New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-09-22

The Supreme court OF the State has Just
decided: "Under section 81, article "a,
General Statutes 1878: damages may be
recovered against railroad corporation
for injury done to farm by rendering it
less fit for pasturing CATTLE in consequence
OF failure to fence the road as required by
the statute. The statute requirement to
fence railroads and making the railroad
company liable for damages in consequence
of a failure to comply with it's terms lie :
within the police power Of the state"
At Minneapolis, w. P. Van Norman, a
well known member of the Journal City
Staff, died after weeks illness and within
week OF his wedding day-Typhoid Pueu-
monia did it.
A fifteen-year-old lad, Thomas Nickel
son, in the employ OF Thomas o. Jones of
lead some horses to water, and wds found
shortly afterward tangled in a barbed
wire fence, kicked to death.
The body OF an unknown man. in a
partially decomposed condition, was found
two miles northwest OF Red Wing on the
farm Of Mrs. Brecht. A receipt was found
on his person given to P. Reitman of Zunl-
brota by Charles Hill, but whether he was
the man is not yet known. The cause of
his death is a mystery.
The Indian commission have made O.
treaty with the Pillager Indians which pro-
| vides for the cession OF the Leech Lake
! reservation to the United States, and the
| sale thereof in tracts OF forty acres each,
under sealed proposals, to the highest
bidder for cash, the proceeds derived there
from to be placed to their credit in the
treasury of the United States, and to draw
8 per cent. interest, which interest is to be
| annually expended for their benefit. They
will be removed to the White Earth reser-
| walton.
| The suicide of E. A. Barnstrom OF Burns,
| Anoka county, at the residence of his SON.
ln-law, John Satterstrom, at Stanchfeld,
lsanti county, is announced Barnstrom
and his wife had trouble, she having gone
to live with her daughter, and he had visit
ed her with the purpose of effecting recon
:iliation, if possible. The wife refused to
90 home with him, when he pulled out re-
volver and pointed it at her. She ex-
claimed: 'Oh, don't shoot mel" He sud-
denly turned the muzze toward his own
head and fred, the deadly ball doing it's
work.
Threshers from the settlement lying six
miles east OF Granite Falls report the Weld
to run from twenty-five to thirty-six
bushels to the acre OF wheat, and from for
ty-fve to sixty OF oats.
The man who robbed young Gill. at Ben
son, was captured by some boys named
Murphy, three miles north of DeGraH. He
confessed and gave up the money.
| Frank Mead has been committed TO-
await the action OF the grand iury this
month. Mr.. Mead waived examination.
Mrs. Emma NJ. Nickel, whose husband.
John n. Nickel, we'll known Chicago
commission merchant, filed proceedings of
divorce againsr her in the Chicago courts.
was once well known in st. Paul. Her
.ather was at one time one of the city's
most prominent citizens. Mrs. Nickelps
maiden name was Emma NJ. Simpson, and
aer father was John w. Simpson.
At Window, A. L. Miles was instantly
killed by the explosion OF the boiler of q
steam threshing engine.
Rev. Charles F. Thiying of Cambridge,
Mass, has accepted a cali to Plymouth
church, Minneapolis.