New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-24
It is rumored that 6. Baltrusch won q

4 nice little sum IN the last drawing OF
the louisiana State Lottery.
There will be no service at the Con-
gregational church the coming Sunday.
The Edwin Barbour troupe are at
Sleepy Eye this week.
Lee Reed has resigned his position as
clerk at G. &. Roos' drug store.
! 4 few OF the young people enjoyed a
pleasant social dance at Schmucker's
Tivoli, Saturday evening.
The Rentfrow troupe arrived on Mon
day, eighteen in number. they will
hold their rehearsals at Turner Hall.
Licensed to we'd; Richard Geisinger
to Mary Hippert; George Dreher to
Anna B. Pickle, and jeremiah Belling
to Enge Larson.
Do you like to laugh? Well, who
doesn't? You not only have an excel
lent opportunity, but will be irreslsti-
bly, compelled, if you attend the Path
finders entertainments Saturday and
Sunday evenings. Seats of Roos.
The Tracy Trumpet says that Fritz
Geiser, of Marshall, was brought to
New Ulm on Wednesday to be given a
chance to reform. He was the first vic
tim IN that county of the Scheffer law,
making drunkenness a crime, and it is
also alleged that he pounded his wife,
upon whose complaint he was arrested.
AS will be noticed from the commits
sioners proceedings the contract for
completing the court house has been
awarded to Schapekahm Bros & Co.,
of this city, for $12,855. This includes
the portion above the first story, with
roofing, tower, and characterization, ex-
cepting the white metal statue. The
contract calls for completion by the
10Th of September and the contractors
intend to fill it to a dot. They have
already ordered material and will COM
mence work immediately. A large
force of men will be operated and the
work pushed with all possible rush, so
that the designated time will see the
building in condition to stand the win
ter and before snow flies so far furnished
as to safely place therein the county re-
cords. The people Of the county
should think of this before sanctioning
any petition asking for the removal of
the county seat, remembering that the
courthouse is being completed with
New Ulm's gift of $4,000.
The patience of New Ulm people
; has been taxed for the past two months
to an annoying extent by the over
bearing gall of a man who claims to be
the representative of the Fidelity Insur-
ance company of Philadelphia and who
has, since his arrival in town, managed,
with the assistance of an oily tongue,
to live off everybody's earnings but his
own. The life of a travelling insurance
man is never the easiest or most profit.
able but they generally avoid dead beat.
ing every town they enter. This was
not one OF the virtues however of the
insurance man who is now wanted by
several parties in New Ulm. Black.
listed for hotel, saloon and other ex.
pensive bills at this place, we have been
warned that his credit in other towns
was never A l but generallyia charge tc
profit and loss. It has been so here and
: now, that he has left town, those tc
whom he is heavily indebted can see
the error of their ways in trusting a
stranger, especially when he is a trav.
cling insurance man. He has taken
the western route and other towns should
look out for him.
The hearing before the Supreme Court
OF the arguments of the Winona 6. ST.
, Peter Land Company, asking for a mod.
ification Of the judgments wnien Brown
County has against their lands in this
county, was had on Tuesday of last
week. AS might have been expected
after the rank decision in the Redwood
case, the court decides that the judy
ments must be SO modified as to enforce
the payment of back taxes for period
OF only. six years prior to the commence
ment OF proceedings for the collection
OF the same. The county now has two
judgments, one for taxes that had been
assessed but not collected, and one for
back taxes on land that had not been
assessed till 1887. The supreme court
modiies these by excluding from the
| first the taxes and interest for the years
prior to 1879, and from the second the
taxes and interest prior to 1880. The
loss to the state and county, resulting
from the decision ,navrot hc -, 80 ~, !, :,