New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-01
THE NORTHWEST.
4 Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

/ Work has commenced at the Saltwater pen.
istentiary on the proposed Irvine making sec
saon of the building
A telegram announces the death of Ed Y.
Mundy, register of deeds of Douglas county,
Wis, who was assaulted by Duluth parties
Sept. l. He was one of Grants famous 3O6.
The store ofG. W. Knapp, at Clinton Falls,
small village near Owatouna, was burglar
lied of $50 in cash, 500 in checks and over
$4,000 in notes.
Judge Fitch ofAnoka placed James Lind
under $500 bond to appear at the February
term OF court on complaint of his wife, who
claims he assaulted her with an ak, cut a
9sssh in hehead, and threatened her life.
John He'll, one of the pioneers of Houston
county, committed suicide by taking arsenic,
at Hokah. Of a large family only one mar.
ried daughter survives To her son he left
SOCIAL the money he had.
The grand jury at Little Falls has brought
IN twenty seven indictments thus far Elev.
en- OF these are against parties interested in
the robbery OF the North Dakota elevator
there last spring by the use of forged wheat
checks.
movement is on foot in LIE Seur county
to secure the pardon of Thomas O'Connor,
who is serving a life sentence at Saltwater
Tor killing Larry Vaughan eleven years ago.
Roth were drunk when the deed was commit
WI.
The acknowledgements department has
been overwhelmed with applications, both
personal and written for volumes of 1.-THE
History of Minnesota Regiments During the
War Of the Rebellion.'' Every soldier who
enlisted in Minnesota is entitled to copy.
Itis reported that man from Sank Rapids.
who had recently sold his drug store there
and had come to st. Cloud and bet and won
quite heavily on the races, went to bed at q
hotel with jockey and next morning when he
awoke, he was minus $16S The Jockey was
also minus
Secretary Ligget is authority for the state
ment that the state fair will come out with
SUIT any financial loss. The fair besides be-
ing the best one ever held in the state, is the
Gst one which has come out without q
Noss.s The attendance, too, was large, not
outstanding bad weather and counter at
fractions.
At Little Falls the jury in the case Of Mrs
Catherine E. Trebly against Jane NJ. Brown
handed in verdict of $40, 900 damages
against the latter for alternating the atfec-
tons of the formers husband The case is
interesting from the TACT that it is the first
of the kind ever brought in Minnesota. The
SHtendnnt will move for a new trial.
William R. Miller, the grain and -four mer-
chant of Montgomery went violently insane
the second time, while doing business at Fort
Dodge, Iowa, and was committed to the St.
Peter insane asylum. He was taken insane
aDOut a month aro and Spopt fav uoo1-c
IN the Rochester asylum, and it was supposed
r. Had fully recovered
AS result of the preimin airy examination
Ill the Cameron barn burning case at Lu-.
verne Mrs. Willouehby was bound over to
await the action of the grand jury under
$1,000 bonds. Alproceedings against Mrs.
Owens have been temporarily dropped, as
she is i'll and partially demented. The pres
eEt opinion is that conviction will be very
difficult.
1ohu Devries, living ten miles north of
Pipestone, was killed in a peculiar way while
on his way to town. He had nearly reached
town. when the team became frightened and
ran away, throwing him to the ground. and
a plowshare he was bringing to ha We sharp
ened struck him in the forehead killing him
almost instantly. He leaves wifi and six
children, the oldest only twelve years of age.
Mrs. Dustel, wife of mason, committed
sncide at New Ulm by taking poison Be-
lYe dinner she took tablespoonful of
"HsPugh on rats and in few minutes took
8arGther dose equally as large. After she
had swallowed them she refused antidotes,
land died i'll a few hours. To the physicians
she said she had quarreled with her husband
F"r some time, and thought best to rid him
Fl further trouble. She was thirty-iye years
81 age and leaves four children.
j The Sleepy Eye Dispatch tells the follow
ling story: Recently well-known pension
claim agent was called upon by lady who
wanted q pension. She was asked if her
husband was in the army. She replied that
sShe never had q husband. Then on what
grounds doyou expect to get pensiono' BY
ftbe way of repl y she handed the agent q news
Supper clipping containing several takeoff
paragraphs from Puck, among which was
4 he following, upon which she based her
haim: In the senate the house bill granting
.. Gons to old maids who attributed their
Il, ) blessedness to the large number of
to&lan men killed during the war. was passed.
,ThS%omnn is one Of our well.know n maiden
adde's, and was in dead earnest about the
pension. The agent did not undertake the
case.