New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-11
IOWA.

hog was received at the Keokuk packing
house recently 7feetlong, feet high and
weighing 1, l50 pounds.
Elda Knouse, small boy bootegger of
Ida Grove, has skipped out to avoid serving
a term in the reform school,
! W. L. Edwards, who bit off the ear of Rep
resentative shipley, is held iu $40, 900 bonds
| to appear before the grand jury.
| Burlington claims to export more school
ma'ams than any other city of the Same
| population in the United States.
Frank Robertson is under arrest in Omaha
| awaiting requisition papers to bring him
| back to this state. He held up resident of
Council Bluffs tor a gold watch and chain
| and his poke tbook-
The governor has committed the sentence
OF John j. Beeler from six months in the
penitentary to thirty days in the county jail
He was recently convicted of stealing whisky
from the depot at Harper
! firm at GlenWood, Mills county, shipped
thirty-one cars $4,000 borrels) of apples re-
Gently to firm at Lockport, N. Y.,who state
that the apples of the great blue glass region
of western Iowa are equal to those growing
anywhere.
John Webb, who shot Mr.. McCausland
while robbing that gentleman's house at
McCausland d month ago, and who is at
present in the Davenport jail, is playing the
insanity dodge.
The Muscatine authorities are investigat-
ing the manner in which August Schrimpf,
whose body was found on an island near that
city recently with bullet through his head,
came to his death. 1t is now claimed that
he did not commit suiicde butwas murdered
The Cresco papers say that the fat steer
which won the honors at the fat stock show
in Chicago this year was the produce of a
COW owned by John McHugh at Cresco. The
steer was full Cruikshank, a year old last
February, and weighed LISTS pounds.
! Probably the most expensive turkey In the
state was eaten by the family Of John Bar
nett, ofIndependence. While trying to escape
the Thanksgiving festivities the bird few
| against e plate glass window valued at $3.50,
| completely demolishing it,
Ed WEIGH, of Cedar Rapids, asked a young
man named Jones for chew of tobacco.
Jones refused and WEIGH pulled out his knife
and slashed Jones on the arm, making an
| ugly wound WEIGH was arrested and SEN
fenced to thirty days in the county jail
Charles GAY, who stole carload of cattle
near Mason City about two months ago, and
was arrested in Chicago while trying to sell
them, has confessed the crime and will go to
state prison. where he has already served
three terms for the same offense
Gus Patterson, Cedar Rapids hostler
was attacked by two highwaymen near that
place and after being knocked on the head
with store and robbed OF SIT was thrown
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some passing railroad men and rescued
Peter Meyn, a Boyden farmer, has tanning
mills to give away. Some time ago an
agent induced him to sign an order purport-
ing to be for 500 worth of mills which now
turns out to have been for ninety-nine mills.
and every train that pulls into Boyden
dumps off cargo offanners for Peter
The Iowa corn crop just raised figures at
336, 100000 bushels. No other state has
raised SO much. It is worth about SIS, OOO,.
900 and would fill train of fears 500 miles
in length. 1t would give $50 bushels of corn
to every inhabitant in Iowa and five bushels
to every man, woman and child in the United
States.
year ago last summer Fritz Skarlixs, 8
German. was struck by a Chicago, Burling.
ton and freight train at Fort Madison.
N~eeiving injuries from which he will never re-
cover. Since that time he has been county
charge H. was furnished with transporta-
ton and started on his journey to Berlin,
the home of his mother.
There are three county treasurers in the
Anamosa penitentiary serving time for being
short in their accounts. Hin, of Harrison
county. is in Tor four years for q $4,000
shortage; CoWan, OF Hardin county, is serving
the same length of time for getting away with
SO, 600, and Stedman. OF Benton county.
VIII remain two years for failing to explain
where s11 600 went to.