New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1891-03-11
TILE 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.
MINNESOTA,

MINNESOTA.
Over 200 citizens have asked Dr.. A. B.
Cole to stand as Eon-partisan candidate
for mayor Of Fergus Falls. He will make
the race.
A Republican club ofsixty- 1.-TWO members
was organized at Slayton Officers were
elected, and delegates to the state conven-
ton at Minneapolis chosen.
The water committee of the Albert Lea
city council has made a contract with Mr.
curtis, OF st. Paul, to superintend the put
ting in Of the water works here
An effort is being made at Red Wing, in
behalf of change in the city charter so
that all the city officials will be elected by
popular vote instead ofa portion by the
council as at present.
Earl Cross, charged with burglarizing
stores, was arraigned at Hastings and
pleading guilty to burglary in the third
degree, was bound over to the district court
In $500, and in default of bail went to Jail
At recent special meeting of the board
Of Wabasha county commissioners it was
decided to build a new court house at a
cost not to exceed $4,000. Plans for the
structure, which will be of brick, were APP
proved, and work will soon begin.
The Gardner House. Hastings, O. A. Mat
ter, proprietor, suspended business and is
now in possession Of the sheriff. The
action was brought by the Hastings Hotel
company for forcible possession, and judy
ment was rendered by Justice Newell in
favor Of the plaintiff.
J. f. Seidle's drug store at Mankato was
closed on an attachment. The sum Of the
attachment is 1892 The firm had been
made an assignment to Henry Robel. His
assets are estimated at 81, 500. Mr. Robel
gave bond for s., 5OO
Strenuous measures are being taken at
Mortified to defeat tht passage ofa bill now
before the state legislature, which provides
for the cutting off of considerable strip of
land from the city. The thing was kept
entirely from the knowledge of citizens
until published in the daily papers.
Messrs. J. L. Murphy, Charles Marx and
Alaher, J. Shiehy, prominent in business cir
cles, have purchased the brewery at Mont
gomery paying Mr.. Chalupsuy $4,000 for
his interests The same gentlemen have
also bought the artificial lake and adjoin-
ing property.
An intense conflict on the license ques-
ton is on in Goodhue township, Good
hue county. Recently the county COM
missioners granted license to sell liquor
there, notwithstanding the fact that the
town was on record as opposed to license.
Endless legal complications have ensued.
New postotfices established in this state:
Rush River Sibley county, John NJ. Sccfis,
postmaster; Selma, Cottonwood county,
Lemuel P. Richardson, postmaster. f. J.
Showers has been appointed postmaster at
Erie, Cass county, N. D. Magnus Holme-
strom will be appointed postmaster at Co.
katO, Wright county.
Henry Jacobs, a pioneer resident O
Wabasha county died at his home in West
Albany township last night of kidney and
liver disease, aged fifty-seven years He
was an extensive farmer and had been a
resident of West Albany for thirty five
years, having settled there in 1856. A wife
and several children survive him.
Great satisfaction is experienced at
Browns Valley over the news from Wash
ington that congress has ratified the treaty
with the Sisseton and Wahpeton Indians,
thus opening for settlement nearly ZOO, 900
acres of unalloted land the finest of which
is contiguous to this city. A grand jollif-
cation meeting is being arranged for
1t is stated by a business man of Red
Wing who claims to have information
from the officials of the road that the Min
neapolis & St.. Louis Cannon Valley line
will be extended from Mankato to New
Ulm the present season if the Currer rail
road bill does not pass otherwise there will
be no extension.
1t is announced at Duluth that the secre-
tary of the interior will soon issue proc
lanation detaching large tract of public
L.,
Cloud land district and attaching it to the
Duluth district The tract comprises ], 1885,
300 acres in the former, and 3O7, 900 in the
latter, which will be thrown open for set
dement, next winter.
Frank Weir, of Spring Valley who was
injured by hay knife falling and cutting
him in the knee, died from blood poison,
suffering great pain. His death was hor-
riblc one, everything within his reach be-
ing torn into strips His life insurance for
$4,000, which he had been CARRYING lapsei
last Novembera Mr. Weir was an Odd Eel
low, and will be buried by that order
The business affairs of James Shea, of
Glyndon, general merchant, saloonkeeper
proprietor of the Commercial hotel and
farmer, were placed in the hands of re-
cciver on the petition of Lndeke, Warner
~ VI St RAUL. IAN II. Moon
Of st. Paul was appointed receiver, The
liabilities are about 81 1000, with assets esti-
mated at fully double. Shea is absent in
Massachusetts and is quite i'll. He has
been the heaviest dealer in town.
A man giving his name as John RozeI
was arrested at Wtllmar, by Sheriff Odel
for passing raised money. 1t is said the
accused has worked good many small
towns in Stearns county. The sheriffheard
of this, and suspected a party who stopped
at hotel here, but not finding any money
passed by him in town, the sheriff then
drove to Kandiyohi station and found there
. upon Investigation, raised $40 bill. The
accused when arrested had in his possession
another raised $40 and some tools. His
method, it is said, was to take United
States 81 treasury note or silver certificate
and raise the same to 500 It is likely he