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New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-02-25
PROBATE NOTICE.

fhUDAlE #NOllCE.
STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of Brown Sss.
In Probate Court, Special Term, February 10th,
1891.
MN the Matter of the estate of Jacob jacobson,
deceased.
Whereas, an instrument in writing, supporting
to be the last will and testament of Jacob Ja-
eobson, deceased, late of said county, has been
delivered to this Court; #
And whereas, Peter Sist has filed Herewith
his petition, representing among other things that
said Jacob Jacobson died in said County on the
30th day of December, 1890, testate, and that said
petitioner is the sole executor named in said last
will and testament and praying that the said ms
trument may be admitted to probate, and that let
ters testalnentary be to him issued thereon;
tits Ordered, That the proofs said instrument
and the said petition, be heard before this Court
at the office of J: y; Ray in the village Of
apringield in said County, on Thursday, the
18Th day5of March A. D. 1891, at 9 O'Clock in
the forenoon, when all concerned may appear
and contest the probate of said instrument: So
And it is further ordered, that public notice of
the time and place of said hearing be giSen to
all persons interested, by blication of these or
ders once in each week for three successive weeks
prior to said day ofhearing in the New UlmReview,
9 weekly newspaper printed and published atthe
CatY of New Ulm in said County, IS
Dated at New Uln, MINI, this 10th day Of Febru-
arg A. D. 1891. SIS
By the Court,
tL.S.1 ernst BRANDT.
10 Judge Of Probate
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The News Briefly Cnron,o,e /.

William H. Hemminghouse, of ST.
Paul, crazed by illness, hung himself.
Strong & Miller, owners of large
mills and elevators on the Hastings and
Dakota branch of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul railway, will build in
Duluth this fall the largest flour mill in
the world. It will have a capacity of
$4,000 barrels day.
George King met horrible death in
Minneapolis by being struck by an
electric car.
The jury in the case of T. O. Hall,
the Duluth banker, on trial for receiv-
ing deposits in an insolvent bank, failed
to reach verdict and were discharged.
They stood five for conviction and seven
for acquittal.
E. J. Breed, general manager of the
Marion flint glass works of Marion,
Ind, was in Duluth to establish plant
there for the manufacture of glass.
The Dodge county agricultural fair
at Mantorville was the most success
full meeting of the society since its
formation twenty zone years ago
The board of education has awarded
the contract to build the new Eau
Claire wis., high school to Edward
Siskvon. of Minneapolis, for $s4, 800.
Ellen Langslow. of Duluth, appeared
before a judge and asked to be sent to
the insane asylum. Her request was
granted ~
Mrs f. B. Snyder, of Minneapolis,
died very suddenly Of Bright's disease
of the kidneys. She was the daughter
of ex-Gov. PillstNry, and occupied q
prominent position in Minneapolis So
ciety.
Winona's high wagon bridge across
the Mississippi is now an assured thing.
At an adjourned meeting Of the city
council, the contract with the Chicago
Bridge & Iron Company for doing all
the work and furnishing all the ma
terials for $94, 700 was adopted.
Fire broke out in the Acma Coopera-
tive Barrel Company's building at Min
neapolis and spread rapidly, the struc-
ture being destroyed. The loss was
$4,000; covered by insurance.
In quarrel at Pipestone between
Tom Allerton and John Anonsmith the
former was dangerously hurt.
William Colburn threshed 1890
bushels Of oats at Osseo from twenty
, acres A No. I oats Isaac Trevis from
fifteen acres of wheat threshed gao
bushels Of No. wheat. There were
many others who had threshed like
wise. Enormous crops of potatoes were
reported.
ALERT Warde!l, q boy Is years old.
was fatally shot while squirrel hunting
near White Bear Lake by the acci-
dental discharge Of a gun in the hands
! Of another.
Frank Hewins, of West Duluth, was
accidentally, but not fatally shot. He
pulled shotgun toward him in q boat
and both barrels were discharged shat
tering one of his arms.
During the past FIVE years Minneap-.
Oils has put up u 900 buildings at q cost
Of $4a, 600, 600, and made 6l.63l real
estate transfers aggregating sao4,5so.,
o14--an increase Of 100 per cent. ov ri,
the record q tho FIVE years preceding,
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Fact cries for Duluth.

When Jay Cooke was in Duluth .
Jew days ago he stated to friend that
negotiations had been completed for
the erection of one of the largest paper
manufacturing establishments in
America on the St. Louis river, few
miles above Duluth. He also said that
arrangements had been made to estab-,
lish two of the largest linen factories
on the continent at another point on
Che river, where the town site called
Belfast is to be located.
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Fought with Swords.

Tom Allerton and James Arrow
smith, both powerful young men and
expert sw ordsmen, fought duel with
swords at Pipestone and Allerton re-
ceived an ugly cash on the left side of
his head and was not expected to live.
Arrowsmith was under arrest. The
duel grew out of a family feud which
has existed between the Arrowsmith
and Allerton families for five years
over division in some property.
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Poisoneu ner Hush md.

Eric Critic, we'll to do scandinavian
residing in st. Paul, died August %
last and was quietly buried. Now his
wife has confe ssed that she murdered
her husband by administering poison.
She was arrested. The body would be
exhumcd for examination. The couple
had been married nineteen years. Mrs.
Critic says her husband had spit in her
face four times and she became angry
and gave him the poison in his coffee.
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

IN the city of Consuegra, Spain. a
hurricane demolished many houses re-
Gently devasted by flood.
REPORTS of the assass1 ration of Louis
Bogran, president Of Honduras, were
false.
IN England the valley of the Dee was
inundated so that only the hedge tops
were visible.
NATIVES attacked French mission
station in Portuguese Guinea and'killed
ten Portuguese.
On the Russian frontier passenger
trains collided between Golacsoury and
Wolbrom and the cars were shattered
to splinters and ten persons were killed
and many injured.
In the townships of Tadousac, Berg
eronnes and Escoumins in Canada, four
rich mica mines were found.
THRoUG HoUr Turkey Asiatic cholera
was spreading and hundreds were dy-
ing daily.
The whole population Of villages in
the government of Astrakahn, Russia,
was dying of want, and the parents
were said to be eating their dead chill
dren.
In Spain an express train running
between Burgos and San Sebastian col
,ided with a mixed passenger train and
twenty -four persons were killed and
many others were injured. Several
entire families persisted, including the
Judge of Victoria and his wife and
daughter.
On the coast of Cape Breton the ship
Camelia was lost and Capt Harvey,
his wife and child and nine sailors were
lost.
PERU advices report the murder Of
four American explorers on the river
Marathon. They were Californians pros
pecting for gold.
In Russian Poland twenty-eight
farms with all the cattle and stores
were destroyed by an incendiary fire.
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Minnesota Bonds Burned.

A small blaze at the capitol de-
'troyed nearly $2,0o0,O00 worth of
bonds. The fire was set by Gov.
Merriam, aided by State Treasurer
Bobleter and State Auditor Bierman,
for the cancellation of the old railroad
adjustment bonds issued in 1881. The
exact amount consumed was Sl,9ol, 900
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

ROBERT II. HUMPHREY, of ST. Louis,
the man who made the rope with
which Guiteau was hanged, was
stricken down with paralysis of the
spinal cord and died in few DAYS.
Guiteau, before his death. cursed the
men responsible for his execution,
predicting that they would come to no
good end, and several of these men
lave gone to untimely graves.
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MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
Big Fire in Mime apolis.

Moore & Co.'S machine shops, eleva-
tor C, the warehouses of the North
American Beef Company, owned
by Cudahy Brothers, caught fire
at Minneapolis and were destroyed.
The old Ames homestead and other
dwellings in the vicinity were also
burned. The value of the wheat in the
elevator was $4,000 and the building
and machinery were worth S125, 900.
The machine shops were valued at
s115. 600. on which there was less than
$4,000 insurance. The other losses will
amount to about $4,000.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

A MAN in Lewiston, Me-, has large
field of tobacco which promises to
yield fine crop. The courageous
planter was laughed at by his neigh
bors when he started out to raise the
native weed, being told that tobacco
would not grow in Maine. But he
persevered, and the tobacco does grow
iuNuriantly, being of finer quality, so
the planter claims than that produced
in the south
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! A GIGANTIC tunnel, which is esti-
mated to cost $3.50, 600 and require ten
years to finish, is being constructed in
the Leadville mining district for the
purpose Of draining the mines. 1t will
be ut least five miles long and will,
when completed, leave to easy access
millions Of tons of good ore that can.
not now be properly got at and prob
ably never can be handled without the
use of proper draiuaUe
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WEST AND SOuTH.

NEAR Roberts, Ark, E. NJ. Roberts,
a well-known planter, was shot from
ambush and killed by unknown par
ties.
THE execution of w. II. Davis, who
murdered his mother and her alleged
paramour, James Arnold, at Pueblo,
January 7, took place in the prison
yard at Canon City, Col.
IN Minneapolis, Wisconsin and South
Dakota forest fires were doing i'm
mems, damage. In the frst-named
state the village of Finlayson was
burned, and in Wisconsin the village
of Comstock was nearly wiped out
The death of Rev. Joseph Tarking
ton occurred at Greensburg, Ind, aged
81 years. He was the oldest Methodist
preacher in Indiana.
In Cleveland, O., Michael Karofa
shot and killed Kate Rohaly because
she refused to marry him and then took
his own life in the same manner.
IN Oklahoma the Sac and Fox and
Iowa reservations were thrown open
to settlement. There were three home
seekers to every quarter section of
land, and two persons were killed in
the rush for the lands
In Chicago Oscar Grundman shot and
| killed his wife while she was sitting at
the breakfast table and then shot him
self through the temple. Domestic
/ trouble was the cause.
IN Minnesota the heat has been al
most unbearable for seven days, the
| thermometer ranging from 81 to 1OS in
| the shade. In ST. Paul all the public
schools were closed until cooler wealth
| err.
The Wisconsin league baseball pen.
nant for 1891 was given to the Mar
quette club.
| AT She boygan, Wis, James A. Mead,
a well-known banker, fell dead from
| heart disease while walking on Seventh
street.
PETER FOSTER, George Broken and
Ernest Carlo, young boys, who were
stealing ride on freight car loaded
with lumber, were crushed to death
in Chicago by lumber sliding upon
them.
THE death of DR.. B. G. Bruce, editor
of the Live Stock Record and al
eminent authority on live stock, &C
Cured at Lexington, KY, at the ag,
of 81 years.
| HENRY WEHERKAMP in a quarrel a
Carthage, Mo-, attempted to shoot hi
brother but shot and killed his mothe
instead.
! FLAMES swept away the, entire bust
ness portion of Bradley, s. D.
Choke" ADAMS, of Eliza beth, Md,
wealthy farmer, committed suicide b
taking poison because his wife insiste
on going to circus.
OWING to i'll health Albert p. Moore
house, aged IS years, who was govel
nor of Missouri in 1887. committed SUI
eide at his home in Marysville.
THOMAS JOHNSON and Daniel Snll
van and his brother persisted in tn
prairie fires at Hinckley. MINI.
The North Dakota wheat crop wa
estimated at SO, 900, 900 bushels.
II PRAIRIE fires ruined the towns {
, Perley and Comstocl, in Wisconsin.
II AT Haldsburg, Cal, a very severe IN
long-continued shock of earthqnak
was felt.
The department. Of agriculture n
port on the condition of the corn Gro
, of Wisconsin. Iowa and Illinois ind
+ Gates a very favorable condition.
OWING to jealousy Thomas Carr,
farmer living near Quincy, KY. kille
his wife and sister-in-law with corr
cutter, fatally wounded his mother-i1
law and then took his own life.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

The Nebraska republicans in state
convention at Lincoln nominated A. NJ.
Post for associate justice of the SUI
preme court and Charles MARBLE and d.
P. Shumway for regents OF the state
| university. The platform approves OF
President Harrison's administration, in
dorses reciprocity, demands protection
of American industry, denounces trusts
| and the free coinage of silver and ar
raigns the democratic party as the
enemy of labor.
WHEN J. X. Cumberland was arrest
ed in st. Joseph, Mo-, he confessed
that he murdered James Robertson and
his son Jasper at Harlan, Ia, two years
ago.
A NATIONAL Women's Alliance was
organized at Topeka, Kan. The object
of the association is to establish a bu-
reau for the better education of the
women in economic, social and pOlit-
ical questions.
The forest and prairie fires in Mil
nesota, Wisconsin and the Dakotas
were burning more fercely than ever,
and several towns seemed to be doomed
to destruction. Loss of life was reported
had lost their all.
IN the town of Chandler, just plated
in the land opened in Oklahoma terri
tory, two lots were offered for sale for
Il ham sandwich, but no buyers were
found
GREAT suffering was reported among
the settlers in the newly-opened Okla
homa lands owing to the lack of the
necessaries of life, Water was twenty
five cents a glass, bread fifty cents a
loaf, lemons twenty-five cents each,
ham and bacon one dollar pound and
other things in proportion.
FLAMES destroyed railroad elevator
and other buildings at Minneapolis,
causing loss of 100000. Nine fire.
men were injured, some probably IA
tally.
AT Topeka, Kan, Elijah Watt shot
Miss Kate Halloran because she re-
fused to marry him and then killed
himself.
ROBBERS cleaned out every store and
the post Office in San Antonio, Mo.
FLAMES destroyed S. Guckenheimer
& Sons wholesale grocery and liquor
building at Savannah, Ca, causing
loss of $4,000
ALLERToN started at Independence,
Ia. to beat the stallion record to wagon
of $3.50, and beat all records by going
without skip in 2:]5. It was the first
time the king of stations was ever
hitched to wagon and the perform
ance was almost phenomenal.
In Minneapolis Jacob Brown con-
fessed to committing a murder in Cen
tralia, ILL.,, eight years ago, for which
Thomas Gray is serving life sentence
in the Chester penitentiary.
IN a quarrel with negro named
Rankin Fred Tyler was killed near
Asheville, n. C. Friends of Tyler
soon after hanged the colored man to
a tree.
AT Charleston, S. c., ten negroes
were sentenced to be hanged October
% for the murder of another negro.
IT is claimed by Peter johnson, of
Dassel, Mimi, that he has rediscovered
| the lost art of temperlng copper.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

CAPT. MARY MILLER, the woman
who managed a steamboat on the Mis-
sissippi for seven years and then Sc
cured a government license as pilot,
has applied for the place of lighthouse
keeper on the gulf coast. She is an
intelligent and rather prepossessing
woman. Her husband is still an active
navigator and running steamboat in
the C,11f
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Ten Persons Injured.

Ten persons were injured in a coils
ion on the Inter- suburban electric line
in St. Paul. All were going home from
the Minneapolis exposition. The most
seriously injured were: Minnie Peter
son, Lillian Fifteen and George S. Ross,
but it was believed all would recover
The others were Oscar Endust, Mrs
Stevens, Mr.. ]. M. Stoll, Mrs. j. NJ.
Stoll, H. A. Capron, Miss Mary Bishop
and Mrs. Thomas.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

WILL HEARsT's new steam yacht
Namoose has done what no other craft
ever yet has done. She has passed the
speedy Hudson-river passenger steamer
Mary Powell, crowded to her best
though the latter was, and then the
little SOS, 900 marvel went around the
stern OF the Powell and passed her
again. The NamOose made OYER
twentysix miles an hour to do it, and
still didn't do all her engines were
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LATER

IN EmmOnS county, N. d., hundreds
of families We're homeless from prairie
fires and six persons were burned to
death. In Wisconsin whole villages
were destroyed, and in Minnesota
vast area was burned over and several
lives were lost
ELEVEN stores and a bank building
at Maquon, Ill, were destroyed by fire.
In quarrel at Faxon, Mimi, over
the dividing line between two farms,
James O'Neill killed Michael Col
inns and fatally wounded his two grown
sons.
JOHN ScHwULsT celebrated his Tooth
birthday at the home of his son in
Milwaukee.
SEVERE earthquake shocks were felt
in Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Tennessee,
Missouri and Kentucky. In some
places buildings were rocked and per-
sons fled to the streets
FIRE destroyed the warehouse and
mill of the Plant Milling Company in
ST. Louis, the loss being $3.50, 900.
In freight train wreck near Buffalo,
N. d., Engineer Curtis, Fireman Dodge
and sixteen cars loaded with cattle
were burned to death.
| A MOB of white caps took defense
.ess woman from her home at Birds
Eye, Ind, and nearly fayed her alive.
| THE Pennsylvania senate will meet.
IN special session October IS to investi-
gate charges against the auditor gem
eral and state treasurer.
! A CYCLONE in the counties of Bel
trami and Itasca, in Minnesota, de-
|stroyed 200, 900, 900 feet of pine timber.
1T was officially stated that 600 build
Iings remained standing at Consuegra,
Spain. There were 2, 100 before the
hoods.
1 JACOB BROWN, who confessed at Min
|neapolis that he had murdered tramp
lin Centralia, Ill, for which crime an.
lother man is serving life sentence,
now denies his story E
The Greenville, Ill, export mills
we're burned, the loss being $3.50, 600;
insurance, $40, 900.
JOSEPH BLACK, his wife and three
daughters were killed by the cars at q
dressing near Centreville, Ind.
In the National league the percent
lagos of the baseball clubs for the
week ended on the goth were: Chi
Icago, .62S; Boston, .6l5; New York,
1857; Philadelphia, .517; Cleveland, $50;
pittsburgh, .426; Brooklyn, 400; Gin
l'innati, 379 The percentages in clubs
pr the American association were:
i3oston, .697; st Louis, $50: Balti-
more, .531; Athletic, $50: Columb bus,
]. 100; Milwankee. .454; Louisville, 8s4;
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

The largest check ever drawn in
this country was that given by Jay
Gould to Thomas Allen for the Iron
Mountain railroad. He paid $1,000, 900
for it and handed Allen check for that
amount. Allen looked at the paper and
said: Isn't this a good deal of money
for one man to have in one bank?'' Il
don't know" replied Gould. ''Per-
haps it is. Let me have the check"
Allen then handed the check back to
Gould and he handed it over to his
Office boy, saying: Here, boy, take
this check to the bank and have the
cashier certify to it, And the boy
went out and did it.
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The Conererationalists.

At meeting in Duluth of the Min
nesota General Congregational society
the Woman's Home Missionary Union
elected the following officers:
President, Miss Catherine Nichols, of St
Paul; vice president, Mrs. A. H. Pierson, of
Northfeld: secretary, Miss Gertrude Keith, of
Minneapolis; treasurer, Mrs. NJ. w. Skinner,
of Mortified; auditor. Mrs. Horace Goodhue,
of NOrthfeld
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Duluth's Population.

The directory of Duluth for 1891 is
cut, and it contains e2,14o names in
Duluth proper, against 20, 72o last year.
This would indicate population there,
using multiplyer of two and one-ha1f,
of $3.50. According to the United
States census last year Duluth's popu-
lation was 80, 500
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EuaSeS.

NINE. PATTI, replying to an inter.
viewer, declared that alcoholic stimu-
lants of any kind tend to irritate the
throat and should be entirely abstained
from by those who wish to cultivate
singing.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01
Railroad Ties Burned.

A destructive prairie fire ragged ives,
and southwest of Willmar for several
days. Three miles of rail track miles
west of there were burned, the ties be-
ing consumed by the flames. Telegraph
poles and railroad fences were also de-
stroyed.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01
Several Buildings Burned.

A fire at st. Peter destroyed the Ka-
sofa eating house, the union depot and
the hotel of Mrs. H. r. Lauman, the
express Office and other smaller build
ings. The loss was estimated at from
$40, 900 to $4,000.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

THE growth of horse-raclng in the
last ten years is illustrated by the fact
that in 1880 the money added to prizes
by the racing associations amounted to
$50, 0OO Now it reaches 81, 900. 900.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

A MAN in Augusta, Me-, who is the
proprietor OF a hair tonic, is getting up
some testimonials to spring upon the
suffering public. One of his friends
who loves joke sent him this very
sweeping Endorsement, which may be
printed on the outside of the book COW
or and may not: Dear SRA few
days ago l accidentally spilled some of
your hair hatcher on the straw mat
tress at my lodgings, and when l re-
turned home | found a hair mattress. ,,
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

! THE most violent thunde rstorms in
the world occur in French Guiana. The
thunder there in an ordinary storm is
almost deafening, while peal follows
peal in quick succession.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

EDWARD B. GILES, of London, the
editor of the West End Gazette, as. the
guest Of the banquet given by the as
sOciation of Master Tailors and Custom
Cutters made some very sensible and
telling remarks on that occasion. One
was particularly pertinent. Fashion
should be based upon common sense
and adapted to the climate of the
country and the habits of it's people,
None but Americans should originate
garments suitable for Americans. -
This fits Americans who return. from
abroad in the universal misfit suits
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

OF the twenty-seven royal families
of Europe two thirds are Germans.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

In the museum of the dead-letter Of
fee at Washington, D. c., there is a
piece of parchment upon which is
penned a copy of the Lords Prayer
written in tifty-four different Ian
Ol11reS
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1891-10-01

SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, is
said to be the oldest living congress
man. He was first elected in 1910, at
the age of 81 years.