New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1892-02-24
THE NORTHWEST.
"A Summary Of the Important Events
Of the Week in the Northwest
ern States.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North
and South Dakota News in a
Nutshell.
MINNESOTA.


A mining stock exchange may be estab-
. Iished at Duluth
Ex-Ald. Rollins Of Minneapolis commits
suicide with carbolic acid.
L. NJ. LANCE of Minneapolis is elected
commander of the Minnesota G. A. r.
State Game Warden Stetson is defeated
in the prosecution Of man Tor having
prairie chickens in his possession
The Ratchet factory which was built at
Fulda last fall will commence business
March l.
Dan Ivett fireman on the st, Paul and
Omaha road, was very dangerously hurt
near ST. Paul, in a wreck of his engine.
A suit to recover 100000 damages for
SANDER has been commenced by Fred f.
Kanne, southwest Of Faribault, in LIE
: Sueuer county.
The Ellis Touring mill at st. Peter, was
sold by the assignee A. r. Davis to A. III.
Miner, who will put it in frst-class shape
and expects to largely increase its capacity.
A large barn ofSylvester Frederick on
Lake Sarah near Delano was destroyed and
twenty head of stock burned. The
members of the family were absent.
John Wisdom, who recently purchased
the Bracket saw mill plant in Pine City,
will build at once sash, door and blind
factory. The factory will employ over one
hundred and twenty-five men.
Gilbert Gilbertson, a wealthy farmer of
Mower county, while going home from
Rochester, stopped at a farmers house to
let warm, and as he entered the house he
Iopped dead of heart disease.
The sheriff of Dakota county went to
Morris and took back with him man
named Failing, to answer at Hastings the
charge of forging several notes, amounting
to $500.
Rev. E. Tucker, aged seventy-two died at
Red Wing. He was pioneer resident,
chaplain during the war and pastor of the
Methodist church there for number of
years.
The people of Little Falls and vicinity
shipped car load Of flour to Edgar &
Reeve, Of Minneapolis, for the relief Of the
Russian famine sufferers. There had been
other small shipments also from that place
previously.
M. Dutton, who was held at Mankato,
on the charge Of obtaining the name of
Mrs. H. II. Studt to note under false pre-
lenses and also for forgery in the second
degree, gave bail in the sum Of $l,600.
L. P Hunt, of the worlds fair commits
sion, held a meeting of business men at
Battle Lake, and in less than fifteen min
utes a note for $125 towards Otter Tail
countys quota was signed by twenty-five
good men.
The coroner's jury rendered verdict of
death from unknown causes in the case Of
Chris Thorstad at Lake City. 1t has been
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sheriff is now making arrests ofimplicated
parties.
Barney yelling has begun an action
against William Grono. proprietor of
granite works at St. Cloud for $4,000 dam
ages for SANDER. It is alleged that Grono
wrote Il de amatory letter III which Well
ing was maligned.
A drunken row took place near North
Lake, the present terminus Of the Port
Arthur Duluth e. Western railway, be-
tween two white men and four Indians,
and as a result one man is now lying at
the point of death and three have broken
heads.
Plans and specifications for a new village
hall and eng inc room were placed in the
hands of the Carlton council. The build
ing Will be elaborate for all village pur-
poses the front-constructed ofthe new
pressed slate brick manufactured here and
will bethe first building ever erected in
which this new brick forms part.
William LaWer of Lamber met with
sudden death in the railroad yard at Tracy.
1t is supposed he stepped from the main
track over to the side track to avoid a COM
ing switch engine and was caught by car
being run down on the side track. The
car passed over his body, killing him al
most instantly. He leaves q wife and one
child.
Gov. Merriam has committed the SEN
tence of James Irwin, who was sentenced
at Moorhead to the state prison for life for
the murder Of James H. Ewes one and one
half miles from Moorhead, in 1885. Irwin
will be discharged from Saltwater, Dec. !,
1892. Communication is the result of Pc
tition signed by the prosecuting attorney,
judge, all the jurors and many others.
James B. Failing of Prescott, Wis. was
brought down from Morris and lodged in
Jail at Hastings, to await his hearing,
on the charge of obtaining $50 at the Ger
man American bank Oct. 2 under false pre-.
lenses. He is accused of having presented
and endorsed two notes purported to have
been given by one Lyman r. Boarding of
Pierre, S. d., one being for $97 and the
other $104, secured by chattel mortgage.
Byron J. Gibson, the seventeen-year- old
son of DR.. G. w. Gibson, of st. Cloud, was
arrested for practicing dentistry without
license, he having pulled a lady's teeth and
administered chloroform jan 81, from
which she has been a great sufferer ever
since. He was fined 50 and costs, amount
ing to $50, or thirty days in the county jail.
His father refused to pay his fine and he
was committed.
A desperate attempt was made to set on
fire the dry goods store known as the
Fair store at Winona A son of the pro-
prietor, Louis Goldberg, was seen by
police officer to run away from the build
ing, and the police officer seeing light in
the building few seconds later gave an
alarm of fire. The fire was put out aftera
loss Of only 5000 The father and son were
both arrested on tie charge OF attempted
arson.