New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1897-11-17
Wednesday November -, 1897.
If these be melancholy days #s.
TITS owing to mans idle ways:
They come with cheer to every soul
Who's got the cash to lay in coal.

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0 Policy is more often to blame for a
mans honesty than principle.
z@ The Luetgert sausage and murder trial
was resumed in Chicago yesterday. j.
J. R. Sovereign has been deposed as
leader of the knights of Labor. Henry
Hicks Of New York succeeds him.
Tom Plat makes public statement
to the effect that Seth Low is to blame
for Republican defeat in Greater New
York. 49,
Gen. Gomez has written President Nc
Kinley that the Cubans will accept moth
ing short of Independence. Sagasta's
offer of autonon.. is boldly declined.
It is said that Joseph Choate of New
York will be the next attorney general.
Higher ability it would be impossible to
enlist in the legal service of the govern
ment.
Congress will convene shortly and
promises a1e made of brilliant display
of oratorical fireworks on the Cuban
question. The Cubans, it is safe to say,
are not counting much on this kind of
fireworks.
President Mckinley, so the dispatches
say, IS still true to Platt. Reasonable
enough. A man who could stick to
John Goodnow certainly wouldn't have
to stretch mis- conscience much in order
to court the good will of Platt.
The Fairmont Sentinel, Frank Days
paper, has been served with notice of
another libel suit, brought this time by
the Martin County Bank. Banker Ward
is at the bottom of this as we'll as the
former complaint, and gives it out cold
that dozen or two more will follow.
Evidently the Sentinel hit him hard.
Geo. W. Somerville, who tried to take
fall out of McCleary last year, says
that he wouldn't accept the nomination
for attorney general at all; neither is
he asip" seat in the r -
conversation he mi ht accept the
gubernatorial nomination if presented
him in proper Observation-Disclosures
Star.
It is generally conceded, says the Red
wood Gazettee, that Judge Weber will
accept nomination for Justice of the
Supreme Court of Minnesota next year,
and his friends should see to it that the
southern portion of the state goes for
him solid at the Republican convention.
There will le three candidates to name
to succeed Justices Mitchell, CAVITY and
Buck, and Judge Weber should be one
of then.a y
J. A. Willard, Mankato's leading ca
pitalist, has made an assignment. His
direct or personal liabilities amount to
$480,000, while his indirect liabilities,
that is paper endorsed by him for con-
Germs in which he is interested, will ag-
greg ste even larger sum. Willard has
but those who know him best say that
he has been sorely pressed for several
years. The immediate cause of the as
Segment was the bringing of suits
u against improvement companies in Du-
luth in which Willard held stock.
According to the Minneapolis Journal
a canvass Of the United States senate in
aicates that neither Secretary Cages fl
\ nancial plap nor any other which pro-
vides for bonds payable in gold instead
Of ssuoin' can secure majority of the
members Of that august body. The pre-
liminarY canvass seems to show fol
gold bonds thirty three republicans and
four democrat "a total Of thirty seven
Against gold bonds there are thirty dem.
ocrats, ten republicans, six populists and
six silver republicans total of fifty.
two. It is believed that the majority
against the retirement OF greenbacks
would be even larger.
The following is the Cleveland Plair
Dealers estimate of Chas. A .sTowne:
AS an orator Mr.. Towne is probably
I 3 withoutSsa peer in the whole United