New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-09-09
A CHANGE FOR MINNESOTA.
Manager Hunt Thinks the Citizens Of the
State Will Come to the Rescue.
Brown County Takes the Lead. Will
Other Counties Do as Well?

Manager L. P. Hunt of the Minneso-
to worlds fair commission was in St.
Paul yesterday, says the Pioneer Press
OF Sunday, and announced positively
that Minnesota could have its own ex-
hibit in the Columbian exposition, and
furthermore, could have it in her own
state building, provided Minnesota has
one. Mr.. Hunt had just received a
letter from Director General Geo, R..
Davis, of the exposition, enclosing a
circular which has been issued to an
swer many questions relating to domes.
tic exhibits. 1t concisely states the
rules for the establishment of domestic
exhibits and lays down tt regulations
adopted by the national commission and
the board of directors. The sixth clause
of the circular, which covers the case of
Minnesota, says:
Estate buildings shall be maintained
as state or territorial headquarters,
under the control of the state board, but
subject to the rules and regulations
governing the exposition, ,and shall also,
if desired by the state or territory, be
used as depository for collective ex-
hibit of such line as shall best illus :
trate and exemplify the natural resourc-
es OF such state as we'll as its historical
and archaeological features.
The final clause was underlined, and
in the accompanying letter the statement
is made that each state can have its own
exhibit in the manner outlined, provid-
ing that exhibits shall not be catalogued
OF considered as competitive. embrace
neither manufactured goods nor pro-
ducts nor processes, and finally, no
motive power is to be permitted in the
state buildings.
This, says Manager Hunt, covers the
case of Minnesota and is in line with
what the commission has held 49, that
competitive exhibits must 60 into the
national building, but that state exhib-
its in separate buildings are not prohib-
tied.
Mr.. Hunt was asked if it was true
that several of the members were to re-
sign at the next meeting of the com mis-
sion, which is to be held this week, but
he declined to state whether or not such
was the case. He believed, however,
that after the next meeting of the CON-
mission the tide would turn and the peo-
pie of the state would come forward
generously and handsomely to render
The commissioners all the aid they
could.
II saw John Lind in St. Paul this
morning." continued Mr.. Hunt, land
he tells me that Brown county will raise
$500. If all the counties do as well, we
shall have plenty of funds.''
Z A special from St. Peter says: Three
highly sensational suits have been com
menced here, and the papers seryed
Saturday morning, two of them being
in the tar and feathering case which oc-
cured over in lie Sueur county last June.
One is by Mrs. Katie Boyd, who was
dragged from her bed at midnight,
stripped and denuded of her night cloth
ing, tied hand and foot, besmeared with
tar over her entire person, feathers
then applied and the unfortunate woman
thrown by her prosecutors into the Gel
lar and left there unconscious. She
sues Cornelius Hessian Sr., Cornelius
Hessian Jr., Daniel Hessian and Mich
ael Hessian and others to recover dam
ages in the sum of $25,61O. In the Sc
cond action, Mr.. Murphy, who is a
wealthy and welI-to.do farmer, also
brings suit in the district court of LIE
Sueur county for conspiracy and assault
and battery and claims $4,000. In his
case it is alleged that by force the Hes
oACbASS Will oGAOAS, OlOhO 1utO Ills uW0l~
ling house at midnight, seized and
choaked him, tarred and feathered him,
and then threw him into the cellar. The
defendants are we'll -to-do farmers,
The other case is an action brought in
the district court at Nicollet county for
false imprisonment by John Vaughn OF
LIE Sueur county against John Peterson,
judge of probate Of this county, claim
ing $4,000. Some very singular points
are involved in this case, one of which
is: Can judge Of probate issue war
rant, arrest, commit to jail and fine a
party against whom complaint for in.
sanity alone is made, as the constitution
restricts the powers Of this court exclu-
sivelY to estates Of deceased persons
and persons under guardianship. It
raises verv grave doubt whether a
Judge Of probate can act or exercise the
Jurisdiction attempted to be conferred by
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