New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-08-28
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Lamberton has new paper.

Postmaster Guthrie, of Blooming
Prairie, is an embezzler. He is now
under arrest at st. Paul.
Gen. Alger, of Michigan. stands verv
fair show of being elected commander.
in chief of the g. A. r. at Milwaukee
I to-day. !.
Mankato butchers refuse to pay for
having their cattle inspected and it is
thought they will disregard the inspec-
wholly, In such case the matter
will necessarily be tested IN the courts.
The commission in negotiation with
the Chippewa Indians for the opening
OF their reservation in the northern part
Of the state have succeeded in securing
enough signers to the bill.
Report Of shortage in the wheat crop
OF India and Europe is good news to
American farmers. It may mean a
good price for the produce of this coun-
try.
One of Barnum's S circus trains jumped
the track at Ogdensburg, N. Y, last
Friday. Thirty ring horses and sever.
al camels were killed and the loss to
the circus is estimated at $40, 900. Won
der if he will get $40, 900 worth of adver-
tising out of the accident.
The first report to the state commits
sioner of statistics of the grain yield
comes from the auditor of Douglas
county. 1t shows yield of 1000, 600
bushels of wheat to 773, 45O as com.
pared with last year. The oat crop is
also increased by about 100000 bushels.
The acreage this year is ~, 45O.
Carver county is pestered with chinch
bugs and it is claimed that there are
millions to be found in single fields.
The corn fields in certain districts are
literally covered with them and the peo-
pie of one township are afraid that they
will have to move from their homes on
account of the odor of the little var
mints.
| -Four women murderers. Patrick
Packenham, Jack Lewis, James Nolan
and Ferdinand Carolin, were hanged
in New York Friday morning. The
execution worked we'll with two of them
but the others were strangled and died
fearfully. This will be the last execu-
ton by hanging in New York. Hereaf-
ter it will be by the electric route.
| The Mankato Free Press deserves
credit for this: The Pioneer Press has
at last woke up to the fact that the pres
ent Minnesota harvest is an abundant
and astonishing one. It has been so
busy the past month trying to grow
something on the dried out Dakota
prairles that it forgot all about the crop
at home.
BroWn-Sequard $ elixir has been tried
on several aged people at Albert Lea
but with very Indifferent success.
Sores are generated at the point Of in
/ lection which cause painful experience
and have to be opened with scalpel.
At Albert Lea it is No longer the life
restoring elixir but is dubbed Brown
Sequard's skill you dead.''
In a few weeks our postage stamps
are to be changed i'll color and size
The colors will be as follows: One
cent, ultramarine blue; four cent, cho-
colate; five cent, light brown; six cents,
vermilion; ten cents, melon green; ff-
teen cents, steel blue; thirty cents, black;
ninty cents, orange; and the old two
cent one will be cut down about one
third smaller and be of metallic red
or carmin color.
The first annual tournament of the
| Northwestern Tournament Association
will be held at tMinnehaha driving park,
Minneapolis, on Sept. II, l2 and 13.
/ There will be a brass band contest
4 bicycle and fireman's contests, and a
grand exhibition of fireworks by the
Flambeau club Of Minneapolis. The
last takes place Thursday evening,
Sept. u. The tournament possesses
rare charms for the lovers of sport and
q large crowd will take it in. $4,000
are offered in prizes.
Hanson, the Minneapolis hydrophobia
patient, who started for Paris for treat.
ment on money raised by subscription
from Minneapolis people, got as far as
New York, blew himself there, and
when he got over his celebration found
4 himself without either the rabbies