New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-14
MINNESOTA In BRIEF.

The new Austin terra Gotta works
has just completed its first kiln.
The public school at jackson is
now divided into four departments.
The LIE Roy creamy is paying out
Sd, 900 cash every month for cream.
James Lynn and Thomas French
We're convicted of selling adulterated
milk at Red Wing.
The railroad elevator at Hastings
shipped 100000 bushels of wheat
during the past month.
j. J Melon aid, Saltwater youth,
has been fined $50 and costs for slap
ping a lady's face.
The project for the new Masonic
temple at Winona is gaining strength.
Stock to the amount of $4,000 has
already been subscribed
The Carleton senior class at North
field has arranged for a course of lee
lures by Leon II. Vincent.
David J. Thomas,aged twenty-five,
single, while working in well at
Minneopa, Blue Earth county was
suffocated by foul air.
A young man named Lockwood of
Minneapolis, who was visiting his
mother in Empire, Dakota county,
was killed by a runaway.
While section men were burning
grass around the railroad bridge
at Marshall a three-year-old child of
A. Christian3on S ran into the flames,
burning it so severely that it's recoy-
cry is doubtful.
The West Duluth brick works have
closed down for the season. During
the winter the capacity of the works
will be doubled and a complete sys-
fem of steam heating will be put in,
requiring Is, 900 feet of pipe.
Two Workm an on the Lutheran
church at Sank Rapids were dropped
by detective scaffolding twenty feet,
one named Meiske receiving a COM
pound fracture of the leg and his
companion, Peter Nelson, internal
injuries.
Ed Regain Of Deer Creek Stearns
county, is charged with having stolen
a horse and sulky belonging to John
Helton. The horse was standing in
front of a store on the main street.
Regain was captured after an excit-
ing chase.
A young man named W. NJ Ray
mon, who has been working in the
tailoring establishment of L. Back
storem, at Pipestone, left the town.
Taking with him a new suit of
clothes valued at $50, a $40 over
coat and a revolver, all belonging to
his employer.
JOS. Kuspau, an old settler aged
Is years of Fergus Falls committed
suicide by blowing his head off. He
built a fire near the river bank,
loaded up an old gun, stuck one end
in the fire and held the other up to
his face. The heat soon discharged
the gun, killing him instantly.
Mrs. George w. Battles, of Still
water, is circulating apetition for the
pardon Of Henry Taylor. Over eight
years ago Taylor was convicted at
Duluth for numbering an Indian and
sentenced for life. The sentence was
subsequently committed to ten years.
The convict has now about eighteen
months to serve
Victims of the prairie fire in Sioux
Valley township, Jackson county,
were Mrs. Molly O'Connor, wife Of
John O'Connor, her sister, Mrs. Kate
Porter, of Ohio, and Mrs, O'Connor's
baby. The ladies were visiting at a.
neighbours when the fire came up and
were caught by the flames while at
tempting to reach their home. Henry
Ray the young man who was so bad
ly burned, has since died. Miss Julia
O,Connor. who was teaching school,
saved her pupils by leading them to
a piece ofploWed ground until the fire
had passed.
Theelecti onin st. Paul showed con-
clusively that, under the existing cir
cumstances, the new election law is
not a complete success. While there
is no doubt thatit precludes any pos
sibility of fraud, as a time-saving in
stitution it is remarkably deficient.
In some of the districts, where the to-
tai registration was less than 500, it
worked comparatively well, but in
the districts where the registration
was between nine hundred and thou
sand, many were turned away with
out being able to cast their votes be-
cause ofthe sloWness in the judges in
receiving the ballots. In the smaller
districts, where thejudges were young
and native born Americans, Quick. to
catch name and to find itin the lists.