New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1879-10-29
n|]lIlINNElse i NEWS.

The horse, harness and carriage
of Hon. M. S. Wilkinson were sto-
len at Wells on the night Of Oct. 17.
The thieves have been tracked as
far as Alma City.
Diphtheria to an alarming extent
prevails at Granite Falls and Elk
River. At the latter place the News
intimates that it comes from .shog.
styles and stencil holes. :
Gle Goldberg, town clerk Of Martin
township, Rock county, whose er.
ratio conduct on account Of
curequited affections has attracted
attention for some time became a
maniac recently, and was sent t.
he hospital at st. Peter.
Mr.. S. B. Miner, one Of the pio-
neers and most successful farmers Of
Nicollet county, has just threshed
and safely stored 1900 bushels Of
wheat, this amount being the yield
Of IS acres Of ground, or an average
yield Of 20 bushels to the acre.
On Tuesday little son Of Smith
Mclaughlin, of French Lake, Meek.
er county, aged eight years; went
out with his father to hunt some
cattle, and started to drive them
home. The boy got lost, and died
probably from fear and exhaustion,
md his body was not found for sew.
eral days.
4 Disguised granger at Winneba.
go City, says the Press, who for the
past five years has been renting his
farm to a lazy tenant, is now pro.
mitigating a new way of getting rid
| of rats. He declares that the ordi.
nary tenant in this country will
raise so little on a farm that the rats
| must leave it or die.
According to the Monticello Times,
Hon. J. W.. Stacy is doing vel
with his new invention. He has
visited several State fairs with the
''Stacy til]er,'' which has nevel
tailed to be well received and highl,
recommended. The Fairbanks Seal,
company are receiving orders in ad
vance Of their supply.
A wedding of a somewhat move
character was solemnized at the Ca
thedral in. Faribault, on Wednes
lay last, the contracting parties be
ng two full blood Dakota Sioux
viz: Mr.. Scion Taopi, son of thu
ate chief Taopi, who befriended
he whites in the massacre of 1861
md Miss Lucy Cohembus, Of Elan
lrau, D. T. The marriage cere
nony was performed in the Siou,
language by Rev. E Ashly, stu
lent in the Seabury Divinity school
md an ordained deacon who has
been laboring among the Sioux il
Dakota for the past five years. TIL,
ervice was read from the Episcopa
orayef book printed in the Dakot;
language.
In Murray county, on the line O.
the Southern Minnesota, is a plac,
called Lost Forest. A correspond
ent describing it says: Here is on,
IF the most singular formations i,
Minnesota, which am sure bu
very few of it's citizens ever yet saw
The prairie here is similar to tina
elsewhere-not tree, nor shrub
nor stone visible to denote an,
:hange in it's topography, and yet
'efore one knows it he is on thu
rink Of a chasm one hundred fee
n depth and from eight hundred t.
one thousand feet in width. In tn,
middle runs stream-the Chanar
.mble-one of the sources of the
Rock river. Here, through raw
me, the railroad enters the gorge
and the traveller finds himself in tn,
presence of what was once fores
If heavy timber. Large stumps GOV
er the surface, but the trees ar,
gone, cut off by no one knows who
hence the name of Lost Forest hal
been given it. The road follows
This chasm for seven or eight lnile
until it emerges at the Black rive
in a most romantic and desirable
ocation, where the company hav,
ounded a town which they hav,
| ,anoo1 Edrorton