New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-11-26
THE NORTHWEST.
4 Summary of the Important
Events of the Week In the
Northwestern States.
Minnesota.

hIN NESo A. ..... .....-.
Fowls in the vicinity of Lake City are dying
of Cholera
The eight-hour day is again being agitated
IN Minneapolis and st. Paul
The nou-partisan Vt. C. T. Q. has formed
state organization
Prairie Queen is the name of q new post
office IN Fillmore county
At Fergns Falls three boys named Spauld-
ing, kidder and Moon were sentenced TO the
reform school for stealth wheat
Peter Gustafson, Il single man aged about
s., committed suicide at Lake City by blow
ing his brains out Whisky was the cause
In the recent election Murray county cap
rtured two members OF the legislature, while
MOBILES county vas shut out altogether
The Imperial Touring mill at Duluth will
Increase its capacity to 1000 barrels PEI
day
The vote for governor in Washington
county resulted in a tie between Merriam
and Wilson.
c H Benton. leading lawyer and one
OF the best known Aasnns in the state, died
suddenly in his Office at Minneapolis
The boiler of thrashfng mach inc expEod-
ed Near Crnokston. instantly killing Ben
Girouz. the fireman, and fatally inJuring the
engineer
Herman Oestrich. a I2-year-old boy OF
Ash Creek, Rock county, disappeared from
his home over Z week ago since which time
he has not been heard from
Richard P. Caminish. of Bird Island, went
TO New York, met ine-looking man On
the street, and came home sadder aud Il
SIS wiser man
Charles l. Brown. Il farmer living six
miles north OF Anoka, was found dead in
bed Death is supposed TO have resulted
from oyeF-induEgence in alcohol
John Bln, living two and d half miles east
OF Caledonia, was found dead near the rail-
road track It is supposed he was struck
by train while crossing the track
". R HartZeEI and Miss kittie Burgess, OF
St. Paul, ara under arrest at Portland. Ore
charged with living together as man and
wife The arrest was made at the instance
Of HavtzeITs wife
1 bridge To cost between $3.50. 900 and
$4,000 is TO De buils across the Mississip-
pi at Hastings by the Chicago. Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railway company. Work will
commence il a few weeks
Mike Brennan alias New Orleans Muir
Qhv. who murdered a boy at Duluth last
summer, was sentenced to spend his natural
lie in the penitentiary at Saltwater He ez-
pressed 4 regret that he wasn't sentenced to
o. hanged
j woman named Carroll was sentenced TO
thirty days in the workhouse at St Paul
tae other day Tor stealing q small piece OF
bacon from butcher shop, Her children
we're IN & starving condition when found by
he relief society.
Buck Kelly. q we'll known Still water
woodsman, was seriously shot by a compan-
on ramed CIedennIng. They were hunting
1ee=, and Kelly was in Ii stopping position in
he woods, when his partner mistook him
OF 4 brush deer and shot him in the back
His recovery is doubtful
Some time ago George ". Wilson OF
La1es0orO, Fillmore county, caught a large
black bass and in handling his catch punct-
1Eed MS right torefnger On the fin of the
Ism. He thought nothing of the injury at
he time. but very soon the injured member
became swollen to SUCH an extent Us to req
Ter anputatiou necessary.
Charlas Childs went hunting Nov. IND the
Taite Stone. and has not been heard OF since.
j
tearch was made, but they could find no
race O. him 1t is believed that he has been
lrowned Or left the country Chii.Is was
-aptGin OF the Des Aoines His home is at
spencer, Iowa
Af-ighrf0l accident, Occurred on the Thomp.
ION road some miles west Of Duluth 4 man
famed Martund placed Il can OF dynamite
Tear the stove to thaw out. It soon exploded
Killing him instantly. His wife and four chill
irea were seriously hurt some OF them hav-
og legs aud arms broken The house
:sUght fire and the inmates were rescued
sith difficulty
1t Nobel, in q quarrel over q game of
ards, Chas- Morgan shot and fatally wound
d Robt- Fulton and severely wounded VIII
lam Eagle Fulton had drawn q knife on
Morgan and the latter shot in seIs-defense.
Is Fulton meant TO stab him to death.
Eagle was bystander and was shot accf-
leutaliy, the bullet lodging in his groin.
Morgan is in jail
The first bear story OF the season comes
rom Long Prairie Todd county. and tells
ii 4 terrible encounter between 8 man named
harshal and huge bear OF the cinnamon
7pectes- He had been hunting. and shot
away ali his cartridges except three. and
N the way home came across bruin at very
lose quarters He fired the three balls into
he bear, resulting IN only aggravating the
animal He was SO close that he could not
,scape. aud the animal attacked him, tearing
III mis- clothes aud terribly laceFating his
ace and body The hunter used his Win.
hester as Z club, and succeeded in getting in
chance blow On the animals head, which
stunned him, and he then pounded his brains
1uE with the broken barrel OF mis- gun He
vas not very far from no me, which be reach
ID IN badly used up condition.
NORTH DAKOTA.