New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-06
THE NORTHWEST,
\ Summary Of the Important
Events Of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

The Farmers alliance has decided to build
81 large warehouse at Lake Benton
During the recent session OF the state SUI
! .Estne court 269 decisions were handed
II Several cars laden with farm implements
ETere derailed near Rochester and badly
Smashed
4 Fred Corwin, of Lake City, while carelessly
handling a revolver, accidently shot himself
through the hand.
The report that the South st. Paul stock
yards had been sold to the new syndicate is
without foundation.
G. M. Cowre, station agent at Maynard,
deserted his wife and family and eloped with
the wife of neighbor
Burglars ruined the safe in the posto flee
at La Crescent, but were frightened away be-
TGt-e they could secure any plumber.
d The postofice at Cold Spring was entered
by burglars and quantity of postal cards,
stamps and money taken.
The Mile Laos Indians are moving of their
own accord from the Mile Laos to the Yellow
Earth reservati on.
A son of George Herber of Pennington
was drowned in Prairie lake while BATH ng.
A boy named Frank Lohstreter, living
near Hokah, had one of his feet SO badly
Brushed by a moving machine as to render
amputation necessary
D The postoffice at Sank Raj ids was entered
Iby burglars the safe blown to pieces and
9about $50 worth of property destroyed.
3Only a small amount of booty was secured.
B The independent school district of Dulu th
!. has decided to issue 100000 Az per cent.
school bonds for the purpose of eFecting ad-
ditional school buildings.
(, According to the assessors retuEns there
are in Freeborn county 1923 horsesA 100
sows, 14,296 other CATTLE 1881 hogs and
g, 522 sheep.
Herbert g. Stout an ex-postal clerk con
victed of 70 bling the mails at the June term
of the United States court at Winona, vas
sentenced to states prison for three years.
The Blue Earth County alliance has pur-
chased for it's members 10000 pounds Of the
best manila binding Irvine at 1874 cents per
pound. The usual price is Is cents,
The large barn of Peter E. Hanson, i've
miles southeast of Litchfield, with all it's con-
tents, including seven horses, was totally
destroyed by fire. The loss will reach several
thousand dollars. ,gB44sFe
Mary Swanson, aged Ia, living seven
miles from Rochester, dropped a Lighted
match into can of gasoline, and her cloth
~Sng catching fire, she was burned so fright
fully that death resulted four hours later.
At Oronoco, as August Templeman was
pulling down a hay shed it fell to pieces
unexpectedly and the flying timbers struck
him and his son, boy OF years. The boy
was killed and the fathers leg broken. i,
Private Martinson, of company f. Still
water, who did brave work in rescuing PEG
pie from the Sea Wing wreck, is confined to
his bed in a very lew condition as the result
of exposure to the elements.
The large barn of Luther Mccoy, at
Rochester, was destroyed by fire, together
with it's contents of hay, grain and farm ma
chinery. The fire is supposed to be of in
cendiary origin.
Public meetings are being held in Eari-
bault county to protest against the resent
resolution of the county commissioners to
appropriate $25, 900 of the surplus money in
the treasury for the erection OF a new court
house.