New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-01-14
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.
An ice gorge has formed above Johns
town. Pa, which threatens the place with
great dam age.
The miners have returned to work in the
Florence (Wis.) mine on the strength of q
promise that their back pay will be prompt
~ forthcoming.
The firm of Decker, Howell & Co. of New
York have resumed business. Assignee Crom-
we'll is paying the claims of the creditors
when they are presented.
A reduction of salaries and the closing o +
the manual training and night schools are
proposed in the St. Paul board of trade,
100000 to be saved annually thereby.
The statement of the appraisers Of the
banking firm of Delamater & Co. of NJ cad
vile, Pa, shows that the assets of the firm
are estimated at 1901, 900 and liabilities
about 81, 100000. -
Frederic Hartla, agent for Cincinnati
parties, has purchased the log school house
at GAINESVILLE, Ohio, where x-President Gar.
TO" exhibition at the worlds fair.
Residents of Indiana in the vicinity of the
sli ght shock of earthquake a few days ago
the trem BILE is the prem onition of great up
heaval OF the natural gas territory.
John Cox, policeman, found $4,000
worth of diamonds in little bag in the m nd
on the street in New York He turned in his
''fnd" at the Fifth Avenue hotel Office and
the owner being soon found, Cox received
500 as reward.
The Millvale Iron works at Millvalle, Pa,
have been closed indefinitely. About 800 men
are thrown out of employment. The mill
was closed because the men running the en-
gines and the firemen demanded an advance
OF rs cents per day, which the firm did not
feel disposed to grant.
A more thorough investigation into the
affairs of Bernard Donnelly, the Kansas City
capitalist who was declared insane recently
and for whose estate a guardian was APP
pointed, shows that his liabilities are con-
siderably over 100000. Assets almost
nothing.
A letter was received at Duluth by the
chief of police from the like functionary in
Chicago, stating that the missing millionaire,
B. 3. Campbell of Chicago, had been traced
for news of his whereabouts. An old man
answering his description was for some time
roomer in the Fontenelle block, but his
whereabouts is at present unknown.
There have been steps taken looking to the
impeachment Of Frank McGrath, president
of the Kansas Farmers Alliance, who is ac-
cused of being party to the alleged scheme
to elect E. J. Turner, Republican congress-
man from the Sixth district, to the United
States senate. The matter will be brought
before special session s.of the executive
board of the Alliance, which is to be conven-
ed in Topeka. -
It has been learned that Il. Webster Crowl
who failed in Baltimore several months ago,
had overdrawn his account on the Franklin
bank of upward ef$1OO, 900 through the
incapacity and untrustworthiness OF Cashier
Gordner, who has been dismissed. The
president of the bank said he thought that
Garner had not made anything out of the
transaction. and could not account for the
cashiers action except upon the ground that
Crowl had hypnotized him,
Henry c. Clark brother-in.law OF the late
Emma Abbott said in Chicago that tho re-
port that she had left 81, 900. 900 to found q
home for actors and singers was mere Cos
sip. Her will is locked up in the vaults of
her attorneys. Dunning and Fowler of Now
York. Mr.. Cunning has notified the family
that as far as his recollection Of the wording
of the will goes, the deceased singer specified
that after her death her body was to be
cremated and tn Q ashes burned at Giouces-
ter, Mass. ~. ~ ...-.