New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-12-26
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.


The young ladies of Anoka have
organized a toboggan club.
A farmers institute will be held at
Currie in the near future
w. S. Conrod will on January l re-
move his wholesale tobacco house
from Saltwater to st. Paul
The average daily attendance of
pupils in the Winona schools during
the past month was / oil
Several young men at Austin have
organized the Nineteeth Century club
for literary Improvement.
The Moorhead Reading Room as
ISOLATION has been organized and
money has been raised to open and
furnish rooms
H.O Buehholz, a saloonkeeper OF
Red Wing, was fined $54 in Justice
Graham S court for selling liquor to
an habitual drunkard
Arrangements are being made for
holding a grand ski tournament at
Red Wing some time during January
or February under the auspices OF
the Aurora Ski club.
George Thompson, one Of the men
who went through Thielman's hard.
ware store at St. Cloud last fail, was
found guilty of grand larceny in the
first degree. The jury was out about
five minutes.
Adelheid Jams, adopted .daugh-
ter of Michael Schneider of Marshan,
aged ten years, has been committed
to the reform school by justice New
ell of Hastings upon a charge of Vi
cious and incorrigible conduct.
The pole of W. Fl. Cowan's wagon
dropped when coming down hill near
OWatonna, and wagon and all went
over an embankment. Cowan was
seriously hurt, having his upper jaw
broken in several places, and it is
thought he is injured internally.
The village council of Willmar has
fixed the saloon license for next. year
at $500, and limiting the number of
saloons to four. Under a license of
$500 last year seven saloons took
out license, while under a $2OOlicense
for So we had eleven saloons,
Themembers of John Ball post, G.
A. R. of Winona, gave a very pleas
ant benefit entertainment for the
benefit of Mr.. Hale, one of theirnum-
Der, who was injured at the time of
the Republican ratification here by
the premature discharge ola cannon.
There was a large attendance, and
the affair proved a financial and So
cial success. A feature of the evening
was the bidding off of baskets for the
refreshments.
Luverne suffered from a disastrous
fire. The buildings were occupied as
follows: FL. 3. Kilgore, drug store,
books and stationery, loss about
$4,000, partially insured; j. I'll.
Doble; cigars and tobacco, nearly all
the stock and furniture was lost; j.
I'll. Graft, ready-made clothing, about
tWo-thirds saved, insured for So 900;
building insured.
At a special meeting of the county
o<,,,, r,;cc;o,opo of JVroo,.s
the bondsmen OF Treasurer Charles
Mckenna met to adjust the claims OF
the county against them. 1t is re
ported by several prominent citizens
that this meeting was ostensibly
to compromise with the bondsmen.
The bondsmen are. responsible for
about 81 900, and the public senti-
ment is that they shall makeitgoo
The nominations sent to the senate
include that of Joseph Kronenberg,
Jr, who was nominated for register
of the land Office at Taylor's Falls,
Mimi, in place of Lucas K. Stanard,
whose term has expired. Mr.. Kron-
enberg comes from Sandstone, Pine
county, Mimi, and is backed by Hon.
Dan Lockwood ofBuffalo N. Y; John
f. Stone of Pine City, Mimi. Edward
Jackson, chairman of the county
committee; James Hurley, clerk Of
the courts; j. D. Markham of Rush
City and Congressman Edmund Rice.
The pay of the office is 81 ,61S per
annum.
Thomas Brown, the man who shot
Policeman Poull at Moorhead, is in
jail. although it is not generally
known. Upon being taken back from
Minneapolis another attempt was
made by the Moorhead people to
lynch him, and he was sent down
there for safe keeping. A constant
watch is kept over him and lie is al
lowed no privileges whatever. He
has fully recovered from his bullet
wounds. His trial occurs next month,
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