New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-08-12

Inc jackson county fair will be held at
jackson Sept. 20 and 80.
B. ]. Johnsons house, near St. Charles,
was burned by lightning, with it's contents.
Whitmore & Co.'s elevator, at Boyd, was
burned by lightning. Loss $4,000. twill
be rebuilt Immediately.
A ffteen-year-old boy, named Tallef Jen-
son, was bitten by a rattlesnake, near Rush
ford, but his life was saved by free use OF
alcohol.
The report OF the adjutant general for the
fiscal year ending July 81, 1889 shows the
pension business transacted during the year.
The claims filed numbered 1854; rejected, Al
allowed, 256; amount ofmonthly pensions,
80, 13O.25; amount Of back pensions, sos.
259.5O.
Observer Lyons, in his review OF the
weather had at ST. Paul last month, says
the mean temporal ure was 1915 deg The
average OF the last fourteen midsummer
months is 71.2. There have been four cor
responding months that had higher max
imum temperature, and only one that had
a higher minimum temperature.
The adjutant general OF the State has is
sued the following order: Company D, First
regiment NJ. n. g., Capt. Ed S. Bean com.
manding, is directed to proceed to the city
OF New York for the purpose OF participant
ing, and representing the military forces OF
Minnesota, in the funeral procession OF the
late Gen. Q. S: Grant. Upon arriving in
New York Capt. Bean will report with his
! command to Maj. Gen. Hancock as officer
in command OF the military escort.
The Southern Minnesota Fair associa.
! ton, for their fair at Rochester, Sept. IA to
10, 1885, Offering the following premiums
Cows showing largest yield OF butter, first,
?. No
will be MIXED the cream separated and
churned on the ground. The tests will be
made three days, Tuesday, Wednesday and
| Thursday, and the cows must be on the
ground, ready for the first milking, Monday
night.
Gov. Hubbard designated the following
citizens to act as a committee to represent
the State OF Minnesota at the funeral OBJ
sequies OF Gen. Grant in New York CITY:
Hon. w. D. Washburn, Hon. j. B. Giltil-
Ian, Col. c. W. Johnson, Mai. r. R. Hender-
son and Capt. j. N. Cross, OF Minneapolis
Gen. j. B. sanborn, Gen. R. W. johnson,
Hon. S. j: R. Mcmillan and Hon. Edmund
Rice, OF st. Paul; Hon. Knute Nelson OF
Alexandria, Col. C. H. Graves OF Duluth
Hon..H. B. Strait of Shakopee, Hon. J. B.
Wakefield OF Blue Earth City, Hon. Milo
White OF Chatfeld D. Sinclair OF Winona
Hon. T. Meagher OF Mankato. L. A. Han
cock OF Red Wing, Hon. T. B. Clement OF
Faribault, and Hon. L. 2. Rogers OF lie
Sueur.
A dispatch from New Ulm, Brown county
gives some OF the fata titles attending the
extreme heat a few days ago: Mrs. Anna
Sperl aged seventy years, was, overcome
by heat and was found dead in the field
where she was engaged wedding. John Will
fahrt of Milford seventy-four years OF age
was sunstruck and was found dead in a
slough, face downward in a foot OF water
where lie had gone to cool himself. August
Richter aged twenty one, who was working
for Stephen Gluth, in the town OF Eden, was
sunstruck and died soon after. a man
named Brey, working in the field for Hubert
Hlllesheim, was FRUSTRATED and died III {.
lew minutes after taking him to the house
A man who had just come from the old
country was sunstruck and died in Cornish
Sibley county. Twenty-Five horses drop
ped dead in the harvest fields,