New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-05
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
The authorities of Duluth have put stop
to glove contests and all kinds of Struggling"
exhibitions.
The labor unions of Minneapolis and St.
Paul have placed q vigorous boycott on nom
union made cigars.
The chamber of commerce of st. Cloud,
have agreed to donate site for govern
ment building providing congress will APP
propriate $1,000 for the building
The large flour mill and elevator at Champ
lin, Hennepin county, were destroyed by fire.
Loss, SIC, 900; insurance $4,000.
pleasure party often persons were thrown
from wagon near Rochester and oil more
or less injured Mrs. Daniel Madden and Miss
Annie Grady seriously.
Charles Elsbury ofEyota has been allowed
q pension of So, $50 and $50 per month. Mr..
Elsbury has been perfectly helpless for sew
eral years and was in destitute circumstances.
Charles Singer, a farmer living in Stowe
Prairie township, Wadena county, while hunt
ing rabbits, accidently shot himself in the
bowels. 1t is thought he will live.
Fritz Uhlenhut was killed at Dow in Otter
Tail county while cutting down tree one of
the limbs striking him On the head, fractur-
ing the skull
Clifton Holden for the murder ofhis cousin,
Frank Dodge, at Redwood Falls, on the 23d
ofNovember 1888, has been found guilty OF
murder in the first degree and sentenced to
behanged on q day set by the governor.
Holden had two trials.
The county seat contest that has been on
for FIVE years between Currie and Slayton was
decided by Judge Perkins in favor of Slayton.
Bells were rung, whistles blown and bands
played to celebrate the victory.
Jay Bevier a Saltwater youth, tried to
commit suicide in a dressing room in the
opera-house in that place by asphyxiation
with illuminating gas. He was nearly dead
when discovered. Disappointment in love
was the cause.
William Tucker was tried before Justice
johnson and a jury at Hastings upon the
charge OF drunkenness upon q change O
venue from Justice De Kay. Tucker was
found guilty and sentenced to ninety days in
Jail, under the Scheffer law, it being the third
ofense
Andrew J. Clark will issue the initial mum
Der Of The Presto-Change, a seven column
folio weekly newspaper at the new village o
Presto, Todd Co. It is to be independent il
politics. The name of the village has lately
been changed from Staples. 1t is located
atthe terminus of the Little Falls cutoff.
The merchants at ST. James have entered
into m arrangement to have all butter
brought to that place graded, and the Ger
tificates will be paid by any store in TIT
town. By this arrangement it will be solo
upon it's merit. 1t will then be packed ant
handled by one party.
Worthington is becoming one of the mos
popular summer resorts in the state TIL
town is located between two beautiful lakes
which contain an abundance of fish and tn
( hunting season is excellent. Large number
of visitors from the east spend the summe
season in Worthington, and the hotel mel
are already preparing for the expected infu,
next season.
At a special term of the district court q
Fergus Falls, Judge Baxter decided that tn
city was entitled to $1,000 which had beef
deposited in escrow as bonus to Wilma
parties to locate wooden mill there which
they failed to do and refused to allow tn
city to withdraw the money. The city ha
recovered nearly all it's bonus money now
and it is watching with interest the expert
ence of other places in the same business.
A controversy between the local school au
thorities of Goodhue county and the stat,
text book contractors seems imminent
The county treasurer says he will pay nc
more money to school districts save on Ger
tiicate from the county superintendent thai
the state text book law is complied with
and the superintendent says he can give nc
such certificates in the case Of many schoo
districts, having advised them to use Other
books.
NORTH DAKOTA
Jake Walker, a German aged As, was killed
at DEVILS Lake by being kicked in the heaC
by horse He is supposed to be single anG