New Ulm weekly review., 1886-12-01
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Dana-In st. Paul. Nov. 9th. Susan G.,
wife OF DR.. NJ. Meg. Dana, of Plymouth

sympathy. The end so long expected finds
| us still unprepared and unreconciled to
the earthly ending OF one OF the noblest
| OF private citizens and best OF public men.
Adjt. Gen. Mccarthy has issued the fol-
lowing commissions: George Whitney, cap
tain Company B, Second, regiment, vice
Kelmer, resigned; D. F. McGraw, captain
Company +, Second regiment, vice Wash
burn, resigned.
Converse A. Pettingll OF Minneapolis
has commenced action against his wife,
Hanna I. Pettengill, from whom he wants
an absolute divorce. The plaintiff is thir-
ty-one years OF age and the defendant ten
years his junior. The unhappy wedlock
began in Minneapolis on May %, 1884.
The principal charge is unfaithfulness, of
which Pettengill says his wife was guilty
on divers occasions with one August Sand
ford.
The Minnesota Transfer Dressed Meat
company filed articles of interpretations
with the secretary OF state. The company
will engage at Minnesota Transfer in the
slaughtering OF cattle and the packing and
shipping of dressed meat. The capital
stock is $4,000.
The Manitoba Railroad company is
building a two mile spur track through the
granite region near St. Cloud.
st. Cloud is to have new flour mill
which will turn out $50 barrels OF -four a
day.
At the sale OF state lands in Willmar
there were sold 16O acres OF university,
$50 acres OF internal improvement and
2,720 acres OF school lands. The prices
paid were mostly IS and Sc per acre.
The register of the Benson land office
says that the land commissioner has ruled
that applicants under the homestead, pre-
emption and timber culture laws must
state in their application the place OF their
actual residence and their postoffice ad-
dresses, otherwise the applications will be
returned.
Secretary Charles Bornarth OF the Scott
County Agricultural society, has undertak-
en- to unite all county societies in the state,
and have them take concerted action to-
ward having the stateappropriation equal
ly divided among socities holding annual
fairs.
Rev. II. A. Newell, formerly pastor of
the Presbyterian church OF Rochester, and
for several years located at Salt Lake City
IN charge OF a f1ourishing church, has ac
cepted call from q congregation in Salem,
Or, and has removed thither.
At Wabasha, Anton Gedert, who pleaded
fenced TO two years in the penitentiary.
Charles Hammond, indicted for mortgag.
ing property which he did not own, plead
ed not guilty. He was tried and acquit-
ted: Gerdert and Henry A. Andrus con-
victed of horse stealing, were taken to
Saltwater by Sheriff Burkhardt.
Anna M, wife Of the late Herman Leasing
OF Manasha, has been granted pension
OF IS per month, dating from the date OF
the death her husband.
The state school land sales for Stearns
county held at St. Cloud was the largest
ever held. 1t amounted to about $685.
600 for over $500 acres. The highest
price paid was $12 per acre and the lowest
IS, an average OF $3.50
Hon. John S. Pillsbury sues the St.
Paul Globe for libel.
A resident OF Spring Valley dug up a dirk
knife, ten inches long. On plate of silver,
riveted with gold rivits on the handle, was
engraved: 'In hoe signo vinces." He also
found an Indian tom;lhawk that was mi
nus handle and badly rusted; and an In
dian bow and three steel-pointed copper
arrows. a gun barrel and lock, q copper
mounted powder horn all but slightly in
jured. Also the skeleton of q man whose
stature in life is estimated to have been
about six feet and three inches; he had
string OF bears claws around his neck, with
a gold medal attached to it.
E. F. Drake member OF the syndic..e
building the Duluth South Shore & and
Atlantic, the new line betw cen St. Paul
and Montreal. returned recently from New
York. Interviewed, Mr.. Drake said: The
money nescessary to build the line has
been raised by the syndicate, which is COM
posed OF strong parties IN Detroit, Chicago
and St. Paul. The road will be completed
by Oct. 1887. The completion of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic will give
St. Paul new line to tide water several
hundred miles shorter than any other
route.
The residence OF Andrew Rocksted, OF
Hastings, was burned to the ground.
Last spring a wedding was to have taken
place near Cannon Falls, but few days
before the time set the BRIDES parents lost
their house by fire and the bridal trousseau
burned with the rest. Time sped by. A
new house was built, and on the 10Th the
wedding was to have been, but again the
elements interiered. The snow blockade
kept tie bridegroom from reaching the
house OF the bride.
Rev. Jay Henry Long, OF Fergus Falls,
Knute Nelson's opponent for congress on
the Prohibition ticket in that district has
received and accepted call to preach at
Ladora, Ind.
At a meeting OF the directors of the
German-American National bank, St..
Cloud, the banks attorney was instructed
to bring suits against the Minneapolis
Evening Journal and St. Paul Dispatch fc r
$4,000 each damages for publishing re.
port that the bank had closed.
G. II. Davidson has sold the Austin
Transcript to Charles H. Barnes OF Austin,
and Parke Goodwin of ST. Paul. Consid.
Grafton, $4,000; possession to be given
Dec. 1. Mr.. Davidson becomes business
manager of the Quincy (Ill.) Daily Times,
OF which his brother-in- law is owner
Moses Gallup, one OF the earliest settlers
OF Dodge county, dropped dead at his
home in Wasiopa on the evening OF the 10TH
The St. Paul, st. Croix & Lake Superior
Railway company filed articles ofincorpor.
alton with the secretary OF state. The
capital stock is placed at 81, 100000. The
object OF the company is to build line
from some point in St. Paul through Ram.
sey, Washington and Chisago counties to
a point on Lake Superior, probably Du-
luth. Branches will also be built in the
several counties mentioned. 1t is the
object OF the company to have the road
ready for operation by June 1, 1887.