New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-03-21
MINNESOTA NEWS.
To Improve the Minnesota.

MAJ. Allen, United States engineer, has
recently made an important report upon
the practica bility and cost of making the
Minnesota river navigable from Mankato
TO It's mouth, at Fort Smelling. Maj. Allen
hnds that the stream can be made nayi-
gable for steamers drawing two feet OF
water by removing the impeding snags and
the construction of nova BILE dams and
locks at the mouth and points further up
the river. His plan is to make the
dams movable in order to prevent dam
age by the heavy spring foods
IN that valley. His estimate of the cost OF
Six locks and dams is as follows: Work,
81, 22l 900; land damages, $135, 975; re.
moving snags, $35, 200; 10 per cent. for
contingencies 81 35, 7o3; total 81, 52I, 73s.
For the same improvement, with ten locks.
the estimate is: Cost OF work, S1,613,-
600; land damages, SGT, $50; snags, S35,.
contingencies. SIT S, OSS; total, 81, $685.
96S. President ST. Barney. OF the Man
kato board of trade, claims that So, $780,,
QUO worth OF products would be shipped
by water annually were the Minnesota
navigable and the present freight rates re-
cuced 20 per cent.
Deputy Surveyor Sinclair, who has just
returned from a trip through the upper
Mississippi lumber camps, estimates this
seasons shortage in the log cut at about
20 per cent. The season has been an I'M
usually bad one. February having been
the only month at all favorable to the
logging interests.
A technicality in the printed form OF
certain ballots used at the recent Brain
erd election has been discovered II thrown
out, it would result in sending Mrs C.. F.
Kindred, Mrs. Capt. Won and Mrs.
Florence Potter as members OF the board
OF education.
Flames in Gustave Heinman's dry-goods
store at ST. Paul, Mimi, caused a loss OF
$4,000.
The citizens OF Ellen Lake have petition
ed Congress for the passage OF the per
diem" pension bill.
Somebody in st. Paul iocularly sent a
telegram to Mayor Hewitt, OF New York,
Offering assistance to the distressed people
OF that blizzardy city, and the Mayor
thanks the people of St. Paul for their
good intention, but says they can get
along without outside aid. Mayor Smith
is considerably exercised over the sending
OF the original telegram, and characterizes
1T IN his blunt fashion as "a piece OF fool
ishness.' Gotham's mayor it appears,
failed to see the point OF the witticsm,,
and took the coincidence in downright
earnest. 50
B. Frank, a millinery dealer OF Winona,
assigned to Chas Nockin. His liabilities
are twenty five hundred dollars, and his
assets little less.
A large majority OF Flour City ministers
object to the hanging OF Barrett, contend.
ing that he should be imprisoned for life.
The attorney general has decided that
school trustees must pay teachers without
deduction for holidays. He says: 81 sug-
gest that you advise the trustees that they
are, under the law, required TO pay for
teaching on those days, the same as though
school had been heidi
State Treasurer Bobleter has COM
pleted a statement OF the interest received
by various banks throughout the state
for the month OF February. The state
ment is as follows: Commercial National
bank, S144.73; Merchants National,
S142.1O; Germania bank, 10; Bank OF
Minnesota, $13S.42; National German
American bank, $132.47; st. Paul Nation
al, S54.3S; Security bank, $35.93; State
bank, S35.92; Peoples bank, SCOTS;
Scandal bank, SlS.9S; First National
Bank OF Faribault, SLABS; Scandinavian-
American bank S13.97; total, S9o6.47.
The Universalist church at Rochester
has been holding successful revival SER
vices.
Dakota county draws S2,951.2S from
the spring apportionment OF the school
fund, the basis being 4,O99.
A state teachers institute for Wabasha
county will be held at Lake City during the
week commencing March 10.
County Superintendent Ryan will ex-
anime teachers at places and on dates as
follows: Lake City, March "a; Melville,
March rs; Mazeppa March 27; Wabasha,
March 20; Plainview March 81.
In the district court j. r. Wyman OF
West Concord, Dodge county, was convict
ed OF selling liquor without a license and
sentenced to pay a fine OF 500 and costs
and thirty days imprisonment in Jail.
Michael Becker, convicted OF forgery, was
sentenced to the state prison for six
months.
p. A. Paradis, who has been editor Of
the Painville News for several years, will
commence the publication OF a periodical
in st. Paul. ''The Word is to belts name,
and it will treat OF political economy.
The G. & N. W. railway officers at Roch.
ester, have been notified not to
ship any live stock or perishable goods to
Chicago or elsewhere, as trouble with the
engineers is feared.
The Democratic State convention will
be held in St. Paul on May II, at II
o'clock noon.
Herman Abbes, who recently shot him.
self in Cincinnati, was employed by county
auditor Vossburg of St. Cloud for few
weeks.
Faribault is to ha We large canning es-
Enlistment in time to care for the next
crop OF vegetables and fruit.
Albert Fay recently died at Hastings,
aged fifty five years.
Fred Skillman, aged twenty-four years,
recently died at Zumbrota.
]. w. Daniels. OF Cloquet. is said to
have proved up the first claim ever settled
at the head Of Lake Superior. It was in
1858, and the claim quarter section III
the heart OF West Superior, which is now
worth 100000.
In the District Court at Little Falls,
Judge Searls sentenced Valentine West
racht to a second term in the penitentia-
ry for rape. His first term was for two
years. and expired two years ago. Now
he gets the full limit OF the law, 80 years.
He is forty years DID,
The vile OF Banker kurtze of Moorehead
died suddenly OF disease OF the heart.
Judge Severance appointed George T..