New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-12-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Tie smallpox IS rapidly spread
ing over the State. Four cases
were reported from Sacred Heart,
this county, last week, and it is still
raging at Granite Falls, some cases
proving fatal at the latter place.
Hector Union
At St. Paul on the ninth, by the
caving in Of a bank where he was
employed in grading, a young man
named O'Brien, aged twenty three
years, living in West St. Paul, was
instantly killed. Another, unknown,
had his shoulder broken, and was so
badly hurt as not to be expected to
live. A third had his leg broken.
As Mrs. Chas. Slbeck of High
Forest was scalding a turkey on
Thanksgiving day, her little girl,
aged two years, in some manner
tipped the table over, and the hot
water was poured down it's back,
scalding it terribly. The little one
did not cry, and died within four
hours after ward.
Two prisoners broke jail at Le-
Sueur Wednesday, one of whom
was Murray, indicted for shooting
the marshal of Waterville. He plead
guilty to the charge and was await.
ing sentence.
The Davidson elevator and two
stores opposite, at Willmar, were
destroyed by fire Thursday. The
elevator containing $4,000 bushels
Of wheat was total loss, but was
fully insured.
Several delegates from different
parts of the State went to Roches-
ter to form farmers alliance asso-
citation, as was advertised in the
Western Rural, published at Chica-
go, bat on going there could find no
one who knew anything about it
and they went home disgusted.
Winona has new Touring mill
with a capacity of grinding 10000
bushels Of wheat day, or 1900
barrels of fl ,ur. 1t cost $25O,O0O
The attempt to suppress houses of
bad repute, at st. Paul, by prosecut'
ing their keepers having proved a
failure, the county attorney has
asked for a postponement of cases
until next term. So far, though
testimony is clear and positive, it
has been impossible, in the sanity
city, to procure a jury to convict.
In view of the rapid spread of
smallpox throughout the country,
the warden of the penitentiary at
Saltwater suggests that all inmates
Of jails be promptly vaccipated.
The suggestion is so good that 1t
ought to be acted upon by all who
are outside as well as within the
jails.
Chambers has broken out among the
horses and cattle at Oakport small
town near Moorhead, and the sheriff
has gone to the place to investigate,
and will take stringent measures to
prevent the spread of the disease.
Chas. Cooke of Zumbrota, was
sent to the county Jail for taking his
clothing from hotel where he had
left it as security for board.
An unfortunate laborer on the
Hastings and Saltwater road pre-.
sented himself to the authorities of
Hastings, few days since, in a
very delapidated condition and ask
ed for aid. He had received an in.
Jury in his back while working on
Friday, and being disabled was
turned off by the contractors to live
or die as fate might decree. He Law
by the roadside until picked up by a
farmer and brought in.
A little north Of Delano an earth
quake shock was felt on THURSDAY
last. Those in the court house at
the time experienced. a severe
shock. and lamps, chandeliers, ETC..
y J q from TIE effects of a
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