New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-06
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF

! The G. A. R. post at Litchfield is al
4 ready preparing for the encampment
4 to be held at that place next June.
/ The Yankton oil mill viii shut
down for the season in a short time
on account of a lack of fax seed.
The NJ. E. church society at Leola
has received plans and specifications
for a new church, and is making ar
engagements to begin work soon.
Hon. 0. W. Shaw, of Austin, has
been appointed by Gov. Merriam as
one of the board of control of the
state school for INDECENT children at
/ OWatonna.
.Mankato business men have recent
~ been victimized by raised bank
notes passed upon them by several
young men who have since disap-
! peared.
An association of the teachers in
vocal and instrumental music at
Winona has lately been formed to
promote their professional interests,
and a concert is projected in about
two weeks.
The Rev. P.J. Gallagher, of Wi
mona, has been appointed spiritual
director of the Minnesota branches
or St. Paul council-of the Catholic
Knights of America by the arch
bishop.
Mrs. Charles E. Baker, wife of
prominent farmer in Riceland town
shib, Freeborn county, has begun
action for divorce. alleging inhu-
/ man treatment.
The Moorhead Driving Park as
ISOLATION and the Clay County Agri-
cultural society are considering the
advisability of uniting under the
name of the Clay County Driving
Park association.
The farmers in the town of Under
wood, a heavily timbered district in
Otter Tail county, have organized an
association for the sale of wood.
They have sent out travelling sales
man, who is at work in Dakota.
/ George Cornell, Henry Gibson and
Charles Letter, arrested some days
ago on the charge of creating a riot
in LIE Roy, had an examination at
| Mankato and we're held to the grand
Jury.
A complicated case of exc;sion Of
generous breast was performed at
Duluth, upon an aged lady by Drs.
Graft and McComb assisted by Drs.
Wheaton and Allen, ofSt. Paul. The
operation was entirely successful
W. A. Potter superintendent of the
Red Wing water works: died at his
home of inflammation of the bowels
He was taken sick on the train on his
way from Minneapolis where he had
been as a witness in the Beach trial.
William Landgraff, seventeen years
old, was arrested at Mankato,
charged with grand larceney in the
second degree, in having stolen some
money from his father. He was COM
mitted to jail to await examination
March g. ...
A man by the name of W. W.
Bradley was killed while chopping at
the logging camp of Joshua Tibbetts
on Willow river The deceased is a
son Of DR.. q. B. Bradley of White
House, Ohio. The body was brought
to Aitkin, and sent to his father.
Fire destroyed the Royalton Opera
House. A strong gale was blowing
from the northwest, and the whole
business portion of the village would
have been buried had it not been for
the hard work Of the fire department.
Loss on the opera house (Which is
totaD, $5, 900; no insurance.
Sheriff Barlass arrived atHastings
with Mrs. Lizzie Aldrich and Henry
Neimeyer, charged with murder
Some weeks ago John Aldrich, hus-
band Of the woman, died on his farm
near Aver under suspicious circum-
stances. His stomach was sent to
| Chicago, and there found to contain
strychnine. Neimeyer is eighteen
years old, and worked on the farm
Notices bearing the usual heading
and signed by 'The White Caps"
were posted on several business
places at Plain view and in most
cases the parties were notified that if
they did not show any change in
their actions by March they would
be harshly dealt with. There is no
apprehension arisingfrom the notices,
as they are thought. to be the work
of some idle person.
A team belonging to B. F. De Ha-
ven, a wealthy farmer of Preston,
/ took fright while coming down the