New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-24
NNESOTA .CUILlINGS..

MINNESOT CULLINGS
The News of the Week Throughout
the Entire State.
A Scandinavian ladies' seminary.
the first institution OF it's kind in this
country, is to be erected at Red
Wing.
/ Sir Walter Scott supplies a good
motto for Arbor day in one of his
novels. "Jock, when he haze naething
else to do We may aye be stickin' in
a tree; it will be CROWN /, j ock, when
ye're sleepin' Z
Prof. R. r. Humiston, known to
all as prominently identified with
the founding Of Worthington and
the early settlement Of Mobiles county,
died recently in Boston, Mass, and
and was buried in Cleveland, o..
The grocers held a meeting at st.
Clare, and elected j. N. Benson a
delegate to attend a convention at
St Paul to break the grocers' trust.
1 They claim they can get no prices
until I'M the goods are delivered.
| Coroner Watkins of N. P. juno
ton received a telegram stating that
a mans body had been found in the
woods near Holyoke in a very de-
composed state. This is the second
unknown man found dead there this
spring.
Next Memorial day no soldiers
grave in any cemetery in and around
st. Paul will be unmarked, for on the
3Oth day of May next a headstone
Of snow white marble will mark the
last resting place Of every dead hero
lying there.
John Nelson, about fffty-fve,
years of age, employed in the stone
quarry of G. A. Carlson, at Red
Wing, was precipitated backwards
from aledge OF rock and sustained
fatal injuries, dying abont an hour
afterwards. He leaves wife and
family of grown sons and daughters.
A man named Oleson was knocked
down and robbed of a watch at Sank
Centre. Oleson's injuries are quite
severe, but not dangerous. Frank
Peterson was arrested charged with
the crime, and waving examination
was bound over to the grand Jury
in $500 bail.
The report comes from New York
Mills, that woman in the Finnish
settlement there named Mrs. Anton
Bubera has given birth to six chill
dren at one time, three of whom are
alive. Two years ago woman in this
same settlement gave birth to quad
ruplets, all of whom lived several
days.
Joseph Baumgarten, Of Myers
Greve, Stearns county, was injured
in a shocking manner. He was en-
gagged in hauling a harvester out of
machine shed, when the team at
tached thereto took fright and ran
away. The machine passed over
Baum garten and the sickle guards
tore open his abdomen. He cannot
recover.
Gov. Merriam has requested Capt.
O. C. Chase, Of the Otter Tail county
commissioners, to come to st. Paul
to see What can be done in regard to
the grasshoppers. Capt. Chase had
charge OF the grasshopper war last
summer, when the county expended
ST., 900 to exterminate them. An
investigation has been made, and it
.issfound that the eggs are very plenti-
full and that last years scorge is Ii
able to be repeated. The state has
appropriated $4,000 contingentsto
be used to exter1ninate them, and it
now looks as though it would have
to be used, ~ ~Ass RsA ~
b. There is general rejoicing at Win.
dom, over the supreme court decision
in the st. Paul & Sioux Citytax case,
though the action was against the
county officers Of the county. Many
Southwestern Minnesota counties are
interested, and the taxes involved
amount to hundreds of thousands OF
dollars. The same questions were
involved as in the case tried twice by
Judge Young of Minneapolis, and
both times decided in favor of the
monopoly, but Judge Perkins be-
lieved and held differently from Judge
Young, and the supreme court atfirms
his opinion. There is another case
in the April term Of the supreme
court in which the Sioux City &. st.
Paul company is plaintiff, and this
decision gives County Attorney Red
ding confidence that the lower court
will be. affirmed again. The decision
is regarded as the triumph of justice