New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-26

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barley and fax seed crops show similar in
creased acreage. OF oats there are l,
O95.002 acres; as compared with
| 1.OS9, 1913 in 1884 an increase Of 1864
The corn crop shows 625,O70 in 1885 te
! $50, 1873 in 1854, an increase of 50, S3i
acres. The barley crop is 293, 6O7 in 1885
i as against 2S5, 252 in 1854, an increase O
/ 1856 acres. Flax seed shows a very graft
| flying increased culture, there being 229, SIS
/ acres under cultivation, an increase of O3,
533, or nearly 100 per cent over the 1875,
i O45 acreage of 1854
The new Danish Lutheran church at Al
bert Lea will be dedicated Sept. 6.
Work on the new elevator at Gracev1qle
has been commenced. It will be of about
10000 bushels capacity.
Hon. E. T. Wilder OF Red Wing has beer
appointed delegate at large to the North
western waterway convention at ST. Paul
". F. Mirick who killed Peter Gross at
Aneka, has been jailed at Minneapolis
Brit Mickey, aged twenty years, anc
George Merriam and George Mabey, all o:
Lake City, and aged about twenty
years, were arraigned before the municipal
courtsat Madison, Wis. charged with stealing
$lO2 in United States bond coupons from
r. F. Mickey, the father of Brit. Young Nc
Key was handed over to his father, who
will have him tried at Lake City, and sent
to the Minnesota prison. The other boys
were released. r. F. Mickey was formerly
in the dxygoods trade at Madison, James.
| vile and Oshkosh.
| Col. Harrington will have Deputy Col
lector Richards place in St. Paul.
John W. Comrack died at Princeton, in
Mile Laos county, which place he has made
his home most of the time since 1874. Mr..
Comrack went to Saltwater in 1914. For
a long time he was pilot on the Mississippi
river. He was elected sergeant-atarms FOL
several OF the early sessions Of the terri
torial house OF representatives. He mar.
ried g daughter Of John Jackins in 1849,
| who then resided at Saltwater, but subse-
quently removed to St. Anthony.
The log markets. brisk at Saltwater, and
! a local lumberman thinks there will be
another advance in prices.
| The State Bank Of Minneapolis, with $50.
900 capital and K. Kordgaard cashier, has
been admitted to do business in Minnesota.
The last number of the Army and Navy
Journal contained the following reference to
st. PauFs crack company in the Grant
funeral procession at New York: "Com.
pany d, First Minnesota regiment during
the parade, as well as on two subsequent
occasions in the armory OF the Twelfth regi.
ment, demonstrated a precision of drill
which can hardly he surpassed by any or
ganizati III the country
The wheat that has been threshed in
Meeker county shows that the crop is very
uneven. Some pieces have gone less than
six bushels OF very shrunken wheat to the
acre, while others are yielding as well as
last year, both in quantity and quality.
The official census returns gives the vii.
lage OF Bird Island q population OF SGT.
Renville county contains 13, 1T inhabit-
ants according to the official returns.
August Towsky. an alleged physician OF
St. Paul, shoots his wife, probably not
fatally. No cause is assigned for the act,
though he claims that it was accidental.
Oliver Gibbs, Jr., thinks that Minnesota
ought to take part in the second edition
Of the New Orleans exposition.
Vanduscn & Co.'s elevator and coal sheds
at .Minneota, thirty miles distant from
| Tracy, burned recently, consuming a car
!oad OF grain and a large quantity Of coal.
:ial train, but arrived too late to be of any
use. The origin OF the fire is unknown.
The commissioner of statistics places the
osAC 1.O L
acres, an increase OF II. 1877 over 1884.
In the vicinity OF Kasota the average
yield of wheatis said to be twenty bushels
to the acre.
Detroit capitalists have been at Duluth
examining sites for extensive works to
manufacture stoves for the Northwestern
trade. They will employ about 1 900 men,
and will probably select site on the west
side.
Winona Republican: The cutting ofsmall
grain. is nearly over in Winona county, and
stacking is in progress. Neither wheat nor
barley will come up to the average stand
ard of last year; although there are excep-
tional fields that will grade better than
others. Corn promises to be the best crop
Tor years. 1t is glazing nicely, and in about
two weeks, should this weather hold, will
! be beyond injury by frost.
The ST. Joseph sisters have arrived in
Gracevi.le and have taken possession of
their property. A school building 5Ox6O
, feet and three stories high will be built this
iall. sss- n
G. r. Mckinney, late OF the Rushford
! Star has purchased of NJ. C. Russell the
Lake City Sentinel, printing establishment
and has taken possession.
| Mayor Macdonald having taken his Of
6ce OF receiver of the United States land Of
6ce at St. Cloud, called special session
Of the council and resigted as mayor.
Three boys, Frank Kellogg, Frank Good
| son and Walter Vaughn, aged about thir-
teen and fifteen years, stole a skiff and ran
away from Red Wing. They were traced to
the head of the lake, afterward to Fronte-
nae, where all trace OF them was lost.
New York World: Henry NJ. Rice of Min
nesots is one of Gen. Toombs' most init
mate friends They served in congress to-
yether, and Mr.. Rice located Gen. Toombs'
Lake Superior lands for him. He lives in
St. Paul, and has hanging in his parlor /.
life-size portrait picture Of Gen. Toombs,
also by He:sly. Once during the war, the
infiamed people gathered a. the door OF Mr..
Rice and clamored for the picture that they
might destroy it. 1T is only over my dead
body that you can setit," quietly answered
Mr.. Rice. And it still hangs there, said
Gen. Toombs, with the face on theout-
side" sr sts ~ 5$s