New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-11
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The Red Wing assessors returns
shows the assessed valuation of real
esdate to be 81. 1872, l61; personal
property, S514 SIG; total valuation,
81, 746,977.
Supt. Seymour, of the Green Bay
road, was badly injured by being
/, thrown from a pile driver near Grand
Rapids. He fell twenty feet, but did
not break any bones. AS he weighs
over 200 pounds, he is badly shaken
up.
y. During the late storm, a barn be-
longingto Hiram Davis, west Of Fari-
bault, was struck by lightning and
) burned, together with a threshing
machine and alot fother farm tools.
Loss, 50, 500. Insurance, 81, 100.
A young man in Pipestone county,
while digging a we'll the other day
struck well preserved tree twenty
feet below the surface and had to chop
through it before he could proceed
with his work.
John Stein, aged twenty-five, and
Paul Peterson, aged twenty-five,
while ploughing near Georgetown
were struck by lightning and killed.
Charles Stein was also in the field a
snort dis ance, but was not hurt.
T PETERSON is a swede and has no rela-
tives in this country.
While shearing sheep at Chatfeld,
y son of D. Hisey noticed something
peculiar about the appearance of a
sleeps tongue and, calling his IA
theirs attention to the fact, the sheep
was caught and examined Upon
opening its mouth it was seen that a
ring of some kind was around the
sleeps tongue. After a few moments
it was taken off and found to be a
solid gold ring, with a handsome set,
valued at about ST. How the ring
came on the sleeps tongue willprob-
ably remain "a mystery, as it had
been there some time, being deeply
:, Embedded in the flesh.
The champion fish of the season
was caught at Winona. 1t was a
buffalo and weighed seventy-four
pounds, and was speared by John
Melville, yardmaster of the North
western. One weighing fifty-seven
pounds was captured few days be-
fore.
Albert Davis, aged eighteen years,
in the employ of a farmer, Jesse
Whitney, near Blue Earth City,
ended his life under mysterious cir
cumstaneas. He was found shot, the
fatal bullet having entered the breast.
An empty pistol lay by his side. 1t
was doubtless an accident. His
parents live in Wells.
The Presbyterian church at Currie
has voted to give it's pastor six
weeks vacation.
John Fifer, while intoxicated, fell
uoWn stairs at the Stadt Goldberg ho-
tel at Winona, and fractured his
skull. He came from Portage, Wis,
three weeks ago to work in g. W.
Williams shoe shop. He has a wife
and family at Portage.
The elite of Beaver Creek who en-
gage in lawn tennis pronounce it as
easy as saving wood.
Farmers and citizens have taken to
the fighting OF grasshoppers around
Perham in earnest and there is now
about 200 different contrivances in
operationfor the catching ofhoppers
for which a bounty Of 81 per bushel
is being paid. Two hundred and
three hundred bushels are being
caught daily. ut is expected that
most of the crops will be saved as
there has been so much wet weather
that they can do but little damage.
An effort is being made to completely
exterminate them. Crops outside,
and also in the district infested with
these locusts newer looked better.
Measles and whooping cough are
epidemic at Rochester this summer,
and have already resulted in an I'M
usual number of deaths, owing to
complications. The measles, when
alone, are OF a mild type.
DR.. Thomas Peierce, one of the
ablest and best known physicians OF
Winona, met with a serious accident.
He wenthome from a call at midnight
and put his horse in the barn, going
up in the hay lott to throw down
some hay. In the dark he fell down
a hole in the floor and broke his leg
in two places, shaking him up badly.
The fracture is a bad one, breaking
a small bone on the inside and one
on the outside of his right leg.
The store ofC. Sommer at New
Tim, was robbed by burglars. -Four