New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1896-10-14
AN ATTEMPTED ROBBERY
An Effort Made To- Break Into Gollnast's
Saloon. $3.50 e
VI. Gollnast's Boy Fired at By the Md.
night Prowlers.

A good deal Of excitement was occas,
Toned Monday morning by the report
that an effort had been made By burglars
to enter the saloon Of Ferd. Gollnast ID
the Maltzahn Building. About three
o'clock IN the morning, the Golinas1
family were awakened bya noise at the
rear door Of the room below. Mr.. Coll
nast's soma lad Of fourteen quietly went
down stairs, to the rear of the building,
and noticed that a man was boring holes
in the panel Of the door. He says be
also saw the mans revolver lying on q
railing "a foot or SO away. While he was
thus watching hin, the man left the door
and went into the alley, eyidently,as the
boy thought, to get some tools. This he
considered his opportunity, according to
his own story. BE hastily opened the
door, grabbed the revolver and en-
yeavored to fire it at the man in the al
ley. sAt the same time, however, shot
was fred froH below and went s,zzing
through, the boys hat. Another bullet
came in quick succession, aimed to pen
citrate the boys abdomen. Luckily, how-
ever, it struck large knife in the boys
vest pocket and glanced off. The burg
lars then spirited themselves away, and,
while sthe boy had fired one shot, he
certainly did not hit his man. The boy
has, to corroborate his story, the fact
that the neighb ors heard the shots fired,
three holes are bored through the panel
of the door, the bullet holes are in his
hat and vest, the knife is fattened out
as the result of its contact with the mis-
sile Of death and one of the bullets was
near the door and also a bull
let hole through the railing.
Itshardly seems plausible that a young
fell6W would have the courage to go out
in the night to meet armed burglars, and
yet the evidence all seems to be there to
his statements. At any rate
it was a nervy deed and narrow escape.
This is the third time that an effort
has been made to enter this building
within the past few weeks.
The staff correspondent of the St. Paul
Daily Globe who IS going about state
endeavering to size up the Situations, poll
teal, is, to say the least, a cheerful and
easy liar. And if the reports which he
has been sending in from other counties
are as far from the truth and as much
out of harmony with the information
given to him, as that which he gave to
The readers of the Globe in fridays is
sue, relative to the sentiment in New
Ulm and Brown County, then the cause
Of Mckinley, Mark Hanna, Gold Stand
ard McCleary and Cloaghism IS decid-
eddy hopeless one. If his efforts to get
at the true situation are as unpainstak-
ing in other quarters as they were here
and accompanied with as much misrep-
resentation and reckless imagination,
then it is bat another indication of the
to- which the Gold Press of this
state will resort to bolster up forlorn
cause and to luislead the people into,
that Mckinley and Clough are
going to win with ease.
IL other words the Globe correspond,
ent is stranger to veracity. He has no.
regard for the candid statements of the
people whom he interviews and mis-
quotes them to suit his own taste with
an audaclty that proyokes at the same
time that it amises.
The Globe correspondent is a certain
Mr.. Hennesey. He came TO New Ulm
late in the evening and discovered that
the city was Inhabited almost exclusive
ly by Germans. That fact he reported
correctly, and it is about the only state
ment in his two column article that is in
keeping with the truth. He also discov-
cred that these same Germans are in
clined to favor sound money. So they
are; but the Globe correspondent drew
upon his imagination to construe this
preference into meaning the sound mon
ey of Mckinley and the St. Louis plat
form, whereas by far the larger per cent
construe it to mean the unrestricted use
of both Gold and Silver. In other words
the large majority Of the Germans of
Brown Co. believe in the financial plank
OF the Chicago Platform and intend to
stand by Mr.. Bryan and the silver candi-
date for Congress. The disaffection a.
mong the Democrats is small through
out the county and is causing no fears
among those who have charge of the cam
paign. It will be more than overcome
BY the falling away Of German Republi-
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