New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-01-30
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF.

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iron working concern for Duluth
have been about completed.
The Polish and Swedish settlers
at Sturgeon Lake contemplate build
ing two churches in the spring.
The city council at Winona is con-
sidering the subject of a system OF
sewers. The estimated cost of sat
isfactory system is 100000.
Accompany with 100000 capital
has been organized at Duluth for the
| purpose of furnishing the city with
water from Pike lake.
Some educated prisoner in the
Saltwater penitentiary will be de-
| tailed to give one hours instruction
daily to his fellow prisoners who are
unable to read and write.
| Martin Olson, a Swede was ad-
judged insane at Moorhead by Judge
of Probate III. G. Finnie and sent to
ST. Peter for treatment. Olson is an
old resident of Clay county.
A Lake city special says that
many farmers in Wabasha county
will not be able to put in wheat this
year unless they are assisted in pur-
chasing seed.
A large number of men at Sank
Center are making their living this
winter by catching fish through the
ice. Hundreds of pounds are be-
ing caught and shipped daily.
W. II. Brink, the St. Paul contrac-
tor, has finished work on the 500
barrel Touring mill at Little Falls,
and is figuring on the work ofraising
the bridge across the Mississippi,
The trial Of John E. Shea, of Glyn-
don, indicted for arson, has been
finished, the defendant being ac-
Quilted. Shea was charged with be-
ing the author Of some of the recent
fires in Glyndon.
The Sank Rapids Sentinel comes
out for consolidation ofSauk Rapids,
East ST. Cloud and st. Cloud under
the name Of ST. Cloud, and also the
eastern part of Stearns county with
Benton county under the name OF
Benton county.
Scott 6 Holston, sash and door
manufacturers, of Duluth, inaugu
rated a system of division of profit
among their employees. One thousand
dollars was divided among all the
men who had been in their service
over a year, according to the rate Of
wages received.
Oscar Nord, the fourteen-year old
boy who disappeared from home at
Red Wing, has been several miles west
Of town, on the Red Wing and Hast
ings road. 1t is now known to a
certainty that he ran away from
home
A better supply of ice canprobably
be had from Lake Pepin this winter
than from any body OF water in this
section Of the country. It is now
fourteen inches thick and solid. tits
expected that several Southern firms
will obtain their icesupply from Lake
Pepin.
A sensation was created at Austin
by the arrest of J. D. Tenant
charged with keeping a gambling
room in the Odd Fellows block. In.
teresting developments are promised
at the examination, as it is said that
many prominent citizens have FIRE.
quented the place.
The news of ther Mt committal
DR.. Cart to the Sioux City jail was
read with interest at Howard Lake
A gentleman Of that name and pro
fession visited Wright county foul
years ago and made a briefstay. He
claimed to be a Minneapolis million
aire p possessed of real estate in the
sawdust City valued at 100000, be-
sides having the largest practice O
any physician there. Heprofessed to
be in search of Indian curiosities to
furnish material for an important
book. After mourning heavy debts
in saloons and hotels, taking in all
who trusted him and quilting thepub.
lie generally, he was discovered to be
fraud Of the worst description, and
finally he skipped out OH account OF
female entanglements. The newspa
per reports of Dr. CARTS. doings in
Sioux City and Dakota are very sim
liar to the tricks, misrepresentation
and quackery practiced in Minnesota
By the action Of the city council OF
Winona the city officials are author
lied to issue bonds to the amount Of
500, 900 to the Winona & South
western Railway company, payable
at the National Park bank, New Y ork,
in bonds. of 81 900 each. No opposi