New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-04-25
MINNESOTA news.

6eeuiug IL NOW uuQtI general HGaQ-
way all over Kittson county, while
other parts OF the state are consider
ably behind
Red Lake Falls has daily paper
the Red Lake Falls News-pub lished
| by P. p. Bodeen. Snow is about gone,
and the farmers will begin seeding at
| once.
G. c. sohnson, proprietor and
manager OF the Oskaloosa Broom
| Company of OSHKOSH, Iowa, has been
| IN Faribault preparing to start
! broom factory there similar to the fac.
tory at Oskaloosa.
| As the roads get partially settled
reports come in from the country of
the terrible work of the late storms.
A strip OF country extending to the
southwest of Mankato suffered from
high winds. Numerous dwellings,
barns and one or two school houses
were demolished. A Mr. Ried, living
near st. Clair, was buried in the fall
! ing OF his house, but was rescued, for
tunately unhurt. Some OF the tim
bers OF a school house in Mcpherson
| township We're carried eighty rods by
the gale.
| The Republican congressional COM
mittee of the fifth district met at
Fergus Falls recently to call conven-
tions. It was decided to hold the
convention OF delegates at Crookston
May Is, and the call was issued based
| on the same representation as the
state call. 1t was decided to hold the
nominating convention at St. Cloud
June -, but the call was not issued.
Gov. Hubbard, president OF the
newly organized Duluth & Red Wing
Construction company, spent a short
time in Duluth in the interest OF that
company and the Duluth, Red Wing &
Southern road. He speaks very hope
fully OF the buildingof the road Ar
rangements are now being made by
Chief Engineer Powell of the road to
complete the survey between Duluth
and Red Wing, the lower portion OF
which was made last fall and early in
| COIlDGlls
| ed a cessation of the work.
Lewis Olson was arrested at Han.
cock charged with forging Peter Erick-
sons name to an order on which he
obtained $50 worth OF clothes from
M. Hoban, a storekeeper. He wrote
a letter to the clerk who sold him the
goods Dragging OF the deception and
stating the facts. and thanking him
tor his greenness and stating that he
had lett the country, otherwise the
crime would not have been discovered
for some time at least. Olson is TWEEN
ty-one years old.
| The Stevens county bank OF Morris
attached by replevin the wheat in the
elevator operated by Albert Dekay
on a claim OF 5000. This precipitated
a regular deluge OF claims and the re-
suits are astonishing to the COM
munlty. Mr.. Dekay has been sup
posed to have done successful and
lucrative business, and the fear now
is that many farmers will meet with
4 loss. 1t is said there is little or no
wheat outside that attached, and as
! almost all of the claims were Sc
| cured by wheat checks the losses vii.
be serious.
/ j. J. Hill is actively surveying get.
ting the right of way and collecting
material-ties and rails-to build a
cutoff on the Montana branch, which
it is claimed will save him twenty-five
or thirty miles between St. Paul and
Helena. This new road leaves the
main line near Larimore, goes through
/ Hillsboro, Ada, and passes south of
the White Earth reservation, Joining
the Fosston branch OF the Manitoba
south of Leech Lake, and thence
straight through Brainerd to st.
Paul. The Manitoba is also collecting
material to rail and tie the branch
north from Pelican Rapids, which was
graded last year.
j. II. Lorden, brakeman on the
Omaha road, was arrested at Manka-
to charged with obtaining money un-
der false pretenses. Last October. it is
/ alleged he went to the express Office at
Waseca, forged the name OF another
party to the books and obtained a
valise valued at S25. J. B. HAYDEN,
who was agent at Waseca at the
time, has been looking for Lorden
since Jan. /. having hunted over ILL
nois, Iowa and Wisconsin.
A swede giving the name ofGus Lin.
den came to Redwood Falls and
showed such symptoms OF insanity
that the sheriff took HMM charge. He
says he came from Minneapolis to es.
cape being killed by parties in pursuit
OF him. He also states that he has a
brother by the name OF Carl Gustave-
sen living in St. Paul. He is about
twenty eight years OF age, height five
feet ten inches, complexion light, eyes
blue, hair light and curly.
1 At a meeting of the Lake City I'M.
4 p1oyement and Reality company a
committee was appointed to attend
i to The i'm movement ar tho annan,,,