New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-02-05
THE NORTH W EST.
A Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA
The Minnesota Editorial association will
meet in St, Paul, February II and IS.
Girls from rs to SO years of age enjoy
themselves skating at Minnesota City.
Simmons, the Tower murderer, was acquit-
ted at Duluth after the jury had taken forty
eight ballots
Judge John e. Brown, of the Twelfth judi
icial district, died at his home in Willmar
of heart trouble.
Mrs. Chapman, widow OF the late editor of
the St. James Journal, has assumed editorial
management of that paper.
Herbert Voos, of St. Paul, concealed seven
dozen raw oysters inside OF thirty minutes
and won bet of $50.
An attempt was made to burn the feed mill
at Lakefeld the other night, but the fire was
discovered in time to prevent much damage.
No clue to the perpetrator.
Annie Buresh, q Bohemian girl, committed
suicide at Owatonna by drowning herself in
a cstern. Disappointment in love was the
cause.
A. Strutz, a9lumberman, was crushed to
death by a wagon heavily laden with logs
passing over his body at q lumber ca mp near
Hinckley.
George Smith, Mile Laos county former,
is in jail at ST. Paul on q charge of forging
Isaiah Gould's name to o pension check for
$1,000. Gould had lived in Smiths family,
but has been dead for two years.
Mrs R. G.. Hutchins, wife of the former
pastor of Plymouth church in Minneapolis
committed suicide few days ago in Los
Angeles, Cal, where Mr.. Hutchins is the
pastor of one of the leading churches.
II is alleged that paupers are being shipped
into the northwest over theCanadian Pacific
railway from Norway, and that q mum Der OF
cases of leprosy have lately developed
among Thorn in Kittson county.
Will Carl and George Ellsworth are in
Jail at Mortified for burglarizing Wilson's
store at that place. They attempted to
shoot the officers who arrested them. Carl
is soldier in the Salvation army. ...
At Austin, E. P. Aplin, confined i'll Jail for
grand larceny, attempted to hang himself.
He was discovered just in time. He was re-
Gently released from the Rochester insane
asylum He made rope out of his shirt.
The Minnesota grand lodge of Masons in
session at St. Paul condemned Cerneauism
by an almost unanimous vote. The Ger
does not believe in the existence Of a supreme
being.
o. Z. Olson, of Battle Lake, has brought
suit against X. K. Tvete for $4,000 dam
ages. They ore rival merchants, and last
fall Tvete accused Olson Of stealing some
goods from his store, but failed to substanti-
ate the charge.
Robert McNabb a 16-year-o old messenger
boy employed by st. Paul firm. forged the
, signature of the firm to several checks and
getting them cashed at the Capital bank.
skipped for Duluth. He was arrested and
taken back to ST. Paul.
Michael Schieber, the Bavarian murderer,
recently arrested in Minneapolis, has been
sent back to Bavaria, Germany. The crime
charged against Schieber is the murder of his
4-year-old stepson and his grandfather in
Pandorf, Germany.
state law has been passed providing that
tree peddlers from other states must file IN
affidavit with the secretary OF state to the
effect that they are engaged in legitimate
business and provide q bond of 81, $50 be-
fore being allowed to sell.
The roller mill of A. D. Sprague, located
in the Winnebago valley, was burned. The
mill, including the warehouse, is a total loss.
The miller thinks the fire started in the dust
room from the chimney. The loss is $1O,-
900, without insurance.
ASH W. Jones was walkingup Third street
at Faribaut, he sli pped upon the Icy side
walk and FELL coming down on his back. 1t
was thought at first thai he was dead, but
after taking him home it was found that his
backbone was showed together about four
inches. He is now in a critical condition.
The case of William Broker, the Chengwa-
tona murderer, is being tried at Pine City at
an adjourned term of the district court be-
fore Judge F. M. Crosby, L. ii. McKusick,
county attorney, and Attorney General Clapp
for the prosecute on, and Dent & Dent for the
defense. The trial excites the greatest inter
est in the county, from the fact of the cruel
atrocity of the murder.
The John Gund Brewing Company of La
Crosse has leased ground on the Omaha
track at Luverne, for q warehouse. A large
building will be put up in the spring and the
, trade supplied from that point. just what
bearing this will have on prohibition in
South Dakota and Iowa remains to be seen
The Sioux Falls brewery which it was thought
would move to Luverne, has been located at
Pipe Stone. There is not enough local trade
at Luverne or -ipe Stone orin their immedi-
ate vicinity to support these esta blish ments
and the proximity of the prohibition states
gives the whole thi ng peculiar look.
NORTH DAKOTA.
Grand Forks is discussing the putting in OF
new sewerage system.
The fair grounds of Grand Forks have been
sold by the sheriff to satisfy mortgage.
North Da kota legislators are preparing to
give grand ball in the capitol building at
g. Bismarck.
Maj Powell, one of the United States geo.
logical survey, says the Dakotas have coal
enough to supply the whole nation.