New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-05-04
THE NORTH W EST
4 Summary Of the Important Events
OF the Week in the Northwest
Y ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa. North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell,
MINNESOTA.

Arthur Fretten died at the home of his
father, near Skyberg, of whooping cough.
AT the election at Morristown, to incor-
.porate carried by large majority.
Forest fires destroyed considerable tim
Der and some fences west of Little Falls
II. Young was arrested at Morristown,
and fined $50 and costs for running blind
pig.
William Rose was arrested at Still
water, charged with poisoning dog be-
longing TO Arthur Lyman.
A Kenyon special says seeding is mostly
done. Winter wheat and rye are looking
promising, but grass is slow in coming.
The Snake river drives are ''hung up
on account Of the low stage of water. Grain
IS badly needed, and unless there is a rise
in the water soon, the drivers will be laid
of for time.
Judge Williston, of Saltwater, made an
order directing Fred Scott, assignee of
Charles Ludwig, to settle all claims pro
rata.
fatal runaway occurred at Belle PLANE.
in which the S-year-old daughter of Carl
Scllult was thrown out on the depot hill,
and died three hours afterward
Word was received at Buffalo, to the eff
feet that Mrs. Andrew Schiller had suicided
by hanging at her home near St. Michaels.
Her mind was deranged
The citizens of the village of Wells have
signed a guarantee note of $500 for their
share of the worlds fair fund for Faribault
county.
An adjourned meeting of the Stevens
county Alliance was held at Morris. The
members resolved themselves into Peo-
pies party and appointed q county COM
mittee for campaign purposes.
A saw breaking in the Cloquet Lumber
~oompany's mills at Cloquet injured two
men. Andrew Thomson will loose his
right arm and James Loranger will be
crippled for some time.
man named Menge, butcher, was ar
rested at Crookston, for threatening to kill
his son-in-law, he died next day at the viii
lage Jail in great agony. He had been
drinking heavily, and it is thought he COM
nitted suicide.
The establishment OF a creamery at Mill
lersburg, eight miles west of Dundas, by
the Crescent Company of st. Paul, has fallen
flat, the farmers falling to guarantee the
necessary number Of cows.
The charter Of the Citizens National
Bank Of Mankato has expired, it having
lived its score OF years of corporate exist
ence. 1t has been decided to form new
organization, to be composed entirely of
Mankato business men. ...E
An unsuccessful attempt to blow open
the safe in the Exchange bank ofFarming.
ton, was made. The robbers only secured
about S29 in coppers from the vault room.
They also stole a pair of white ponies
from W. S. Farquhar to make their escape.
Princeton SPECIAL says: Seeding is most
" done, but no rain having fallen for three
weeks the ground isso dry thatthe grain has
not sprouted. In this vicinity there is 10
per centincrease in the acreage of wheat and
oats, with a corresponding falling off in the
acreage of corn and potatoes.
The continued snow and rain has had a
tendency to greatly interfere with seeding
in the vicinity of Albert Lea, and, as a re-
suit, there will beconsiderable reduction in
the acreage ofland that would have been
seeded to wheat, as past experience has
shown that late soWn wheat is not sue
cess.
The man Kennedy, who was arrested at
Carlton on suspicion but not positively
gave the name of Johnson, turns out to be
Tom Conlin, of Glyndon. Both men now
are in jail to await the Polk county sheriff
Both have served terms in the penitentiary.
The suit of Lawrence VS.. the Chicago 81
Milwaukee Railroad Company was COM
pleted at Mankato, and on motion of de-
PENDANTS attorney the court instructed the
jury to bring verdict for defendant. The
A.-Jl p ~ aF
er is now on trial, last case in term of the
United States circuit court. Judge Mel
son will preside during the rest of the
term.
One OF the boldest attempts to rob a
house was perpetrated at Mankato at the
house of Henry Vogelspohl. His wife and
a Miss Hodapp were sleeping on the second
floor and about four O'Clock in the morn
ing were startled by the entrance of two
men. When the women attempted to cry
out the Williams applied handkerchiets
saturated with chlOroform to their faces,
but their job was not good one. The
robbers were frightened away.
A. c.. Knapp, for many years we'll
digger in Minnesota and Iowa. has dis
covered in Fremont township in Winona
county. a vein of lead IA inches thick
about so feet beneath the surface. Knapp
made the discovery while digging wei a
few months ago. and has since then leased
an S0-acre tract in which he will sink a
shaft during the summer. He will COM
mence operations about May L.
NORTH DAKOTA.
SHINES & Greene, of Churches Ferry, as.
signed for the benefit Of creditors Assets