New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-08

gether from the stone step threw them to
the platform. Miller rolled directly I'M
der the wheels OF the baggage car. while
Rudy rolled away from them, calling to
the engineer as he fell to stop the cars.
The train was stopped within a car length,
but not before MIR. Miller had been horribly
crushed and was dead. James G. Miller
was about thirty years of age and unmar-
ried. He was a native OF Pennsylvania,
but for a number of years has lived at
Champaign, III. For six years he was
cashier of the Champaign National bank.
He went to Minneapolis last July to take
charge OF the North Minneapolis bank, of
| which institution he has been cashier.
At dance at Montgomery, LIE Sueur
county, a fight took place between Bohe-
iSmians and Irish, in which clubs, knives,
revolvers and other weapons were freely
! used.
A committee OF the Minneapolis council
decides to recommend an ordinance COM
pelling electric wires to be placed under
| ground.
The attorney general Of the state states
that the health officer of every city is
clearly entitled to compensation, but that
the members OF the board are not, no mat
ter how arduous their labors or how much
! time is spent in the work. The question
is touched upon in section 4, chapter 1872
OF the laws OF 1883, as amended in 1885
by chapter 4. If the law casts a duty on a
public officer and it is not specified that
he shall receive salary he is not entitled
to any. The fact that the law specifies ~
salary for a health officer is proof OF +.
Any member of board may receive a
salary if the city ordinance provides for it.
Miss Mamie Magrath. aged twenty -one,
OF the town OF Warsaw, Rice county. COM
mitted suicide by poisoning. No cause is
known except dependency, occasions by
ill health. Before dying she confessed to
her father that she had poisoned herself.
A stabbing affair occurred at Shakopee
at which Albert Hachtshiem received a
bad knife cut in the thigh at the hands of
George w. Schmitt, a farmer living south
OF town in Scott county. Schmitt was
held in 81, 900 to the grand jury.
A seventeen-year-old wife travelling from
Youngstt wn, Pa, to Oak ota, in charge ola
portly colored nurse, was one Of the occu-
pants OF the sleeping car Vancouver, which
reached Hartland, a starion thirteen miles
north of Albert Lea, about ten miles be-
fore midnight. A few minutes later the cry
of a child was heard, and investigation
developed the fact that the young wife had
given birth to twelve pound boy. The
passengers requested that it be named AL
bert Lea.
At Jordan, Scott County. Bragg &,
Co.'s refrigerator, containing 10000 dozen
cggs, was burned. Insurance on eggs $5,.
600; on building, $4,000.
The following pensions have just been al
lowed to people OF Minnesota: Louise,
B. HATCH Litchfeld; L. A. Colson, Beaver
Falls; Lewis Bates, Marshall; Joseph Cobb,
Owatonna; O. A. Blethen. North Minneap-
oils; Charles A. Horn, Minneapolis; Hor-
ace G. Bennett, Minneapolis; Daniel H.
Freeman, Delano Elijah Biddle, Benson.
Pensions increased-Mack j. Kennedy,
Fair Haven; Samuel Taylor, Preston;
Abram Plulner, Winnebago; John Kerr,
Anoka; James Cramp, Spring Valley;
Edward Stevens, Fountain. Pension reis.
sued-J oseph G. Mold, Fairbank.
Aman has been giving shows in souther
Minnesota lately, and calling himself Santee
Bill, and claiming that he was one of Gus
ter's scouts. As he was about to give an
entertainment at Hammond, in Wabasha
county, rough who was refused admit
tance without paying, drew a knife and
dangerously stabbed Santee Bill in the
neck.
At the prize defamation of the Pillsbury
Academy at Owatonna, the committee on
award OF prizes after paying high COM
pliment to the excellence OF the speakers
awarded the first prize to Lester Sunder-
land OF Minneapolis; second. Edward
Chambers OF Berlin, and third, Bert Glasby
OF Claremont.
The Northwestern Miller of Minneapolis
says the project for combining the entire
milling interests OF Minneapolis is one vast
company, which has been talked about in
a desultory way in times past is now re.
ceiving more serious consideration. Sever
al plans have been presented in relation to
the matter but the one which seems the
most acceptable to the majority of the
millers cOntemplates a union OF all the
milling firms under the management and
with single official head. The Miller
thinks that the effect OF such q combina-
tion in the trade would be enormous, and
that the economy OF manufacture would
be very considerable.
Caroline Pogreba, Of Dayton's Bluff.
died from q bullet wound, and the case is
thought to be one OF suicide.
Emma c. Sandell of Minneapolis, sues
John A. Nordeen and gets q verdict for
SIS, 900 for breach of promise.
The 1, ,75o oOO-bushel elevator at West
Superior formerly known as the Hill eleva-
tor has passed in the hands of a syndicate
composed OF MeSsrS. u. "A. HlllSDury & Co.,
w. H. Dunwoody, John Crosby, F. H.
Peavy & Co. and Van Dusen & Co., Min
neapolis; D. c. Shepherd and H. P. Upham,
st. Paul. R. B. Burdick, late grain in
spector, has been selected as president
and general manager OF the new organiza.
ton, which will be known as the Great
Northern Elevator company.
A postoffice has been established at Teien,
Kittson county, with Augusta Westman
postmaster. Postoffico discontinued:
Jacksville, Wilkin county; mail to Chris
tine, Oak. Acting postmaster: From
Nov. 3, 1886, Henry Albers, Union Lake.
The mail services from Pelican Rapids to
Barnesville. from Nov. TO- is changed to
end at Norwegian Grove omitting Barnes.
vile, decreasing the distance eleven miles.
The railroad mail services from Winona,
to Winona Junction. Wis.,, via Chi
cago Il Northwestern railway. from Nov. 1,
is changed to extend from Winona juno
tion to La Crosse, Wis, increasing the dis
tance AZ miles.
The Minneapolis Millers' union will sink
into a state OF suspended animation for
the present.
Postmasters commissioned in Mime.