New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-12-03
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Ernst StreloW was over from St.
James Monday afternoon.
& Miss Thorson of Madelia is the guest
OF the family of K. II. Helling.
Burg's Battery will give a ball a
Turner Hall on New Years eve.
Mr.. Richter won the sewing machine
which was ratified off by Peter Volkers
last week.
Mrs. M. Mullen has been entertaining
Mrs. Merria:n n, of Owatonna during the
past week.
Owing to Rev. Berghold's departure
from New Ulm, there will be vacan-
cy IN the Board of Public Works.
Chas. Crook ans number of other
St Peter College students spent Thanks
giving day with their parents in this
vicinity.
Drs. Schoch and Stricken attended
the annual meeting of the Minnesota
Valley Medical Association at Mankato
yesterday.
Hon. K. Fl. Telling left for Washing.
ton yesterday to resume his position in
the folders room in the house of repre-
sentatives.
Emma Lehnert was granted divorce
on Monday from her husband Gustav
A. W. Lehnert. The parties live near
Sleepy Eye.
The Agricultural Society will hold
its annual meeting on the 18th. Off
GERS for the ensuing year will be elected
at that time.
p. G.. PAIL left Yesterday on bust
ness trip through Nebraska, Iowa,
Ohio, Michigan and Illinois. He will
be gone some weeks.
Chief Brust of the Fire Department
has appointed Fred Pfsnder as first as
sistant and G. w. H. Heideman as Sec
ond assistant. The appointments have
been approved of by the council.
Werner Boesch and wife spent few
days of last week with Marshall rela-
tives. Mr.. Boesch tells US, that on Fri
day the old Marshall mill, which was
quite landmark in that region, was
destroyed by fire.
Health officer, DR. Weschke, desires us
to state that a proper report of births
and deaths must be made to him with
in ten days after their occurrence. A
penalty is attached to the neglect of
such duty, and the people will accord.
ipgly take notice
On Monday very interesting incident
occurred at the court house. A lady
had been granted divorce from her
husband during the day, and the clerk
had hardly filed the papers which made
good their separation, when a third
party, young gentleman, appeared or
the scene and applied for license to
wed the woman who had been divorced.
The following letter received from
Mr.. Clary, formerly postmaster at
Sleepy Eye, dated at Santa Rosa, tells
of a railway accident in which party
of Brown County people experienced a
very close call for life:
We arrived here all we'll on Monday
last, Nov. II. We were in wreck that
delayed US about IA hours. Che second
locomotive and express Car on our train
went down a dump IL or IA feet high,
the engineer and fireman being hurt, the
latter seriously. Our folks were in the
rear sleeper. which. with the car ahead
of it, remained on sound track. The
other five coaches were derailed but not
capsized ana no passengers were hurt.
was on the outside platform of the
second car back of the baggage car; it
was derailed and the trucks of the car
ahead of US were broken. l did not
jump, but many of the passengers even
broke the windows and jumped out of
the car on which I was. The situation
looked dangerous for a while, but I
thought I would not jump until the car
went to turn over. I was not on my
own car but away out near the front of
the train.
The fall term of the district court
closed last Thursday. The session was
very short one and all the cases were
disposed Of with dispatch. Those of the
W. & St. P. Land Co. against various
parties, together with that Of Remiger
vs.. Lent, were passed on the calendar
and will be tried before the Judge with
out a jury during vacation. The case
of Stoeckert vs.. PAIL was continued by
consent, that of VIM. Pfsnder VS. the
Winona & st. Peter Ry. Co. was settled
by agreement of defendant. and in the
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