New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-10-14
AMONG THE HOTEL GUESTS
Items Picked up in the Company Of Those
who Come and &c.

J. G. Simpson, auditor for the Ameri-
can Express Co., was here Friday max
ing the transfer of the company's Office
at this place. Simpson never comes to
New Ulm but what he notices marked
improvements in the general appear
ance of our city, and to Review repre-
sentative Friday he said that New Ulm
was the best and most thrifty town
along the line of the Northwestern road.
And he said this too without making
any exceptions.
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Among the men of prominence who
visited New Ulm this week on business
was Hon. John A. Willard of Mankato.
Mr.. Willard is at present mayor of
Mankato by consent of all parties and
is ono of our sister city's most enterpris.
| ing residents. He is also extensively
interested in Duluth real estate and in
vestment schemes.
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Hon. Charles R. Davis, senator from
Nicollet County. had business before
Judge Weber Wednesday. The sena.
tor refused to talk politics, and to all
appearance is nursing his congressional
boom for the present all by himself,
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J. uH. Block, the Nicollet sheriff,
dropped into town from Nicollet coun-
ty for few hours Wednesday, Mr..
Block is the crack gun.shot of the state
and at the recent State Fair captured
the diamond medal. He enters all
tournaments now under the assumed
name of McHale, in order not to be
barred out by a few ''smart' sports,
and everywhere he goes, he gives the
unknown McHale a record that sur
prises all contestants. His average
score at the State Fair this year was
over 30 per cent of all birds shot ut.
Judge F. S. Brown of Tracy regis
tered at the Dakota House on Friday.
The Judge was on his way home from
St. Paul where in company with Sena-
tor S. d. Peterson he had called at the
executive department in behalf of Will
liam Rose. The governor was absent,
however, and the expected interview
was postponed until this week. The
petition, to which they attach so much
Importance, is signed by nearly all the
leading citizens of New Ulm.
J. M. Thompson the Sleepy Eye at.
torney who is mentioned in connection
with the Republican congressional nom-
ination, II. G. Hays, editor of the Sleepy
Eye Dispatch, H. S. Kennedy, represen-
tative of the Southern Minnesota Mil
ler's Association, John J. l)obson, man.
ager of the Northwestern Newspaper
Union of st. Paul, and Mr.. Brandtjen,
manager of the Marder, Luse & Co,
Type Foundry, were among the strang.
ers who had business in New Ulm Fri
day.
! Editor johnson of the St. Peter Her.
aid was in the city Wednesday evening.
Johnson lays claim to being proficient
so-called mind reader, and at Ecksteln' 8
drugstore in the presence of twenty or
thirty people he gave test Of his pow
ers. After being blindfolded he seated
himself in front Of safe wrich was
locked. He then laid the hand of Louis
Entrup upon his own, Entrup of course
knowing the combination. and taking
hold of the knob commenced to turn to
the right. He turned the knob the cor.
rect number of times, stopped at the
right letter, anil then, with but little
hesitation, turned in the opposite direc-
ton three or four times as was required,
again striking the right letter, and once
more turned to the right; then back
again to where be should have stopped
i Here, however, he seems to have lost
for moment the influence that guided
him, for he turned one letter too far,
Had he not made this last mistake he
would have opened the safe and with
more ease than does the celebrated
tombstone, mind reader Of national re-
! pute. The St. Peter man claims that
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with q second effort he would certainly
have worked the combination correctly
/ When asked how he performed the feat,
/ he said he simply gives himself up com
pletely, thinks Of nothing and acts or
the first inclination. In other words il
is nothing more than muscle reading.
j Another interesting visitor on Nednes'
day was Max Dick, the we'll known St
/ Peter vlollnist. MAJ, is only 20 years