New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-06-27


and lodged in Jail. On returning from New
York short time ago DR.. Hill discovered
that his Office had been robbed of about
$3.50 worth OF valuable instruments.
Near Black. River Falls. Wis, freight
train on the Chicago, st. Paul, Minneap-
oils % Omaharoad ran into an OK, caus-
ing the wreck of the tender and seventeen
empty cars. The engineer and fireman
both jumped and were uniniured. One of
the brakemen had a leg broken. A
car containing household goods. a cow
calf and two men left the track, but as
not overturned. 1t caused a. delay OF
about six hours.
Hon. John TT. Brown was killed by
lightning as he was. returning from Daw-
son to his home in Providence Mimi He
was found dead on the prairie by some
neighbors who carried his remains home
One OF the horses was SO badly shocked
that it will die. Mr.. Brown was one of the
Oldest settlers OF the county and repre-.
sented his district in the last legislature.
He was about seventy years ofag e.
William Housang, who stabbed Fred
Gouike on June 10 at a wedding near
Wausau, Wis, was brought before Judge
Crosby and acquitted. The stabbing was
accidental. There is no hope for Goulke's
recovery.
A most desperate case OF highway rob-
berry occurred at Marquette, Mich,
Louis Clode, a sa1oonkeeper, on his way
home was assaulted and robbed of $3.50
in cash and nego liable papers valued at
$3.50. The weapon used was supposed to.
be railroad coupling pin. He is danger
ously injured and horribly disfgured.
Four young men Of Lake Linden, Mich.
started out Tor a sail. They were Freddie
Kraz, Peter Morrison, Charles Anderson
and John Cameron. The boat eapsized
Cameron was caught in the sail and
drowned Immediately. Anderson chung 8
the boat until he could hold on no longer
and sank. The other two cIung to the
boat all night and we're cast ashore nine
miles from a house, and were forced to
make their way through a wilderness Of
woods not reaching civil cation till late
next day.
1t is now thirty DAYS since ohm Zachar,
the Caledonian faster OF Racine, Wis. par
took OF food. There is no sham about
his case. The family physician states pos
itively that, to his own knowledge, Zaehar
has not taken one drop OF nourishment.
The last few days he has taken to sleeping
a good deal and does not take the exercise
he formerly did. He is very reticent and
quiet, and when told that his meals are
ready, merely says: when 1 want to eat,
I'll let you know"
Mrs: Henrietta Haberman suicided at
Duluth, Mimi. by taking whole box Of
''Rough on Rats She had quarreled
with her daughter and retired to the cellar,
where she was found gasping her last
Age 65 years.
Myriads OF grasshoppers have appeared
IN many parts OF Southern Indiana, and
| are deyouring all vegetation as they GO.
They destroy meadows first, then the
foliage OF trees. and next corn, oats and
garden vegetables. Tho usands OF acres of
meadows have been devastated by them.
monster verdict in the case OF Amber
against Rodney Whipple was entered In
Judge Clifford's court at Chicago 1t was
for 81, OO2, 491, OF which SGT, 434 was for
debt and $685. OPS for interest and costs
since 1880. Amber and Whipple formed
partnership in 1869 in Washington, D.
o., to manage a patent steam petroleum
| gas generator and Amber assigned his
hall interest in trust to Whipple. Suit
was brought by Amber, claimin viola
ton OF trust.
| In the British house OF commons Mr..
Edward Gourley inquired as to the truth
ofthe report that the United States gov
| eminent had sent armed cruisers to Beh-
ringsea to seize English seal fishermen. He
also asked IL the queens government had
sent q war ship to warn the masters of
British sealers OF the results OF infringing
upon the Alaskan fishing laws. Rt. Hon.
SIr james Ferguson, parliamentary secre-
tary OF the foreign Office, replied that so
lar as the government knew no such an
nouncement had been made by the Ameri-
/ can government. An order had been Civ
Ell from Washington that three British
vessels seized in 1886 be released to their
! owners. With regard to vessels selzed in
1887 the government had not heard that
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proceedings relating to all the seizures was
/ progressing.
The regents of the State university OF
| Wisconsin have determined to make a
number OF changes in the law department..
The annual appro priation has been in
creased from SIS, 900 to 1000 A dean.
ship was established and a salary OF
So, 500 voted. The dean has not vet been
named. The fees are increased from $75
! to $lOO.
| At Marquette, Michigan, man aged
about thirty, who had been there several
days, walked into the Hotel Marquette OF
| flee and babe the clerk good-day, saying he
was going away.ran lightly up stairs turn
| ed into the hrst I'm occupied m and swal-
! owed the contents OF a two ounce bottle
OF carbolic acid. dying almost instantly.
He left letters addressed to his wife. He
| registered under the name OF w. B. Nelson
but his real name is G. H. Spencer, and he
has wife living in Cleveland.
Lawyer A. S. Cole OF Nebraska CITY was
| arrested as he was coming from church on
charge Of intending to leave the country
with intent to defraud creditors. The de.
mand against him was 5000, which he
paid, and the next day left for Washing.
! ton Territory. Since then an attachment
was placed on his property for a. claim of
81, 700, which he collected in 1855 and
failed to turn over. Other matters are
coming up against him. His friends saw
he will return and settle. Cole is we'll
known through his alleged connection
with the escape OF Capt. Howgate.
| Plnkerton's detective force arrested Ex-
press Agent Huber at sunbury, Pa, for
stealing S29, 600 from the Adams Express
company August 20, 1886. The money
was shipped from Philadelphia to Shamo-
kin to pay employees OF the Mineral Mining
company. Six thousand dollars was in
| gold; the remainder was done up in pack
ages OF 81, 600 each. The money has Just
been found.
peculiar disease is epidemic among the
swine about Mason City, Iowa, and many
are dying. The first symptom is that the
tongue starts to decay and soon the en-
tire head is affected
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