New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-06-15
OTHERWISE.

OTHERWISE.
Col. WRIGHT assumes office as maY or of
st. Paul.
The Mississippi river is again boor,ing at
keokuk, Iowa, standing at seventeen feet
tour-tenths abovethe low water mark
SMALLPOX is raging atSnohomisl, Wash.
Six cases were reported. Apest house has
been established and quarantined.
Near Grayson KY, Austin Porter was
hung by a mob. On May 9 he killed his
wife. The mob gathered at midnight.
forcing the jailer to deliver Porter and he
was taken out and hanged to bridge.
Porter confessed the murder.
Mrs. GERTRUDE WEBER, of Wahpeton, N.
d., before a justice of the peace at st.
Joseph Mo-, secured the conviction of her
husband, Joseph Weber, and Mrs. Ellen
Ravens on a charge of adultery. Weber
was fined $50 and sixty days in Jail. Mrs
HaYens was fined $40. Both appealed.
The master coopers and manufactures of
held meeting at Chicagoto formulate a
strong protest against the manufacture of
barrels by convict labor. According to the
members, convict labor has demoralized
the cooperage business and thrown thous-
ands OF men out Of employment.
The liabilities of Coster, Martin e. Co.,
the board of trade firm which failed after
trying to corner the corn market, are esti-
mated to be about $4,000, and assets $7O,-
900. None of the claims against the de-
tunct firm are large. The biggest, $17COO,
is said to be held by Pardridge
The colored citi zens Of Boston held
mass meeting with stirring addresses, and
adopted resolutions denunciatory of the
outrages upon members Of their race in the
South and in New York. and demanding
punishment Of the perpetrators. They
also demand that the word white" be
eliminated from the Chinese exclusion bill.
THE annual report of the. San + Francisco
produce exchange shows the amount Of
wheat in the state June l was 1000, 900 cen
tails, as against 10, 0O0 900 centals, Dec. 1,
1891. Flour, 10000 barrels against no.
900; barley, 913, 900 centals, against 16s 600;
beans, 12S, 900 sack, against 275, 600; corn,
$4,000 centals. against 1868 900; rye, 5000
centals, against 80, 600.
THE appellate court at Chicago, rend cred
an opinion sustaining the will of the late
John Crerar, which, among other public
requests, makes a provision for. library
on the South side to cost about So, 100000.
The will was attacked on the ground that
the charitable requests were void because
they created a continuous trust, and also
because they were not specific.
ED PARTRIDGE, the board of trade plung-
er, has given up, and has ordered his brok-
ers to buy up enough wheat and corn to
cover his shortages, which are said to be
about 5000. 900 bushels, nearly equally di-
vided between the July option of those
cereals. Within the last few days it is
estimated that Mr.. Partridge has watched
a half million of his big fortune fade away
In the house Representative Bennett, Of
Everett, stated that two members of the
legislature had informed him that they
had been offered $lOO each to vote
for Cape Cod canal bill, and $50 each to,
next legislature. He offered an order for
an investigating committee report. The
order was unanimously adopted
Gov. WILEY has returned TO Boise
Idaho from the Coeur d'Alene mines where
he went to investigate the trouble between
the mine owners and the miners union.
AS result of the Investigation, the COVER
nor has issued a proclamation calling upon
all unlawful assemblages to Immediately
disperse and refrain from interfering with
the mine owners. The proclamation states
that force, both state and national, will be
invoked if necessary to preserve peace.
The governor fears trouble before the diff
ficulty has been adjusted.
County Recorder ]. +. Mo sely has been.
missing from Stockton CAL. for some time
He owes about $500, 600 most of which is
unsecured. Mosely has been large specu-.
lator in land and gave notes in payment.
Nine forged notes given by him have been
discovered SO far, aggregating over 100000.
Six notes aggregating $40 500 are signed by
w. S. Hickey and three notes amounting
to $4,000 are signed by A. P. Mcbride.
Both men pronounce the signatures forger-
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