New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-04-22
THE NORTHWEST.
A Summary of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwestern
States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell. ..r ..r,
MINNESOTA.

Jos. A. Eckstein was reelected city at
torney of New Ulm by the council.
The wire and Picket Fence mandatory
of Mortified has begun work.
The Eagle mill of n ew Ulm will increase
its capacity from 500 to 1000 barrels day
The contract was let for about S25OOO.
}. q. Blake died at Winona, after lin
gering illness, of consumption. He has
been resident of Winona since 1871.
The Mankato council elected R. D. Hub
bard vice president of the council and W.
b. Young city attorney for the coming two
years.
Mrs, Sarah B. White. who sued Michael
fastoret at Duluth for trespass and tor
damages to her reputation, was given a.
verdict Of 2,OOO
Mrs Laura Aldrich, wife of J. C. Aldrich,
prominent business man and ex-treasurer
OF Fairbault, died. Her age was ffty-one
years.
Owing to the high water the dam at For
est mills, Zumbrota, has been washed out
The damage to the proprietors, Rust & Ma
son, is estimated at 81, 200
A mutual accident insuran ce COMPANY
has been formed at Winona, to be known
as the North Star Mutual Accident In
surance company.
Hon. Timothy Doyledied at Montgomery
at the advanced age Of eighty-three years
He was borne in Kilkenny, Ireland, and he
has been a resident in this state since
1865
About 10000 bushels Of potatoes have
been shipped from the Caledonia station
east and south, and last fall 5000 bushels
were shipped from here. They were nearly
all raised in Caledonia township.
A sneak thief at st. Cloud stole certified
check for 500 and $50 in cash from the
safe, which had been left open, in J. B.
Hardebech's saloon in the Grand Central
hotel. No clue
Aspecial agent of the treasury has been
sent to Mankato to examine the sites offered
for the new public building. The agent
will not be confined to the sites offered in
the bids but may purchase any other site
subsequently offered.
A special on the Great Northern road,
having on board general Manager Mohler
and other officials, ran into freight train
near New London. The locomotive on the
special was badly damaged and three men
injured
Gov. Merriam has appointed as commits
sioners to select the Minnesota monument
for the battle field of Gettysburg Judge
William Lochren. and c. B. Heffelinger of
Minneapolis and Matthew Marvin at Wi
mona.
The Duluth, Red Wing & Southern rail
road has decided to build this summer
twenty-five miles Of track in asouthwester-
~ direction from Duluth into the rich
lumber districts owned by the Mcclure
Lumber company, Of Saginaw, Mich.
The house of Samuel Gowell of Hassan
took tire and burned with almost all its
contents, including furniture. provisions
ETC., and 5000 in money. The whole loss
is about $1,000, and Their is no insurance.
MIR. and Mrs. Gowell are old people, and
the loss IS heavy one to them.
Mrs. Kate Marsden of Chatfeld ate some
wild parsnips, which she mistook for arti-
chokes, dying within three hours She
was fifty years old and very estima-
BILE lady. Miss Zoe Johnson ate some of
the same. She was quite sick, but is now
out of danger.
Religion has driven s. Merrill, ofWaseca,
insane. Recently he has had habit of
drawing pistol and asking his wife if she
believed in God. He would then hold the
cold barrel of the weapon against her head
and tell her to kneel and pray He is now
in jail yelling like a Commanche for liber-
ty.
The shortage of the Milwaukee depot
agent Of Mankato has been found to be
about s., 700, a greater amount than was
hitherto supposed. Samuel G. Pond and
J. W. Fowler became Workers. sureties to
secure his bad bond. He has gone to Iowa,
where his wife will stay with relatives I'M
til the matter is cleared up.
Quite sensation was caused at st. Cloud
the other day when it became known that
Henry Branch, proprietor of the Grand
Union hotel and man of considerable
wealth, had eloped with Mrs. Hart, a
widow. Branch took with him about
81, 600 in cash, and before he left made
numerous debts with clothing merchants.
He leaves wife and a family of grown-up
children.
NORTH DAKOTA,