New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-09-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.

In Sherburne county some farms
which have always yielded from twelve
to twenty bushels of wheat to the acre
have this season yielded only four
bushels.
Six horses afflicted with CHAMBERS
were shot at Zumbro Falls last week by
order of the state board of health. A
of horses in various parts of
the state have been killed because they
were effected with CHAMBERS. This
spreading the CHAMBERS all over the
state, says the St. Peter Herald, is the
work of the travelling horse traders.
Mr.. J. B. Hodapp, proprietor of the
Mankato Preserving works, intends to
put up $4,000 cans of vegetables-corn,
10000 cans; tomatoes, $4,000; beans,
5000; peas, 1000.
Joe Mahoney of Marshall has made
a wager that he can eat a prairie chick
en- day for forty days.
Snakes or snake stories are pretty big
in Minnesota. A rattlesnake is said to
have been killed near Oronoco last
week which was five feet long, as big
around as a mans arm and sported
twenty-six rattles. Olmsted county
comes to the front with one eight feet
long and had forty rattles.
The Norristown Herald says mar
riage license was lately issued at Cleve-
land, to a Mr.. August Wiezorgetzor-
zitozki. When he goes to housekeep-
ing he will probably stretch his name
around the premises in place of a oarbed
wire fence. 1t will be more dangerous
to run against than the real article
Radical.
Will Franklin of Dodge Center was
severely wounded by the accidental
discharge of q gun that he let fall from
his buggy while hunting. Both barrels
took effect in his legs above the knee
and in one arm. One leg was terribly
torn, but hopes are entertained that
the limb may be saved.
Faribault, Mankato, Minneapolis,
Red Wing, Rochester, St. Paul, Still
water and Winona are the towns desig-
mated for the location of delivery Of
fees under the ten cent system, only
eight cities in the State having popu-
lation of 1000 in 1880.
Two hundred car loads of stone have
been shipped from Mankato for the in.
sane asylum building at Norfolk, Neb.
Reports from Otter Tail county show
that tho wheat yield will DO from Is to
20 per cent less than former estimates.
A way freight struck creamery
wagon at the crossing just east of
Spring Valley yesterday, instantly Kill
ling both horses and twelve year old
SOU VI JOuu Ddtcluiu' SuhlACS III "AA"u,
the driver, escaped injury.
Albert Lea had narrow escape from
a sweeping conhagration last week.
The oil inspector, in testing oil in ashed
containing over so barrels of kerosene
and gasoline, accidentally tpied a gaso.
line barrel, which took fire, and but for
desperate exertions by the others +.
tremendous fire would have ben thu
result.
Farmer OFT brings us sample of q
new kind of bean raised on his place
the pods OF which vary IN length from
WV ~ three feet. They are novel
variety did We trust Mr.. OFT will have
them on exhibition at the coming county
fair.-Mart.n County Sentinel.
Charles Moulton of Albion in order to
clear out the cylinder cock Of thresh-
ing engine placed his mouth on the cock
and sucked, and the seething hot steam
came gushing out and: completely filled
his stomach and bowels, and he dropped
to the ground and has not spoken since.
Doctor SAYS he can't recover.
Frederick Begal, aged thirty-three, a
butcher in the employ of N. Nenbiser
of Belle Plaine. came to sudden end
last Thursday. Being in the country
with his employer he went to pitcher
and took drink of lye in mistake for
water. He died in three hours after
great suffering.
''6igh: Peart.
81 was ri0h1 ne.art till the rheumatiz