New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1885-06-03

upon Investigation he found his handkerchie.
with S4335 rolled in 1t in the strawibed tick. The
patient is doing well, and the only trouble now
is to get him plenty of beefsteak and potatoes
State Auditor Braden has received from Au-
.ditor Mcdonald of Hennepin county the follow
ing statement of Minneapolis tax collections:
For year ending May 81, 1884, s739, s62 05; for
year ending May Al, 1885,, S717 g21.O7 Re-
ports from other counties furnish similar close
comparisons, showing that the new tax law,
which deferred the sales from September to
May, does not materially affect the collections.
The Grant county people are enthusiastic
and ID earnest over the southern railroad pro-
ject The most prominent men of the towns
of Lien, Pomme de ferre, Stony Brook and
ELBOW Lake have been interviewed and ex-
press it as their opinion that reasonable
amount of bonds could be voted from the
towns along the proposed route without diff
Guilty.
Father McGolrick, Catholic of Minneapolis
made complaint against indecent show pictures
on bill boards. The case was submitted to the
jury, who, after viewing the bill boards on
which the objectional posters were hung and
celebrating for half an hour, returned a
verdict of not guilty, the proposition to i'm
pose fine having been favored but by two of
the twelve.
The contract for the new building at the
deaf and dumb institution at Faribault has
been given to l. NJ. Emery and William
O'Nel jointly their bid( S. 715) being the lowest
| The building is to be Of stone 65x40 and two
| stories high, with basement The basement
will be fitted up as a gymnasium. and the sec
| h 1c%o, Il.
pltal. An addition is also to be made to the
laundry building
"A. il Thornton, county recorder al Fonda
died recently Deceased came to Hous-
ton, Mimi, in 1858; he then went into the
surveyor generals Office in St Paul, where he
was engaged in government surveying, and
then followed civil engineering. Mr.. Thornton
made the first sectional map of the State OF
Minnesota, and has followed the business with
slight lntsrmissions, up to within the past
| four years.
Mary Jane Clarns, aged seventeen of Park
er's Prairie, Otter Tail county, indicted by thu
grand jury, was arrested aud arrangement.
made to bring her into the city She did no
appear, but her brother handed the following
letter letter to <r her attorneys. Clapp, Woodland
Clarns is dead. [Signed] A. E. Henderson, NJ
D." 1t is presumed that the girl committed
suicide rather than endure public trial.
The corner stone of the new Young Men
Christian Association building was laid at North
field. An address was made by Frank Cutler
secretary of the association, in which he said
'We have come together tonight to Law tn,
corner stone of the first Y. NJ c. A. building
ever erected in Minnesota" The building il
to cost, when completed, about $4,000. 81 ,C6
OF which has already been pledged, and it i
expected to be completed the LIST of August
Andrew Nelson and his team were found dea
in a slough recently three miles north O
Hawley. Nelson, who was swede, twenty
SIX years old aud married, went to Hawlev an
after purchasing a load of lumber got drum
and started home about dark He let the roa
when Near a small slough, drove across, miss
ing the bridge, circled around the slough an
came back and tried to drive up the grade O
the bridge and was upset in fifteen inches O
water, under the load of lum ber The tear
We're nlired and drowned
The following changes have been made i
the postal clerk service: R. L. Mason, vice [
Warning ON the route from St. Paul to Siou
City; NJ. B. Miller, vice Joseph Zeis, removed
on the route from St Paul to Bismarck Oak
Thomas Clarkins, vice ]. S. Murray, appoint
meut expired, route, st. Paul to EIroy: c. NJ
Brown yiceG. s. Armstrong, transferred, route
Watertown, Oak, to Minneapolis; G. W. FLAG
of Redhell Oak {; vice C. A Chamberlain. ap
polntment expired, route, st. Paul and Brock
enridge: Henry Fink vice W. A. Mccain, route
St Paul To Bismarck.
The insurance commissioner has ruled IN
der the cooperative life association law
passed last winter, that no Iowa co-operatlv
association shall be permitted to do bushes
in this state without paid-up capital of 500,
OO0 This is the application imposed unde
the law Of the state Of Iowa on Minnesota az
sociations of this kind, under ruling of tn
Iowa attorney general, and under reciprocal
provision contained IN the law passed her
last winter our insurance commissioner apple
the SANE to test Iowa This will shut them al
| Out
AS the spring term Of the district court. Jus
closed at Morris, Stevens Co., Wilton A Suit
was sentenced to the state prison for two year
and six months, for larceny. This will be hi
second term in that institution, and it is pro
| badly that indictments IN several places, 70
forgery will await him at its expiration. JOIN
Bucklin, the Hancock saoonist, who it i
charged, kicked Benjamin Baxter to death
was indicted for murder, and his trial will oc
cur at the November term. He is at larg
upon $1,000 bail In civil action for damages
brought by John Magone against the St Paul
Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway Company TO
$500, the alleged value of his grain stocks de
stroyed by fire from defendants engine, tn
jury found for the defendant
Minnesota produces large quantities Of gin
seng and seneca, and some very choice grades
of both of these roots are dug from the soil O.
the state. This fact has attracted the atten
ton of a Cincinnati business house, VII,
handles about half of the product 8" = -
ticles of the entire com lr1CTvl
has just opened branch '9sI ilSfT3aul
The firm is engaged in an ext aug business
entirely, and III the United States only makes
purchases. 1t has resident agent in China
which is the great market of the world TO
ginseng, in connection with which the Chimes
have various supersttions, and which the,
also value on account of sL5posel nedicina
properties. The st. Paul house is the onl,
branch house maintained by the Cincinnati
| firm.
Lists prepared for the next volume of Brad
| streets contain the names IF I Oo1 addition.