New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-07-23
THE NORTH WEST.
q Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
4 Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA.

. SIT. Cloud is to have -four mill that will
employ 100 men.
There are now 32S prisoners in the Still
water penitentiary.
Robert Saxton committed suicide in a st.
Paul hotel by taking morphine.
The assessed valuation OF Duluth personal
and real property is $37, 900, lit.
Dunn & Allen, we'll known saloonkeepers of
Minneapolis have been closed by their cred
itors.
A. H. Smith, a printer, and the hus band of
four wives. has skipped from Rush Lake to
escape prosecution for bigamy.
A. S. Sackett, one of the Oldest and best
known men in Olmstead count Y, has become
insane through the excessive use of alcohol
Judge l.. Hasen, Of Owatonna, and Miss
Mo1ord OF the same place, were married. The
judge is 73 years OF age.
Austin Hill an employee in the sh oe factory
at Anoka, was assaulted by three footpads
and badly injured They secured no money.
George Anderson, of Jackson was acciden t.
~ shot by target gun in Lakef cid, July
4, and has since died from the wound
John and Willie Donaldson, aged Is and
years, respectively, were drowned while
bathing in the Straight river at Owato ma
John 3. Mueller. the Minneapolis brewer
committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Brooding over money
matters was the cause
John Welch died at Hokah the other day
at the age OF 1O1 years. He was native
of Ireland and came to this country fifty
years ago. H.. ......
Thomas B. Strike, a we'll to O farmer, was
thrown from his buggy near Forest City, and
SO severely wounded that he died a few hours
later
Father Anslem, young st. Johns college
cleric, was drowned in Lake st. John, near
St. Cloud, by the capszing of a boat. He
was 26 years of age,
The hardware store and postofice at Kel-
logg was entered by burglars the other night
and robbed of $3.50 in money, S65 in stamps
and gold watch and chain@vaIued at 500.
Sneak thieves ransacked the dwelling of
William Bartrow, at Verndale, and stole
. 1925, which was concealed in some bed
Clothes in a bureau drawer.
farmer named Oefner, while walk in @
along the Great Northern track ats St. Cloud,
was struck by passenger train and in slant
Iy killed. He was deaf and could not hear
the danger signals,
Edward Boew age 49, was killed at Fer
gus Falls by being thrown from a load of
hay. The wagon passed over him and he
was found Gead in the road three m lies from
town.
1t is estimated that wi thin the past 80
years 100 persons have been drowned lille
bathing in the Minnesota river between Man
kato and St. Peter. The current is yery
treacherous
Rochester suffered from one Of the hottest
days of the season, the atm osphere being I'M
usually oppressive. A farmer named Brooks
was sunstruck and two horses dropped deadl
from the heat.
Andrew Thompson, Swede, was drowned
while bathing in the Minnesota river near
Redwood. He was about twenty years of
age, unmarried and had been in this country
ABOUT a year. He is not known to have had
any relatives except a brother at Litchfeld.
The clerk at the Grand Pac ific hotel at
st. Cloud was Mortified when he disco YER
ed the dead body of ohm Mccarthy with his
IHroaC cut from ear to ear, in his room at
the hotel Mccarthy was an engineer and
had been on spree for several weeks and
1t Is thought, committed the deed in a fit of
drunken frenzy. He was a brother of Mrs
Mary bowman, who two years ago ATTEMPT
ed suicide by jumping from the Mississippi
river wagon bridge, and also of Carrie Nc.
Carthy, the somewhat noted courtesan who
made way with herself about tho LIST of july
by taking laudanum at ST. Paul
John Trmble an innocent old farmer from
low, hlttson county, was worked by con-
hdance man in ST. Paul. On the way to the
depot ne was accosted by a man who claim
acquaintance and said he was on his way to
Pennsylvania. Trimble said he was going
to Pennsylvania too. The two went to the
tram together and took the same seat The
stranger finally got up and said he was go
ing to get $500 out ofhis grip which was
checked IN the baggage car. In few min
utes he returned and told Trimble that thew
would not let him have the grip before thew
reached Chicago unless he put up $50 as Sc.
curity He did not have quite enough, and
asked Trimble to help him out unit he could
get the 5000. Trimbe had $36, and he let
the stranger have $35 oft, and has not vet
seen the man
NORTH DAKOTA.
William Talbot, aged Is, was drowned
while bathing in the Heart river at Mandan