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New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
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inal, Casualty and Other
Important News.
THE CAPITAL;

IT is reported that Col. John Hay will
succeed Whitelaw Reid as minister to
France.
GENERAL LAND COMMISSIONER CARTER ex-
plains the status of the proposed Minnesota
park reserve. He says that no application
for the creation of a park is pending.
THE United States government replies to
Lord Salisbury snote, insisting upon the re-
newal of the modus vivendi regarding Ber-
ing sea.
SECRETARY NOBLE lectures Pension Com
missioner Raum for giving precedence in
the adjudication OF pension cases to those
whose status is inquired for by congress
men.
The subcommittee Of the house COM
mittee on labor began an investigation Of
the subject Of the enforcement of the eight
hour law, and in what manner and to what
extent the law has been evaded and dis
regarded by those charged with its enforce
mentsas well as whether any convict labor
is used by the government in the construc-
ton Of public buildings.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
LYNCHED A GIRL.
A Colored Girl Of Fifteen Poi
sons Nine Persons in Lou
isiana.
She Is Lynched in a Peculiar
Manner While on Her Way
to Jail.

RAYvILLE, La, Special Telegram, March
14.-The sight of a dead body dangling
from high cottonwood tree by the road
side met the eyes Of Richland parish farm
ers driving in to church this morning. The
body was that cf fifteen-year-old colored
girl, a house servant at the Greenwich place.
and she had been hanged the night before
by mob oflynchers.
The girl had been employed as waitress
and kitchen girl by W. R. Helmer, who
owns the Greenwell plantation, twenty
miles from the county seat. A colored
man who was employed around the stables
Of the plantation had in some manner Of
Tended the kitchen girl and she determined
upon revenge. Poison was the final sug-
gestion which came to her mind. All the
coffee which was made in the house was
made in one large pot and drawn from it
for the meals served alike to the fanr4Y
and the servants. Into this pot on Friday
morning the girl poured the contents OF a
package of rat poison, and all the inmates
Of the house. except herself, nine in num-
Der, drank of the poisoned fluid.
Everybody who drank coffee that morn
ing was seriously i'll. The neighbors who
had been called in to attend the sick peo-
pie. who had discovered the guilt of the
young colored girl, locked her up over
night. Yesterday afternoon two guards
started with her to Rayville, the county
seat, intending to place her in the Jail here
In the meantime exaggerated reports of the
attempt at poisoning had spread through
the country and greatly excited the resi-
dents. These stories, circulated by word OF
mouth Friday afternoon and Saturday
morning, increased in the telling until
finally they
ASSUMED STARTLING PROPORTIONS.
It was a little after noon of yesterday when
tie two guards of the girl who had con-
1essed the crime started out on their twen-
ty-niile ride, which was to end at the Ray
vile Jail, the prisoner on small pony be-
tween her two captors.
The little party had gone about half the
distance when out OF clump Of cotton
wood trees by the wayside rode band of
masked men, some twenty in all. us this
the girl who poisoned the Helmers?" asked
the one who seemed to be in command.
Neither Of the guards replied, but the girl
looked up sullenly at the mob and
answered detiantly: Yes, 1 am the girl"
Tue men led the pony to the side Of the
road, where high cottonwood tree
stretched out a branch. One of the mob
threw rope over the limb and fastened the
end to a fence rail, while another put the
moose which had been made in the other
end around the girls neck.
Then sounding blow was given the
pony upon which she SAT-. The frightened
animal sprang forward. and the body of the
would-be poisorc- was lett dangling in the
air. For a moment or so her legs were
stretched in and out convulsively, as if at
tempting to find supporting place. But
it was useless, and in lew minutes she
was dead. The mob then rode away. The
people who We're poisoned will recover
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
FOREIGN.

EMPEROR WILLIAM is said to have threat
ened to ''pulverize Russia"
MANY young couples at Lake Dauphin
Man, discover that they were illegally mar
ried. ..
A MOTION to complete the British defenses
at Esquimalt, Vancouver Island, is defeat
ed III the house OF commons.
MRS OSBORNE, the London society lady
who stole jewelry, is sentenced to nine
months in prison.
THE earl Of Denbigh died in London. He
was Catholic and Knight of the HOLY
Roman Empire.
The Spanish senate has approved the
commercial convention between Spain and
the United States. The vote stood 80 in
favor OF the convention to so against. it.
ALL the anarchists charged with partici-
patton in the recent attack upon the town
of Xeres, Spain, who were tried by court
martial, have been acquitted. The decision
is a surprise.
Infectious cerebral meningitis has
caused five deaths within a few days in the
vicinity Of Laurel Hill, town of Newton, L.
l. Three of the deaths were in one family
Mr.. MERcIER has resigned his seat in the
Quebec legislature, and will. leave the
country and live in France until an oppor-
tunity offers to get back to power again
FRANK VAN. ZANDr. of New York, who
lost between three and four, millions in the
Blue Bird mine in Montana, commits sui
eide in London.
AN Indian outbreak occurred few DAYS
The Deacon case is paralleled by trag-
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
SPORTING MATTERS,

OVER million brook trout have been
booked for delivery at Ashland, Wis.
WILLIE MAINS fingers have been pared
down and Western contract sent him. >
The first bicycle made entirely of alum
mum has been pronounced success.
IT is remarkable how many great fighters
there are until they get into the ring to do
business.
JAY GoULD's nephew, William Northrup.
is the champion 1856 pound wrestler Of the
Manhattan club.
EUGENE CARTER was beaten by GARNER in
a recent game at Paris 300 to 23S. Barter
was the favorite.
JACK DEMPSEY will accept the position of
instructor 0 the Pastime Athletic Club Of
Portland Or.
EDGEMARK is the champion English set
ter dog He beat Cincinnatus, the great
field trial dog, at New York.
GUS LAMBERT has sailed for England. He
is the man Peter Maher finished in one
round the last time he went over
BILL MADDEN, hacker and manager of
the defeated pugilist, Peter Maher, has ar
rived in New York He says that Maher
was fairly whipped and not drugged.
Tom O. RoURKE, manager and hacker of
George Dixon, has cabled Ted Pritchard,
the English champion pugilist, to come to
America at once, and he, O'Rourke, woulG
back him against FitzsimmOns.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
Trainmen's Grievances.

OrrUMwA, Iowa, Special Telegram. March
IA week from to-day an important
meeting of railway conductors will be held
in this city Tor the purpose of adjusting the
grievances OF traiamen living here The
men allege that the West division crews of
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy road. on
the order OF the officials at Creston, have
beer running their trains to Murray, thus
cutting off the earnings Of crews on this
division. at the instance of the Order OF
Railway Conductors the matter has been
discussed at meetings held at Galesburg,
Aurora and other points, and the meeting
the matter.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
THE RAILROADS,

A NEW railroad is to be built through the
upper peninsular Of Michigan to shorten
the distance between Lake Superior and
Chicago.
A SYNDICATE at Indianapolis, headed by
J. c. Shaffer, has been given thirty y-day's
option on the Citizens Railway Company
OF indianapolis for So, 100000.
ATTY. GEN. HENzEI, of Pennsylvania,
will test on the Dauphin county court as
soon as the necessary papers can be prepar-
ed, the constitutionality of the leases by
which the Philadelphia & Reading Rail-
road Company has assumed control of the
Lehigh Valley and New Jersey Central rail-
roads
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
MISCELLANEOUS,

A COMBINE is formed for the purpose OF
limiting the output of the principal copper
mines.
A DISPATCH received in Bost on states that
owing to an accident the Anaconda mine
will be shut down several weeks.
THE Philadelphia conference of the M eth
odist Episcopal Church passed unanimous
ly resolution protesting against the open
ing of the Worlds Fair on Sundays.
AT Newport, R. T., q sale ofa few Of the
effects of the late Geo. Bancroft was held.
The extensive library and valuable furni-
ture were not included in the sale.
The New York Union League Club or
ganized committee to act with the army
of the Tennessee in raising the $3.50, GOO to
pay Tor monument TO Gen. Sherman.
THE Indiana delegation to the Mime
apolis convention is instructed to support
President Harrison as long as his name is
before the convention.
A STORY was published in the New York
World concerning i'll treatment of the pa
tients on North Brothers Island The story
is off cially denied.
GRACE MCKINNEY, an opera singer, and
Rev. w. r. Stearly were married at Cleve-
land, Ohio. The bride was on sick bed at
the time of her marriage. Her illness is
said to be fatal
The Worlds Fair national board of con-
troll authorized the director general to allot
space for a new separate building exclu-
sively for the shoes and leather exhibit, in.
Guiding rubber boots, and shoes provided
the trade furnish the necessary funds for
construction and installation.
THE Travellers Insurance company has
given all option on all its property in Col
orado to John G. Montgomery OF Denver.
A large company will be formed 1t is the
intention OF Mr.. Montgomery to place this
enterprise i'll England. The landis valued
at S5,0OO,00O.
The quarterly returns from the cotton
manufactures of Fall River Mass, show
an increase in dividends of about $40. $50
over those of the corresponding quarter III
1891 Twenty-seyen corporations operating
forty-nine mills representing capital stock
of $11, $4,000 have paid S267. 800 in diyi-
dends since the first ofthe year.
The health officers of Philadelphia in
formed the health office that the leper,
Charles Wing, who is now at the mrni-
cipal hospital, has been employed as q
cook at the Peabody hotel in this city in
which there are 125 guests. Mai. Yea e
says that several witnesses have testified
that Charley Wings feet and legs at times
have been SO sore that he has been COM
PEELED to sit upon the table While mixing
The -four.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

SOME striking points OF coincidence
in the lives and deaths of Spurgeon
and Bradlaugh are pointed out by a
London Journal. Both died of
Brisht's disease at the age of ST; both
were men of the people, absolutely
sincere, entirely fearless and born ora
tors. Mr.. Bradlaugh began to speak
in public at II, and so did Mr. Spur
geon. Each was partial to cigars;
each was q teetotaler. Mr.. Bradlaugh
expired on January 80, 1891, and Mr.
Spurgeon on January 81, 1892.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

The lobster breads thunder, and
when the peals are very loud numbers
of them drop their claws and swim
away for deeper water. Any great
fright might also induce them to drop
their claws. But new claws begin at
once to grow, and in q short time are
as large as the old ones, and covered
with hard shells. The lobster often
drops it's shell, when it hides until
the new shell is hard enough to pro-
tect it
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
PERSONAL.

Sir WILLIAM GREGORY, member ofthe
private council is dead.
WILLIAM L1NDEKE, one Of st. Paul's
most prominent citizens, dies very sud-
denly.
A MEETING of authors in London named
a committee to raise a private fund for a
memorial to James Russell Lowell.
WALDO ADAMS, manager Of the Adams
Express company died in Boston the other
evening.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT is to build new
mansion. It is to cost altogether with the
Improvements and grounds, at least S2,O0O,-
0O0 and will be the finest private residence
in New York.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

MoNs1GNoR GILBERT, who is spoken
OF as a possible successor of Cardinal
Manning, is much esteemed by the
English clergy. He is one OF the great
est OF London preachers, an eloquent
pulpit orator, and his church is
crowded. Moreover, he is an idol of
the London workingmen, and, like
Manning, a priest OF single and severe
life
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
ESS USY.
It Is the Cause of a Wife Murder and
Suicide in Iowa.


Suicide in Iowa.
ATLANTIC Iowa. March ia murder
and suicide occurred in this city to-day.
Lindsey A. Bennett shot his wife three
times with revolver. One shot entered
the abdomen and one the lett hand The
Last shot entered her head, killing her in
stantly: He then rushed to the house of
his neighbor, about sixty feet from lis own,
and shot himself twice in the head, one
shot entering his brain. He lived about all
hour and half, but unconscious. The
cause of the tragedy is said to have been
jealousy without the least foundation They
leave seven children, the oldest sixteen
years old and the youngest three.
Mrs. Bennett had worked in steam laun-
dry to help support herself and children,
and has always borne the best Of reputa-
tons as virtuons. hard-working woman.
Bennett was forty-nine years OF age and his
wife thirty-eight. -4
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

IT is by the thumb the miller tests
the character and qualities Of the grain
he grinds; spreading the sample over
the fingers by peculiar movement Of
the thumb, he gauges it's value by the
thumb itself.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

RHoDA BRoUGHToNi is at present pro-
foundly interested in her House OF
Rest for Horses, where she sees to it
that they receive the very best treat
ment.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

AMONG those who are mentioned in
connection with the Presidency of
Dartmouth, made vacant by the res
ignation Of DR.. Bartlett, are Professor
A. S. Hardy, DR.. Little, '61, OF Bos-
ton, DR.. William J. Tucker '61, Of the
Andover Theological Seminary, and
DR.. Francis Brown, 10, OF Union
Theological Seminary.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

WHEREAS the total population o.
India, according to the preliminary
results Of the census published some
months back was 284,614,21O, fur.
ther revision and examination of the
returns brings out the still larger total
OF 289, ,159.792, Or an average density
of close upon 1873 persons to the
square mile.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

The Buddhists in India have q hor-
ror of eating the flesh OF animals, be-
lieving them to be incarnations Of
human beings souls; but they permit
themselves the luxury of fish, usually
getting around the difficulty by saying
that the fishermen take away the
fishes lives and are responsible.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

HOWEVER much truth there may be
in Mercier S statement that he did not
receive fair play, his attempts to stir
up race hatred in Canada are indefen-
sible and should lower his standing
with the thoughtful public, if that be
possible.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
FRIDAY, MARCH 4.
SENATE,

SENATE.
The senate military committee has re-.
ported favorably bill to establish lineal
promotion throughout the several lines OF
the artillery, cavalry and infantry OF the
army.
Washburn presented petitions for the
passage OF the option bill; also for the de-
livery of mails to rural districts; also for
legisl alton making all money legal tender:
also for legislation against authorizations.
At p. m. the senate suspended business
to listen to eulogies on the late W. H. f.
Lee Of Virginia. and out ofrespect to his
memory adjourned until Monday. -
The entire day had been consumed in the
desultory consideration of unimportant
private bills.
Mr.. Walthan, of Mississippi, offered a
resolution in the senate directing the COM
mittee on elections to inquire whether fur
ther legislation was not necessary to put at
rest questions arising as to the construction
OF the law regulating the time and manner
OF choosing senators
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

THE remarkable likeness between
the latest accepted portrait of Colum-
bus and the ordinary portraits OF
George Washington is appreciated at
a glance. 1t is at least an interesting
coincidence.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
Mrs. VAN NoRsTkoND of East Mill
stone, Me-, has just celebrated her
l04th birthday, and is as spry and
clipper as most girls at go.

JOHN II. INMAN, the richest man OF
the South, was drummer boy in the
rebel army, and when the war was
over he did not have a cent nor
friend to help him.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
TUESDAY, MARCH 8.
SENATE,

The senate declined, by a vote of 10 10 49,
to strike out sections and Of the pure
food bill Section 8 was stricken out,
The senate passed bills appropri ating
$500, 600 tor public building at Spokane
Fall Wash; and appropriatng $275.oo0 for
the construction Of two United States rev.
enue cutters for services on the great lakes
The senate went into executive session to
consider the arbitration treaty received
from the president 1t called forth consid
erabie discussion which extended over an
hour. On motion it was re erred back to
the Foreign relations committee.
Senator Stanford introduced bill to in
crease the duty on opium to S. a pound.
HOUSE.
Mr.. McMillin of Tennessee gave notice in
the house that lie would call up for consiu-
Grafton the free wool-Lill.
The house committee on military affairs
after hearing Gen. Merritt today. ordered
q favorable report on the bill for the estab-
lishmcnt of a military post at Helena
Mont. The measure was reported with an
amendment reducing the appropriation
for the proposed post from 100000 to
S1OO. 600
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

! The diamond cutting business is
mainly concentrated in Amsterdam
and Antwerp, but diamond mounting
is very largely done in London, which
is the center of the diamond trade,
both in the rough and the finished
brilliants.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

JAY GOULD has given $4,000 to
the Presbyterians for church extern
tion purposes, and now everybody
will wonder how he expects to re-
alize upon the investment. $50
shines a good deed in naughty
world"
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

IT is said that goats in the Kalaharl
frequently pass months without
water, and, according to Mr.. Macken-
zie, there are certain antelopes which
are never seen to visit the drinking
places.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9.
SENATE,

In the senate Mr.. Hale, acting chairman
ofthe naval committee reported a bill to
increase the navy. He said it was substanti-
ally the same measure introduced by him
OH Jan. 25, 1892, providing for new battle
ships, gun boats and torpedo boats. Placed
on the calendar.
The senate passed the pure food bill with
a few lnimpCrtant amendments.
Senator Warren introduced bill asking
for the cession Oft arid publicilands to
the states and territories wherein situated.
Mr.. Morgan reported resolution au.
thorizing the committee on foreign relations
to take testimony in cases where a claim is
made by citizen of the United States
sgainst a foreign government.
Among the bills introduced in the senate
md referred was one with the following
curious, title pre- sented by Mr.. Cullom
Thy requesD: "To test and try the science of
spelling and to provide Tor establishing 100
schools lor that purpose; and to establish a
spelling school i'll the Worlds Columbian
Exposition to be held in Chicago in 1888. !"
HOUSE.
The house went into committee of the
whole and the entire day was consumed in
discussion oftlie tariff question. Repl G..
sentatives Mcmillan OF Tennessee lead the
tariff reform forces and Dingley Of Maine
defended the Mckinley law.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
CONGRESS.
Proceedings of the House and Sem
ate.
THURSDAY, MARCH 8.

The debate on the Idaho contested cleo
ton case was closed at 3 p. M. and the yot-
ing began. By vote of nays 50, yeas Z. the
senate decided that Claggett is not entitled
to the seat, and by vote Of 55 to confirm
ed Dubois election
Senator Sawyer from the committee on
post offices and post roads reported to the
senate bill, in the nature of substitute,
providing that on and after the 1st OF
July, 1892, all articles of mail matter of the
third and fourth classes shall be compre-
3hended in one class, to be known as a third
class matter, and postage on the same shall
be charged at the rate of one cent for each
two ounces or fraction thereof"
HOUSE.
The house resumed the consideration OF
the bill allowing railroad companies to
give special rates to commercial travellers.
Mr.. Otis, Of Kansas, antagonized the meas
ure
Mr.. O'Neill, of Pennsylvania, offered an
amendment providing that nothing in the
bill shall be construed to prohibit any
common carrier from granting reduced
rates of transportation to passengers or
making reduced rates for freight. The bill
will now 60 on the calendar of unfinished
business.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

edy in Japan, the parties concerned being
American and English people.
THE king of Sweden has written letter
intimating that he may visit the worlds
fair at Chicago i'll person.
The duke CT Argyle, who has been sitting
in the house oflords os Baron Sundridge
and Hamilton. has been created a duke of
the United Kingdom.
THE mail from South Africa brings news
of revolt in the Zambezi Baru district
against Capt, Gouveia, who it is rumored,
has been killed.
The Canadian government is building
three revenue cutters on the great lakes of
such nature that they could easily be
turned into war vessels
ago at Lapaz, Bolivia, and goyernm ent
troops We're sent to quell it. A battle has
been fought and the Indians have been
routed with the loss Of 900 men. Thirty of
the government troops are said to have been
badly wounded.
Mr.. WILLIAM RANDALL CREMER. member
of the house ofcommons for the Haggers-
town division of. Shoreditch has written
letter in which he says that petitions repre-
senting ], $50 900 members Of industrial Or
ganiZations and thousands of other persons
in favor of arbitrating all disputes between
Great Britain and the United States will be
Immediately presented to parliament.
The Vienna correspondent of the London
Times says that the indiscriminate distri-
button of free bread in that city is
having the effect OF making workmen
lazy. Some large factories, says the CORES
pondent, are now unable to engage sut-
tcient number of laborers to carry on op-
erations. In many cases it has been found
that persons receiving free bread have after
ward bartered it for gin.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
THE TOILERS.

The conductors and trainmen's trouble
on the Western division of the Canadian
Pacific is still far from settlement. Officials
and men have been in daily session, and,
brotherhoods of conductors and firemen
have been sent for, SO serious is the diff
Guilty.
The action of Moorhead & Co., owners
OF the Vesuvius mills of Sharpsburg, Pa,
in cutting the wages of their puddlers from
$3.50 to SIS per ton, caused great surprise
among manufacturers and workmen. It is
looked upon as the opening wedge for a
general reduction of the amalgamate ed scale
next June
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16

The house passed the urgency deficiency
bill providing $37O.000 for government
printing and several smaller amounts Tor
District institutions
The agricultural deficiency bill was
passed.
The invalid pension appropriation bill
today gave rise to discussion in the house
of the merits of both parties in their deal.
inss with the soldier, each arraigning the
other for the record made on the soldier
question.
New Ulm weekly review., 1892-03-16
MONDAY, MARCH, 7.
SENATE.

Mr.. Morgan moved reconsideration OF
the vote by which Mr.. Dubois, Of Idaho,
was seated and MIR. Claggett rejected, and
submitted in the form of resolutions in
struction to the committee OH elections GER
tain propositions oflaw. which, he Believed,
If fairly considered by the senate would
cause reversal of decision arrived at in the
case.
Senator Proctor, from the committee on
military affairs, reported bill to amend
the articles OF war, the chief provision OF
which is that general court martial shall
in future have the power to punish sum-
marily for contempt Of its authority such
acts as would be punishable by the highest
civil court of the country, and with like
penalties.