New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-18
IN THE NORTHWEST
"A Summary of the Important
/, Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

. MINNESOTA.
aThe school enrolment of St. Paul increased
200 over 1888
Il Jenny Whalen, of Winona, while intoxicat-
ed was run over by a Burlington and North
ern train and cut ip two.
( The city hall and courthouse at St. Paul
cost over $1,00O,00O.
3 At st. Cloud Earl Goddard, aged 10,
pleaded guilty of highway robbery.
BY the accidental discharge of his shotgun
& while hunting bartholomew Vavry, Of Mont
I gomery, was shot through the head and in
. stantly killed.
At Harrington, August Smith, while care.
le4sly handling a revolver, shot William
Butts through! the heart, killing him Instant
W'he house of Geo. II. Meyers, at Winona,
was burned. Mrs. Meyers narrowly escaped
with her life and Meyers got his children in
his arms justas the walls fell. His loss is
$4,000, with 81 500 insurance.
Considerable comment is excited in Mime
apolls at the verdict of the coroner's jury in
the Tribune catastrophe, which failed to find
anyone responsible for the lack of proper
escapes in case of fire.
Emile Johnson, twenty-five years of age,
was killed by tree falling on him while work
ing in the woods for Tozer Mcclure & Co., on
1.-THE upper Snake river. His body was taken
to Saltwater, where he lived.
Bartholomew Vavry of Montgomery was
hunting mink with shotgun when it was
accidently discharged, killing him instantly
The load passing up under his chin. He was
twe1Ey-o one years old and unmarried.
deaf mute, about twenty-five years old,
while walking on the track near Aurora was
struck by freight train and instantly killed
He was thrown fifty feet and had his neck
broken
Ida Stowellis one of the most successful
real estate agents in st. Paul, and recently
sold one lot for $4,000 She was originally
"a school teacher, and made her first purchase
with what she had saved from her meager
SALARY.
Bert Harrington and Peter Bjornstrom,
two farmers living near Wadena, were run
5over by train while crossing the track at
Y ork Mills in wagon and fatally injured.
There we're five men in the wagon altogether,
but the other three escaped injury.
A writ of habeas corpus has been obtained
from Judge Crosby commanding Sheriff
Anderson to bring before him. at Hastings
Harry Hurl, one of the Salvation Army
SToldiers confined in jail. and show cause, if
any, why said Hurl should not be released.
The little son of Martin Kutzen, q farmer
Z living near Arcadia, while playing with
matches set fire to the house. All the build
ings on the place we're burned, together with
a large quantity of hay and grain. The loss
is $500. The insurance expired two days
before the fire.
Eugene Nichols a carpenter working in
the building which covers the reservoir Of the
water works at Chatfield, fell from scaffold
to the stone floor, a distance Of twenty feet.
His collar bone was broken, shoulder dislO-
Gated and two ribs broken. He also received
Internal injuries. He is not expected to re-
cover
The inhabitants of Fair Haven, which is
in Stearns county, find a subject of unlimited
interest in the recent GOLD discoveries in the
immediate neighborhood. Ever since the
discovery of few particles of the yellow
stuff by a farmer some months ago agricul-
tural matters became of secondary import
ance.
Frank Thatcher, q prosperous young IN
married farmer of Lake George town, Stearns
county, was found dead in bed by neighbors,
having evidently expired five or six days be-
fore. Heart disease is ascribed as the eau Sc,
there being no evidences of foul play.
Passers-by were first attracted by noises
heard in the stable, and upon investigation
the cattle and horses were found in starv-
ing condition.
Michael Scheber, recent arrival from
Bavaria, Germany, was arrested in Mime
apolis on the charge of committing a
double murderin Bavaria two months ago.
Schieber came to Minnesota abouttwo weeks
ago and hired out farm hand near that
city. His employer, who is a German, read
an account of the murders in German news
paper, which also gave description of the
murderer and gave information to the po-
lice. Schieber confessed to the crime
In the Tribune fire investigation before the
coroner in Minneapolis, Frank Hoover, one
of the printers who escaped from the burning
building, testified that the owners of the
building had been petitioned on several oc
casions to provide adequate means of es
cape in case of fire, but had paid no attention
to the petitions, and that the printers hac
then resolved in case any of their number
lost their lives in consequence of the negli
gence of the owners to have "a life for life. }