New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-03
MINNESOTA In BRIEF.


Ed Clifton and Dennis Melaneard
near Sank Rapids.
The drum in the securing machine
in Raymond's blind factory at st.
Cloud burst and fragment struck
an employ named Johnson in the
side, causing serious injury.
Willie Hubbard, a young son of
S. III. Hubbard Of Parker's Prairie
stumbled while carrying q gun and
the contents entered his shoulder,
nficting perhaps, a fatal wound.
Joel Swanson, the seventeen-year
old boy arrested some time ago for
stealing horse from George Weis-
man at Cannon Falls, has been COM
unit ted to the reform school,
Gustave John, the forger arrested
at Milbank, waived examination at
Mankato, and was remanded to Jail
to await the action Of the grand
jury in May. He admits that he
committed the forgery.
Cornelius Van Inwager, a resident
of Hastings for the past twenty
years and proprietor of the Sibley
street restaurant, died from general
paralysis aged eighty-three. He
leaves a wife.
Miss Fannie Bradford, resi- dent
Of and graduate from Spring Valley
now in attendance at the Winona
normal, is one OF the ten young la
dies selected to participate in the
graduating exercises of that school
this spring.
President J. j. Hill, Of the Mani
toba, arrived home from the East.
In reference to the report that he
would build northwest from West
Superior, he stated that the Manito-
ba would not build a mile of road
in Minnesota this year.
Three or Jour citizens of Austin
who ought to have been wiser were
taken in for $35 by a couple of
travelling confidence men, who show
ed them the soap and watch trick.
tone of the victims subsequently
made complaint to the authorities,
and recovered his money. =
John Brooks. a switchman in the
yards at Brainerd fell off the front
end Of a switch engine and had his
right leg crushed from his knee down.
His leg was amputated just above
1.-THE knee. His recovery is doubtful.
He had family.
WThe sheriff from Winona arrived
and was well pleased to find his
man, Thomas Field, in jail at Fari-
bault. Field admitted to Chief Geiger
that he took the saw into the jail
which Sheriff Stewart found there.
Field is a young man of pleasing ad-
dress, and answers in many particu-
lars the published description Of Tas-
colt.
Building has already actively COM
smenced at Albert Lea, and several
new buildings are now well under
way. Wohlhuter & Co. com menced
eAcavating for a large extension to
,Eheir store on Broadway. A large
force of men and teams are engaged
in building the long bridge at the
outlet OF Fountain lake.
The barn and granary on the farm
of H., B. Wolff near Norris were
burned. Joseph Hall, the tenant,
lost all his seed grain and farm ma
3hinery. The farm house Of Charles
Leman in the town of Baker was en-
Stirely destroyed by fire, the family
waking from sleep to find the flames
all about them, They were unable
fto save even their, clothing.
Hon. J. L. MACDONALD and wife
have arrived from Washington in
good: health. They have been to
/: New York since the Inauguration.
The Judge says that he is out ofpoli-
tics and wants no office hereafter
1 He intends to return to the practice
.oflaw and viii probably locate in
st. Paul or Minneapolis.
A five-year-old. son ofJoe Bourasso
was struck and ran over at Little
Falls by a team of horses attached
ITO q milk wagon. The boy was
i ,Hlaying in the street, and the driver
' b ST the team did not notice him. One
of the horses hoofs struck him on
the temple and the wagon wheels
ran over the body. He died from
the affects of the injuries within
twenty minutes after he was hurt.
An employe inR. r. Walters shoe
shop at Brainerd, was run over and
instantly killed near Grow Wing sta
tion on, the Northern Pacific, road.
The remains were found by sec ton
men. Deceased left the shop IN