New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-27

the Reedsburg Free Press. AS Will Houston,
while up the river hunting one day, came
across a snake skin over Il feet in length
that his snakeship had discarded for q new
outfit
Conductor Bartlett's ore train on the Wis.
consin Central ran over and instantly killed
a man near Hurley. His head was cut off
and thrown over / 90 yards, and the bod '
was frightiully mangled. A time book found
I on the remains gave the name of Peter Ole
Johnson. 1t is supposed that he fell asleep
on the track when returning to one of the
mines intoxicated
There is a quiet laugh in educational cir
ces about the state because Mazomanie has
a number of influential persons who want
the school board to hire married man as
principal of the sch ools. 1t is underst God
that single man wanted the school so bad.
~ that he offered to get married before fall
to satisfy the demand.
A Lake Mills woman had the misfortune
recently to take q dose Of ammonia by mis-
take instead of her regular medicine. Anti
dotes have beeu administered, but the effect
was so sudden that the mucus membrane Of
the mouth and tiss sues of the stomach were
fairly cooked, as it were, and cast out in
large patches. Hopes are entertained that
the inflammation can be kept down, but the
result is doubtful
IOWA.
woman at Cleve, Polk county, is post
master, telegraph operator for two railroads.,
agent for two railroads and is raising a
baby.
While on his way home from Boone to
Woodward the other night Mark johnson
was held up by masked highwaymen and re-
ieved Of 500 which he had just drawn from
the bank
There have been but five foreclosures of
reat estate in Black Hawk county this year.
says the Waterloo Reporter and two of
them are on town property.
Since the original package law was passed
by congress kilograms have been pouring in
upon collector Lothrop, at Dubuque, asking
him to cancel applications for government
licenses.
The onion growers Of Scott county are
rolling in wealth. The highly favored fruit
brings $l.1O spot cash in the Davenport
market, with the demand constantly in
creasng.
Rev. Solomon Sleeper, Campbellite min
lister of Washing ton county, is 1O1 years old
and has been a resident of the county for
fifty years. An idea of his physical condi-
ton can be had from the fact that he has
planted and taken care OF twent y acres OF
corn this season.
spider crawled into Union Stoner's ear
and began to spin web over the entrance,
says the Tama Herald. DR.. Thompson re-
moved it and it ran away across the carpet
as though it felt itself in good luck. There s
no flies on Union-no m after what that spid-
er thought.
Three Iowa men were arrested at Grand
Island Neb., for selling broken packages of
slverware, books, notions, ETC., and upon
refusing to pay fine were sent to Jail.
They propose to try the habeas corpus act,
standing upon their original package rights,
while the city will endeavor to make all
peddlers pay license.
The inclination to stake something" is SO
strong in the tramp that sometimes he takes
articles for which he has no earthly use. The
other day q grocery store at Boone was
broken into and large quantity of fancy
toilet soap taken. The missing goods were
found in the possession of tourist" and
after being forced to disgorge he was allow.
ed to take his departure.
The mystery surrounding the death of l..
T. David, whose body was found in the river
at Burlington the other day, has been cleared
up. He wrote letter to his mother, in
Coshocton, O., stating that he intended to
take his own life, and sent her valise con-
tanning his personal effects. The coroner's
jury accordingly returned a verdict ofsuicide.