New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-01-29
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The State sunday-School association will
Bluffs June 10 to -.
A child of C.. Hegenderf, of Lyons, acct
dentally fell into a tub of boiling water, re-
ceiving injuries which caused it's death short
ly after.
William Vann jumped from Dubuqu
electric motor carwhile it was in motion and
received injuries from which he may not re-
cover.
Water was struck in the artesian well at
Wilton at a depth of 1 400 feet. The flow is
15O gallons per minute and is one of the
strongest in the state.
Louis West, of Floyd county, has brought
suit for divorce from his wife, claiming that
she has treated him cruelty and inhumanly''
for twenty-one years.
Large mum bers of sheep and other stock are
being killed in Lucas county by wolves, and
the farmers want the legislature to in
crease the bounty for wolf scaIps.
Paul Schwabber, an employee in the pack
ing-house at Fort Dodge, slipped on greasy
floor and fell on butcher knife, the blade
cutting frightful cash in his breast. He
will recover.
Lawyer NJ. E. Billings, of Waverly, in the
hnamosa penitentiary fer the supposed muir
der of Kingsley, will start in a few days for
Dss Moines TO plead his case orally before the
supreme court.
There are twenty-one patients in the In
dependence insane asylum from Bremen
county, the cost for the support OF each being
So. SO week. During 1889 the expense to the
county was s3.259.S9.
The Everly News estimates that the people
of Clay county elbow in" So 900 a year on
the Louisiana state lottery and remarks
that in five years this sum would wipe out the
county debt
Burlington has appointed John T. Merrill
as its industrial agent, at a yearly salary of
~, 500. He is to keep cons family at work at
home and abroad in the city's interest, visit
ing eastern manufactures wishing western
locations.
Citizens ofCounci Bluffs and Omaha are
talking of building two o5oggan slides be-
tween the two cities. The cost of putting up
the slides will be in the neighborhood of
ST, 500 and will make slide of over q mile
each way.
The Des Moines W. c. T. q. proposes to do
& good work. 1t has been discovered that
some children in the city are unable to at
tend school because their parents are too
poor to buy books. The ladies propose to
remedy this and furnish books to all desary-
ing needy ones.
1t is feared the mild weather of the early
part of the season followed by the extreme
cold Of the past few days has done great
damage to next summers fruit crop. Tile
fruit buds are well advanced in Iowa and it is
thought a continued cold snap will kill the
crop.
John Snyder, of Storm Lake. lost twenty
four head of cattle by drowning in the lake
He neglected to break a. hole in the ice for
them to drink out of and they walked out to
a crack some distance from the shore, where
their com bined weight broke the ice and let
them in.
C. M. COUNSEL, prominent citizen Of
Farley, Dubuu ue county, was found dead
in his house, where he lived alone, When
found the body was frozen rigid. He had
apparently just entered the house when
stricken down, as his hat and overcoat were
not removed.
Mrs VIM. Sonnenherg, of What Cheer,
eloped with one of her boarders named Fred
Mehmeke, taking her 16-montfl-old child
with her and leaving her 3-year-old boy to
the care of his father The couple also took
a large amount of goods. but were COM
PEELED to abandon them in order to make
better progress. They were traced to the
railroad depot. where it is thought they
took train for the east
Miss Minnie Brownlee, a Scott county
teacher, has been arrested for furnishing a
refractory pupil A party of boys banded
tog ether with the determination to run
things, and when the teacher tried to call s
halt by birching one Of their number the
Others made a united effort to rescue him.
The plneky teacher held on. however, and
trounced the urchin in fine style. The boy
claims the teacher used the stove poker, but
Miss Brownlee denies the charge The county
superintendent apholds the teacher in her
action.