New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-07-25
MINNESOTA NEWS.

VIII a capital stock OF $3.50, OOO..
! The company owns 100 acres of land
five miles east Of Ely, and has pur-
chased machinery and will go toWork
at once.
At Shieldsville, Thomas Mcdonald,
while handling a bull, was attacked
by the animal and had large piece
| of flesh torn from his left leg and sew
eral ribs broken. He will recover.
B. N, Mccullough, a young man
employed by c. B. Hollenbeck, fell
twenty five feet, striking on a barn
floor, breaking his collar bone and is
injured internally. His death is ex-
! pected. His parents live at Mont
gomery Mimi.
William Deich, a, young man living
in the town of Maine, twenty miles
from Fergus Falls, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the
heart with a shotgun. Dependency
over his love affairs is supposed to
be the cause of the deed.
The Standard Oil company pur-
chased at Crookston a tract OF land
upon which will be erected large brick
storehouses, offices, tanks, etc. Crooks
ton will be the Northwestern distrib-
uting point for oil. Work is to be
i nom ,onoo1 OF sn7,co
/ The prospectors for natural gas at
Minneopa Falls; near Mankato, have
struck water instead of gas at a
depth of sos feet. Tt flows a FIVE
inch stream and rises fifteen feet
above the surface of the ground.
The water is of good quality. This
will probably receive attention as a
source Of supply for the city.
One day a man came to the home
of George Derby, two and half miles
south of Mankato, and was put to
work. He told Mr.. Derby's people
they could call him "Tom." Thenex
day Tom left the house, taking his
employers pocketbook, containing
| $40.
Rev. John Crapsey, who in the COS
used to minister spiritually to the
scattered settlements in the south
western part OF the state is still iv-
ing at Lake Talcott, Murray county,
at a very advanced age. He has
published a pamphlet giveng an &C
count OF his ministrations.
At the Prohibition convention held
at Dauson D. G. Miller, and F. S.
Vaughan we're chosen delegates to
the district convention, and DR.. Mel
son and A. M. Park delegates to the
state convention. Hugh Harrison,
was Endorsed for Governor.
| Erick Hanson, forty-fve years of
age, was drowned in the Red river,
ten miles south of Moorhead. He
was in a boat with a boy, playing,
when the boat capsized. The body
| Was recovered.
The total real estate valuation of
Goodhue county as returned to the
county auditor by the assessor is
| Sc, OS5, 742; total personal property
valuation, So, 137 1876, making the
total valuation of the county So,
| 223, 63S, out of which Red Wing has
81, 234,S46.
81. b. Osgood, travelling man
from st. Paul, Mimi, representing
the Jewell Nursery Company, was
thrown from a wagon at Columbia,
Nebraska, while driving team of
bronchos. He suffered compound
fracture of the right leg. He was
taken to St. Mary,s hospital where
the limb was amputated.
Farmer May OF Homer came to
Winona in hot haste to get a coffin
for his daughter, who had died sud
denly. AS it was late at night, he
decided to wait until morning, but
before daylight a messenger from his
farm reached him with the news that
the young lady was only in a swoom
and had recovered. The coffin was
not bought.
81. Palmer, a mechanic, aged about
IS years, fell into the city well at
Mankato, and narrowly escaped
death. A force of men were at work
in the we'll, and met with trouble
with the machinery, and in trying to
aid them Mr. Palmer slipped and fell
down the well, a distance of % feet.
He received cuts about the head and
body and a very severe cash around
the ankle that will probably cripple
him for life.
William Eibel, better known as
Scrap Iron Bill, " while delivering a
temperance lecture at the NJ. E.
church in GlenWood suddenly clapped
his hands to his head and fell head.
long over the pulpit railing into the
aisle. He was carried outside, and