New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-01-05

pld Adam Pfeifer of this City Meets Death
BY Jumping from Moving
So SFs Train.
The Accident Occurred near Johnstown,
Penn. The Body Buried at
/ Altoona,

Thursday afternoon Col. Bobleter,
Through the Brown Co. Bank, received
a telegram from Altoona, Pennsylvania,
! a town on the Pennsylvania railroad, to
Che effect that Adam Pfelffer had jumped
from moving train near JohnstoWn, a
short distance west of Altoona, and had
been killed. The telegram asked for in
structions as to what should be done
with the body, and as the deceased had
, no relatives. known . ,cc:,1yone here, in
structions were given to have him decent
ly buried at Altoona. Later instructions
will be sent asSto the disposal of his ef-
fects.
Pfeiffer left this city last Monday af-
ternoon cor Germany. He had through
ticket to Baltimore and from the Brown
Co. Bank he had secured passage on one
of the steamship lines to his destination
in Germany. When he left here it was
suspected that he would meet with trOu-
bic, for he was an odd-looking character,
with sort of Rip Van Wrinkle appear
ance, understood little, if any, English,
and was but little used to the modern
ways of the world, having lived for
years the secluded life of a hermit in
a hut near Hauensteln's brewery.
Adam Pfeiffer was nigh onto seventy
years of age Since 1856 he has lived
alone in New Tim and avoided as much
as possible the ompanionship of men.
The few who happened to know him,
however, say that he was intelligent and
free in his conversation and not at all in
J. ing with his looks. It was his wild
odd appearance, alone, that caused
le people to dread him and others in
1mor to refer to him as old "Dyna-
mite Pfeifer."
Before leaving here he sold his prop
erty near the brewery and consequently
must have had something like $500 on
his person, beside his ticket, when he
met his death.
He had no relatives in this country
that anyone knows CT. a niece living
in Germany, had kept up a constant cor
respondence, with him, and it was to visit
her that he undertook the recent and ia
tai journey.
4sssIss Prof. .Rirha. rI7A'her Of the Wiscon-
sin Universl .,i.! spend the coming
Y, summer in { n"",.
The moth, Peter Weller of this
city died at uluoon a few days ago at
the age of sixty three.
AL Berg, who pitched here for the
Winthrop Colts last season, has signed
with the Minneapolis club.
Lienhard Bros. will occupy the Gebs ser
building, vacated this week by the Gold
en- Rule, after the 1st of February.
-a Hy. Orlemann, the St. Paul member
of tie Hermann's Monument building
]. committee, was in the city Wednesday,.
! H=r julius Neep of Springfield was sen,
fenced to sixty days IN the county Jail
last week for assaulting Officer Anstett.
Geo. Irwin, the well-known Prairie
vile populist, has sold his farm in that
township to Mr.. Paulsen of the same
town. ,
Jack Quinn of Ridgely was fined IS
and costs at St. Peter last week for US
ing abusive language to Mrs. Kienlin.
The case will be appealed.
The Twin City Carleton Club held it's
annual holiday meeting at the CONNER
cal Club in St. Paul last Wednesday.
Mr.. Carleton of this city was present.
Miss Ida Koch of this city has again
been engaged to teach school in Gitbon.
.5ahe Gazette of that place says: Miss
Koch is we'll known here, having taught
in our schools to the satisfaction Of every
body.
The state meeting of Democrats
in Minneapolis on the 18th will be at
tended by several of our Brown county
leaders. National Chairman Jones Of
Arkansas will be the principal speaker
on this occasion. Il
81. G.. Hays in the Sleepy Dispatch
announces that Jacob Klossner Of this
city is being spoken Of as most desira-
3 bile candidate for state senator. The
I Dispatch adds that Klossner is persist
ent worker and has high sense Of hon
Tor in the discharge Of public trusts.
DIR. G. H. Kohler of Gary, South Da-
keta, came to. this city on Wednesday
for the purpose Of visiting his friend,
! Frank Stricken Of Ann Arbor. Upon
n his arrival he was taken down with q