New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-04-16
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

While T. G. Anderson of Lake Ida, Douglas
county, was driving home his team ran away
ana ne was thrown out and instantly killed.
j. d.. b. Easton, q young man well known
IN the musical circle of Rochester, received a
severe kick in the forehead from horse. He
will probably recover
During a storm lightning struck the barn
OF j. Hnrshmann at Quincy, which was total
tally destroyed by fire. Loss, 50, 900; no in
surance.
Mrs. M. Pirreo, of Duluth, fell into kettle
OF boiling pitch, which afterward caught fire.
ana before the flames could be extingu ished
she was burned to crisp.
The body found in Lake Pepin the other
day has been identified as that of ohm Hyatt,
who disappeared from his home near W acouta
IN December last
j. Frank Colon, of Minneapolis, defend
ant IN the famous Blaisdell- Colon forgery
case, will appear again for trial on April II,
this time on charge OF forgery in the second
degree.
The special election in the town of Jordan,
FILLMORE county, to raise bonus of $4,000
ior the Winona and Southwestern. resulted
IN the defeat ofthe proposition by major
1ty of twenty five votes
At Little Falls the Rhodes block, occupied
oy Booth Co., as clothing and furnishing
store, was destroyed by fire. The origin of
the ire is unknown, but it is supposed to be
the result of kerosene lamp explosion.
C. E. Wood, aged seventeen, met with a
terrible accident at Hastings while cleaning
MS shotgun. He had removed the shot, but
the charge of powder ex ploded and entered
pH11th F,o ,c,II. IL.
muscles and fracturing the lower jaw
The president has RENTED the term of i'm
pr1sonment OF Henry Caldwell, now in the
saltwater penitentiary, after June 1 next
Caldwell was private in Company D, Twen-
ty-htth infantry, and was sent to prison on
the findings of co urt martial held Oct. %,
1888.
Five thousand dollars has been subscribed
oy the farmers and citizens in the vicinity of
Anoka, for the creamery and the site for the
building located on plat of gro und donated
by L. f. Pratt, near the railroad station.
Ground will be broken at once, and it is in
tended to have the crea merry ready for oper-
alton by June.
AT a dance held in G. A. r. hall at Tracy
row took place between Jim Smith, q livery
man. and George Haywood, a brakeman,
both residents of that place. Smith left the
hall and was followed by Haywood, who at
tackled him, stabbing him four times in the
back with pocket knife. The wounds are
not serious. Haywood was arrested at Sleepy
Eye.
August flanders on was found dead at Hast
lngs in the vicinity of the lower mill. 1t is
probable case Of suicide. He was shoe
maker by trade and ran repairing shop.
He was married, and leaves widow and two
children. He has resided in Hastings for the
past eight years, and was of o rather eccen-
trio disposition. He has brother living in
Maiden Rock Wis. He had been missing for
several days. He was about forty years old.
An oil painting of Fort Ridgely as it ap-
peared in 1862 while the Indians were max
ing an attack upon it, has been presented to
the adjutan t-generaPs Office ut St. Paul by
Capt. j. c. McGrue, of Crookston. 1t showe
the Indians, about 1900 in number, get
ting up out of the grass and charging the
fort. Capt. McGrue made a sketch of the
fort and surro findings at the time, intending
/ to have it painted.