New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-02-20
MINNESOTA In BRIEF.

The city council Of Red Wing has
passed an ordinance requiring all
dogs to be licensed.
The work of excavating for the
new $4,000 opera house at Pipe
stone is progressing rapidly.
Hastings has been enjoying mad
dog scare and the police have been
kept busy slaughtering CANNES.
Moore, Piper & Co., VIII olesale drug
gist at Mankato, have decided to
close out their business, as the
returns are too small in proportion
to the capital required.
The house of VIM. Staley, nine
miles southeast of Glyndon, was de-
stroyed by fire. Mr.. Staley is one Of
the well-to-do farmers Of Clay county,
and his loss is about $4,000.
Rev. Kristen Berven, pastor of the
Norwegian Lutheran church in Red
Wing, has brought suit in the district
court against the Lutheran church in
Belyidere township to recover salary
due him.
Judge Mcdonald has secured the
passage Of a bill granting pensi ons
to John Y. Hooper Of Belle Plaine,
Annie Balser Of Pine Island, Charles
Sheeler OF Chaska and S. FL. Fowler
of Faribault.
John Hollenberg, while crossing
Clear lake at Waseca with his team,
broke through the ice and after a
good deal of effort barely escaped
drowning, while his team went under
and were lost.
George Crowley, a son of D. Grow.
ley, attempted to climb to the top Of
q load of wheat at Marshall, but fell
off, and the sleigh passing over him
broke one leg and otherwise injured
him.
Willie Riley, sent up to the state
prison five years ago from Mobiles
county on conviction OF the murder
of his father, was released on q par.
don from Gov. Merriam Riley has
just become Of age and is in feeble
heath.
Rev. J. Milton Akers, Of st. Charles
died of pneumonia, after an illness OF
but a few days He has been a lead
ing member of the Minnesota con-
ference for a number of years and
was we'll known throughout the
state
The society ladies of Sank Center
have formed a "Guess What club"
and attend social gatherings on their
oWnhook. This novels mad because
the young gentlemen are so ungal-
liant as to allow them to go unatten-
ded
Thomas German was bound over
at Mankota on charge of stealing
clothes from Elinstein's store He is
in jail in default bail. Koren Horn,
being too old to 90 to the reform
school, was fined and released for
stealing chickens.
The sheriff arrested George Connell,
Henry Jilson and Charles Soehen Of
LIE Roy township Blue Earth county,
for creating disturbance about the
house of Stephen Alden The war
rant reads that about dozen were
engaged in the trouble Several lights
of glass were broken,
A special meeting of the common
council was held at Faribault, for Tho
purpose Of letting the contract for
putting a stone arch bridge on
Shumway avenue, just east and north
Of Shattuck hall, and for building the
abutments for the iron bridge on
Shumway avenue. The contract was
let to A. f. Kuehl
"A. III Hildebrand's saloon at Sank
Center was entered by burglars. The
cash drawer was rifed Gifts con tents,
the am cunt of which is not exactly
known, and alarge amount ofliquors
and cigars We're also taken. The
thieves got in at the back door by
using a skeleton key No cleW
3 C. Maxwell, one of the first settlers
of Mazeppa and a prominent citizen,
met with dangerously and painful
accident. He was employed in the
large mill and in descending into the
basement of the elevator to superin-
tend some repairs, stepped from an
elevated platform falling on his head
and side, causing very severe wounds.
He will probably recover.
lis Rev, John Doran, ofDelano was
on his way to attend a funeral sery
ice at Armstrong, his horse SHE'D out
Of the road and the cutter struck a
stone, overturning the rig and throw
nGMr. Doran onithe frOZens ground In