New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-12-28
NEW ULM REVIEW, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER %, 1881
MINNESOTA NEWS.

George Cooper, about fifteen years
age, son OF Hon. Joseph Cooper, Of
Winona county, died from injuries
received by sliding from q hay stack
upon rake handle which penetrated
his groin.
Alsop Brothers of Moorhead, have
a traction engine at work hauling
wood, which successfully hauls seven
ty.fve cords at load.
Mrs. Casper Bernick, Of Delano,
was MANNED for life in singular man.
ner last Monday. She fell with jar
Of butter and the fragments Of the jar
mangled her wrist SO that it had to be
amputated. II:
The store Of Fridle, & Merritt, at
Becker, was robbed in broad day
light last Friday of $500 in cash and
many valuable papers. The thief
missed an envelope containing 5000
lying by the side of those which he
took. The store was full of CUSTOM
crs at the time, and the robbery must
have been by some one familiar with
the habits of the firm.
Timber wolves chased Mr.. Lynde.
a hunter from southern Minnesota, the
other evening, near Long Prairie. He
made St. Julien time for place of
safety.
The Winona Republican gives the
a tendance at the several state normal
schools as follows: Winona, 4O1;
Mankato, 257; St. Cloud, $50
total 1888, an attendance unprecedent'
ed in the history of these institutions
of our state.
| The Faribault guards have reorgan,
lied, and commissions have been is
sued to James Hunter as captain,
John J. Van Saun as first lieutenant
and to J. H. Ashley as second lieu.
tenant. It. is doubtful, however
whether the boys are in time to gel
their proportion of the bonus given
to militia companies under the legis
Z lative act of last winter.
James A. Soper, telegraph operate,
at Faribault, started message las
!, Sunday with the trigger of a pisto
and his leg received it. That private
line is very much out of order in con
sequence, and wont be in working
condition till extensive repairs arr
: made.
A man in Hartford, Todd county
got so mad at one of his horses tn,
other day that he shot him. Sucl
inspiration is Improbable.
An olive branch from the garden {
; Gethshemanel, also number Q
Stereoscopic views of the Holy Land
, were received from Syria by Mrs. F
., King, of Austin, last week. The,
: were sent by her brother, DR.. Eddy
I professor. Of the Beirut college il
Syria.
Y Winona Daily Tribune: Mr.. Juliu
:. Hans, farmer residing III the tow
: of Norton, recently lost by fire tw
stacks of grain. The fire starte
/ from straw being wound around tn
e tumbling rod Of the threshing ma
e chine, causing a friction that induce
4 combustion. Three days later he 10!
% four more stacks by. the same eleme1
J running rampant in a prairie fire.
E. A week ago Sherburne sount
!. crank named James Mitchell,
IF Clear Lake, called atsthe Sank
re Anoka and preten1d To- sfeveal
le plot which he had heard He jam
" Brothers make at Aitken to raid tn
II bank. He wanted to be ''suitab
r. rewarded" Afterward a drop le
10 ter was received by the bank, sign,
st ''Jesse James," conveying the cor
;. forting assurance that the intend
8, robbery had been indefinitely pos
n. poned. This letter proved to be
er Mitchell's hand writing, and ben
w confronted with it he admitted tn
#. he had been trying to put up a j
Of on the institution.