New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-07-15
PERSONAL,

M. DE QUERCY, prominent actor of the
Bouffes Parisiennes in Paris, has commit
ted suicide.
STUART RoBsoN's manager has engaged
Ernest Possart for an American tour in
1923 for SIS, 900.
WHILE the sultan of Zanzibar was pre-
siding at the opening of Cooper's institute
in Zanzibar his horses were frightened by
the noise Of a salute fired by the British
war ships and ran away, and the sultan,
who sprang from the carriage in fright, was
seriously injured.
The Gaulo is Figaro and other Paris pa
pers are pleading for the abandonment of
the prosecution of M. de Lesseps on the
grounds that he accomplished his scheme
Of piercing the isthmus of Suez with ca
nal; that he wears the cross of the Legion
OF Honor and that he is an academican and
a grand Francais' generally.
Mr.. STURGEON has experienced a sudden
increase Of kidney congestion, accompanied
by nausea, drowsiness and prostration.
Mr.. Surgeons physicians say that the pa
tent is in dangerous condition, and that
the utmost care is required. The deacon of
the tabernacle arranged for constant prayer
meetings in the London tabernacle.
CASUALTIES.
TIE Jefferson lumber company, of Jeffer-
son, Tex, failed for 100000.
THE Kansas supreme court holds that
the eight hour law does not apply to any of
the state institutions.
TIE Kennebec ice and coal company,
Of Wilmington, Del, has failed, with liza
bilities Of $4,000, and assets about the
same.
THE steamer City of London, light for
Duluth, in ashore near Detour, Mich. The
schooner Lake Forest is ashore near Grand
Traverse bay.
FULTON GARDNER of Chicago has invent
ed an elecric drill He wants to show it in
operation at the worlds fair, and proposes
to drill hole to the center Of the earth.
FIRE in Philadelphia destroyed E. R.
Priestly's five-story carpet mill. Loss
500, 600; Insurance. $4,000. Furbrush &
Co., who had machinery stored in the
building, will lose $50, 600.
The water in the Colorado river, from
which the overflow into the desert at Sal
ton has come, has fallen at Yuma one foot
in the past week, thus rapidly cutting the
inflow of water into tbs desert.
SCHEDULES of the assignment case Of the
firm Of Charles Haight & Co., produce mer-
chants of New York, state liabilities at
$225. 1907, nominal assets SAT-, 1874, and assets
$43,996.
A. E. OLEARY1sK1, the consul general of
Russia, called upon Gen. O'Brien, OF the
emigrant board of New York recently and
requested numerical list Of the Russian
Jews who have emigrated to the United
States since Jan. l. 1891.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY REED, of Philadelphia
filed the governments claim in the district
court on the $4,000 bail bond given by
Gideon w. Marsh, the fugitive president of
the keystone national bank, with William
H. Wanamaker and John J. Jones as
sureties.
A STATUE to Robert Burns was unveiled
under the auspices of the Free Masons and
under Masonic honors. The American
consul at Leith recited a dedcatory poem
composed by himself Thirty thousand
persons were present.
WHILE the British cruiser Cordelia was
out at sea near Sydney, N. S. w., practic-
ing firing, six-inch breech-loading gun
exploded. cLieutenants Hillyon and Cor
don and four seamen were instantly killed,
while three midshipmen and ten seaman
were wounded.