New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-05
MINNESOTA TN BRIEF ]

A turkey buzzard few against a
show Window in Duluth and destroyed
$3.50 worth Of plate glass
Robert Arola, on trial at Fergus
Falls, for killing his father, was 1n-
sane. The verdict was expected
A prairie fire overlook. II. H. Snep-
pin while he was asleep in ravine
four miles from Hancock, and he was
SO badly burned that he died.
The grand jury at the last term of
court in Mobiles county recommended
the county commissio toner's to provide
for the building of anew courthouse.
The Waltham cheese factory at
Austin has finished its first season of
manufacture. During the four months
it made $4,000 pounds of prime
cheese.
Malcolm McLaren, ex-sheriff Of
Grow Wing county, was bound over
to the grand Jury in 5000 for an as
sault on Frank McKinster.
Judge Buckham of Faribault SEN
fenced George Vosberg to FIVE years
and Louis Hopke to seven years i'm
prisonment at Saltwater. Vosberg
and Hopke were convicted of setting
fire to barns in Faribault.
Isaac Barstow, a prominent farm
er of Grow, four miles north OF Ano-
ka. was burned out of house and
home. He, with three small chill
dren, were sleeping in the house and
had a narrow escape from horrible
death.
Messrs. Rice & Peck Effort Benton,
Mont, have brought 5000 sheep to
Fergus Falls, which they are feeding
from the screenings which they buy
from the mills The poor wheat this
year yields a large amount and
makes cheap food
Prof. j. 81. Capper Hutchinson, of
the Saltwater high school, who
drowned a few days ago in Lake ST..
Croi1, was engaged to Miss Mary T..
Blanchard, assistant in the Hastings
high school, and the two were to
have been welded early inthe coming
year.
John Joerger, Jr., who was sent
from Red Wing to the state peniten-
tiary last spring, being convicted of
obtaining money under false preten-
ses, has been pardoned by the COVER
nor and released. At the time of his
conviction many considered the SEN
tence he received as too severe.
The hardware store of NJ. G. Peters
at Mantorville was entered by burg
lars who took about $3.50 worth of
goods. This is the third time this
store has been burglarized within
two years. The blacksmith shop of
F. A. Brondson was broken open and
a-small steel croWbar taken which
was found III the hardware store.
At the last council meeting ofMan-
kato committee was appointed to
prepare revisions of certain portions
of the charter for submission to tie
legislature. The contract system of
making city improvements will be
changed to the day labor system. A
board of public works will be estab-
lished, and probably two new wards,
the Fifth and Sixth, will be asked for.
Robert Arola, the young Finlander
who killed his father, near Fergus
Falls will be taken to st. Peter at once.
When Arola left Finland he was to
marry a girl whom he was going to
send for after he reached America.
He sent her. money to come, and after
that he did not appear like the same
man. 1t is believed now that Arola
was hopelessly insane.
AS the train on the Omaha line was
at the union depot at Kasota one
night, a demented man took possess
sion Of the telegraph office, and ran
things to suit himself. A brakeman
leaped upon his back, and he was
overcome after a hard struggle. His
name is Hill, and he WAS on his way
to his home from the Rochester in
sane asylum.
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Jim Hall, who has been running a
barber shop at Caledonia for year,
was arrested by Detective Byrne of
La Crosse on a warrant charging,
him with bigamy. Hall waived ex-
tradition papers, and was taken to
La Crosse for trial. The complain
ant is his first wife. Sarah Carrigan,
whom he married last June, but who
has not lived with him. Two weeks
ago he married Fife Carlisle of
Brownsville.
An unknown man was found by
the police back of the opera house at
Brainerd with a cash from ear to ear,
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