New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-10-29
TILE NORTHWEST.
a Summary Of the Important
Events of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINI ESOTA,

A basket factory furnishing employment
TO II teen hands has been established at AL
bert Lea.
The police of Red Wing are engaged in a
vigorous prosecution of dealers who sell to-
bacco to minors.
in the election for cou nty seat of Marsha
county Warren defeated Argyle by over
300 majority.
Patrick E. Maggie of Minnesota has been ap-
pointed medical examiner in the pension
bureau ut salary ni 1,SO0.
Rev. W. 7. Bou twell, the pioneer missionary
of Minnesota, died at his residence near
Saltwater. He was SO years OF age
At special election at MONTGOMERY it
was voted to put in a $4,000 system of
water works and to purchase q 81. 600 steam
fire engine.
Walter F. Morton, who is accused OF
drowning his wife and daughter in the
Mississippi river near st. Paul, has been IT,
-dicted for murder in the first degree.
In a row at Ashley, Frank Prescott was
stabbed by man named Healey. The kni e
entered an inch from Il vital point HeaIey
IS under arrest.
Alma Anderson, q girl thirteen years of
age, disappeared from her home at Red Wing
and all efforts to discover her whereabouts
have proven ruthless
pelican measuring eight feet two inches
from tip to tip of its extended wings was
shot on the lake at Lake City while he was
trying to make acquaintance among q
flock OF tame geese.
Patrick Towey, bod carrier, fell from a
scatfold in the government building at
NllOnD ha3H 70
floor thirty Feet below and dashing his brains
out.
The St. Croix boom closed down with the
unprecedented output of over 452 900, 900
feet OF logs, being 100, 100000 feet more
than last season, and 100000 feet more
than any previous year.
A man named Weber was found on the
Milwaukee track with featured skull He
is not expected to live. He started to walk
down the track to the poor farm and is sup
posed to have been struck by the train.
Burglars entered the hardware store of
William Powell at st. Cloud and stole ra-
zors, revolvers and knives to the amo unit Of
about 500. They were traced for some
blocks by having occasionally dropped
some o the plumber.
Two convicts. Tom Field aud Tom King.
escaped from the prison at Saltwater. They
obtained a ladder, which they placed against
the wall, and climbed over between two
guards. The men were doing four and five
years time respec lively
The state board of health has ordered
veterinary surgeon to go to Reno, Houston
county. to investigate in regard to conta-
gious disease among cattle which has broken
out i'll that locality. A fatal malady has
also attacked the hogs in the vicinity of
Chatfeld.
The population returns for Red Wing and
Goodhue county as given out by the census
bureau have caused no little indignation.
Every one maintains that they are incorrect.
those for the city being several hundred and
those for the country several thousand be.
low what they ought to be.
4 freight train from the east on tine North
western was run into at Owntonna by an
other freight coming from the same direction.
ut full speed, down grade. The CD boose and
four or five cars we're smashed to spinters.
No one was in the ca boose at the time The
engineer and fireman narrowly escaped with
their lives.
At Foley Station the men employed by the
Great Northern in laying steel rails on the
St Cloud & Hinckley branch became dissat-
ist"d with the God given them in the board.
ing cars and attacked them. completely
wrecking the cars aud smashing the con
tents. Thirty Of the prominent ones in the
affair were discharged.
Senator James Compton accidentally shot
himself while hun ting, four miles from Fer
gus Falls. A tull charge Of shot entered his
lett wrist and hand, mangling both in q hor-
rible manner. He was driven home as rap
idly as possible, and amputation Of the
wounded member between the wrist and ell
bow was performed. He will undoubtedly
recover.
Seymour Curfan. a farmer living near
Northfield, became involvedin quarrel with
Sam Partlow, his hired man. Alter engaging
in fist fight, in which both men were badly
pounded. Partlow secured a pitch!orll and
drove Curran into the house. The latter Sc.
cured q revolver and shot Partlow in
the face, the bullet breaking his Jaw and
making u wound which may result seriously
The trouble is said to have been caused by
improper relations between Partlow and his
employers daughter.
An important case will come before the
United States court at Duluth this session.
A. F. Christian, local agent of Armour &
Co, has been arrested and placed under
bonds or disposing oieOmnrgarine to u
Two Harbors firm without possessing a state
license. The company will de end the case
on the ground that their license from the
federal government was sufficient to cover
the sale Of the article anywhere in the
United States The question involved will
be as to whether a state has the right to in
terere with any business licensed by the
federal government. This is the same point
Involved in the original package case in
Iowa.
NORTH DAKOTA
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