New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-19
Rain on Saturday last and a Sprin,
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Scots. at w. Eibner.
Mr. o. S. Robinson, an old CaIifor.
nian, was in the city over Monday.
The Teachers Rural Association met
at the Court House last Saturday to
transact current business.
Mr.. Hubert Hillesheim, of the town
of SigeL, has been granted an increase
of pension.
We understand that the village Of
Sleepy Eye has adopted the proposition
made it by Turner, the electric light
man.
The County Auditor has completed
the tax duplicates for 1888; the same vii
be turned over to the County Treasure
on the first Monday in January.
The repeated rendition of .'Ma1hilde
was greeted by fair audience last Sun
day at Turner Hall, and the actors, who
exerted themselves, were fattered by
applause.
Mr.. Fritz Keller, formerly engaged as
a butcher, has opened new and well
provided shop in the building next to
Hottinger's soloon. Thus the lower city
becomes supplied with all it wants in
this line.
The measles have epidemically APP
peared in this as in other cities, and
our schools are visited at present by but
half the usual number of pupils. Adults
have in some instances caught the dis
ease, but as yet no case has been re-
ported fatal.
Elsewhere we publish the newly
drawn ordinance in favor Of the cree
ton of an electric light plant in this
city. The builder, Mr.. Turner, is ex-
pected to begin work at once and our
merchants are looking forward to the
completion of plans with pleasure.
c. w. H. Heideman, the newly cleo
ted secretary of the Board of Trade,
walked around with broken ribs for sew
eral days before he discovered what
allied him. He fell on a slippery side
walk about week ago and experienced
pain in the side since, but not till the
doctors examination did he discover
how seriously he was hurt. Charlie,
brace up, your baggage is checked for
st. Paul.
With brand new devil in the office,
one that whistles like a threshing en-.
CINE in a four-stack setting; with a new
Office in process of erection, and several
home made poems on our copy-hook,
the Trumpet editor has heen driven al
most crazy this week. There is but one
combination of nuisances that could
compare with the above, and that is a
squalling kid on washday. Possessors
of the latter please sympathize.
Last Saturday afternoon the body OF
an unknown man was found by brake.
man in ear of grain on freight train
No rs, near Traverse siding. The car
was side tracked at st. Peter where q
coroner's inquest was held; the jury
found that the man was smothered tc
death while enroute in car of wheat
When found he lay on his face with his
head buried in the wheat. He was com
fortably dressed, but had no coat on
He is supposed to be a railroad mar
from the fact that the thumb and index
finger of his left hand are gone. The
car was shipped from Carthage, Dakota
on the 18th inst. The car was sealed
and the mans identity and mode of en-
trance into the car are mystery.
A person by the name of Schleinin
ger, posing as discharged engineer o.
the G. B. & @. Ry., a medical student
of a of St. Paul physician, and 8
follower of divers other occupations,
proved himself quite an adept at steal
ing last Sunday afternoon, when he sly
ly entered the second floor Office of DR.
j. L. Schoch, in Klossner's new block,
and made away with his instrument
case. A lady across the street saw him
walk away with the doctors familiar
satchel and notified Marshal Rosskop1
who upon drawing DR.. Schoch's atten'
ton to the matter, learned that the
satchel was indeed stolen and was not
slow in searching for and arresting the
somewhat forlorn son of Aesculapius.
He was placed in jail and conducted out
of town the next morning.
Winthrop people were somewhat
startled by an alarm of fire Friday
morning, between 9 and 10 o'clock,
caused by a small confagration in the