New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-04-29
THE NORTHWEST.
a Summary Of the Imp rtant Events
Of the Week in the N Northwestern
States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
Prominent merchants of Duluth have eff
fected the permanent organization of a
.jObbers' union. .5
A Kroshus formerly editor OF the Gale
donna Journal, has returned home from the
insane asylum where he was taken last fall,
entirely recovered. s
Prof E. G. Admas of Owatonna has
been elected principal Of the Rochester
public schools, vice Prof Darius Steward,
resigned, at salary of 81, 500 per year.
The Gem City, ofthe st. Paul & st. Louis
line arrived at Wabasha recently and will
be the first boat of the season through Lake
Pepin.
John Flood and Louis Miller, two young
crooks confined in the Pine City lookup
awaiting removal to the state reformatory,
broke Jail and escaped
The date for the transfer of Itasca county
from the st. Cloud to the Duluth land dis
trlct has been fixed for June l. The local
office has sent out formal notices to that eff
feet. ,%&
W. B. Reed of Hastings, and Oscar Wolf
of St. Paul will represent Minnesota. at the
meeting of the Right Worthy Grand Lodge
/. O. G. T., to be held at Edinburgh, Scot
land, May 20.
Ellen L. Nelson, a young married woman
of Red Wing, thirty three years of age,
committed suicide recently by. hanging
herself in a barn. Dependency over the
loss OF her children and bordering over re-
llglous matters aresupposed to be the cause.
Fire broke out at Waseca in the frame
hotel building owned by Thomas Coleman,
bo A. No. how, Il
control the entire building was destroyed.
His loss on building and furniture is esti-
mated at 50, 500. Insurance light
The government agent from Washington
has arrived in Mankato to locate the site
for the United States public building. A
large number of sites are offered and the
owners of each are pressing their claims to
the best advantage.
John Joyce, employed by Joe Wright as
a laboring man, at Spring Valley, made a
bet that he could cross a bridge west of this
place, on the Milwaukee road, in front of a
train, and lost the bet. He was badly
mangled, and died before physician could
reach him.
George Turner and Mrs. Lettie J. Howe,
Of Denmark were married at Prescott, Wis.
The bride is a member of the graduating
class of 'Ss ofthe Hastings high school, and
her many friends will extend to her and
her chosen companion hearty congratula-
tons. -t-- ,.-- s
News has been received at st. Cloud that
an attempt was aderecently to wreck the
east-bound Great Northern freight train
three miles west of Sank Center. The track
had been DISTRACTED with ties at various
points, but was discovered before the en-
CINE struck them
Ora Oskey, boy fourteen years old, left
his home at Red Wing last fall with 20
cents in money, and since that time he has
seen large part of the country. He has
been all through the South and West as
far out as the Pacific coast, and he is now
in Montana on his way home.
Mayor elect D. E. Priest, of Waseca, has
entered upon the duties of his office. In
his communication to the council the
mayor dwelt on the necessity of strict econ
omy in financial matters and of earnest eff
forts to advance the material interests ofthe
city. Speculation is rife as to his appoint
ments, none having as yet been announced
Andrew Nelson, farmer living near Ty-
Ter, met with peculiar and painful acct
dent while seeding. He was standing in
front of his team when they became fright
ened and springing forward knocked him
down, and running over him, caught him
on the seeder teeth and lacerated him terri
bly,. He was badly but not fatally hurt.
The maple sugar season, which is prac-
tlcally at an end in the vicinity of White
Earth has been poor and Improbable
one the poorest in fact known for many
years. The lateness of the breaking up"
wet murky weather and the hot stage of
the weather when the sun shone all had a
tendency to the failure of the season.
The next term of the district court will
begin in Albert Lea on Tuesday, May q, and
large calendar Of cases is expected. Be-
side several railroad cases orpersonal in
jury, there are two suits against the city in
volving 1000 for injuries said to have
been sustained by reason of defective side
walk
J. M. Bachelor, Of Hastings, who has
been quite i'll with paralysis, breathed his
last, leaving wife and one son. He had
been engaged in the boat manufacturing
business, andremoved here from Red Wing
over year ago. He was a gentleman re-.
spected by all who knew him. The re-
mains were shipped to Red Wing for in
terment at Trenton.
A painting in oil of rare beauty was dis
covered in the ruins of the old French
mission church at Crow Wing, few miles
north Of Little Falls, by Rev. A. Lamothe,
of the French Catholic church here 1t rep
resents one of, the saints holding aloft q
cross, and around him Representatives of
the various races of the globe gazing at the
uplifted cross. s4s
A M T,tar hoT of ofE
tives A. J. Greer was given by citizens at
the Merchants hotel Lake City It was
nonpartisan affair, in which about hun
bred of Mr.. Greer's friends, with various
political convictions, participated. Mayor
McKenny presided. The event signified
thorough appreciation by his fellow towns
men ofthe work done by Representative
Greer in the late Legislature.
The Southern Minnesota Dental associa-
ton held its annual session in Mankato The
attendance yyaS LARGO inolud;pn, y,ar,,v