New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-08-14
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LATE NEWS ITEMS.
+ The trial of the prisoners indicted for
the murder of Cronin, the Chicago
lrishman, has been set for August Is.
Senator Goodrich of Blue Earth
County is troubled with cancer OF the
stomach and is not expected to live
long.
| Tascott has been arrested in Texas.
This time it is the real Tascott, if those
who have captured him are to be be-
/ leived.
Gen. Mark D. Flower has resigned the
position of Inspector of steam vessels
and will retain his position as claims
agent of the St. Paul and Kansas City
railroad. O. M. Nelson, of Saltwater,
is the probable successor.
| Later and more substantial reports of
the Spokane Falls fire reduce the loss
to $10,000,0o0 but at this figure, consid-
ering the size of the town and the light
insurance, it is one Of the worst dis
asters on record.
| A Pennsylvania editor has discover
ed that everything in nature is playful.
He says, The tightening plays, the
wind whistles, the thunder rolls, the
snow flies, the waves leap, and the fields
smile. Even the trees shoot and the
rivers and streams run.
Steel rails are quoted in England at
$50 to f5 5s. q ton, equivalent to $26 25
Freight is 2 so a ton, making the rails
worth $2S.75 in New York city. Steel
rails are quoted in New York reports at
$27.50 and $500, or less than English
prices with freight added.
One of the biggest forgeries ever per-
petrated in the state was brought to
light in Minneapolis last week. It is
the case of young lawyer, named J.
f. Cullom, who has used the name of
j. t. Blaisdell, Minneapolis million
iare, in signing notes to the amount of
S236,0OO He has been engaged in his
business of forging for the past year
without being found out and when con-
fronted with proofs he admitted all,
or bod f< IN cn,f fn No 1tnr
ary.
Frank Whitney, of the Marshall News
Messenger, started last week on a 1000
mile bicycle ride alone, intending to
make a circuit of the state, taking in,
among other cities, Granite Falls, St.
Cloud, st. Paul, Hastings, Lake City,
Winona, Rochester, Mankato, Sioux
City, Pipestone, and back to Marshall.
He goes alone, with only a fageolet to
amuse him, and it is said that he can
be found most any night lodging on
some haystack, sounding the plaintive
notes of 'Home, Sweet Home on his
instrument. 1t must be a pleasant
trip.
Policeman Henry Robel, of Mankato,
was shot by two traEnps last Wednesday
evening, while endeavoring TO arrest
them. He saw the two men acting in
a very suspicious manner near the Oma-
ha track and after questioning them
placed them under arrest. They re-
sisted after having gone ashort distance
with him and one Of them pulled a re-
volver and fired. Robel let go of the
man he was holding in order to defend
himself, when this man also began fir
ing. Only one bullet struck Robel,
making a bad but not dangerous
wound. Both men claimed to have
money on deposit in a st. Paul bank.
A posse Of sixty men commenced search
Thursday morning and thoroughly
secured the country around but have
seen nothing of the tramps up to date.
The time of year has come around
again when the question presents itself:
What is the Northwestern farmer going
to do about storing his wheatp Is he
going to store it himself at home and
hold it till somebody wants it at a good
price, or is he going to haul it to the
elevator at the railroad station as soon
as it is threshed and pay storage on it
there while the elevator men and other
spectators use the fact Of a large
visible supply. to depress the market
and beat down the prices the farmer
must eventually take for the crop?
If the farmer cannot store his grain
home it is of course a matter of judg-
r,ant tr hn infiuance5 hv the general