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

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legal business yesterday.
Editor Kimmeck Of the Springfield
Adler transacted business here Monday.
Marx Cane, the Sleepy Eye barber,
called on his New Ulm friends Mon
day.
Max Burg was agreeably surprised
| by q number Of his friends on Saturday
evening.
Congressman Lind is expected to ar
rive home from Washington on or about
| March 10th.
Attorney Somerville of Sleepy Eye
had business before Judge Webber last
Wednesday.
Jos. Hacker, an old resident of La
fayette, died last Saturday. He was
73 years Of age.
Jacob Durbahn and wife went to
Minneapolis Wednesday evening to at
tend the funeral OF relative.
There will be meeting of the Mil
ford Alliance at VIM. Knees place
next Sunday afternoon. The matter of
building hall in which to hold their
meetings will be discussed.
Rev. Albrecht's horse ran away for
the third time yesterday. MIR. Albrecht
himself was driving the animal and at
Baarch's corner he was thrown from
the cutter onto the sidewalk, fortunate
lY however without injuries.
The new paper which is to be pub
lished here will be called s.Der Fort
schritt,'' or in other words ':The Prog
ress. Theodore Rein and John
Schlumpberger of Cottonwood will be
the publishers, j. B. Velikanje will be-
editor, and VIM. Julius foreman. {
A child of Anton Hegar, the man
who died so suddenly last sum 1her
while on the road from West Newton
to New Ulm, and also a hired map of
the same party haye died during the
! week from diphtheria. Mrs. Hegar is
| also very sick with the same disease.
1t was rumored about town this week
that one of our citizens had by TIE death
of relative in Germany fallen heir to
million of dollars. A million in our
standard coin is great deal. We
would like to have some idea of its
magnitude, but for some reason we
don't happen to.
The bill of Mr.. Ah}ness, which pro-
vides for the exemption from taxation
on certain conditions of money secured
by mortgage upon real estate farm pro-
eerty. was returned from the judiciary
committee with the recommendation
that it be indefinitely postponed. The
report of the committee was adopted.
Yesterday morning there occurred
the death of Jacob Kolb, middle-aged
man, whose home is west of the court
house. He vas laboring man of good
habits and generous disposition, and
there will be mourning for him among
his relatives. He was son-in-law OF
| Mr.. Peters and had been married only
three months.
The Springfield Advance records an
accident, which befell former New
Ulmite few days ago, as follows: A
serious accident befell Joseph Traut-
mann, Of Selma, week ago to-day. In
getting off a hay stack he ran a fork
handle, which had been broken off, il
to his body. The injury, while serious,
is not necessarily fatal. DR.. Sullivan
has charge of the case, and we under
stand that the patient is doing as we'll
as could have been expected.
On Monday two cases we're entereN
on Justice Baasen's calendar One of
them is the City of New Ulm VS.. Geo.
Sieben Drummer in which Matt Gratz is
the complaining witness. The charge
is that on the 22nd of January sieben-
Drummer caused injuries TO Gratz to the
J extent of broken arm. The trial has
been set for Feb. rs at a. m. The
other case also brings in the city of
New Ulm as plaintiff and Geo. Sieben-
Drummer as defendant. The charge is
assault and battery and the complain
| ing witness Julius Hartneck. The trial
came up before his Honor yesterday
Siebenbrnnner pleaded guilty, but
claimed that he was only interfering
with the view of stopping the fight Of
the 18th. He was fined SIS and costs.
The entertainment at Turner Hall on
Sunday evening in celebration of the
birthdays of Gen. Washington and Carl
Heinzen, was fairly well attended and
met with good reception. The program
was opened by Mr.. Gustave Fischer,
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