New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-11-25
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News ina /
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA

The drug store Of W. E. White in Lake
City has been closed by the sheriff on exc
cutions for debt.
The public at Pelican Rapids have
been temporarily closed on account of an
pidemic Of maglinant diphtheria.
B. B. Hughes, of New York city has
leased the Fleck Hotel at Austin, and will
enlarge and reft it.
There are IS cases of scarlet fever in
Moorhead and several of the schools have
been closed.
Mrs. Bryan, of Luverne, has come into |
possession of real estate IN Chicago valued |
at 5000, 900.
William Bonness, aged 50, was instantly |
killed on his farm at Ashley, by runaway |
team.
Dolly Mason, years old, was accident
ally shot by his 6-yearold brother at Min
neSOta.
Fred Beer Jr of St. Bonitacius, shot
himself accidentally and it is feared fatally
while hunting.
The Schlitz Brewing Company has let
contracts for the erection of buildings at
Winona to cost $35, 600.
The office Of the Park & Nelson Lumber
Company at Brasington burned. Valuable
papers were destroyed.
BY the explosion Of a threshing engine
at st. Hilaire, the owner, Mr.. Ames and
the engineer were fatally INJURED.
Winona has subscribed SIS, 900 toward a
radiator manufacturing plant proposed to
be erected there by Eastern capitalists.
In the newspaper libel case of Senator
Frank A. Day VS.. H. NJ Blaisdell, at Fair
mount, verdict for Day for $500 damages
was rendered.
A car famine in Fairbault is prevailing.
The elevators are all nearly full, and the
grain dealers will have to stop buying if
cars are not soon produced for shipping.
Among the people of Northfield there is
some opposition to the assessment of $1,10O
for Rice county made by the Worlds Fair
commissioner, but probably the majority
favor raising that amount.
The auditors report shows that forty
wolf bounties were paid at Red Wing dur
ing the year ended Nov. Is, amounting to
1872. During the previous year $240 was
paid for sixty wolves.
A. P. Swenstrom of St. Paul, assisted by
Mr. Baldwin of RedWing, instituted a Royal
chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star at
Chattield with ninety-two charter mem
bers.
W H. Patten & Co. have commenced
putting in the wires for the electric light
plant for LIE Sueur, and it is expected to-.
have the city lighted by electricity by the
middle December.
A meeting Of the board of trade was held
at Winthrop and 20 citizens signed JOINT
note Of $3.50, Winthrop's share Of Sibley
County's appOrtionment Of $500 for the
Worlds Fair
A Duluth & Winnipeg engine and ca
boose, while backing up to Carlton from
Cloquet, ran into a handcar containing six
persons, one of whom, Mrs. Christine Le-
beck, was killed.
Mrs. Nellie B. Luce, wife of W. S. Luce,
of minneapolis, who was taking special in
struction at the school for the blind at Fari-
bault died from an overdose of laudanum
taken accidentally.
The jury in the case of Miss Emma Bone
steel against II. A. Pearson, a prominent
business man of Duluth, to recover $50, 600
damages for alleged SANDER returned a YER
dict for the defendant
The case of The Cannon River Manufac-
turers' Association VS.. L. q. Rogers, OF
Waterv,lle, has at last come to an end
s6,OOO The verdict was for defendant
Rogers.
The grand jury at Lake City, failed to
find an indictment on charges made by q
committee of the Lake City alliance against
HI O'Neil and McMichael for an alleged
combination to control the price of grain in
this market.
A wreck occurred OF the Midland rail
road near. Hammond. Eight cars were
ditched and twenty hogs and several cattle
killed. All the train hands escaped un
injured. The accident was caused by 6
broken axle.
Analyses of sugar beets raised at Rec
Wing which were made at the state expert
mental farm show them to contain abou
324 pounds ofsugar to the ton of beets, ane
the sugar shows a purity of over SIS pc
cent on the scale of 100. s
Alfred Davy, who was indicted by tn
grand jury at Wabasha, pleaded guilty be
fore Judge Start to selling liquor without ;
license at Plainview. He was sentenced tx
pay fine of $50 and costsand to imprison
nent for thirty days in Jail.
The Sank Center Brewing company
plant burned Loss, $4,000. A larg
quantity of malt and many barrels of bee
bv the BONNER estate of Melrose, and man
aged by F. E. Minnette. There was no in
urance.
The board of education, of Moorhead, OF
the suggestion ofDr. Kuertz, of the boar
of health, closed the city schools on &C
count of scarlet fever. There are thirty
five families in the city afflicted with. TIL
disease. The high and grammar school
will not be closed.
A peculiar and fatal accident occurre
near Pine City. An Indian shot an
wounded buck deer and was about t
cut his throat when the animal struck TIL
Indian i'll the eye with his large antler
thereby stunning him. In endeavoring t
escape the deer Injured him SO that recos
cry is impossible.
Jack kee!e. the pugilist. was stabbed j
the left shoulder by an unknoWn man q
the Great Northern train going south froI