New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-10-05
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The Acting First Sergeant Of Company M Dies
at st. Alexander, s Hospital.

The Acting First Sergeant Of Company M Dies
at st. Alexander, s Hospital.
Sergeant Bennett of the Blue Earth
City company died suddenly and unex-
pectedly at the hospital in this city Fri
day morning.
The sergeant had been sick for some
time with pneumonia, but was improv-
ing, and only fifteen minutes before his
death talked with the physicians about
going home.
The theory of blood clot on the
brain is the only one, therefore, that will
account for his sudden death. -. - i.
Sergeant Bennett enlisted in the
Twelfth Minnesota at Wells. At that
time he was employed as a printer on the
Wells Forum and for several years prior
had been connected with the Blue Earth
City Post. He was about thirty years
of age and single.
An impressive military escort accom-
panied his remains to the depot on Sat-
urday.
Attorney Plymat of Mankato was here
on legal business Friday.
The Eagle Mill Co. has rented. the
Parsons elevator at Morgan. -
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. JUL
Jus Scheiderlch the forepart of the week.
Sam Gieseke succeeds John Baasen as
delivery boy for the New Ulm Steam
Laundry.
J. H. Vajen went to Omaha Friday to
take in the Exposition and also to visit
his daughter, Mrs. Liver.
G. 81. Griebel, the hustling Mankato-
lite, was here Saturday, advertising the
coming Mankato street fair.
Oar. Reese, the republican candidate
for clerk of the supreme court, spoke at
Springfield Monday evening.
Private Norton of Company M was
taken down with the measles on Satur-
day. He is now at the hospital.
Alb. Bither, night bill clerk at the
Northwestern depot for several months
past, has been given day job at Sleepy
Eye.
The Populist senatorial committee is
composed of J. N. Byington of Redwood
county and Ernst Brandt and Mike
FrantZ of Brown.
The building containing the drugstore
stock Of Jos. Arbes at Claremont was
destroyed by fire last Wednesday
Arbes' loss is placed at $1,000.
VIM. A. Fenscke has rented the store
room Of GA. Ottomeyer. Mr.. Ottomeye1
will soon be occupying one of the rooms
in the new Schoch- Ottomeyer block.
Sheriff Anderson succeeded in recov.
ering the horse, which was stolen from
the barn Of August Backer few nights
! ago, but could get no trace of the thief
The Christian. Endeavor convention
chorus will sing at the Congregations
church next Sunday evening. The Choir
us, as organized at present, contains fit,
voices. 90. I..@#
| Last week it was announced tina
Chaplain Clemens had preferred charge
against DR.. Game. Since then it ha
been learned that Caine has filed counte
charges against the chaplain.
DR.. Weiser went to Gibbon last wee]
to assist DR.. Flower in examining tn
mental condition of Louis Eckarts O
Bismark township. They found hin
insane and recommended that he be sen
to St, Peter. =
Eugene Cayler, the man who was ar
rested last week on the suspicion that b
was horse thief, was released Thursda,
afternoon,upon the receipt of a telegram
from Iowa, stating that the owner Of tn,
horses could not be found.
Judge Weber has rendered an i'm
portant decision in regard to meanderet
lakes. He holds that county commits
sioners have no authority under the gen
eral drainage law to drain meandere,
lake of more than 100 acres,
Sergeant William Reese of the Thir,
cavalry Las orders to proceed from Som
erville, Mass, to New Ulm to report fol
duty to Capt. George H. Morgan. Capt
Morgan will also be assisted in muster.
ing out the troops by 1t. Matthew
Steele. s5s..z. 49, z, IS
The Tracy members of Company A
were treated to a swell banquet and
hearty welcome by the people Of their