New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1881-04-06
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ence during the winter. He homesteaded 100
acres at Big Lake, Dakota, two years ago, and
last year harvested sixty acres Of wheat, yield
ing twenty-five bushels per acre, for which he
realized $1,000; with this he laid in supply
otherwise the family would have persisted. Two
neighboring families, not SO well fixed, came
to live with them, and the three families in
one house had hard work to keep
from freezing. The fuel ran out and they
used all the railroad ties and telegraph
poles they could dig out of the snow; then tho
houses of the other two families were, little by
little, torn down and burned, and nearly all
their furniture went the same way. A German
neighbor named Becker, with fve-horse team,
attempted to reach the station for a supply Of
coal. He was caught in snow-drift, and two
days afterward he was found frozen stiff in
the sleigh, his faithful dog lying on his breast,
also dead. The five horses were all frozen
stiff, standing upright in the drift. Beckers
body was taken home to his bereaved wife and
children. It was nailed il stout box. and
placed in corn-crib until it could be buried In
the spring. Another family had lived some
time on soup made Of IN OK lie.
Col. j. J. s. Wilson, who has been
connected with telegraphy almost ever since it
came into practical use, has forwarded his
resignation as District Superintendent Of the
Western Union.
The famous Wisconsin war eagle, Old
Abe, is dead.
By the breaking of the ice in the Mis-
souri, river at Pierre, Dak., the town was
flooded to the depth Of five feet, and the in
habitants encamped on the bluffs. The steamer
Weston was sunk at tho leyee at Yankton, and
the Meade hoated down stream with the ice.
The town Of Vernllion was inundated.
Eli B. Williams, one Of the pioneer
settlers of Chicago, who was Receiver Of the
Land Office thirty years ago, died in Paris. he
left large estate.
The explosion of boiler in mill at
Youngstown, Ohio, mangled and scalded four
men to a fatal degree, and inflicted grave in
iuries on ten others.
In the mining camp of Ivanpah, CAL,
stock-raiser was killed by q renegade Indian.
party Of reds delivered him to the authori-
ties, and band Of masked men seized and
hung him.
A gang of bogus-coin manufacturers
have been arrested near Cadillac, Mich, and
their molds and metals seized.
In quarrel about a patent right, al
Gilman, Ind, Ira Miller shot Seth Mckinney
through the heart.
Mrs. Mary Bemer, an insane woman
of Milwaukee, after escaping from the asylum,
killed herself with dull table knife, cutting q
large piece Of flesh out of her throat.
A fire at Leadville destroyed McDan-
iel's Theater and restaurant and saloon ad-
joining.
Gen. Benjamin F. Loan, who made
an enviable record in the Union army and
served three terms in Congress, died at st.
Joseph, Mo.
The Superior Court at San Francisco,
in one of the suits instituted by Burke against
Flood and other bonanza kings, has rendered
decision which will force the latter to disgorge
ever $500, 900 to victimlzed stockholders.
The Indians at Hoocheno, Alaska, re-
Gently burned at the stake two Of their number
for some crime.
Several stores having been robbed at
Pierre, OAK, fifty vigilants, armed with rifles,
picked up all the questionable men in town and
drove them away with a warning.
Aparty of ten cowboys engaged in
lark at O'Neill City, Neb., and killed Sheriff
Kearns and seriously wounded his deputy
because they objected to the breaking up Of an
auction. The murderers escaped.
Mark Malta, formerly of Chicago, was
MORALLY wounded in an ARRAY in newspaper
Office at Deadwood, by Texan named Ebelin.
Mrs. Albright, residing near Youngs-
town, Ohio, hanged herself with skein Of
yarn, leaving five children. The receipt Of the
news caused her uncle, John Elizera, to fall
dead.
Reports from the winter wheat in Ohio
show a large increase in acreage and promiss
ing condition of the plants, even beneath the
snowy covering.
By collision on the St. Paul, Mime
apolis and Manitoba road, near Rothsay, two
men were killed and five seriously injured.
In the slang OF that section, the people
of Sidney, Neb., had roundup Of thieves, and
lodged them in jail.
Included in the railroad projects char
tered in Indiana are narrow-gauge line from
Terre Haute to Merom, and road from Tere
Haute to Columbus.
The indianapolis, Bloomington and
hoo ~
Southern, q line 116 miles in length.
South.
Deming, the new town at the junction
of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific roads, is
said to have already 5000 inhabitants.
Mrs. Betsy Givens, the first girl baby
born in Louisville, has gone to the better land.
She was lob years of age, and had never en-
tered a railroad coach.
The Chesapeake and Ohio road is to
commence work at once on line from Licking
ton to Louisville C. P. Huntington has So
cured control of the Elizabethtown and Padu-
cab road, and will take immediate steps to close
the gap southwark to Memphis.
The Denver and New Orleans read
has ordered fifty miles Of steel rails from Liver
pool and closed contract for building the line
to connection with the roads in Northwestern
Texas.
A Cyclone in Randolph county, Ga,
killed Jack Embrey, his wife and two children
The fendish murder of Ben @. Porter,
the actor, at Marshall, Texas, by James Currie
is still fresh in the minds of the reading public.
Through the efforts Of Texas jury the villain
escaped unpublished. One week ago, in .
drunken fit at Las Vegas, he threatened tho
lives of several people, and was shot dead by =
bartender. Some of Currie's friends attempted
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