New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-01-07
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary Of the Important
Events Of the Week in the
Northwestern States.
MINNESOTA

MINNESOTA.
The Northern Pacific station at Rattle
Lake caught fire from q defective flue and
burned. The freight and express were ayed.
.C. oGorman of Saltwater is in Wash
lnston on business with ex-senator Sabin.
Ahere are several matters which the gentle
men are mutually interested in and which
neeo attention in Washington.
r. Il. Comstock.a clerk in the Northern
racine Office, suddenly disappeared from
staples. Search has been made along the
line and in town, but no one has seen or
heard of him since.
AN effort will be made at the legislative
session this winter to reduce the salaries of
the officers Of Goodhue county. The move.
menu originates with the Alliance, which IA
Vors horizontal reduction of 25 per cent
Michael Hansen of Cold Springs died at
81. cloud of dropsy, aged ffty-nine yeurs
deceased was an old and respected citizen
OF Stearns county, and leaves family OF
grown-up sons and daughters.
Constable Albright has returned to Ashby
from Breckenridge with Frank Fitch, whom
he arrested on the charge of stealing a horse
from his father, w. H. Fitch The horse was
sold in Henning: Fitch is in jail at Fergus
ais awaiting examination.
The Winona & Southwestern is now COM
peted and In running order to Spring Valley
The company will give an excursion to Wi
: mona and return. About 200 will 80 from
Springsvalley, together with delegation of
business men from lie Roy and Usage.
Representative Lind is with a party of
congressman in North Carolina shooting
Hr1aly
dertaken to show the Minnesota member
what duck hunting is in the South, and
have also agreed to visit Minnesota next
year in pursuit of prairie chickens.
Representative Dunnell recommended Dr.
Henry Jones Of Preston, to be O
member of the pension examining board of
Fillmore county in place of DR.. c. H. Rob-
bins, resigned. Mr.. Dunnell secured the ap-
pointment Of V. F. Moffle of Winona county
as laborer in the pension Office at salary
OF $500 a year.
Henry Voygt, aged nineteen; Walter
Paulsen. aged fifteen: Tommy Ryan, aged
thirteen. and Johnny Ryan, aged eleven,
were bound over at Mortified to the dis
trict court on the charge of burglary in the
third degree. They were convicted of enter
ing William Eble's store and taking q
mum Der of things.
The Howard Lake Roller mill caught fire
and is now in cinders, caused by discon-
nected belt. Building, machinery and several
hundred bushels of wheat are total loss.
The plant was valued at SIS, 900; insurance,
$4,000 The mill was recently improved
at cost of S 500, and was in readiness for
Il large winter business.
The remains of George Kane, who was
killed by Marshal Booth at Hinckley on
Christmas, were received at Hastings, &C.
companied by his brother John. Many cit
liens gathered at the depot Michael Kane.
twin brother of the deceased, who was also
shot by the marshal, is still lying at the
hospital at Hnckley in precarious condi-
ton. The age of the Kane boys was twenty
five years.
Mr.. and Mrs Henry Baumgarten, who live
a few miles northwest Of Fergus Falls, drove
in to attend the services in the German
Lutheran church. They brought with them
their three-months old baby, and wrapped
it up very thoroughly to protect it from the
cold. When they reached the church and IN
wrapped the child they were Mortified to find
that it was almost uffocated from it's wraps,
and it died in O few moments.
j. d. Metz, agent of the West Shore &
Hoosac Tunnel line at Minneap oils, who left
there mysteriousy. has been quietly living
at Butte Montana. He is in excellent heal tn
mentally add physically, and the inference
derived from his letter to his superior in ST.
Paul. W. F. Wilson, that he is crazy seems
without foundation. He refuses to give any
explanation Of the cause OF his sudden de-
parture further than to in tim ate that he had
got into fast set and was getting too deep
in the social swim.
Prof A. c. Gnttersoh died at Owatonna
after short illness, aged sixty He was
born in Vermont and came to Owatonna in
1866. In 1867 he graduated from the Nor
NAL Musical Academy Of the Northwest ct
Madison. and since had devoted much time
to music. He composed the cantatas of
"Christmas," .s'The Seasons and numerous
tother pieces OF church and secular sic He
has been alderman and mayor of the city,
and was treasurer of the state school board
at the time Of his death. He has been cashier
of the Farmers National bank since it's or
ganization in 1874.
NORTH DAKOTA.
The president signed the bill Tor the erec-
ton OF public building at Fargo.
This state ranks as the forty-first state in
of point Of population. r. -