New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-17
MINNESOTA CUJLLINGS.

- = = " W. 5AA COLLl4NOkJs
The News Of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.
DR.. $. B. Newell was given a coat
OF tar and feathers by Slayton citi-
zens for beating his wife.
Seven saloons in Wells have paid
IN their $500 each for license for
another year This is an increase OF
one over last year.
Burton Van Camp, a young lad
living near Marion, has been taken
to the reform school for incorrioi-
blllty and misbehavior.
Charles Burg, who lives about four
miles from Dundas, has been arrested
charged with having run a e.blind
pig
A fire in the docks of the St. Paul
and Pacific Coal company, near
Duluth, destroyed 100000 worth Of
property.
G. M. Morris, a colored attorney,
was admitted to the supreme court
to practice law in the courts of Min
nesota on a certificate from the IL
llnois supreme court.
The city council OF St. Cloud has
issued twenty-four liquor licenses for
the year beginning July l. This
number, at $500 each, enriches the
city treasury by $4,000.
William Ball is the name of a wife
beaten in St. Paul He stole so cents
from his brother, which he invested
IN booze, and the brutal attack on
his wife followed.
August Brokoff had both legs bad
~ crushed and Albert Pralzy and
John kowanitzi were injured by the
falling of a wall in the Huff house at
Winona.
The contract for one wing of the
new St. Benedict's hospital in St.
Cloud, to cost $4,000, has been let.
The whole building will cost about
$4,000.
q. W. Peet, of st. Paul, was elected
trustee of Amherst college. There
were two vacancies to be filled by the
alumni, for which places there were
over 800 candidates.
Hon. c. E. Forbes, county attor-
ney of Lynn county and member of
the legislature from the Marshal dis
trict, died at his home in Marshall.
He was ~ years old.
No cars are running on the Anoka
street railroad owing to complica-
tions which have arisen from sale
and attempted transfer of the road
and rolling stock, including horse
power.
S. A. Wonder Sluis, a Hollander,
suicided in ST. Paul. He had embez-
zled $26 from his employer, and the
tear OF arrest so preyed upon his
mind he concluded to end his misery
and did it.
A lad named Louis Leroy, living at
Brainerd, lost both thumbs and the
index fingers from both hands by the
premature explosion OF a dynamite
cartridge Pieces of the shell severe
ly cut his mother.
A few days ago the house of Mrs.
Nicolas Iden, of the town of Minden,
Benton county, was ransacked by
burglars and all the jewelry and 9th
er articles Of value, amounting to
$500, carried off.
In digging a well on the farm of A
j. johnson, near Cannon Falls, some
rocks were secured at a depth of
fifty-eight feet which contain par
ticles said by those who, are ac-
quainted with the matter to be gold
DR.. DeCourcey, of ST Cloud, was
fined IS and costs for neglecting to
notify the board of health of case
of scarlet fever. The doctor made
the surprising excuse that the dis
ease is not contagious.
Tom Carlin, who assaulted his
mother-in-law, Gertrude Christopher
son, last March, and arrested at Du-
luth, was sentenced at Moorhead, to
two and a half years at Saltwater.
He now claims thee name of Samuel
Torrance Johnston.
Miss Ida Phillips, lately a mission
airy to India, and sister-in-law of
President Marshall, of the Free Bar
list college at Winnebago City, fell
from the bridge over the Blue Earth
river near the college grounds and
was drowned.
Robert Wiley, a young man living
near Rushmore, was about quitting