New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-04-06
Neigh borhood
Happenings.
Interesting Events That Have Transpired
in This and Nelghboring Ooun-
ties Of Late.

I AAs Os A1ouSOuS OuC vi stuC OIOCSk Clll-
zens and most substantial business men
of Sleepy Eye, died last Tuesday eve.
ming, after an illness Of three DAYS. Han
son was y member of the Sleepy Eye
Masonic orders, of the Mankato Com:
mandery and of the Zurran Temple OF
Minneapolis. In business he was the
senior member of the firm of Hanson
s. Goetsche; and large stockholder in
the Lampert Lumber Co.
The proposed telephone line between
st. Peter and Winthrop is now an as
sured fact, all of the necessary stock
having been subscribed. The line will
connect with the postofices at New
Sweden, Norseland, Bernadotte and
Traverse Station.
Willie Wanger, an inmate of the state
reform school from this county for near
ly three years, has been released. He is
now at his home in Sleepy Eye.
Geo. P. Forster will build fine brick
business block in Springfield.
A Masonic lodge will soon be insti.
tuted in Lamberton. -.~
Rev. Buzzell delivered an address at
the Unitarian church in Linden last Sun
day. .z. ~~s
According to the Springfield Advance.
H. II. Catlin, Burnstown farmer, is
making sugar and syrup in considerable
quantities from soft maple and box-eld
er trees. The Advance says that Mr.. Cat
lin has nearly one hundred trees tapped
Little Floyd Cunningham, whose faith.
er turned him out of doors and made ali
effort to land him in the reform school,
has been placed under the guardianship
of Editor Hays of Sleepy Eye by Judge
of Probate Laudenschlager.
The St. George Creamery Association
has elected the following new officers
President, Andrew Biebel; secretary and
manager, Mathew Waller; treasurer r
Leonard Vetter; directors, Herman AL.
brecht, Frank Huelskamp, Ernst Schiff
man and Chas. Bianchi. - ~. =.
| Alvin Davies of Cambria has accepted
a position as leader of the choir in one
| of the Methodist churches of Minneapo
lis. ~....
Miss Ida Norell died at the home o.
her uncle, Oscar Erickson, in Spring
field, on the 9th. Death was caused by
consumption.
| According to the St. Peter Herald il
is quite likely that Sven Swenson O.
New Sweden, ]. r. Bowen of Courtlant
and John Currier of CRANKY will he can
didates for the Republican nomination
for representative.
Mrs. Rev. johnson of Norseland diet
last Wednesday.
A gun club has been organized a
Norseland with membership Of fifteen
Arndt Larson is president.
The young people of Springfield ar,
preparing to present the play "Simplt
Silas."
It is now claimed that license was de-
feated in Lake Crystal by reason Of the
influence of portion of the saloon ele
nent, who objected to the heavy license
exacted and believed that they could con
duct a .sbhnd pig business with less ex
pense. The village board however viii
vigorously prosecute any attempt t
evade the law, and the saloon keepers
/ will probably wish they hadn't. The II
cense fee in Lake Crystal last year was
$500.
VIM. Rafferty, Of Home township pur.
chased 40 acres of land last week
from Peter BlcP Phee.
Mr.. Barnum has been reelected prin
Icipal Of the Springfield public schools.
Last Wednesday in Fairfax two tanks
one filed with oxygen gas and the othel
with hydrogen, were placed on q wagor
and started for Franklin. Before tle
outft left the village limits, however
ore Of the tanks EXPLODED, and the two
drivers we're blown into the air and lei
|down with great force. The wagon was
turned into kindling wood, hundred
window lights ia the immediate vicinity
were shattered into fragments, and the
tank itself blown through the wall of !
frame building, demo ollshing thick par
Itiion IS il enteIed. All The furniture
ii tbs room was found 70 BE ID splinter.
The bottom of, the tank vas hurled
Through the front of one Of the butcher-
shops and was only stopped 81 conta.t
with : heavy safe ust What caused