New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-01
TIE NORTHWEST
\ Summary sunni Of the Important
Events of the EEK in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

Turing 1903 S9,b6l,753 has been eX-
pended in building in st. Paul
Over 800 citizens of Fergus Falls were at
lacked with winter cholera" the past week.
broom factory has been added to the in
dustries ofStillvater penitentiary and will
furnish work for fifty prisoners.
The temperance people of Minnesota have
taken steps to organize non-partisan
league. IT, Nl
The Minnesota Educational association
will meet at st. Paul January 1 and con-
tinue in session three days
AT Buffalo a man named Dixon was in.
dicted on two counts for jury bribing and
fined 500 for the first and $50 for the sec
ond. " At ny
Albert Lewis, Sandy McClymont, Bill
Iierney and Bob McAloney, youthful fire
bugs, were bound over in 5000 each at
Anoka to await trial for arson. Lewis has
made a confession t.
The body Of Guy Gardner, who had been
missing since August Is, was found near
Rose Creek by boy While hunting Gard
ner had been employed on the farm where he
was found. Suicide is suspected.
An insane man escaped from the st. Peter
asylum the other day and was captured in
Winona. He told of killing several people on
his trip, but credence is placed in his
story. i. III.
E. Rudiman, a St. Paul travelling man
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the heart. Financial trouble and i'll
health was the cause. He leaves. a wife and
two children.
A man named Hazen was accidentally
killed near Faribault while digging we'll
The man above let the rope slip and the
heavy pail struck him on the head, crushing
his skull.
Christ. BALI, of Owatonna, wound up q
drunken spree by shooting his wife through
the head and then blowing his own brains
out. Mrs. Bali was so years old and Balz
81. They have five children living.
Edmund Wagner, of Waseca, had a leg
crushed while trying to cross the track ahead
OF car that was being switched from one
track to the other The member was amp,.
tated, but it is thought he cannot recover
Jens Enderson; an old hermit living near
Slayton in an old dugout, was burned out by
fire. He had made the place his home to1
fifteen years and is left entirely destitute
The neighbors will care for him until he can
secure a home.
The Burlington, Cellar Rapids and North
ground. Agent W. S. Williams and family
had narrow escape, as the entire lower
floor of the building was on fire before the
blaze was discovered.
The schoolma' ANS of St. Paul not long
ago We're instructed to give occasional in
struction in plain and fancy sewing to the
girls under their charge, and the horrible
fact came out that few if any of the teachers
could do any kind of sewing whatever
The motion for new trial in the case Of
Andrew Void, of Breckenridge, was denied
The counsel for the defendant, who had beer
found guilty of murder in the first degree
then argued for mitigation of sentence, anc
the court reduced the extreme penalty to i'm
prisonment for life. -
There is a terrible famine existing at Plain
view for water. Nearly every we'll in town
is dry, and farmers are hauling water from
creeks for their stock, some at q distance O.
five and six miles. If there is no rain before
cold weather there will be any amount
of suffering III
The plan of Architect Joy for the st. Pau
ice palace has been accepted. 1t will be I
shaped and the architecture will be Roman
esque. The building will be 362 feet long
varying in width from IS to 200 feet 1t vii
exceed any previous attempt in point o
grandeur and costliness ~.
O. c. Serumgard of DEVILS Lake, N. D., ar
rived at Mankato and caused the arrest O
Ole Thorsen. Thorsen was charged with
murder at DEVILS Lake, and left that place
His bondsmen of whom Serumgard is one
fearing Thorsen intended to jump his bail
apprehended him. He is in Jail pending
hearing for the requisition papers.
At Saltwater recently Mrs. Thomas Wells
with the aid of policeman, gave her hus
band an unmerciiul cowhiding. For som,
time Wells, who is a barber, failed to supper
her and spent his money in a certain disre
putable house.. His wife went to the hous,
accompanied by the policeman, and afte
she had trimmed Thomas with the whip un
til she was tired the policeman landed hin
in jail. The next day he was sentenced tx
sixty days in the work-house. Mrs. We
has applied for divorce.