New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-06
SOUTH DAKOTA.


Pierre has a burglar that takes the bread
off with forty five loayes.
Hereafter rations will be distributed at
sub agencies SO that no Indians will have to
travel more than forty five miles for supplies.
The little child of Silas Carmen, living near
Mound City, drank from a dish of fly poison
with fatal effect.
A good vein ofcoal has been found at Eearl-
ing at depth of seventy eight feet. A shaft
will soon be sunk and the surrounding
country supplied with cheap fuel.
A Mitchell man, who has Travelled extern
sively over South Dakota, estimates that
taking the state as whole, wheat will be
about 25 per cent. short of good crop, oats
SO per cent. and fax above the average.
By the opening of of the Sisseton reserva-
ton, which is expected to occur before the
present congress adjourns, abont 100000
acres OF the finest farming land in South
Dakota will be thrown open to settlement.
Col. Allison, the noted army scout, who
has lived many years among the Sioux says
there is no danger of trouble in the reserya-
ton country and thatsthe reports of "out.
breaks are sent out by the cattlemen, who
want the country for grazing purposes
Two Hamlin comfy men, named Town
! and Arnson, were the other day adjudged in
sane. The former lost his reason, it is said,
because he drank too much of the essence of
alcohol, and the other because he could not
get enough to drink.
One of Uncle Sans blue coats, finding life
monotonous at Fort Sully, spiced things p
q little by eloping with Miss Maggie Jordan.
The clippers only had half hours start but
! managed to reach Pierre and have the knot
securely tied before the pursuing party put
in an appearance
During q saiDstorm near Groton the OF her
day. two men named Riggs and Eppard took
refuge in q barn to escape the elements. II A
| puff OF wind came along, lifted tho building
OH it's foundation, carried it some distance
and dashed it to pieces, leaving the poor
j men to seek shelter elsewhere.
Talk about the wonderful growth OF
things! A few weeks ago the Pierre Free
Press saw an eighttoot water snake in
/ the Missouri river at that point and the
other day the same snake arrived in Forest
City and was measured by the editor of the
Press, when it was found that it had grown
to the length of twenty two feet.
The Indian police are fast catching on to
the ways of their metropolitan brothers. At
the Crow Creek agencSs the other day man
named La Croix ''sassed" an Indian cop
named Whipper, when the latter seized a
base ball bat and struck the former over the
head, fracturing his skull Whipper has been
arrested and may 'lose his buttons
WISDOM 1f5
The La Crosse Times tells about e horse
who ate huge chunk Of ice left by the deal
er in front of saloon.
| Mathew Peterson was arrested at Western
Union Junction for selling still-fruit without
| the government stamp on it.
| Mrs, Hackbarth, OF Wausau, is missing.
| She went out with q party of berry pickers
and wandered away from the rest of the
| party.
The residence of O. B. Guenther, living four
miles north of Port Washinnton, was struck
| by lightning recently. Mr.. Guenther's son
was made deaf by the shock.
| George Brown, under arrest at Eau Claire
for jewelrv robbery at Waverly, a., was
proven to be the wrong man. A damage
suit is now in order
A. D. Kerr, employed by the Bay Shore
Lumber Company, at Ashland, captured
deer which started to swim across Chequa-
megon Bay. He pursued the animal in a
skiff and run it down.
| At the Mendoza hospital, at Madison
there are 52S patients, at the Wauwatosa
hospital 269, and at the Northern hospital
6O5-375 male and 229 females. In county
hospitals there are 1,712 inmates, making
the total in the state 3,1O4, which is an in
crease of l73 since October, 1880 There
are 800 more male than female inmates.
The third trial of the Salvation Army
cases, at Eau Claire, close with the convic-
ton OF Capt Emma Albertson, the jury so
finding after an halfhour's elaboration.
She was fined IS and costs, amounting to
about $40. The determined, though patient
nttle captain will refuse to pay her fine, and
an appeal will be taken to the circuit court,
MISS Albertson giving the required bonds.
Adolph Berg's $500 trotter, Doctor, saved
his life, perhaps, at Eau Claire, theA other
night. Berg was driving along a lonely sec
ton OF the town when a man stepped out of
clump OF trees, grabbed the bride of the
horse, and whipped out revolver. Berg
gave the animal a touch OF the whip and
: NeoiiSo oiAC 1llS ullIuctl. lufOW-
ing the highwaymanto the ground.
! County Clerk Fowler of Richland Center.
died month ago and took the combination
OF the vault along with him. Since that time
experts have been working night and day on
the door with drills and all the available
burglars tools in the town. There is 5000
in the vault, besides some valuable papers,
and the chances are that if the officials do
not get the money out soon some enterpris-
ing and talented crook is likely to come along
between two days, and blow the door open
and walk off with the contents.
IOWA.
Judge Linehan, of Dubuque, has grant
ed inJunctions against ffty-iYe saloons,
and the prosecuting attorney was allowed
| 81, 125 in fees
A Dubuque policeman shot stray dog
| and the bullet, glancing from the pavement,
| struck boy in the head, but fortunately did
not injure him seriously,
NJ. Kirk, conducting an original pa OK age
| house at Imogene for Omaha parties, was