New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-01-19
Wants $5,Ioo
Damages,
Curious Suit Brought Against the Off
GERS Of Fairfax Village.
The Incarceration Of One Edwin in tn,
Fairfax Lookup, the Cause Of the
Litigation.

| Litigation.
! E. E. Sell, A. V. Ricke, Chas. hammers
and John Ma|owald, officers of the vii.
lage Of Fairf; X, were in the city Thurs
day and Friday and retained Attorney
Geo. w. Somerville of Sleepy Eye to de-
fend them in a suit of rather curious
character.
The suit is for damages, growing out
of the incarceration of one Edwin, pris
oner in the Fairfax lookup at the time
of its destruction by fire some week.
ago, and is brought, not against the vii
lage, but against seven of the officers az
individuals.
The father of Edwin brings the suit
through Minneapolis lawyer and asks
tor $5,100, the 800 being for funeral
expenses and the $1,000 for damages.
The case will most likely be tried al
the Ray term OF the Renvllle county
court.
Miss Paulina Spoerhase is clerking fol-
Lienhard Bros
VIM. Koch expects to join the Journ-
! al excursion to Mexico.
William Ruemke has returned to this
| city from Mountain Lake.
The teamsters of the city enjoyed a
dance at Union Hall Sunday evening.
VIM. Scheiderich has been laid up for
several days on account of sore foot.
Chas. L. Roos and Ben Stockman of
| Minneapolis will be here Saturday eve
| ming.
Mrs. Conrad schweppe Of Sigel is
! quite low with pneumonia. DR.. Hirsch
is the attending physician.
John Lind and DR.. Schoch were elect
ed directors Of the Springfield bank at
the stockholders meeting last week.
Leonhard Haeberle and Fred Behnke
hare concluded to join forces this winter
and folm partnership in the ice bust
ness.
A social party was g EN- at the home
of Jos. Flor Sunday evtling, in honor of
his son who was over from Buffalo Lake
on a visit.
Aug. Heymann aas returned to this
city from Echo, having sold his interest
IN the saloo' 'siness to his partner,
The mas ball IN Milford Sat-
urday eve as largely attended.
Among the rs we're many of the
young people New Ulm.
The eight-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Jos. Seifert died on Sunday of
appendicitis. The funeral occurred yes
terday morning from the Catholic church.
Thos. Bake, who had been doing
Photographic work in this city for some
time, was taken to his home near Gibbon
last week in a very bad state of health.
He is afflicted with catarrhal fever of
the lungs and throat.
Col. Bobleter received a communica-
ton from Editor Estes of Madelia last
week informing him that movement is
on foot in that town to organize mill
tia company. Watonwan county must
be expecting county-seat fight.
Editor Hays of the Sleepy Eye Dis
patch attended the Eich hearing on Mon
day afternoon. We had expected him
to come armed with the statutes or some
formidable volume on criminal law, but
instead of that his only evidence of au-
thority was roll of paper and kodak.
The Hanska- Linden creamery does
fully as much business as any of the
creameries in Steele and Freeborn coun-
ties. During the year the creamery re-
ceived 6,039,163 lbs. of milk. and pro-
duced 276,661 lbs. of butter. The cash
recei pts of the association for 1897 a.
mounted to $4s, 366.4s and of this the
patrons received $s9, 7S4.sO and the OPP
orators 81, 149.
The Degree of Honor lodge organized
in this city recently with charter mem
bership of forty members, was duly in.
stituted at Gebser's Hall "Wednesday
evening, Mrs. Mantor of Willmar con-
| Quoting the ceremonies and delivering
pleasing address. After the exercises
tables were spread in the large room be-
low and the members and their friends
sat down to a sumptuous banquet.
Jorgen Thordson, the we'll kne yn
Swan Lake farmer, who moved to this
city year or SO ago, died Monday n OF.