New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-15
Miscellaneous News Items.

Duluth, Mimi, is in the throes ofalaborer's
strike, and business is more or less paralyzed
in consequences of the cessation of work on
public Improvement and the boisterous de.
monstrations that are daily taking place.
The drug store of Henry Pfeiffer at Cedar
Falls, Iowa, was visited by the sheriff and
about 81, 500 worth of liquors taken, among
which were forty barrels Of beer. Pfeiffer was
selling under permit and was doing whole.
sale as well as aretail business He proposes
to resist the confscation of the liquor in the
courts, and will, it is said, plead the right to
sell in original packages.
/. Agent Shehan of the w hite Earth reservation
has made a tour Of the region where the In
dians are now picking berries, which extends
from Wadena to half way from this place to
Duluth, more than 90 miles, and saws all is
going exceedingly well, with hardly COM
plant. In the aggregate he says, there are
over 3, 900 Indians gathering the berry crop,
which will bring them this year about 500
600. Marshall Campbell arrested a ian
named Crowley and took him to Moorhead
for examination for selling Whiskey to the
Indians
The Indication after the arguments in be-
half of Maxwell before Gov. Morehouse of
Missouri, were that he would not hang on
Friday. A large share of the speech of A. j.
c. Garesche, one of MaxwelPs attorneys, was
devoted to the subject of International cour-
tesy, and evidently it made good impress
sion. The governor said he would not grant
a respite on any other grounds than the re-
quest of the British government for ample
time to make such inquiry as may be deemed
necessary, and there is little doubt that he
will accede to the request.
In few days about $13, 900 will be paid
to the Winnebago Indians at Black River
Falls, MINI. Some of the tribe have been
paid $4,000 at Eland Junction, and about
$1,000 is now being distributed at Tomah
One thousand three hundred ard sixty six
Indians are now on the pay roll, these in
Guiding full and half-breeds. Nothing less
than this receives anything. Three thousand
dollars will be extended next year by the
government to assist them on their farms,
and Sal 900 in cash has been appropriated,
which will give them over $50 each.
Chief Engineer Latcha, ofthe Duluth, South
Shore 4 Atlantic railway, has just received
instructions from ice-President Calvin S..
Brice, of New York, to go ahead at once and
build the road into Duluth. The road now
connects with the Northern Pacific at Iron
river and it had been the intention of the
South Shore to use the line into Duluth.
The recent change in the management of the
Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic has caused
the Northern P acifc people to notfeel inclined
to put themselves out to accommodate the
new manager. The work of completing the
line to Duluth will be pushed as fast as pos.
sible.
Immediately after Mrs. Rawson, the Chicago
bankers wife, of divorce and shooting
notoriety, secured her release from the coun-
ty jail a few weeks ago, she was taken by
her friends to a Wisconsin watering place.
But her stay at the summer resort was short,
as a paralytic affection of the hands and feet
began to develop itself, and her immediate
removal to Chicago became necessary Par
tial paralysis of both hands and feet has
now set in and the unfortunate woman cam
not use her hands even to sign legal docu-
ments. The attendant physicians fear she
may lose the use of her feet and hands per-
manently. Her condition is attributed to
her imprisonment and the damp condition
of the Jail.
Two prospectors came it to Livingston, M.
T., from the Boulder country, bringing with
| them buckskin bag containing over 50, 900
in gold, which they had pounded out with
sledge hammers on fat rocks. They also
brought the richest specimen of quartz prob
ably ever seen in the territory. The speci-
men was about the size of an ordinary cocoa
nut, SO soft that it could be pounded with a
hammer, and was full Of fine wire gold,
plainly visible to the naked eye The Boulder
district has, until within a comparatively
| recent time, been a part of the Crow Indian
reservation, but it is now open to settlement.
The prospectors say itpromises to be one OF
the richest natural mineral districts in this
| part of the country.
man about thirty two was picked up on
| the street at Washington City by the police
and was taken to the hospital, where he
| died soon after. Death was caused by the
severe heat 1t appears that he was for
| years connected with the United States
army, and that he was discharged last
| January under the name of Frederick Nc
Cullock. 1T also appears that his real
name was Philip Irving Thurber, and that
he was member of a prominent Detroit
family. 1t is said that he joined the army
ceased was that he would neither receive nor
write letters. IF letters were handed to
him he would tear them up without perusal.
These facts about the dead man were told
| by a meulhe of the Third artl IlerY now ajH.