New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-19

frozen TO DEATH he was intoxicated when
he left the saloon and had strayed cut Of hiG
homeward course.
Herbert Kepler, aged 10, son ofrespectable
parents at Eau Claire. has been arrested for
stealing. He is wild. drinking boy, over
whom his parents have no control i
Edward Gill, of Merrill pleaded guilty be
fore United States Judge Bum, att Madison
to violating the revenue laws. He vas sen.
fenced to thirty days in the countXjai and
to pay a fine of 500.
Charles Brahmer narrowly escaped freezing
to death, near Fort Atkinson. Hewas thrown.
from his wagon, suffering broken leg. and
lay for two weeks by the roadside, the tenn
perature being 16 degrees below zero.
In the circuit court, now in session at Port
Washington, Charles Lucht, of the town Of
Mequon, recovered 81, 900 fromlhiss tepfather
for services since he came of age, fourteen
years ago.
A burglar entered the house OF Mrs. Chas.
Brady, at Racine, and was discovered by
son, who fired two shots at him while he was
making his exit out of q kitchen window.
Neither OF the shots took effect, and the bur-
glar escaped in the darkness.
William Zimmerman, i, farmer living three
miles from Boyd, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with a butcher knife. Sever
al days previous he cut his wrists with a
knife in an unsuccessful attempt to end his
life.
In Che circuit court ssb Wausau William
Gritzmacher, a veteran of the late war. was
convicted of an assault upon 16-year-old
German girl, October 4, 1889, Immediately
after which he fed to Minnesota, where he
was found through pension vouchers, at
Aiken. A new trial Will be asked.
There has been shipped out of the city Of
Madison, this season, about 81, 500 tons Of
ice, which has sold at an average of IS cents
per ton, bringing S98,475. Besides this here
has been stored away in ice-houses at least
an amount equal to the shipment. The cost
of cutting and placing ice on board cars is
about Is cents per ton, most of which goes
directly to the laboring men,
A great excitement was created at Eau
Claire by the discovery that six prisoners
had escaped from jail. They are John Fisher,
John Ever James Doyle, Ed Dixon, Thomas
Sander and John Wedenberg, all burglars.
They had worked several days on bars and
| bolts with files and drills struggled in by
friends and had plugged up the holes with
soap They reached the roof through sky
| light and slid down rope made Of blankets
and torn into strips and braided. kilograms
and offers of rewards have been sent broad
cast and officers are searching the woods.
IOWA.
An Algona man shipped 1000 bushels of
oats to the Pacific coast at a cost of So. rs.
He paid II cents a bushel for the oats and
the freight was 80 cents a bushel.
Capt. Tom Burns, the wellknown steam
boat inspector, died at his home in Galena,
over thirty years.
johnson post, G. A. R., of Grand Junction,
/ has ordered fine soldiers monument from
Vermont, to cost about 81, 900, which will be
unveiled in the cemetery at that place May /.
The Creston Gazette would like to see the
| law so amended as to make the school treas
uryship an elective Office, thus divorcing the
/ question of finance and bank deposits an ele-
ment OF choice in selection ofschool directors
Henry Kerwin, aged 40, of Davenport, was
found in his hut with his neck broken APP
pearances indicated that whileintoxicatcd he
1 had fallen downstairs His only son had just
| been sent to the reform school,
DR.. Van Epps of Sheldon, was wounded in
the leg on the southern battlefield in 1868.
He has been troubled with the limb ever
since, and few days ago had to have it am.
/ putated below the body in order to save his
| life.
A peculiar condition of affairs politically
exists in Moulton, growing out of the Murdy
| murder trial. At the municipal election the
friends OF DR.. Murdy, who is now serving q
sentence in Fort Madison for the murder oil
i Silas Upton. took one side and his enemies
the other. Murdy followers were victorious.
Charles Beal. of Bancroft, had all his fin.
gers amputated in a peculiar way the other
day. He was tying horse in the manager
and catching the young mans hand in a
as nea tly as ii done with Ratchet.
sneak thief made sweep of the clothes
line in the yard of Rev. s. R. j. Hoyt at
4 Waverly the other night, and the Republican
congratulates the reverned gentleman on
having a coat that buttons close up about
| his neck, ''thus concealing scarcity of linen.
| which is sufficiently uncomfortable without
ostentatlous display
Aqueer case was tried before Justice Love.
1 JOY at Jefferson the other day. Billy McCo
mick had Dick West arrested for assault and
battery, and West was fined 81 and costs,
which he paid. He then had Mccormick ar
rested for being the aggressor in the affair,
and the latter was fined $40 and costs.
/ County Attorney Church prosecuted both
cases, using the same justice and witnesses il,
each case, which, all things considered, was
| somewhat novel.
i The usually quiet little town of Rome
Henry county, INDUCED in a little excitement
/ A train laden with liquor was wrecked near
there and the vessel in which the liquid was
contained burst. Everybody turned outwith
pans, tin cans, etc, and succeeded in saving
a large quantity of the spirits. Then ensued
a scene which. according to witnesses, rivaled
the bacchanalian orgies ofthe ancients. The
tough element took possession of the town
and pandimonium reigned supreme. The
] good people of the place barricaded them
selves in their houses and waited till the