New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-18
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Fifteen hundred people signed the Murphy
pledge at Waterloo recently.
The residents of Kingsley will vote on their.
preference for postmaster.
Colfax is trying to secure the location at
that point of the blind asylum to be built
this winter
The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces that
it is in favor of female suffrage, first, last and
all the time.
In the recent Billings trial, at Waterloo,
the attorneys for. the prosecution received
$1,O5O, while the lawyers for the defense
were only allowed $50 by the county.
In drunken brawl in Burlington saloon
Fred Peterson was struck on the head with
chair, receiving injuries which are expected
to prove fatal.
A red fox worked up the people of Webster
City by quietly trotting through the princi-
pal street and disappearing before the in
habitants could get their guns
A couple of young men named Duncan and
O'Dell were arrested at Doom for illegal Ii
quor selling. The former was fined $500
and costs and the latter 500 and costs.
In skirnish with the Sally alton army at
Charlton a young hoodlum named Belknap
hit the captain of the army in the face with
a brick, seriously injuring him. BelAnap
skipped out to avoid arrest.
Prof W T. T oster, the Iowa weather proph-
ct, editor of the Creston Gazette has sold his
interest in the Gazette to Senator j. B.
Harsh, and will go on the editorial staff OF
the Osceola Republican.
At Davenport Mike Witty stole DO ok
from the Office of DR.. De Almond, and was
arrested, tried and sentenced to thirty days
| in jail the whole circumst ance taking place
within half an hour.
Masked robbers entered the farm house OF
Fred Stoodt, near Wiota, and demanded
money. Mrs. Stoodt gave them purse con-
tanning So. When they departed an alarm
was given and the robbers were hunted oil
night, but not found
Charles Steerer. aged Is, was arrested at
Lamont for burglarizing the Chicago st.
P aul and Kansas City railroad depot at
Aurora on Dece mber 4. A fur overcoat and
i fifty-one railroad tickets were found in his
/ possession. He pleads gu lily.
The co lored women of Des Moines are tax.
/ ing an active interest in the equal suffrage
| movement, and parlor meetings are being
i held weekly. Arrangements are being ma de
to organize permanent society, which will
/ be followed by Others in different parts OF
/ the state.
The elopement case in which the sheriff at
Dubuque played such a prominent part, has
come to a happy termina ton. A few days
ago, Mr.. Delano, the father Of the bride, ar
rived in that city, and after a long conversa-
ton with the interested parties gave consent
to the marriage.
A Swede named Svondahl, ofStory county,
while on his way home from Des Moines the
other night was stopped by four men, who
| took possession of his wagon and, after driv-
/ ing it some distance, unloaded it OF $16.TO
/ orth of groceries and left the team standing
in the road.
At Richmond, Washington county, Mrs.
Lewis Duwa, while changing her dress acct
dentally knocked shotgun from the wall,
discharging it, the contents taking effect in
her cheek and extending to the top OF her
head. She died without regaining conscious
/ ness.
Charles S. King, editor of the Ogden, Utah,
Daily Union, who was shot and wounded by
a Mormon desperate was at one time a resi-
dent of Marshalltow where he has two BROTH
ers now living. A letter was received by
them stating that their brother is rapidly
recovering and that his assailant is under
arrest, with chances of a long term of impris-
onment.
i A gang of burglars are making their head
i quarters in Des Moines just no8. Several
bold robberies have occurred lately. One
night the outer door of the safe in Gordon's
i grocery store was blown off, but the robbers
were frightened away before they could COM
plete the job. A whole kit of tools were left
behind.