New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-08-20
LOCAL NEWS.
Essig Station is to have barber.

Essig Station is to have barber.
Choate's dramatic company will be
here next month.
A hundred feet of side track is being
built by the Northwestern road to the
new Eagle Mill elevator.
Miss Nellie Breye left for Minneapo-
lis last Saturday to accept of posi-
ton in leading drygoods store.
Geo. Graft left for the east Saturday
afternoon on a business trip. He will
visit Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and
other points.
Another man, Wenzel Hummer, was
killed instantly by a falling derrick in
Mankato last Wednesday. He was a
stone mason by trade.
At the annual meeting of the Man
kato Normal Alumni, held at Mankato
last week, Wenzel Eckstein, of this
city, was elected 1st vice president of
the association.
Otto Kumm, little boy, whose par
ents live in the south end of town, died
last Tuesday night from injuries re-
ceived in falling from wagon two
weeks ago. He was buried Thursday.
M. F. Propping is being prominently
mentioned in connection with the Re.
publican nomination for clerk of court
in Ramsey County. Mr.. Proppiag was
at one time leading attorney of New
Uim.
Considerable wheat has been threshed
in Nicollet County and it is turning out
about the same as in Brown. Hard
wheat will average from twelve to tif-
teen bushels and Blue Stem from fifteen
to twenty.
Charles Stole, for twenty-one years
an employee in the store now owned
by Jacob Klossner, has retired from his
position to accept that of engineer in
the city water works. The council has
been lucky in its selection.
The store in ST. Peter in which were
located Isaac and Louis Kornemann,
the 'kloding' men who at different
times have run bankrupt store in New
Ulm, burned down last Tuesday morn
ing. There was an insurance of $4,000
on their stock.
Here is something from an exchange
which may apply locally in these anti
election times: A man who is resting
easily beneath the spreading branches
OF his own obscurity should not mistake
the buzzing Of the flies for call to 90
forth and run for office.
Miss Stella Millhouse writes that she
will probably not return to Luverne for
some months. At the conclusion OF her
visit to New Ulm she will return to
Minneapolis, there to take course in
stenography and bookkeeping under
G. o.. Whited. former instructor of
her's.-Luverne News.
Hon. j. W. Chapman, state senator
from lie Sueur County and known
throughout the state as s.the father of
the Senate,'' died at his home in LIE
Sueur Centre week ago Sunday morn
ing. He was well advanced in years,
but while in the senate he carefully
guarded the interests of his constituents
and was held in high esteem.
John l.. Gibbs, John P. Williams.
members of the railroad and warehouse
commission, and A. R. Teisberg, secre-
tary OF the board, stopped off here last
Thursday and took dinner at the Dako-
ia House. They had been up to Spring
field in the morning on business in con-
nection with the proposed erection of
an Alliance elevator at that place.
Augusta Hirsch, . lady of 3s years
of age, died at the home Of her brother,
John Hirsch, in this city last Thursday
morning. She had been sufferer for
years from consumption and all the
work of physicians was as nothing to
the dread malady. The funeral was
held Friday afternoon and was largely
attended by friends of the deceased $
relatives.
A birthday money box, containing
from four to hve dollars in pennies, was
stolen from the Congregational church
last week, most likely by some young
ster. The box was used for missionary
collections-that is, whenever anyone's
birthday anniversary rolled around,
that person was privileged and re-
quested to drop into the box as many
pennies as he was years old.