The Sedalia, Warsaw & Southern has been
sold at sheriff's sale to L. G. McNair and
George C. Smith of st. Louis, trustees for
tor the bondholders, for $4,000.
There has been reduction of S per cent.
lin window glass, due to the failure of the
manufacturers to complete trust. It is
thought the decline will be temporary.
In response to petition, the telegraph
operators on the line Of the "Nickel Plate"
road, between Chicago and Cleveland, have
been granted an advance of IS per month.
AT Rochester,, N. Y, an agreement was
signed by every salt producing firm and
company in the Western New York field
that the prices of 1890 shall be maintained
through 1891.
1T has been, decided to arrange monthly
productions of coal on the basis of pro-
duction of $4,000, 600 tons for the year and
to continue the percentage that were in
force during the past year.
The powder pool which was organized
about eighteen months ago by the princi-
pal powder companies for the purpose of
keeping up prices, has collapsed, and the
price of powder has gone down three cents
"a pound. 49, -.. s.
C. b. Homes, whose numerous invest
mlents in widely scattered cities have helped
give him national reputation to street
car anagnate, failed to be reelected as a
director ofthe South side cable road in
Chicago. ~
The sale of the real estate and personal
property of the Huntington pa. Manufac-
turing company to the Iron Car Equipment
Company ofNew York has boen confirmed
The company will proceed at once to en-
large and operate the works.
The Stoneboro pa Saving bank and
the Sandy Lake Pa. saving hank, both Of
parties, have failed. The liabilities of the
Stoneb0ro institution exceed the assets, but
the Sandy Lake concern claims to be able
to pay its debts in full.
General Master Workman Powderly, OF
the Knights of Labor, has just issued a cir
cular recommending a joint conference OF
industrial organizations to be held next
July at Washington D. c., for the purpose
of formulating political industrial plat
form. The object of the conference IS to
perfect measures and for third party for
in the campaign Of 1891, which, it is de-
clared, should result in the election OF
president and congressman committed to
the interests of labor.
There was exciting times in the lower
house of the Colorado legislature There
are two Republican factions in the house.
one led by H.5H. Eddy and the other by
James Brown. The Brown crowd number
fourteen, and by forming an unexpected
combine with the Democratic members Sc
cured working majority. When the new
announce his standing committees, the
Brown Democratic faction blocked legisla-
ton and the result was that nothing could
be accomplished. Brown was ordered I'M
der arrest for interrupting the speaker.
The sergeant-at-arms started to arrest
into the aisle and dehed the sergeant-at.
arms TO do SO. A scene of the widest con-
fusion and uproar prevailed. Quiet was
finally restored, but the deadlock continued
until midnight, when the BroWn-Democrat-
ic wing, numbering twenty eight members,
house all by themselves. This viii com
paicate legislation this winter Speaker
Hanna is firm, and has employed fifteen
assistant sergeautS-at-arn ~