New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
IN GENERAL.

Encouraging reports have been sent out
regarding winter wheat in Illinois, In diana
and Kansas.
The Oregon senate has indefinitely post
poned the house bill appropriating $50, 600
for worlds fair exhibit
The barbed wire manufacturers and the
representatives of the Washburn-M oen pat
ent monopoly have failed to bring their
negotiations to conclusion.
The Northern Pacific directors declared
the regular quarterly dividend of per cent
They also decide to resume work on all
projected extensions and push them to
completion. -E
The bill making prize fighting in Texas a
penitentiary offense has passed the house
The term of imprisonment provided for
ranges from two to five years. This meas
ure is a substitute for the senate bill.
A resolution relative to uniting all of the
Western States in a general reduction of
interest to and per cent has been defeat
ed in the Nebraska legislature This means
no change in the interest laws in Nebraska.
Two hundred and fifty members of the
Cigar Manufacturers and Dealers Assoeia--
ton ofChicago have signed an agreement
to advance the price of cigars 10 per cent on
account of the increased cost of tobacco I'M
der the Mckinley bill.
At a meeting of the citizens of Chippewa
Falls, Wis, Assemblyman J. A. Taylor
was instructed by unanimous vote to pro-
cure the passage of bill authorizing the
city of Chippewa Falls to issue 500, 600
bonds for the purpose of procuring new
manufacturing industries for the city.
Master in Chancery Boyesen began taking
testimony at Chicago in the application of
w. s. Alley for the appointment of re-
ceiver for the Louisville, New Albany &
Chicago. Before the investigation was fair
~ commenced, however, it was agreed to
suspend proceedings, in order that the Mo-
non people may have chance to file an
answer to Alleys sensational bill.
Private dispatches from New York state
that the New York owners of the Pacific
short line have sold that property to the
A. S. Garretson syndicate, which secured
an option on it and that the line is to be
built through to Ogden unden traffic con
tracts with the Chicago, Rock ISL
and & Pacific and the Chicago, Milwan-
kee and st. Paul, which companies are hay-
ing war with the Union Pacific.
Itwas given out at the Illinois Central
Offices at Chicago that the Dubuque &
Sioux City has been leased to that com
pany. While the lessee agrees to paw
as rent the net earnings of the property, it
assums none of the debts or other liabili-
ties of the lessor, and reserves the right to
terminate the contract on two months no
tice; AS the Illinois Central owns substan-
tally all the stock of the Dubuque & Sioux
City, it is evident that the end sought is
merely to simplify accounts and reduce ex-
penses. rs
a Chicago evening paper says: Itmay
now be said almost positively as though it
had been formally determined by the di-
rectory that the lake front will be entirely
abandoned as a site for the worlds fair and
that the big show will be held under one
tent, as it were, at Jackson Park. It ap-
pears that the trades unions are not salts
tied with the contract made by the direc-
tory for the work of preparing jackson
Park. The clause Forbid ding the employ.
ment of aliens is all well enough, they say,
as far as it goes, but they want the unions
and the eight-hour day recognized and
they want permanent board of arbitration
appointed.