New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-26
SOUTH DAKOTA.

SOUTH DAKOTA.
4. Over a ton Of butter was shipped from
Plankinton to New York the other day.
In Lawrence, Pennington and Custer coun-
ties there are 81 900 mining claims recorded.
Civil service examinations for the raj
mail service for South Dakota will be held at
Yankton on Tuesday April %.
Several Sioux Falls parties lost money by
the collapse of the American Building and
Loan association of Minneapolis.
The first protection system of Woonsocket
is being remodeled and perfected. the water
supply being furnished by the big artesian
we'll.
Dividing Dakota into two states compelled
a New York publishing house to cut up and
sell for waste paper over 10000 new geog-
raphies.
The Farmers alliance OF Potter county
has been organized into branch of the Ma
tional Farmers Alliance and Industrial
Union.
The Scotland city council closed all the sa-
loonsin that place by demanding Sl25 as a
license Tor the privilege OF running until
closed by the law.
1t is estimated that the Bald Mountain
and Ruby basin mines of Lawrence county
have more than $4,000 worth of ore in
sight.
Henry Lyman, q young half-breed Sioux,
formerly of Yankton, is studying in Yale
college, where he is reported to stand very
high in scholarship.
EL.Abel, of Bridgewater, has been ap-
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Falls penitentiary to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of O.S. Pendar, of Sal en-
| The old man named Lomen, whe was struck
| on the head with hammer during the
woman's raid upon the saloons at Hatton
Trail county, a few weeks ago, has died OF
| his injuries.
While digging a we'll in Liewellyn township,
Sully county, recently, the workmen found
at depth of thirty feet deposit of fossil
fish. The deposit as several feet in thick.
ness.
The ladies of Rapid City have formed a
society for the purpose representing saloon
keepers who liquor to habitual drunkards.
fund Of $500 has been subscribed for the
purpose.
| reward of $500 is offered by the state OF
| South Dakota for the arrest and conviction
OF the person or persons who murdered Mrs.
Minerva Gler in Pennington county on Sep
her % last, or any information touching
the circumstances of the murder
The manufacture OF wicker baskets is one
OF the home industries ofSully county. The
lake banks in that county are lined with
| willow groves, which furnish abundant ma
terial, and q basket factory of large proper
| tons is being talked of.
| postmaster Reeves, of Carthage, recently
received letter from young lady school
teacher, who lives in Illinois, which contain
ed $50, with the request that the money be
used to buy feed for stock, as the sender
could not endure the thought of cattle going
without food
Nels Paulsen is held for trial in $500 bonds
at Sioux Falls for grand larceny in stealing
his own horse. The horse was in a livery
stable and owed q respectable amount for
board Paulsen Went to the stable and re.
moved him without squaring the BILL
Thomas Sorenson, a farmer living near
Dell Rapids, has invented a wind pillow. which
1T is claimed, can be propelled by the gentle
zephyrs that hustle across the prairie The
machine has windmill attachment set on
: r ~ ~ eSs W ouJuso 1lSell 10 Tile WIND,
The pillow consists of number of shoyels on
a cylinder, which revolves when the machine
is In motion and pulverizes the ground thor
oughly.
An effort is being made to secure the par
Don OF Christian Sorenson who was sentence
ed to twenty-four years in the penitcnt,arv
from Moody county for killing neighbor in
dispute over some property. Sorenson
mas become insane, and his friends want him
transferred to the Yankton asylum.
WISCONSIN,.
Mary Freyburg was divorced Mt Racine
from Charles Frey burg, on the ground of
desertion.
The shipman engine in the Office of the Mt.
Horeb Sun exploded. owing to detective
steam gauge. No one was injured
An inmate of the new Outagamie comfy
insane asylum named Sillers was seriously
burned by accidental contact with an onan
fire.
John S.Sullivan has been held to trial nj
Ashland, under $500 bonds, on a charge of
obtaining money under false pretense from
an Indian woman
4 freight train was wrecked on the Wiscon-
sin Central road at Miller, thirty miles be-
low Ashland. Trains were DELAYED several
hours. None of the train hands were in iuretl
An effort is being made TO secure a pardon
for Fred. Williams, who was sentenced to lite
imprisonment foar years ago, for killinr :,
man near Modfprd