New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-03-27
Minnesota News Items.
wINoNA COUNTY.


WINONA COUNTY.
A new hotel is to be butt this summer in
St. Charles, Winona county, by Dennis
Cater.
The temperance people of Winona county
have been generally successful in carrying
the no-license ticket at the late elections.
A Winona county justice of the peace.
having heard the testimony in bastardy
case brought before him, rendered the fol-
lowing decision, republished from the Wi
mona Herald, with the result: 90 1T is the
judgment of this court that you marry the
girl forthwith-and may God have mercy
on your soulEyou will remain in the custo-
dy of the officer, who will permit you to go
to Winona to obtain the license Result:
Married-On the LIST day of March, 1878, in
the town of New Hartford, as equity and the
law directs. No cake. no cards.
OLMsTED COUNTY.
l.. w. Newberry was arrested in Rochester
on the 18th for bigamy.
Eyota, Olmsted county, has voted s:no
license by majority of fifteen. and Pleas
ant Grove, of the same county, recently in
corporated, by majority of one.
Work has been commenced upon the new
railroad, and already some twenty-five car
loads of ties have been received. We I'M
derstand that the right of way has been pur-
chased for part of the way, and several
hundred yards of ground have been broken
and partly graded.-h0chester Record and
Union
FREEBoRN COUNTY.
The Danish Lutherans of Albert Lea are
about to commence the erection of new
church.
A lodge of United Workmen has been
established at Albert Lea, with membership
of ten.
More rain has fallen at Albert Lea the past
week than for the same length of time dur
ing the year past.
Fred Reiber and II. Rice have confessed
to wheat stealing from the elevator at Alden,
Freeborn county, and have implicated A.
Rymerson. All have been bound over.
DOUGKAs COUNTY.
The Alexandria Post says land buyers are
swarming into Douglas county and prices
are going up. Several sales have been made
during the past week.
wAsECA COUNTY.
Mrs. Patrick Healey, a resident of Waseca
since 1856, died on the Sth, of typhoid
pneumonia, aged SO years.
Mrs. McManus, of Waseca, Saturday, the
9th, took dose of croten oil by mistake.
Medical aid was promptly summoned and the
patient relieved of the poisonous dose before
it had time to do it's deadly work.
MARTIN COUNTY.
Fairmont, Martin county, voted license by
small majority.
DAKOTA COUNTY
The library of Hastings has been removed
to afford more room for the post office.
A small tenement, occupied by Polander,
was destroyed by fire at Hastings on the
18th, involving loss of $780, the household
goods being saved.
Squire Thompson has been fined SIS for
contempt of court by rival Justice, Squire
Keegan, both of Rosemount township, Dako-
ia county. The former has appealed to
the district court.
According to the Hastings Ne1o Era, ssthe
Hastings and Dakota grading contract has
been ordered to be let. The number of miles
to be graded is forty, which, with the thirty
miles now under contract, will complete the
distance from Glencoe west to Granite Falls.
Work will first be commenced in the deep
cuts on Hawk creek, Renville county,
WRIGHT COUNTY.
The Monticello, Wright county, mills are
running night and day. having plentiful:
supply of water.
So far this year, $4,000 bushels of wheat
have been received at the Howard Lake,
Wright county, elevator.
STATE AT LARGE.
Henderson is putting up street lamps.
A new time table will go into effect upon
the Winona & st. Peter railroad on the LIST
prox.
man named Beaulieu was drowned while
attempting to cross the Red river on the ice
at Moorhead, on the 18th inst.
Michael McGraw, ST., a resident of Green
leaf township, Meeker county, since 1859,
died on the 5th, aged 81 years.
Redwood county, and that section of the
State, has been visited by rain storm con-
tinuing from Friday, the Sth, to Tuesday,
the 12th-the heaviest storm of the kind
known In years.
convention of farmers was recently held
III Becker county, the object being to consult
on the destruction of blackbirds. The pro
ceedings are described as having been Char
monious and enthusiastic" and resulted in a
determination to purchase strychnine at
wholesale, with, which to SOW the county
simultaneously in all parts.
Mr.. J. Fl. Smyser and Mr.. Tetley arrived
at Muskoda last Monday to commence oper-
atoms on the 1000 acre farm of Messrs.
Delworth, Porter & Co., of Pittsburgh. The
farm is situated 2115 miles west of Muskoda
They intend building dwelling house and a
Dutch barn. Two car loads of horses are
expected tomorrow for the farm. A side
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contemplation. -lMoorlead ADVOCATE.