New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-04
7flS THE NORTHWES
A Summary Of the Important
Events of theWeek in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA,

MINNESOTA.
St Paul has just completed extensions that
wall double the water supply of the city.
Arthur Pratt, aged II, is mysteriously
missing from Anoka.
Henry Berkharu, of Minneolo, has been
committed to the Rochester Insane asylum.
James O'Reilly, aged 55 is mysteriously
missing from his home near Red Wing.
Subscriptions for the relief of Mrs. Parnell
are being taken up in St. Paul.
The Chippewa commission has been sue
cessiul IN securing the signatures of all the
Indians on the Cloquet reservation.
While temporarily insane Alice Coon, a
Viola school teacher, committed suicide by
taking a dose of rough on rats.
The new Humbolt school building, one OF
the finest school edifices in st. Paul,
completely wrecked by fire. -
Anunknown man was run over by the cars
and mangled beyond recognition in the de-
pot yards at Minneapolis.
Surveyors are at work locating the route
of the Little Falls, Mile Laos and Superior
railway.
The young son of Theodore Anderson: Of
Battle Lake, accidentally shot himself and
died shortly afterward. 81. '.....
At Worthington E. H. Lam bertson was
sentenced to six months in Saltwater fore
stealing wheat, and Frank TyreH to four
months for forgery.
Acting Secretary Batcheader, of theItreasury,
appointed Sam Lowenstein of St Paul to be
gauger for the revenue district of Minnesota,
with headquarters at ST. Paul.
Ex-Gov. Pillsbury sent draft for 5000
to the state treasurer as u payment on his
recent donation of $15N, 600 to the state
university.
DR.. Staple of the state board ofhealth has
ordered the M oorhead board ofhealth officers
to take charge of the dipthera epidemic at
Georgetown, ithaving gotbey ond the control
OF the local board.
Clifton Holden, who was found guilty of
the murder of Frank Dodge, was brought
into court at Redwood Falls and his sentence
suspended until January G., 1890, pending
the action of the supreme court.
Jacob Schrieber the young man who muir
dered hisuncle at Moorhead some time ago,
was taken to the government insane asylum
at Washington, D. G., being Il deserter from
the United States army.
Frank Landees one of the cleverest forgers
in the country who escaped from Saltwater
in 1887 has been captured in Bavaria. He
had only served three months of his twenty
four years sentence when he escaped.
A reward of $10Owas offered for Informal
ton leading to the finding of James Reilly,
who disappeared two weeks since from Red
Wing. There is growing fear that he is the
victim of foul play.
Stephen Newell, aged fourteen years, son of
Justice Newell, run over by the cars at
Hastings. He fell between the tender of the
switch engine and q box car, the wheels of
the latter passing over him. He died IN an
hour.
A convict named Fred Douglas attempted
to escape from Saltwater by concealing him
self i'll box car that was being run out of
the prison yard. He managed to get as far
as the railroad yards when he was discovered
by brakeman and taken back to the prison.
Botleff iunde, of Wanamongo, was found
dead under his wagon box on the road be-
tween that town and Lumbrota His death
apparently resulted from a runaway. He
still held the lines in his hands, and hehorses
were standing quietly beside his body.
W. II. Adamson, notorious Insurer Of
Minneapolis, was found guilty of forgery in
that city. During the trial it developed that
his method was to charge 10 per cent. inter-
est, payable twelve times a year, or 100 per
cent. on money loaned. He will be sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
Jack Jardine, sixty years DID, was killed
by the switch engine in the yard of the
Northern Pacific railway at Detroit. The
coroner's jury decided that deceased fell on
the track while under the inf1ueoce of liquor
and that the crew of the switch engine was
blameless, as the engine was running at slow
speed, the bell ringing and nothing was seen
of Jardine until the engine had passed over
him.
Martin Anderson, q welI-to-do farmer liv-
ing about ten miles from Rush City in Fish
lake town, made an unsuccessful attempt to
murder his wife. but shot himself dead with
Winchester. He had been drinking hard
lately, and it is supposed was suffering with
the tremens at this time. His wife attempted
to 60 to one of the. neighbors, when he op-
posed her, tussel ensued, in which q sister
~ and son ofthe wife took part, assisting the
= latter to keep the crazy man from doing
bodily harm, He pounded them until they
got away and ran toward house near by,
when the assailant fired two or three shots
at the retreating wife. who fortunately es-
capped unhurt Within an hour party tOf
men returned to the house and found Ander-
son dead. having killed himself.
NORTH DAKOTA.
John Fox was found dead in bed ;at