New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-23
THE NORTHWE EST.
A Summary of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

Herman Stockenstrom, assistant secre-
tary OF state, has fallen heir to large estate
in Sweden by the death OF his father.
Mrs. William BONN, aged 10, of Fergus
Falls, fell in front OF q no rse and received
fatal injuries.
William Rose, the Redwood Falls murderer,
TO have been executed on the 18th inst, has
been granted n respite for ninety days.
The 1ong-coutested county seat case of
Murray county will come up for settlement
before the supreme court May 81.
Private Dell Wild, made famous by the
Steele court martial, is on exhibition in st.
Paul dime museum.
While P. G. Anderson, of Lake Ida, Doug
Las county, was driving home his team ran
away and he was thrown out and was in
stantIy killed.
Mankato has induced somebody outside
TO start wholesale candy and cracker fac
tory in that town. Sparta, Wis, offered
$500 for the factory, and Winona tried
to secure it.
Jim Smith and George Haywood engaged
in row at dance in Tracy, when the form
er stabbed the latter four times in the back
with pocketknife, wounding him seriously.
Smith is under arrest.
The Grand hotel at Fergus Falls, which
was built in 1886 at acost of over 800, 900,
has never been a paying venture and will be
closed on the LIST OF June, when the owner
has instructed his agent to sell it or what
it will bring.
During q storm at Fairmont lightning
struck the house and barn of Fred Deyore,
killing two horses and injuring seriously
himself and child. The house, barn and
granary were badly wrecked, but nothing
burned.
Jack Mccoy, the well known counterfeiter.
who escaped from the Winona officers over
two years ago, was captured the other day
at West Superior. Stone, his partner in
crime, has been an inmate of the peniten-
tlary for the past two years, having been
sent up from Winona
The supreme court of the state recently de-
cided that under the Minnesota statute q
married woman can hold real estate in her
own right, the same as single woman, the
marital rights of the husband in the estate
of the wi e, real or personal, being practically
abolished.
Mary johnson, d seven-ye ar-old girl, was
crushed to death in the Northern Pacific
turn table, at Fergus Falls, where she was
playing with other children. The others
were working the machinery, and she was
caught between the movable table and the
solid stonepier.
John Howell may have to answer to a
charge of murder before the court at Still.
water. While in a saloon with companion
named Wandermet the two became involved
in q quarrel, and Howell struck Wandermet
on the head with beer glass, inficting q
wound that may prove fatal.
At st. James the other day Joseph Mel
denhaus shot himself through the breast with
revolver, missing a vital part, however
The weapon was taken away from him be-
fore he could fire q second time, when he seiz-
ed a knife and stabbed himself seven times,
once through the abdomen. His chances of
recovery are doubtful.
The farmers in the southwestern counties
of the state are the most jubilant at present
they have been for three or fous years at the
prospect for an abundent crop this year
The work liz a couple Of weeks later than last
year, but every man and team are now at
work seeding and in some parts of the coun-
try the beautiful moonlight nights, are used
for this purpose in order to push the work.
A number of the most wealthy and infuen-
tial farmers south of Morristown, in the
townships of Deerfeld and Blooming Grove,
are preparing to erect and operate cheese
factory and creamery for the purpose of car
ing for the milk from about 1000 COWS It
will probably be run as a stock company, the
stock being owned exclusively by farmers,
who will doubtless make it a success
John Gruber and Joseph Sheridan have
been drilling Il well on the farm of Joseph
Rennick, near the village Of Shieldsyille, Rice
county, and at the depth of 900 feet their
drill passed through about five feet of what
appeared to be black band ore, beneath
which were several inches of coal Mr.. Cru
Der thinks that the indications for a find of
coal the best of any he has seen or
known in Minnesota, and that the work of
drilling will be prosecuted still further
G. F. kemmill, the travelling agent who
was arrested at Austin on charge OF ped
ding without O. license, and who was subse-
quently discharged on an order from Judge
Nelson, of ST. Paul, win bring an action
against the city of Austin for $4,000 dam
ages for false Imprisonment. According to
Judge Nelson's decision, kemmill was not
peddling when taking orders from customers
for goods to be delivered by his firm 1t is
also claimed that the arrest and deten ton of
KemmilE vas violation OF the Interstate
commerce law.
NORTH DAKOTA.
postofice has been tablished at Crystal
Springs.
Grand Forks republicans are dissatisfied
With the prohibitory law and have ad opted
8 platform demanding resubmission.
The nomination of James Mclaughlin,
Indian agent at Standing Rock, n D., was
confirmed by thesenate.
A North Dakota Loan company received a
letter ofinquiry from a resident of Cairo,
Egypt, who wished to purchase state secur.
tiles.
Senator Pierce called up his bill ma king an