New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-04-01
Loss about $40, 600; in.

an incendiary fire. Loss about $50, 600; IN
surance, $4,000.
The house passed bill prohibiting the
manufacture of cheese and butter out of
substances other than milk, but also pro-
viding for the proper marking of oleomar-
garine.
The wholesale clothing house of r. New
| bouer & Co. of Milwaukee is in the hands
| of the sheriff on number of executions.
The assets and liabilities cannot be ascer-
tanned as yet.
A young man named Robert Miller, en-
ployed by the Lake Shore road, was killed
at Ashland, by being crushed between two
cars, which he was repairing. The parents
| OF Miller reside at Kankanna
The residence of Hon. Hugh Mills of
Millston was totally destroyed by fire.
Most of the contents were saved. Loss, 49,
600, with 81 900 insurance in the Milwaukee
Mechanics.
The logging camps are now all deserted
for the season. The cut on Black River
and its tributaries will fall nearly 10000, 900
feet short of all last year, it being about
2oO,0OO,OOO this season, but there Is general
satisfaction among the lumbermen as to
the result. H..
Advance battalions of woodsmen are
coming out of the pineries, and the general
rush can be deferred but few days Three
| camps on Eau Claire river broke I'D.
There will be no serious shortage of logs
Everything favors good spring rise in the
rivers.
Fred Staples, recently sentenced by the
| county judge at Grantsburg on the charge
OF manslaughter for killing David Seeley
must stand trial on the charge of murder
1t appears that the county court had no
jurisdiction. A motion will be made fol-
change ofvenue owing to the indi gnation
meeting.
Mary Mcclure, an unmarried lady, thir-
ty-tour years DID, of the town of Whea-
ton, was adjudged insane. The girls mis-
fortune is said to date back to almost her
! early childhood, when she was terribly
frightened by being left alone one fearfnlly
stormy night, which impaired her reason
then and from which she never recovered.
1t is doubtful if anything ever more
agitated the people Of Chippewa Falls than
the much talked of navigation bill pending
| in the Wisconsin legislature. Nearly every
mail leaving the city carries one or two
PooAoAoA1S, oAUl1eI ldfOllIlS VI opposing Cn0
bill, while fifty of our prominent citizens
| are at Madison giving it their personal at.
| tention. The great majority Of our citizens
! favor the passage of the bill.
1t has been reported at Black River Falls
that the young girl who, it is alleged, was
criminally assaulted by young Emerson
now in Jail herein the town of Knapp is
in critical condition, but that her age
prevents her from securing any protection
under the present laws except on the charge
OF assault and battery. There is a great
deal of excitement among the friends OF
the girl, which bodies no good to the pris.
oner unless the law deals with him pretty
severely. tE
William Keefe of st. Paul has brought
suit against Brigham & Mussell of Bayfield,
to recover $23, 600 alleged to have been lost
by him by defendants preventing him from
fulfilling logging contract had with them.
Two years ago Keefe entered into logging
contract with defendants, but unexpectedly
Suspended operations in the middle of the
seasons work by Brigham & Mussell at
tachlng his teams and impairing his credit
keete, in bringing his suit, garnisheed the
Z. Z. Thompson Lumber Company of Chi.
cago.