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R. C. BERRY, wa&m&T-' "*BB ^UjejcMg gtajiew. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY BY JOS. BOBLETEK* Offlfce over City Drug Store. TERMS: ONK BOIXAB PEK YEAR IN ADVANCE. BATES O ADVXHKTISlSrtit. Ten lines "BREVIE B" makes a Square. Space j1wl1m 1 Square 2 Squares if Column Column 1 Column PHYSICIAN & SURGEON, OFFICB AT THK ClTT DKJTO STOBH. iNEW ULM, MINNESOTA. l^R. A. MAKDEN, RESIDENT DENTIST* Office, corner Minn, and'First N^ Sts. MEW ULM, MINNESOTA. T\AKOTA HOUSE, Oer. POST OFFICENEW TJL#, MINK., ADOLl'H SETTER, PROP'R. This house is the moat centrally located house in the city and affords good Sample Raams. F. WEBBER, Attorney Counselor AT LAW. MON EY TO LOAN. Office over Citizen's National Bank. NEW ULM, MINNESOTA M. HHSSHKL, H. A. SCBILIA, ffcrtrfSEf i^^M .tm HW^ u- R. 3 6 lyr 3 001 4 50| 9 00 3 75 6 00 10 00 6 00 10 00 16 00 0016 00|30 00 16 00 30 00 50 00 75! 1 50 25 2 00 8 00 4 00 5 00 7 0010 8 00 13 00 Advertisements in double column, double the single column rates. 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NewUlmCityMill, Centre Street, New Ulm, Minn. We are runningday and night, and can supply any quantity of best brands of Flour at regular rates on short notice. We have improved machinery for the grinding of shorts and fodder, having added a stone reserved for such a purpose. Flour exchanged for wheat en very liberal terms. C. NEW ULM CITY MILL CO. H. CBADBOTTBHv President. C. H. R0SS,J Cashier. BROWN CO. BANK, ?U^ 8U Cor.'it\nfL~*aa^Cenfxe Street*. l\\ NEW ULM, tn-r MINNESOTA. ifit tun tt iyt ^tw^^S M. EPPLE, PROP'S. *&tfk U^'" pertaining Collections and all business rS'*V banking ult "J* PROMPTLY ATTENXJED TO INDIVIDUAL RESP0NS1BIITIY W'J $500,OOOt^ 1TT IS, j. ^S.'WlS KV f'k^M if^*B(^ mMea/ti Market, r5 i lftrg supply of fresh meats, sausage, hams, lard, etc, etc., constantly on hand. All orders from the coun try promptly attended to. OA6B TAJD ^OR HIDES. 1G"K STRJEET, NEW ULM, MINK -^i^- lM qV.arV*'*?*'* R. QUINCY. VOLUME I. NEW ULM, WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1878^ PFEFFERLE, Dealer is GROCERIES and PROVISIONS. Canned, Dried and Green Fruit, *X0HR AND FEED, STONB, WOODBS A5 T ItlAJW WAUL SUNN. ST., NEW ULM, MINN. A EAT MARKET, C. STUEBE, Prop'r. A large supply of fresh meats, sausage, hams lard, etc., etc., constantly on hand. All orders from the country promptly attended to., CASH PAID FOR HIDES. MINN. ST NEW ULM, MINN. MANUFACTTTKBR AND DEALER IN Harness, Collars, Saddles, Saddlery, Bliaikets, Whips, etc., etc., etc. Upholstery and all custom work pertaining to my business promptly attended to. Minn. St., opposite Union House, NEW ULM, MISN. "1%/T JUENEMAN.N, MANUFACTURER AND DEALER IX Harnesses, Collars, Saddles, Whips, Saddlery, Blankets, etc., etc., etc. Upholstery, and all custom work pertaining to my business promptly attended to. Miuu. St., Next Door to Ziher's Saloon, NEW ULM. Nt. Pan! Advrtiitiuenty ENZ S BECHT, Importers and Wholesale Dealers in LIQUORS & WI1STES, w.ad8t., ST. PAUL, MINN. N 05TES BROTHERS & CUTLER, WHOLESALE DRUGGISTS, ST. PAUL, MINN Milwaukee Advertisement*, B.HCEGER&.SON3, J. Importers and Wholesale BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS & BUNK BOOK Manufacturers, MTLW WIS. "P GOETg. ADOLPH MEINEKE. C. PENZHORN. MEINECKE ^\1' & CO. Importers and Jobbers of !v. Toys,FancyGoods,Yankee Notions WILLOW WARE& CHILDREN'S CARRIAGES. No. 92 HURON ST. MILWAUKEE, WIS. FEKNEKEb & BBC,. i* *(it-if* *3lTA]nTVA.CTURI2rf W^f a- *v I CONFECTIONERS, Sfotiff arfi snddealernin **&#wi5*.j> BnPTS,GRE NFRUITS, ete ]j(i hi etQ etc. f|J 361 BAST WATER ST. MILWAUKEE. Chic*!* Advertisements. OUTLP^'i^OBKS, Manufacturers and Wholesale Dealer* in Cutlery, Guns and Revolvers. TS.&TTLAEESTREET BEAT FIRE AT MOTEAPOLIS A sudden Explosion of the In- flammaWe Bases in the Washburn Millt Five Mills Other vaJnable Buildings a Complete Ruin. Sixteen Persons Killed and Many Wounded. Losses Sustained Estimated at $1,500.000One Million to i the Mi ng Interests, We clip the following editorial in regard to the disaster, from the St. Paul PIONEER PRESS: A terrible calamity has befallen our noble and beautiful city of Min neapolis. At nearly seven o'clock last evening a tremendous explosion, followed in quick succession by an other shock, rocked and stunned the city like a violent earthquake, with a sudden and awful crash that spread dismay throughout the city. The instinctive apprehension of some aw ful disaster was instantly realized in the portentous spectacle of a huge column of smoke shooting up from the great Washburn flour mill. All the city hurried in the wake of the fire engines to the scene. The great structure, one of the largest flour mills in the world, had been torn to pieces by a terrible explosion of the gases generated in the milling pro cesses, the huge roof had been lifted high in the air, scattering its debris far and wide, and crushing and wrecking the great adjacent mills, while the flames bursting from the wild chaos enveloped the ruins of 5*en great mills. Seventeen persons were burned in the sudden and awful ru in. In a few moments all that mag nificent group of great millswhich were the pride of Minneapolis, were a ruin of shattered masonry, wrapped in fire. The loss of life was at first greatly exaggerated by rumor, but though not a quarter of the number perished at first supposed the list of killed and wounded lends a ghastly gloom of tragedy to the catastrophe.. The property ivhich was annihilated in this sud den and awful disaster, is estimated at 800,000 dollars. Nor was the loss confined only to the lo cality of the explosion. The burn ing debris, shingles and tarred paper were borne on the winds far from the central scene and scattered over all the southern portion of the city, and several calamitous fires resulted. The burning shingles and tarred paper were borne as far as St. Paul in six minutes..af.'er the explosion, which was distinctly heard in two distinct reverberations at St. Paiul, which shook with the vibrations of the shock as if by an earthquake. Many hundreds of men hurried Iby rail and team from St. Paiul to the seene of the conflagration, whose iex tent was indicated, by the vast col umn of lurid smoke and flame which towered above the western horizon. St. Paul responded as speedily as possible to the summons of Minne apolis for aid, and sent her fire en gines as fast as cars could be got to carry ,/^Kthem. It was at, one time thought that the fire department would be unable to stay the conflagration, and that all of southern Minneapolis would be swept away. But happily thfese fears were.not realized. Many in cipient fires were extinguished by individual effort. .The fire depart ment did noble work, and by 11 o' clock the work- of destruction was arrested. Full and graphic particu lars of this great disaster are given this morning hy the PIONEER PRESS. !Thejh^rtfeM.sympathie "ptthe peo ple of St.Paul and of the whole State will be with the stricken families of the dead with the pecuniary vietims of a calamity which has fallen, heavi ly on some of the most enterprising and public-spirited citizens of Min neapolis, and with the fair and flour CHICAGO, I ishinc city some of whose proudest ,V monuments of yesterday are to-day a smouldering ruin. But the*calami ty, though temporarily disastrous, will not arrest the forward march of Minneapolis. No such calamity ever does. In a year or two at farthest the pecuniary losses to individuals will be repaired, and new and per haps greater mills will arise on the ruins of those so suddenly swept away. Liquor licenses $00. each. in Rochester are Senator Blaine has consented to deliver the address at Bill King's fair at Minneapolis, next fall. The Rep. Congressional Conven tion for the first district has been called to meet at Albert Lea, July 12th. The St. Paul Dispatch predicts that tieo. B. McClellan will be the Democratic candidate for President in 1880. 0. C. Sellers, cashier of the Na tional Exchange bank, of Tiflin, Ohio, has absconded with $45,000 of the funds of the bank. Hon. Knud Nelson has published a card in the Alexandria Post posi tively declining to be a candidate for Congress in the the third district. John Morrissey, the renowned New York prize fighter, gambler and ex-congressman, died in New York last Wednesday, at the age of 47 years. Mr.' N. Buck of Winona, has been nominated as United States attorney for Idaho Territory. Mr. Buck is an excellent attorney, has been a member of the legislature for several terms. 5: 18,000 bushels of wheat were tak in at the Rochester elevator a week ago last Saturday. This is the largest quantity ever received in one day at the above named city, J? S Now that Hon. J. A. Tacher has declined to become a candidate for Congress from this district, his name is favorably mentioned for Gover nor. We know of no more worthier a man in the State for the high of fice, but as Gov. Pillsbury has but just commenced his second term we think the mention is rather prema ture. On the 20th of April Hon. H. B. Strait introduced the following bill to legalize certain settlements upon swamp lands in the State of Minne sota and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre sentatives of the United States of America in Con gress assembled, That all Slings or settlements made prior to the passage of this act, either as homestead, pre-emption, or under the tree and timber culture acts, upon lands known and desig nated as swamp lands in the State of Minnesota, and granted to said State under provision of law, are hereby authorized to perfect' said settlements, as no\y provided for, upon other public lands: Pro vided, however, That the title to said lands' has not been perfected to said State. Sec. 2. That the State of Minnesota, in lieu of said settlements, shall be authorized to select an equal amount of "unoccupied lands of the United States lying within the State of Minnesota: Provided, That the lands herein granted shall be selected within three years from the passage of this act. "Bishop Ireland has just concluded an arrangement with the St. Paul and Sioux City Railroad company for four townships of land in Mur ray county for a Catholic colony The centre of the colony will be at a village to be built on a beautiful lake. The village will be named '*Avoca," and will be in the centre of the most beautiful prairie land in Minnesota.^ i These lands are to be sold at low prices, on long credits and easy terms, affording epportuni ty for men of small means to obtain homes. The bishop, with the wise sagacity that marks all the opera tions of his church in secular mat ters, has in this enterprise, done a lasting benefit for his people, as well as for the State..Pioneer, Press. rBr. .fl:. J. L. Armington formerly a resident of this place but latterly of Northfield, was taken to State prison bj- the sheriff of Hennepin county on Monday, the supreme court hav ing confirmed the sentence of two years imprisonment for polygamy. Utah divorces don't count in Min- nesota.-^Hastings. Gazette. Ilti^f 'S^^^'^'^^ ^-^^NUMBER 19*'^ The heroes of our Indiam war of 1862 will' prick up theiir ears when, they learn-IhatRegresentatrve Strait,. of the Second! congressional district,. has introduced a bill* to give ten sions to all persons actually engaged in the suppression of the Sioux In dian war in Minnesota in 1862 on the same conditions that are imposed upon ordinary pensioners of the United States. Many will criticize this bill on the ground that it is not broad enough to cover all who have at various times, rushed to the de fence of frontier homes against blood-thirsty red men. It will ex clude the heroes ofCapt. Starkey's cornstalk cavalry raid, and of the "blueberry war," Col. Hewitt and the surviving braves of Col. Cullen's. command, and a host of others whose children and grandchildren, neighbors and friends drop to sleep when the old man eloquent begins a story of the time when "I was in' the Indian war."Pioneer Press. A NEW FENIAN RAID. ACTIVE' PREPEEATIONS IN PROGRESS AT BUFFALO FOR AN EXCURSION INTO CANADA IN CASE OF THE OUTBREAK OF WA BETWEEN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA, Special Telegram to the Pioneer Press. BUFFALO, May 5.Much suppres sed excitement exists among the Irish Nationalists, in this city, in regard to the proposed Fenian raid on Canada in event of war between England and Russia. The liveliest activity has prevailed here among skirmishing clubs for the last two weeks, and military preparations are undoubtedly being made. Your cor respondent to-day made an extended inquiry among leaders of contemp lated movement. Your represen. tative ^interviewed the Nationa lists, and is confident that an in vasion is contemplated. Col. John Quinn, who is thoroughly posted in regard to all the preparations, and who was in the Black Rock raid of 1866, states that there are three Irish companies well drill#, offi cered and equipped. They are' on the qui vive, waiting for the open ing of hostilities between Russia and England, and are ready to move at a moment's notice.f||An agent from New York, understood to be James Cassidy, and to have been specially deputed by the managers of the skirmishing fund, has been working among the faithlul in this city, and is said to have left IMPORTANT SECRET ORDERS. The tenor of these instructions could not be ascertained, but they are arousing all the excitement of the Fenian raid of 1866, The pro gramme is to call a meeting of Na tionalists immediately after the de claration of war, and detirmine up on the action to be taken. 1000 western soldiers are notified'so that they can be here in twenty-four hours, while within this county there are 3000 more who will ren dezvous for a raid within three days after orders are issued, Col. Quinn further states that Gen. Burke, formerly of the United States army, and one of the trustees of the skirm ishing fund, has already received applications from veteran officers in this city to be assigned to com mands. No SECRECY IS MAINTAINED in regard to this fact, and Captain Daniel Moran, of the EmmettGuards of this city, is among the applicants with several others. Two of the Irish associations have received their uniforms, are provided with arms, and it is understood that several hundred stands of muskets are to be shipped from New York in a few days. The latter fact has been kept so quiet that the authorities have-^ taken no action as yet. ^Th short dispatch sent by the AssSeiatedPress I that Russia is ready to lend aid to-^ the Irish revolutionists, seems to be well understood, and skirmishera say the blow will be struck when least expected. ^^Buffalo, as before on account of its contiguity to, the Canadian frontier, has evidently been selected as a centre of opera* tions. ..Aa: W .t, M s?\ l- J% .4 r-^r 1 1 i ss~ i "K &&*<*'