New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
LOCAL NEWS.

Wagner.
Geo. Hillmer returned from lis Iowa
and Illinois visit last week.
Frank Baasen is now acting as mes
senger boy for the depot offices.
Henry Vedder has had his barber
shop repapered and otherwise i'm
proved.
E. G. PAIL has been spending the
week in St. Paul, preparing for the
campaign.
Adolph Engelbert has gone to Naper-
vile, ILL.,, to attend college and prepare
himself for the ministry.
Congress will adjourn this week. Mr..
Lind will return to Minnesota at once
to take part in the campaign.
Blind Boone, the pianist, is in the
state and may soon give another of his
remarkable concerts in New Ulm.
E. Schnobrich, OF Gaylord, who is
we'll known in New Ulm, is the Demo-
cratic candidate for sheriff in Sibley
county.
Billy Marble: the favorite of New
Ulm theatre goers, will be here in a
couple of weeks. He is how playing
at LIE Sueur.
A son of Anton Kitzenberger, who
lives near the Catholic church, fell from
the roof of house last week and frac-
tured his left arm.
The Republican county committee in
Nicollet county has been appointed. 1t
consists of f. S. Pettijohn, H. C. Han
son and W. N. C. Bushard.
Jos. Diepolder has decided to make
the race tor representative in Nicollet
county. Mr.. Diepolder is capable
young man, and will surely be elected.
The yards at the depot are being en-
larged to make room for rapidly in
creasing business. A new side track
of several hundred feet in length is now
being built.
Cards are out announcing double
wedding in CORTLAND on the 14th. The
parties are Chas. Stolz and Miss Ida
Heymann and Albert G. Stralow and
Miss Emma Heymann.
A very enjoyable ''kartofel'' picnic
was given at the farm of Geo. Schneider
Sunday afternoon. Prominent among
the visitors were the politicians. Veri-
ly, it is nice to be in politics.
A. Blanchard has declined the chair
manship of the Republican county COM
mittee for the reason that the duties
devolving upon him in the COMPRESSION
al campaign will require all his spare
time.
J. H. Baker, the Alliance candidate
for congress, and w. w. Erwin, the
great criminal lawyer. are booked to
speak in this city tomorrow evening.
While we believe that both these gen.
tlemen are deceiving the public, still
both are good speakers and will no
doubt draw good crowd.
John Ziegler arrived here from Mar
shall on Monday evening to accept of a
clerkship in the store of Frank Kuetz-
ing. The inducements offered by Mr..
Kuetzing were such as to cause him to
give up good position in Marshall,
and his many friends here will be glad
to know of his return to New Ulm.
Ferdinand Gollnast was brought be-
fore Justice Blanchard on Friday upon
complaint Of VIM. Koepke, street COM
missioner, and charged with having
failed to work out his poll-tax and hav-
ing refused to commute it. He pleaded
guilty and the matter was settled by al.
lowing him to commute the tax of 81 80
and pay the costs amounting to $2.7o.
The Democratic senatorial conven.
ton for this district was held in Red
wood Falls last Saturday and W.. E..
Baker, the Redwood Falls miller, was
chosen to make the race against S. D..
Peterson. The convention was repre-
sented from this county by DR.. Rothen.
burg, E. G.. PAIL and G. W. H. Heide-
man. PAIL and Heideman held the
proxies Of all the New Ulm delegates.
The state board of equalization has
raised the assessments on personal prop
erty in Brown County as follows:
Horses, one year old, rs per cent; two
years old, 20; three years old and over,
Is; cattle, one year old, So; two years
old, IS; COWS, so; working oxen, 20; all
other cattle three years old and over,
80; sheep, so; sewing and knitting
machines, 25; melodeons and organs,
20; household and Office furniture, so;
agricultural tools. implements and ma