New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-12-16
Miss Lena Haas has returned from

Miss Lena Haag has returned from
Waseca county.
Attorney j. N, Thompson Of Sleepy
| Eye was in town yesterday.
"a Mr.. Wildt has opened a blacksmith
shop near Peter Herian's place.
/ The Masonic Block was turned over
to the owners BY the contractors yester-
day.
q dance will be given on the 31st
under the auspices of the Fire Depart
ment.
Editor Hays OF the Sleepy Eye Dis
/ patch was a business visitor in the city
on Friday.
Horace Newhart visited during a
portion Of the week in St. Paul and
Mortified.
Mrs. Henry Hammer aud children
of Mountain Lake are the guests of re-
latives in this city.
Mrs. Frank Shaub of Window. who
has been visiting with Mrs. Koenler.left
for her home or Monday.
Henry Haman is pumping water from
the Cottonwood river for Schen's brew
cry with traction engine.
Thomas Keene, the distinguished
tragedian, appears as Richard III in
Mankato next Saturday evening.
Isaac johnson of Eden transacted
business for the VIM. 0. Hewitt estate
in the probate court on Wednesday,
/ Never in the recollection of our old
est settlers has so much rain fallen in
the month of December as this year.
/ Martin Williams, who will be re-
membered by many here as the founder
of the St. Peter Tribune, died in Mime.
apolis week. =
The railway Accommodations that are be-
ing afforded New Ulm al present would
be meat for lecture Oh Things that
make US Swear
A meeting of the bridge committee
and the council was to hav been held
last evening to consider bids for the
construction of the proposed bridges.
Miss Emma Wellner, of Lafayette,,l
was the guest of Mrs. g. A. johnson on
Tuesday. From here she went to Mus
catine, Iowa, to visit relatives Pc.
ter Herald.
Chas. Silverson, o. Nj. Olsen, Dr..
Marden, J. F. Crowell, 7. Crone, J.. A..
Eckstein and O. G. Strickler attended
a Masonic meeting in Sleepy Eye Mon
day evening.
The annual ball given by the Sons If
Hermann was, like all former dances
under the auspices of that lodge, a jolly
and sociable affair. The old folks took
part in the dances and happy time
was had by all who were present. The
tableaus we're also very fine. 81 i
O'NeiI, the Sibley county man who
killed his neighbor, Collins, in quar-
! rel, was convicted Of murder in the first
degree, for which the penalty is hang
ing. Cy- Wellington defended him, but
the jury attached but little weight to
his plea of justifable homicide.
w. F, Schmidt, our cigar manufactu-
rer, has concluded that the business
does not agree with him and he has
closed up his affairs here and gone to
New Ulm. He sold his building to his
brother, G.. E. Schmidt, who in turn
rented it to J. D. Owens. Tracy
RepuIiean.
Councilman Roos is in receipt of
letter from Assistant General Superin :
tendet Hallenbeck in which he says he
cannot comply with the councils request
to have fagmen placed at the Centre
and First South street crossings Such.
a demand, he claims, is not made by
any city in Minnesota.
A team, belonging to Chas. Stuebe
and hitched TO the dray wagon of the
Vinegar Works, INDUCED in a runaway
on Thursday morning, and in their wild
course cleared the German Park fence
and dashed over large pile of stones
The driver, q young fellow named
Tschoeppel, was thrown from his seat
and dragged along the ground and over
the stones until his body was badly
bruised. Everything considered, he
was extremely fortunate in escaping
death.
On the Pelt Greek bridge between
Lamberton and Revere on Wednesday
night. an aged lady named Mrs. John
Moody was killed. She was walking
from Lam berton to Revere about half
past eight in the evening, and had en-
tered upon the bridge when No. "a came