New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-15
MINNESO NEWS.


Verdi IS the name Of town at
the south bend Of the road six miles
southwest Of Lake Benton.
On Sunday last Chas. Barlow kill.
ed lynx near the stone brewery,
just below Read s Landing, with a.
shotgun.
Some fifteen or more farmers liy..
ing near Yellow Medicine lost near.
u all they had by prairie fires last
week.
Thomas Wilson, Of Dewald, No.
bles county, has been arrested for
beating his wife. He had been mar
ried to her only about two months,
and she is his fourth wife within
the last five or six years
Brainerd Tribune: Major Ruffee,
Whitehead, and a number Of assist.
ants have gone out to Mile Laos to
pay off his band Of Uncle Sam dar-
lings. Dry goods, blankets, curren.
cy, etc., in abundance-and "big
Injun me- for few days will he
very prevalent.
The Journal says that Maj. E. M.
Van Cleve, who is commissioned by
the adjutant general to look up the
State arms, was in Fergus Falls on
Tuesday in search Of the guns and
ammunition sent to this place in the
great Indian war.whoop of 1876.
He found one gun out of fifty.
Frank Thaosha, Of LIE Sueur Co.,
the young man run over by thresh.
ing machine, and whom three doc.
tors pronounced beyond recovery, is
up and able to walk around.
St. Peter Tribune: Last Saturday
evening Mrs. Kate Hart, Of Lake
Jefferson, fell from scaffold and
received such serious injuries that
she died in half an hour. She Was
a daughter of John Smith. and wife
of Augustin Hart.
Herman, Grant county, had a
scare on Tuesday. The praire flames
rolled towards the town from the
southwest, carried on by a furious
gale of wind. Four-horse breaking
teams were quickly put in the field,
and from $50 clock until long after
dark the work of placing barrier
between the town and the fast-ap-
preaching flames, rapidly proceeded.
The Herald enumerates few incon-
siderable losses, but the town es-
capped.
The house of S. S. Wroolie, liv.
ing few miles northwest of Win
nebago City, was, will, it's contents,
entirely destroyed by fire last Fri
day afternoon. The family had been
absent from home, and upon their
return built fire in the stove and
from defective piece Of pipe the
sparks set the building on fire.
The Winnebago City Press speaks
of an old, deserted grange store build
ing, between Minnesota Lake and
Mapleton, which was to revolution.
ize and bring down the prices
of all kinds of merchandise, so that
the poorest plebian could dress in
silks and broadcloth and fare sump:
tuously every day, bnt to-day stands
empty on the bleack prairie, a monu.
ment Of mans folly and forlorn
vretchedness.
The Granite Falls Journal boasts
of a piece Of land six by eight rods,
about half way between that place
and Renville station, on which were
raised and now lie LOOP pumpkins
and squashes. "
The Fergus Falls Journal says
that wolves in the vicinity of In
man, East Battle Lake and Pease
Prairie are terror to the citizens as
well as to snakes.
Last Thursday prairie fire be-
tween Mapleton and Minnesota Lake
burned everything in it's path. Mr..
Bowman, Isaac Smith and others
suffered severe losses.
VIM. Rutherford, farmer living
few miles from Saltwater, raised
from five acres of land enough cane
to produce 700 gallons of syrup,
worth 50 cents PER gallon.