New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-05
Spearing fish is quite a pastime on the

Minnesota river at present
j Mr.. Huelskamp has sold his brick
building on north Minnesota st. to Lo-
REM Flor.
i In Minnesota last year there were o.
! 9O1 marriages and 492 divorses.
i The farmers Alliance will hold their
state convention at st. Paul, March 4th.
In Chicago in one day last week there
were 120 deaths, mostly from throat
troubles.
Down at Waseca they are having a
mad dog scare. Kind of queer at this
season of they ear, ism itP
An exchange says that gossip is like
a high building. Only one story out Of
a dozen has any foundation.
The Prison Mirror is authority for
/ the statement that within the next three
months the terms of one hundred men
in the Saltwater prison will expire.
The corn crop of the country last
year amounted to 2,112, 3O2, 600 bushels.
OF this, Iowa raised $40. 966, 900 bushels,
or over one-seventh.
The state boiler Inspector has just
submitted his annual report. It shows
the number of boilers inspected to have
been 1,O74; steamboats,, 81; licenses is
sued, $40; total receipts, $4,120; and
expenditures, So, 1862.
The New Ulm Review suggests the
name Of J. B. Sackett, of the city, in
connection with the deputy collector
ship. IF the matter is not already
settled that way, that is the way it
should be settled. ST. PETER HER
AID.
| Another candidate for the Minnesota
marshalship has appeared in the person
OF w. J. Simmon, of Appleton. He
announces himself too late in the day,
| however. as Col. Donhaower, of st. Pc
ter, already has the pledged support of
both senators and the satisfaction OF
knowing that, as soon as the elemocra-
tic incumbent's term expires, he will
receive his appointment.
The Rev. VIM. Copp, of Eagle Lake,
undertook last week to expel a couple
| OF boys from rented house, and upon
their resisting is said to have caned
them severely. The 5oys mother, who
was sick, was prostrated by the excite
ment and the citizens held an indigna.
ton meeting and decided to prosecute
the elder. Mr.. Copp is well known all
over Southern Minnesota as a Metho-
dist minister and third party stump
speaker.
| Castle Garden has received SIS, ,229
| immigrants during the year. Every
nation on the earth, with the exception
| OF China, is represented in these figures.
The character of this imigration has
been vastly superior to that of the pre-
ceeding year, while in volume it has de-
creased SO. 1867, as compared with 1888.
The decrease in every nationality is
preceptible. The Italian immigration
has fallen off over $4,000, representing
the poorer element of that country
/ Western Rural.
! From statistics just published. Mime
sofa stands first in the country as a
wheat growing state, having produced
during the past year 45, 100000 bushels.
/ California comes next with $4,000, 900.
/ The Dakotas produced 100000 BUSH
els. ranking third. Minnesota had
3, 10O,O acres in wheat, California,
5000, ,Oe0, and the Dakotas 4, 4OO, 900, SO
that it will be seen that the average
4 yield in our own state is way in the
lead of that in other states. In the cat
crop, Illinois comes first, with Minne-
sofa third.
4 The trial of VIM. Lenz for the MUIR
der OF one Wm. Schwartz, in Blue
Earth county, last summer, is now on
in the Mankato courts. On the night of
the murder, Lenz and Schwartz were
sleeping together and at about 5 o. clock
IN the morning Schwartz came down
stairs with his throat cut from ear to
ear. BE was asked whether he or Lenz
did It, but was too far gone to speak.
There IS no motive known so far that
could have actnated Lenz in doing the
deed. nor is there any reason given
why Schwartz should commit suicide.
The evidence IS entirely circumstantial
SO far as is known, and the case prom
ises to be interesting.
For ten years, says the Minneapolis
Journal, western settlement has been
running over millions Of acres Of
the finest farming land in the world,
abundantly supplied with the finest