New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-27
NNESOIA IN BRIEF.

Window has decided to exist with
out saloons.
Doud Sons & Co.'S barrel factory
at Winona burned. Loss. SIS, 900;
insurance 80 500.
Henderson is experiencing aboom,
several new business enterprises
having located there recently
The board of education at Winona
has decided to dispense with the
usual spring vacation in the public
schools.
The grist mill belonging to Fl.
Jay Stedman at Sank Center was
destroyed by fire. Loss, $1,000;
insurance, $4,000.
At the first meeting Of the new
village council Of Detroit saloon
licenses We're raised to $1,000 and
W. A. Norcross was elected village
marshal.
James III. Griffin, OF Saltwater, at
tempted to extract a cartridge from
q Winchester rifle, when it exploded
and the powder entered his face and
destroyed his right eye.
The Herald sizes up the condition
Of affairs at Eldora as follows: Coal
is drug in the market, mud is up a
little, Influenza booms, and snuffies
are on the rampage.
Nick Item, a farmer living near
Clear Lake, reports that while re-.
turning from St. Cloud he was at
tackled by two highWaymen, but fin
ally escaped.
Henry Ellis a farmer Of Jordan
township, Fillmore county, attempt
ed suicide by cutting his throat with
a razor. The attending physician
says there is no possible hope of his
recovery. Dependency the cause,
Phe common council at Faribault
has passed q resolution protesting
against the passage of any bill by
the legislature changing in any man
ner the boundary line or geograph-
ical limits OF Faribault.
Rev. N. T. Blakeslee, for several
years pastor Of the Congregational
church at Wabasha, has rendered his
resignation as pastor, to take effect
April /. He has had calls from sew
eral localities, but has not vet de-
cided where he will locate.
The Swedish Orphans home at
Vasa, has purchased more land for
farming purposes The farm last
year contained 123 acres. There
are thirty-seven children at the home
now.
The wife of Chas Fl. Fish. of Worth
ington, eloped a few days ago with
member Of an Uncle Toms Cabin
company. Fish employed an officer
and found his wife at a hotel in Man
kato, and after some talk they made
up and returned home together.
An effort will be made to secure
the commitment of. Swanson, the
seventeen-y ear-old boy heldin jail at
Red Wing, Tor horse stealing, to the
state reform school, in order that he
may escape the penitentiary.
Gustave John was arrested at Mil
bank, Dak., upon Instructions from
the sheriff OF Blue Earth county for.
forgery. He borrowed $40 from the
citizens National bank, giving as
collateral a note for 5000 signed by
a man known to the bank officials.
The note turned out to be a forged
one.
The first case OF the violation OF
the license laws under the present
system brought to the notice OF the
city authorities came up at Fari-
bault. F. Doping was arrested,
charged with being the proprietor OF
a "blind pig When arranged he
pleaded guilty, and was fined $50
and given thirty days in jail.
Edward Sherman, of Whitewater,
40 years old, and asteady, industri-
Gus man, determined to give up to-
bacco, which hesmoked and chewed
almost incesantly. Sickness followed,
anb the physician recommended Sher-
man to use to baccoag but spar
ingly. He Wouldn' take the advice.
but vowed he'd get the better of the
habit ifit,killed him. His health con-
tinued to fail, he became peevish,
then morose, and then, short time
ago, violently insane. He has been
removed to the Madison asylum.
The meeting Of the Farmers al
lance at Austin was very largely at
tended. The matter of starting al
Irvine factory was fully discussed.
Experts stated that a $4,000 fax