New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-29
DOINGS TN MINNESOTA.

i DOllNlIO lin 1YlllN lNEDlll IA.
John Anderson, living in East Red
Wing, was committed to the county
jail for cruelty beating his child
/ The dates of the Wright county
fair have been changed toSept25-28.
/ This is the same week the Meeker fair
will be held.
The artesian well at Benson has
| reached a depth of a little over 500
feet and they are still drilling in solid
rock.
At Winona AL dogs have been
licensed. A good many have been
killed or given to farmers to avoid
/ the tax.
| Willie Warner, eleven years old,
was drowned in the river at the
cement works while bathing at Man
kato.
Applications are coming into the
normal school at Winona, so rapidly
that the prospects are good for an
increase over the large attendance it
usually has.
| The Red Wing fire department. will
not, in all probability, contest for
any of the prizes at the Minneapolis
exposition. They do not think the
1 prizes large enough.
Miss Mary Reyes, who has been in
the public schools Of Winona for
twenty -tWo years, has resigned her
| position to take a place in the nor
NAL.
j John B. Till Of Lake township has
been put under $500 bonds to keep
the peace toward F. J. Schmauss of
Lake City, for three months. He is
accused Of threatening to kill Mr..
Mr.. Schmauss.
Already ITO feet have beenreached
at the Freeborn gas wells of the
Minnesota Natural Gas, Oil and
Fuel Company, of Albert Lea. The
big machinery Of the state is used,
and the Trenton limestone, now
reached, is being drilled as fast as
| possible.
The Park Region Pioneer joins the
| Mankato Democrat in urging the
| governor to pardon W. f. Mirick,
a printer sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life forshoo citing the traducer
of his wife. 1t says he has children,
who need his care.
Col. Sheehan, White Earth Indian
agent, completed another inspection
OF his berry pickers and having found
better picking near Motley and Pill
lager collected Old Soldiers band and
removed them there. The agent has
| just come down from White Earth,
and is enthusiastic over the crop
| prospect on the reservation.
A six-year-old daughter of Charles
Johnson, at ST. Cloud, was run over
! by runaway and shockingly man
gled, probably fatally. The left leg
had been stepped upon and the flesh
torn from the bone by the calks Of
the horses shoes, and hardly a
| square inch of the little ones body,
head and face, but what was cut and
/ bruised.
We have to say generally of the
wheat crop, says the editor of the
Moorhead News, that it is not as
| good as it promised to be earlier in
the season. It's not well filed, the
heads are small, and the berry is
shrunken. The yield will not greatly
exceed last years's crop, and we
doubt if the quality will be as good,
except it will not be so foul with
weed and grass seeds. The oat crop
is large and fine to all appearances.
/ Capt. w. A. Thompson, of the
United States engineer corps, arrived
at Lake City and will put a force OF
men at work to repair the damages
done by ice last spring to the gov
ernmentpiers at this place and Stock
holm, Wis. He thinks 500 will COW
er the expense of repairs to the pier
here, but the Stockholm pier is SO
badly injured that to put it in good
condition again will take the unused
balance Of the appropriation made
to build it, some $1,000.
A party Of Winona merchants, con-
sisting of Messrs. Preece, Matthews,
Van Norman and Freshman, were
driving into Minnesota City, when
the neck yoke broke as they were de
scending the hill near the village.
The team Immediately ran. Messrs.
Preece and Matthews jumped from
the carriage, but Messrs. Van Nor
man and Freshman hung on for two
miles when they we're obliged to leap
out. Horses and men eventually