New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-05-29

st. Peter HASN'T as yet appointed q
meat Inspector.
Company H, Of Blue Earth City, has
been mustered out OF service. They
failed to pass a satisfactory inspection.
The semi-annual encampment of the
department of Minnesota G.. A. r. will
held at Litchheld on June II, Is and 19.
Gov. Merriam will be present at the
commencement exercises of the Man
kato normal school.
Queen Victoria celebrated her seven
tieth birthday anniversary last Friday
She is still vigorous and in excellent
health.
Freddie Smith, a thirteen year old son
of Mrs. G. D. Smith of Mankato acci-
dentally shot himself on Friday. He
was out hunting squirrels and in climb
ing over fence the rifle was in some
manner discharged, the bullet strikin Q
him in the head. He died in an hour
after the accident.
The Tracy Trumpet says that Marvin
Carver who was the candidate for ap-
pointment to the naval academy at Ann
apolis failed to passed the final ex-
animation for admission to the school.
He was lacking in physical and not
educational qualifications.
Mankato claims that knitting and
milk pail factories are assured facts for
that place. Why can't New Ulm Sc
cure few more manufacturing indus
tries. She possesses the very best ad.
vantages and inducements and what
should keep her back?
The law requiring weights and meas
ures TO be sealed every year was amend
ed by the last legislature by striking out
the words ION or before the first day of
June. annually" It is believed that
this requires all weights and measures
to be sealed within one year of the time
they were previously sealed.
Adjt. Gen. Mullen has issued an or
der to the effect that the officers and
members of the national guard will be
held responsible for all state or govern
ment property under their control.
Hereafter no officers resignation will
be accepted by the adjutant until the
officer resigning shall certify that he is
not liable to the state for any property.
At Mankato last week, working men
who were excavating for sewer on one
of the Streets encountered the bones OF
some large preglacial animal. The
bones were found at depth of 16 feet.
and were in fair state of preservation.
Similar remains were found in an exca-
vation near by. Those versed in such
matters say the bones have remained
there for thousands Of years. They
must have belonged to some animal of
great size and immense strength. They
are attracting much attention from the
students of natural history.
A couple of shrewdly devised swim
dlers in this and adjoining counties
have lately come to light. One Of these
was perpetrated by man pretending
to give recipe for making frt-class
butter, for which tubs were to be sent
here and elsewhere by a certain date,
and the butter was to be packed, put
several feet under ground and kept un-
til fall, when the agent would receive it
and pay % cents per pound for it. A
note was then taken under the guise of
being a copy of the contract for butter,
and this note, representing three to five
dollars, as the case was believed to bear,
was sold and the agent went to new
fields. 1t is thought grom $1,000 to
500 were taken from the farmers in
| this, Sibley and Nicollet counties on this
trick. The other swindle was done by a
man who professed to be taking orders
for binding twine for a milwaukee house,
at 16 cents per ID. A contract or order
was filled out and signed by a farmer
ordering twine, and q pretended receipt
was given for $500, which the farmer
thought would apply, from its reading
on the twine order when filed; bu
which proved to be a simple receipt fol
the money given to the stranger, who
operated in Sibley, Nicollet and Brown
count;es.-LE SUEUR SENTINEL.
New ulm Markets.
Oats. ........... 2;
Corn 2.
Potatoes q