New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-01-11
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
APeculiar Case at Winona.

"A very peculiar case came up before
Judge Start in the district court at Wi
mona, Mimi. on the petition OF B. 81. Lee
and wife to adopt an infant Lee is TWEEN
ty years old and has been married a year.
Soon alter his marriage he was arrested,
charged by Annie Doe with being the father
of her Legitimate child. Lee was ar
RANGED on the charge OF bastardy. and the
case was continued to the March term of
court. In the meantime a settlement was
Effected with the complaining witness, by
which lee agreed to adopt the child as his
helr. Hence the petition to adopt. In
hearing the petition, Judge Start remark
ed that the case was a very unusual one,
where a married woman was willing to
adopt her husbands Legitimate child
Both Lee and his wife testified to
| their great willingness to adopt the child,
and treat it as their own. AS the mother
is a servant girl, and unable to care Tor
the infant, Judge Start granted the APP.
plication.
The building operations in Minneapolis
| for 1887 are reported to be over nine mill
ion dollars A handsome advance on the
figures OF 1885. About three million dol
lars were expended on residences and two
hundred thousand for churches. Over
four hundred thousand for school build
ings, saw mills and factories.
Some of the larger cities and towns are
| running to clubs, but the $1,000 license
will catch them all the same
w. III. Lanphear. aged 60, fell dead in
the postoffice atMinncapolis.
At Austin, the Turtle Creek Cheese fac
tory has made over 10000 pounds Of
cheese this season, and dividend of z per
cent has Just been declared.
Since the cold weather setin st. Paul
people are booming the ice carnival, and
the ice palace, which has already ass umed
palatial dimensions. 1t is expected that
the carnival OF this year will have many
| new features and surpass all it's predeces-
| sors.
| At Hastings, Frank W. Finch and Mrs.
Amelia c. Lurvey were married at the
residence OF the latter in the presence OF q
! few immediate friends, Rev. G. a. Cressy
officiating
Samuel Staples. a brother OF Hon.
Isaac Staples and father OF Mrs. Col. o..
A. Folsom died at Saltwater Of old age,
being eighty-two years old.
Knute Anderson and Nels Swanson, in
| dicted for the South st. Paul murder, are
discharged.
Rev. Edward Cook died at the city hos
| pital, Minneapolis, recently, aged sixty o
years.
At Nicollet Jacob ] Johnson, employed in
the FIGURING mill was caught in the fly
wheel and crushed to DEATH He was
| thirty years old.
Moorhead Special: Editor Lamphere
says he is authorized to state that Con-
| gresham Nelson will be candidate for no
office next year. and desires to retire to
private life.
ELAN Black OF Mazeppa, late OF Company
K, Thirty-frst Wisconsin volunteers, has
been granted a pension OF $50 per month.
John Montgomery of Lake City has been
granted a pension OF 81 per month, with
arrearage from 1866.
At the state prison in Saltwater the
members OF the Newton Beers
Lost in London company entertained
the convicts ih the chapel. The programme
included a fine rendering OF +'The Battlesof
Waterloo" and ''Who killed Tom Rope"
by Mr.. Beers, selections by the Pan Pipe
quartet Of male singers; thu farcical
sketch. "a Conjugal Lesson" by Johnny
Williams; ahd Miss Jennie Satterlee spme
especially fomic songs by Johnnie Elsl-
Jams; HOW Persimnhons Tended the, Ba"
by, by Miss Lea Raymond, etc.
Minneapolis correspondent, sleak-
ing OF thh probability that .iPRiissnUQ
i.oss Of them, E. church, will 90
to New York, to take the place OF Bish-
OPP Harris, says ,'tIn case Bishop Foss
leaves Minneapolis there is one consola-
ton in the fact that he does not go away
poor. The few Thousand dollars that the
good bishop, dropped in Minneapolis earth
when he came here has increased at a ter
rife rate, and now amounts to something
pretty big, say two or three hundred thou
sand dollars, that isn't too much; at least
SO thought the clerical informant, who, by
the way, isn't remarkable as a judge Of
real estate Values
John Mulcahy, of Waseca, a brakeman
on the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
was instantly killed at Waseca recently.
He WAS Stacking cars and was caught be-
tween the engine and car and iammed to
death. He was twenty-five years of age
and had been married two months
The record of improvements and bust
ness at Duluth is a, most astonishing one.
The total improvements exceed over four
and one.fourth Million dollars in value.
At Mankato the board of trade received
proposition from T. Saulpaugh of Min
neapolis, to build 81 new hotel there, to cost
completed 100000. The plans submit
ted ntemplate a building 100 feet square
and four stories high, OF brick and stone.
The board passed q resolution accepting
the proposition, and authorizing immedi.
ate steps to be taken to secure the required
bonus.
A new bank is to be opened in Little
Falls about Jan. /, by A. r. and William
Davidson OF Minnesota, Lyon county, and
a. D. Davidson OF st. Paul. These gentle
men are brothers.
Since the opening OF the new ward at the
Second insane hospital in Rochester,
nearly a hundred patients have been re-
moved from St. Peter to that asylum,
making the total number quartered there
over seven hundred.
Collector Moore has just received a let
ter from the secretrry OF the treasury Civ
ing notice OF the cutting off OF the allow
ance for "a deputy collector of customs a
Duluth.
Patrick Mccarthy, brother of Post
master John Mccarthy, formerly a promi-
nent logger on the st. Croix and for the
past four years a heavy farmer IN Big
Stone county, died at his Saltwater home.
Only about nine miles OF track remain
to be laid between Nesma and Doewood