New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-28
Z HE NOR Fl W ES T.
ASummary Of the Important Events
Of the Week IN the Northwest
ern States
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and
North Dakota News ina
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.

MINNESOTA.
The Ramsey county Populists nominate
ticket.
Little Falls hasa remarkable frog vista
ton.
Roger Q. Mills will deliver political
speeches in Minnesota in October.
Ramsey county has exempt real estate val
ued at $11, 378, 039-
William Greenfield of chandler, while on
load of hay was killed by lightning.
A new and very destructive wheat pest
called the frit fly is discovered in Northern
Minnesota.
A little son of Albert Dart of Cascade ate
pills prescribed for his mother and
died.
Gunder Torgerson, well known farmer,
of Fergus Falls, was killed by his team
running away and dashing him against an
iron bridge:
Albert Paige, employed in a saw mill at
Little Falls got caught in an edging ma
chine and was badly injured, several ribs
being broken and internally injured.
The safe of Anton Hoeschen of Kent was
cracked and 81, 800 in cash taken. No
clue to the robbers Hoeschen was the
agent of the Farmers elevator and q
storekeeper.
Mrs. Agnes Mock, wife of farmer at
Holding, was gored by an Infatuated cow.
The horn entered above the hip and she
died in two hours, She leaves four young
children.
Ithas just been learned at st. Cloud that
Mrs. George Bracket, of Paynesville, who
wanted a divorce to marry her lover and
took poison when she couldn't get it, died
of the effects OF the poison.
Ex-Village Attorney Hawkins, recently
Of La Prairie commenced an action against
La Prairie for false imprisonment in con-
nection with the Lewis murder committed
there recently; damage, $40, 900.
A 6layton specialsay Very little thresh-
ing has been done in this vicinity as yet.
The yields reported are: Wheat, 10 bushels
per acre; barley, 30 bushels, quality poor;
no oats thresh ed.
The Hinekley Commercial Union has To-
Gated IA families near Hinckley in the
past few days and more will follow, and
the union has special immigrant agent at
work in Europe securing desirable fami-
lies.
Remnants Of Fourth of July fire works
in the store of Oderstrom &Anderson at
Monreyideo took fire spontan eously as one
Of the firm was about to close the store.
The fire was extinguished with small dam
age.
Fari bault people are now anxious for
some enterprising capitalist to build an
opera house. Mr.. Hill, proprietor of the
one destroyed by fire will rebuild, but not
an opera house as he needs the room for
his business. .-.2et-..
Chas. Taylor and Horace E. Thomas.
both colored, were indicted by the grand
jury at Winona, for assault in the first
degree. They are the men who assaulted
Hi Adams, the horse jockey and cut him
with a knife ,
An unsuccessful attempt at robbery was
made at Kenyon by two tramps who saw
the old blacksmith, Dick Moore, paid off.
The tramps enticed Moore into an out of
the way shed. where the attempt was made
Moore wrenched himself loose and escaped.
The marshal is looking :or the tramps.
The Herbert Block, Pennington, was
burned recently. It consisted of three
stores, one unoccupied, one by the millin-
cry store of Mrs. Meyer, and one had
wheat stored in it. Loss about So, coo; no
insurance. Meyers goods were damaged
some.
Spencer Hubbard, young business
man of Red Win., and Mrs. Coons,
wife Of laborer in Betcher's
mill, disappeared n1ysteriously recent
~. Elopementis charged by the friends of
+ hox 10 ho md tho h11ch of
the latter.
While George Melins was taking his trac-
ton engine over the Whitewater new steel
bridge, the bridge gave way and precipitat-
ed the engine into the water. Mr.. Melins
and George Thompson, who were steering
the engine, jumped in time to save their
lives. They both sustained injuries how
ever, that may prove fatal.
John Jones, aged thirteen, SON Of J. d.
Jones of Long Prairie, ex-clerk of the SUI
prene court, discharged an old musket at a
hornets nest The gun barrel was wrenched
from the stock striking him on the fore
head, fracturing his skull. is now ly-
ing in 4 precarious condition, The gun
had been loaded for year and the charge
was rusted in.
John Buck, an aged farmer of Lanesboro,
was killed the other day. He attempted to
cross the railroad track in front Of an in
coming train, and at thelas moment see
ing that he could not make it, suddenly
turned his frantic team and was thrown for
ward on the whifHe trees, where he was
killed, being dragged several blocks.
The preliminary hearing in the ease of
John Flynn, at Red Wing, charged with
murder in the first degree, came up
and the prisoner appeared for arraign-
ment but the reading Of the warrant and
the examination was waved. The pris-
oner was remanded to Jail to await the
action of the October grand jury.
WISCONSIN,
An Oshkosh boy named Peterson had his