New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1884-07-02
lIlNNESO a NEWS.

Reports from various portions Of
the State show a favorable outlook
for crops.
Browns Valley will have 4 500
Indians from the Sisseton reservation
TO help celebrate the ] Fourth Of July.
The mysterious disappearance Of
Mr.. G. Clauson Of Redwing has been
explained BY the finding Of his body
ia the Mississippi river at st. Paul.
Capt. Wilton, with the Phoebe
Wilson, made the trip up the Mime
sofa River into Browns Valley last
Monday, which is the first time that
river has been navigated above the
lake a fact worthy record.
Andrew Clark, a raving maniac,
has been taken to st. Peter asylum
from Duluth by Sheriff McQuaid.
The Shirt says he has reasons to be-
@lieve that Clark is the person who
murdered Mrs. Bonmark near Her
mantown.
On Wednesday night the house Of
tines Carmen who lives about nine
MILES Qortheast of Wadena, was
burned. Two of the children were
burned - death, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Carmen and the third child barely
escaped with their lives.
Joseph Thomas Of Elm Dale, near
Little Falls, had his skull fractured
while driving fence posts, maui
AYings The relatives have not sum-
mcnltgaa'a surgeon, and threaten to
shooHhe first one who appears on
the premises.
Six hundred car loads Of bridge
stone are being shipped from the
quarries Of Mankato to northern
Minnesota, being intended for a
bridge on the line of the st. Paul
and Duluth road. They are dressed
and ready for the structure.
The Moorhead News says a new
kind Of potato bug has made its APP
pearance, and is rapidly denuding
the vegetation from that fruit. It is
a small, black bug, from fve.eighths
to three-quarters Of an inch in length,
and its consuming powers are won
derful.
The Chain Lake creamery at Fair
mont is turning out an average 1900
pounds Of butter per day, and on
Mondays about 1900 pounds. They
get 81 cents per pound, which is the
hig hest price paid for creamery but
ter, thus ranking it with the famous
Elgin.
It is estimated that the proposed
dam across the Mississippi river at
Brainerd will be three hundred and
sixty feet long, and that the river be
raised twenty feet, making available
an 1874 horsepower force. The cost
Of the work complete will probably
be $S5O,000.
GAINESVILLE argus: O. S. Garfield
spent week or more in Dakota.
While there he learned that a great
many people were disposed to throw
up their claims. A large number are
unable to live there on account of
the alkali water. Another thing he
noticed was all insect which has late.
~ made itself manifest, and which is
destroying all the cottonwood groves.
William F. Smithson, Of the town
Of Vernon, Blue Earth county, was
killed by lightning on the 10Th ult.
He was sitting in the house at the
time near an open window and three
Of the children near him. The cleo.
tricity passed down the lightning rod
to point about six feet from the
ground, where section of the rod
was missing. 1t then passed
through the thin wall, striking Mr..
smithson on the head, passing off his
left foot to the floor, tearing his hat
and boot to pieces. Mr.. Smithson
was widower about 40 years of age.
His wife and three children died Of
diphtheria four years ago. He leaves
four children. Lightning rods should
be keptin repair.