New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-20
MINNESOTA IN BRIEF !.

q new cietlneFy company HdS DeeH
Incorporated at Wells with a capital
of $4,000.
The Mankato Gas and Electric
Light eompanyhas filed articles Of
Incorporation. Its capital stock is
100000.
The Rochester board of trade has
been revived and is preparing for
active work during the coming sum
mer.
Ten farmers IN Washington town
ship, Goodhue county, have organ
lied themselves in a company to
erect cheese factory.
A three-year old daughter Of Peter
Q. Myhr of Holmes City wasso badly
bnrnedby her clothes taking fire from
the stove that she died.
John Schneider, of Sank Centre
who was saving wood with a horse
power machine caught his foot in
the machine and was SO badly in
jured that he may die.
Frank Mudgett of Maplewood was
killed while cleaning out a we'll. He
was at the bottom. when the rope
broke and the bucket dropped on
him.
Mayor w. A. Hotchkiss, of Pres
ton was Frustrated by a paralytic
stroke recently. Tt is thought that
| perfect rest from business cares will
insure his recovery.
| Chauncy Holcomb, aged IS years,
for the past year an inmate ofthe
/ poorhouse at Preston, has been adj
judged insane and sent to the asylum
at Rochester.
Two chandeliers containing thin ty-
six lighted lamps, in the Universalist
church at Rochester, fell to the floor
a few nights ago a short time before
the ser1 ices. The flames were not
subdued until $500 damage had been
DONE
Harmon Huttke, blacksmith of
Sank Center, has invented small
trip hammer which works by treadle
power and strikes 100 blows per
minute. He expects to further i'm
prove it so that it will attain
speed of ITO blows a minute.
D. w. Shook, grain dealer, money
loaner, justice and farmer, who re-
Gently absconded from Stephen,
Mimi, with $16, 900 ofother peoples
money, has been heard from at Van
couver's Island, B. G. His family
left Plymouth to join him.
Hon. Knut Nelson returned home
and has resumed his seatat his legal
desk, He states that he will prac-
tice law at Alexandria. and superin-
tend the work on his farm adjoining
town He rejoices in freedom from
political life, and is content with his
experience therein.
George Hart sixteen years OF age,
was badly trampled by a horse
which he was leading to water. Aft
er an absence of an hour he was
found with his skull badly crushed in
several places and badly injured
about the shoulders and breast. He
has not sufficiently recovered to tell
how it happened, and will probably
not recover.
A young man named Edward Full
Ter used abusive and Insulting Ian
gauge to j. A. Du Bots, president Of
the Sank Center council, and was
fined $14.5O. A crowd had gathered
in front OF a saloon and Mr.. Du Bots
told them to clear the walk so that
some ladies might pass, upon which
Fuller threatened him and used
abusive language.
A large meeting ofcitizens was held
at Worthington to protect against
the passage Of the bill now before the
Legislature for the removal of county
seats. The bill in it's present shapeis
evidently unfair and a breeder ofcoun-
ty seat wars and i'll feeling, and per-
! haps would lead oloss oflife, besides
certainly costing many thousands of
dollars in any county where the ques-
ton may hereafter be raised.
Frank farmer, a German residing
about two miles from Huron Lake,
Wis, was found dead in a slough
near his home. He came to town
and after drinking considerable
started for home on foot, and it is
supposed that he wandered into
/ the slough while in a state of inuoxii-
cation and was drowned. He leaves
a wife and six children in poor cir
j cumstances.
A telegram from Gen. Noble, the
new secretary of the interior, to B.
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