New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-03
MINNESOTA CU[LLINGS.
The News Of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.

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Duluth pays it's city railway com.
missioner a salary of SIS, O00a year.
The Eighty Minnesota regimenthas
had a successful reunion at Lake
Minnetonka.
The Minnesota River and Rail Elec-
trie company, of St. Paul, with a
capital stock Of 100000, filed ar
ticles OF incorporation the 18th inst.
a A farmer named Ostroom, living
near Plpestone, and another living
near ST. Cloud, were killed by being
struck by lightning.
The body Of Walter Lovelace
drowned in the Mississippi at Little
Falls was found a short distance be-
low the city next day.
A number of horses III Melch,.
about twelve miles southeast of
Has things, have had a distemper;
terminating in farcy, and had to be
shot. a8s
At Cottonwood station, near Mar
shall, during a storm six cars were
blown from the track and a hard
ware store owned by Thomas Bair
was demolished.
Robert Robinson, the young horse
thief who made so desperate an at
tempt at suicide June 16, at Roches-
ter, has been taken back to De Kalb,
Ill, by Sheriff Helcomb ofthat place.
There are at present 172 fire in
surance companies authorized to
transact business in Minnesota. OF
these 100 are foreign companies with
United States Branches and twenty
six are mutual companies.
Mr.. Maruin Conlin was found
guilty at Moorhead OF assault
in the second degree. He was in
dicted for brutally assaulting an
old lady at Glyndon last Feb
ruary. He will go to Saltwater for
three years.
A Norwegian woman, wife of Jor-
gen Thompson, committed suicide at
Wells, by hanging herself to a beam
in the barn. She had been in i'll
health for some time, and probably
was temporarily insane, She leaves
q husband and three children.
A gang of tramps, supposed to
have come to Red Wing in advance
of Wallace & Co.'s circus, got drunk
in West Red Wing and when the Of
fcers came resisted arrest. Nine were
secured and locked up and sentenced
to five days confinement in jail.
The hardware store of NJ. j.. Clark
and harness shop of NJ. Jargenson at
Benson were burglarized and six doz
en- pocket knives, two dozen razors
half-d ~revolvers, some cart
ridges, a yalise and the watch Of
Theodore Jargenson taken.
Mayor Sullivan has opened alabo1
exchange at Marshall to sift deserv.
ing sons Of industry from the un
worthy tramps who drift into Mar
shall. Applicants for money are set
to scrubbing the town bridges with
brooms at 25 cents an hour. The
plan is likely to be Incorporated into
an ordinance.
Merrill's shoe store, Lashbtook' S
grocery and the Register printing Of
flee at Austin were broken into. Only
about dollar was taken. No goods
are missing. One George Williams,
a stranger, was arrested for the
burglary, and a preliminary examin-
alton was bound over to await the
action of the grand jury.
A suit that has been pending eight
years was decided in the district
court at Moorhead. It was brought
by FL. Scrieber ag ainst the German
American Hall insurance company,
OF ST. Paul, to recover on policies
covering grain which was destroyed
BY hail. The jury brought in YER
dict of $3,S76.15 for Scrieber.
An astronomical dome is being
placed on the tower of the new high
school building at St. Paul, and the
new telescope will be forwarded from
Boston as soon as the dome is com
pleted. The instrument is made by
the manufacturers of the celebrated
Lick telescope, has six-inch object
glass and cost $3.50 without mount
ing.
The Southern Minnesota Horticul-
tural society will hold it's annual
summer meeting under what is
known as the 1sBig tree" situated
about five miles north of Mankato
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