New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-05

due, which is about $4,000. TO secure hinn-
self he hassleuied upon the logs, which are1
frozen in the river.
An eleyen-yenr-oldso nef Ole Hauge, Vienna
township, fell'from tnee, on his fathers
place and fractured his: skull. The surgeon
who vas called found that the skull was also,
dented in, bone resting On the brain, render
ing the lad insane for several days 1t was
necessary t9apreform am operation on the.
skull to relseve the pressure.
j. e. jaeger of Grafton, aged IA is chargeaa
with r1fingsa IAN express package that wass
shipped totdiis address. 1t is claimed that he-
removed tAe contents OF the package in the.
absence OF the express agent, resealed the
package after filing ID with sawdust, ard
then refused to reoei7s it. He has beam
bound over for trial.
A man arrested at Eau Claire for robbiag:
the Office Old. S.. Simons confessed end
promised to show wltsre he had concealed sire.
stolen goods. With one hand menacled he
escorted Or. Simmons several miles through
the woods, and after showing where. the
property was hiddea. was released. Thaof-
ncers was dissatisfied with Mr.. Simon'ss
course and re arrested the thief
few weeks ago, she authorities of Clinton,
vile were advised to look over the accounts
OF the late treasurer, T. f. Fulton. who, con-
Quoted the Office from 1883 to 1889 Acorn
mlttee-Was appointed to Investigates and
two or three days ago reported q shortage
OF $1,000 in Sult0n's accounts which had
not Been discovered when the counoih settled
with him last spring. Fulton has baen given
thirty days to straigten the mattenup.
Theodore Dahman is young German milk
peddler at Eaa Claire. He and his father
and mother and sister and brothers have.
Eaen struggling along for years in making b
iavlihood. A letter reached thena few days
ago informing them of the fact that, owing
to the demise of a wealthy relative in Ger
many, the Dahman family. of Eau Claire,
had fallen hsir to 104, 900, OO9 marks, which
is in the neighborhood of $4O.OOo,OOO.
The fortune comes from 7alative who died
without other heirs.
A reservation boomer! jumped claim a
short distancefrom Fort Reno belonging to
Sioux brave named Crow Eagle and pro-
ceeded to build shack" on it. Crow Ea-
gle looked on with stnlid Indifference until
the house was completed. Then he pulled a
gun about yard long and with the remark,
Grow Eagles heart is bad-dont monkey
with Grow Eagle" ordered the Jumper" to
jump, which he very suddenly did Then
Crow Eagle set fire to the Improvements and
burned them to the ground.
IOWA.
woman was granted divorce by the dis
trict court at Upton and imme-
diately walked into the county clerks Office
and took out q license to marry.
The Iowa man who wants a government
Office because his wife presented him with
triplets makes apreposterous claim. Let the
wife have the Office.
Two little Muscatine boys named Gallup
and WestIwere bitten by,.a mad dog the other
day and were taken to Paris, Linn county,
to be treated by Dr. Byam, who possesses a
maidstone
A New York glass works company is con-
templating putting in q satisfactory atIowa
City. Town meetings are being held to dis
cuss the question Offering inducements to the
company,
John Schiling. of Carroll, was fined $50 for
ievying onto IL ia ok pot in a poker game
to which he had no moral right, and for strik-
| ing his opponent over the head tor making a
kick
firm at Washington, D. c., are sending
out circulars stating that they are able to
procure and deliver the original patent for
over TOO pieces of land in Tama county at q
| cost of 4.60 each.
| leading educator of the state has offered
to build $40, 900 school building and open
college at Iowa Falls if the town will do.
! nate the land The proposition will likely be
accepted.
Mrs. Briggs. daughter of an officer in the
war of 1872. died at her home in Carson on
the 18th at the age of 95 years. She was the
mother of sixteen children, among them
Representative R. W. Briggs, of Pottawtta-
mie county.
A iarmer named John TomIinson, living in
Bear Grove township, Jasper county, for
some cause unexplained, shoths wife through
the head, the ball passing in below the eye
and coming out at the back part of the head.
The wound will prove fatal
Large numbers of human skeletons are be-.
ing unearthed ut Thompson s MILL Dubuque
county. The place is believed to have been
used as all Indian burying ground long be.
fore the advent of white men,
Herman Schroog, Of Cedar Falls, while try
ing to break pony to ride, was thrown in
such way as to break his neck, causing
death almost instantly. He was nineteen
years old.
Mrs. Marshal, OF Dubuque, had laughing
spell and laughed so heartily that she opened
her mouth SO wide that she was unable to
close it. A surgeon had to- break one of her
jaw bones in order to "shut her mouth. .
She is now eating liquid food with a spoon.
The Ida County Watch claims that the jack
rabbit ofnorthwestern Iowa is nothing but
the common English hare, several hundred OF
which were imported by lie Mars Englishmen
few years ago and turned loose npon the
prairies.
DR.. J. F. Kennedy, secretary of the state
board of health, says the Health Bulletin
this month will show the smallest list OF CON
tagious and in ectious diseases prevailing in
the state for several years He says there
are comparatively no cases of diphtheria in
the state and only one case of scarlet fever.
A scamp named Sund recently deserted his
sick wife and FIVE children at Dyennort leav.