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The Local News of the Week. Miss Grace Newhart ia quite sick. Robert Muhs is here from Spokane Palls on a visit. Miss Lottie Schneider has gone to Mankato to remain. Tom McCarthy now has charge ot the railroad yards at this place. Henry Klossner is over from Winthrop? the guest of his brother Jacob. P. R. McHale, the operator, is suffer ing from an attack of the grippe. Henry Winkelmann went to Redwood Palls ©n business Monday afternoon. Geo, Graff has been elected one of the vice-presidents of the Northwestern Re tail Mercantile Association. Louis Bushard has returned from Cal ifornia. He brought with him flattering reports of the section he visited. The G. A. R. post and Sons of Vetei ans will enjoy a Camp Fire at Turner Hall on the evening of the 17th. Judge Webber is confined to his home •with sickness this week, and is altogeth er unable to attend to his official duties. Mr. John Hauenstein left for Florida Friday evening. His daughter, Mrs. Fred Behnke, joined him at Chicago yes terday. The diphtheria patients throughout the city have nearly all recovered and there is a good prospect of eradicating the disease entirely. The Woodmen of Redwood Falls re alized $30 out of their benefit entertain ment and have already sent that amount to Mr. Gley at Young America. Fred Behnke and Max Reinhart have formed a partnership for the purpose of carrying on an ice business. They have already stored several thousand loads. The young ladies, who represented the Japanese Fan Brigade at the Turner Hall masquerade, attended a masked ball in costume at Winthrop Saturday evening A Minneapolis electrician will be here this week for the pwrpose of discussing with the stockholders of the Electric Light Co. regarding the putting in of an arc system. A. J. Glimmer and niece, Miss Hauen stein, started for the South Monday after noon. Most of their time will be spent at Chatanooga, where Mr. Grimmer has relatives and friends. Rev. Broadbridge of Fairfax will preach at Schell's haJl next Sunday at 10:30 in the morning and at 7 :30 in the evening. A cordial invitation is exten ded to the public to attend. The Ladies Society of the Turnverein held their annual meeting Saturday even ing and elected the following officers: President, Miss Marie Bogen secretary, Mrs. Albert Seiter treasurer, Mrs. Fr. Burg Sr. The residence and business property of Rudolph Kiesow in Lamberton was destroyed by lite Thursday night, leaving the owners no insurance. Mxs. Kiesow was well-known in New Ulm, being the daughter of the late Mr. Immel. Chris. Rinkel of St. Peter was here Monday for the purpose of securing cos tumes from the Turnverein for the masked ball to be given by the Sons of Hermann of that city on the 25th. He also made arrangements with Eckstein's •orchestra for furnishing the music. The Lambert and Williams Theatre C«». opened a week's engagement at Uni on Hall on Monday evening in Miralda, presenting Mabel Heath to a large audi ence last night. The company consists •of nine people and give a good enter tainment. To-night they will present the Irish Hero and to-morrow evening Krautzmeier's Wedding. The prices are only ten and twenty cents. There will oe another club dance at Schell's hall to-morrow evening. Jos. Schmucker will give a masquer ade at his Tivoli on the evening of the 3rd. The fiae music box raffled off by W. Block was won by Mr. Bobsin Courtland. John Kretsch will assume control the hardware and machine business of Hubbard & Larson. E. C. Tupper, now traveling for the Moffett West Drug Co. of St. Louis, spent Sunday here with his wife. Louie Bauemler returned to Butte, Montana, yesterday. He is engaged there in the hardware business. The young friends of Miss Hilda Som mer called on her Sunday evening and treated her to a pleasant surprise. The fire department was called out Sunday afternoon by the burning out of a chimney in Grussendorf & Durbahn's store. Cobden is to have a creamery. Final arrangements were made on Thursday for the commencement of building oper ations at once. Fr. Wilking and Mrs. Minnie Fricke were recently united in marriage at Courtland. The latter is a former resi dent of New LTlm. Hon. John Lind has been invited to address the Congregational club of the Twin Cities at their monthly dinner and meeting on the 25th of February. C. W. II. Beidemen will read a paper on Hypnotism and Crime before the next meeting of the Literary Society at Turner Hall on the afternoon of the 10th. Herman Heintz was brought before Justice Blanchard Monday forenoon on a charge of using abusive language to Conrad Gulden. He was fined $3 and costs. The Redwood Gazette says that John Goodnow, the Minneapolis political boss, will remove to that city to locate. He has purchased extensive interests in the coal mines there. Wm. F. Kunze, formerly of this city, now an ading the State University, has just been declared the winner in another prize essay contest. This is the second time he has scored such a victory. The members of the Mil ford Farmer's Club have elected the following officers President, Henry Meyer vice-president, Fr. Wandersee secretary, Otto Wiede mann treasurer, Dan Mecklenberg. H. Manderfeld has travelled over 300 miles on bis wheel since winter opened in earnest. All this distance has been covered within the city limits, mostly between his residence and place of busi ness. The Schell Brewing Co. have arranged with Paul Bohn of Morgan to erect a storage and ice house in that village for the storage of beer in kegs and bottles. The building will be erected as soon as warm weather sets in. Wm. Sherin, who wrote the religious articles for the Review some months ago, was recently ordained as a priest by Car dinal Gibbons at Baltimore. His cousin, Mrs. Gustav Fischer, went down from Philadelphia to witness the ceremonies. Jos. Ilenle will remove from his pres ent stand in the Tappe building early uext month and locate in the rintn oc cupied by C. Rolloft Mr. Rolloff, we understand, will give up the tinware business, and confine himself exclusively to repairing and job-work. The birthday of Thomas Paine, that great soldier of human liberty, political as well as religious, was commemorated at Turner Hall last evening with appro priate exercises. Wm. Pfaender deliv ered an address in German, while Hugo Fischer discussed his religious teachings and Albert Steinhauser his political writ ings in English. I VOLUME XVII. NO 5. E ULM, BROWN COUNTY. MINN., WEDNESDAY, John Palmer is raffling off his Colum bia bicycle. Mr. Wm. Nehls and Miss Lizzie Nun were married on Saturday. :3S&.#SffiiW& The Current News Club met on Satur day evening with Miss Olara Doehne. The annual meeting of the St. Joseph's Society will be held next Saturday af ternoon. The young people enjoyed a pleasant club dance at Schell's hall Thursday evening. The saw-mill on Current's farm in Home township is being run daily and at full force. Theo. Crone held the ticket which drew the organ raffled off by Fred Boock during the week. H. C. Canfield of Winthrop is sinking wells in this neighborhood. He is a son in-law of F. W. Kiesling. The Lambert & Williams Co now play ing at Union Hall will appear here again under canvas next summer. Corbett, the champion pugilist of the world, is in St. Paul this week, where he appears in the role of an actor. Dr. A. Behnke was in Iowa the great er portion of the week for the purpose of purchasing some trotting stock, August Schilling and Herman Meyer, two of Winthrop's business men, trans acted business here Friday and Saturday. Miss Bianchi of West Newton was married recently to Dr. Opplinger of Gibbon, the marriage occurring in St. Paul. Fr. Heimerdinger, the Golden Gate miller, was in the city the greater por tion of the week, transacting business and calling on old friends. Congressman Eddy of the Seventh dis trict was formerly a farm hand in Red wood county and also taught school for a.spell in Renville. Louis Kornmann, who used to run a "kloding store" here, was in the city the early part of the week. He now repre sents a Chicago wholesale clothing firm. Miss Josie Pfaender left for Milwaukee Saturday morning to visit with friends. On her return she will stop off in St. Paul and spend a few weeks with her sisters. James Thomas submitted to a painfu^ and delicate surgical operation, at the hands of Dr. Strickler last week, and, although he is at present very weak, he is certainly improving. By order of the Postmaster General mail service on the route between Ft. Ridgley and Fairfax has been discontin ued. Ft. Ridgely will hereafter be sup plied via the New Ulm and Franklin route. Johnson & Mueller of St. Peter have already found it necessary to double the capacity of their manufacturing plant,, and within the past week have added six new machines. They now employ twen ty operatives. It is said that Chas. Schneider and Chas. Zschunke will join the Fox Speci alty Co. which appeared at Union Hall Saturday evening, Schneider as trapeeze performer and Zschunke to give exhibi tions in heavy-weight lifting. Rev. Rosen returned home from his European and eastern trip the forepart of the week, and has already made some interesting disclosures regarding his part in the Pope's action towards secret so cieties. His statement appears in anoth er column. Hon. Wm. Henry Eustis, the best Mayor Minneapolis has ever had, has kindly consented tc supply the Review with an article on the suppression of vice and crime in a large city. This will to a great extent represent Mr. Eustis' per sonal experiences, and for that reason will be decidedly interesting. The Electric Light Co. are seriously considering the necessity of changing from the incandescent to the arc light system. The diiectors find that they cannot long continue to run with the present power and will sooa be com pelled to make important changes. The arc system of course would be prefera ble to all citizens, and in fact the only proper one for lighting streets. BARGAIN SALE IN EMBROIDERIES at A. OTTOMEYEE During this and next week. I will dispose of a embroidery left over from last year at from twenty-five to thirty per cent less than the usual price. I do this to make room for a fine line of new goods, expected soom. Please watch this space next week, andin the meantime let the ladies of New Ulm take advantage ofthis. sale. Mrs. Dr. Weiser is the guest of her sis ter in Windom. Mis3 Meade, the teacher, is entertain ing a sister from Mankato. Adolph Flick won a watch raffled off by Willie Guth on Saturday. An infant ehild of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Landwehr died last Wednesday. There will be a masked ball a*: the Golden Gate Hall on Friday evening. Mrs. Dr. Lipp is still very low and fears are entertained that she may not recover. John Gahut and Miss Lena Lockway weie married at the Catholic church yes terday morning. Mrs. Lena Jahnke of Winthrop was summoned to this city last week by the serious illness of her sister. Miss Bertha Beinhorn will leave for Duluth next week to visit for a couple of months with her sister, Mrs. Eckstein. Rev. Baurngarten has been assisting the Methodist minister at Springfield in conducting revival meetings the past week. Miss Hart-well, a missionary, filled the pulpit of the Congregational church Sun day morning and evening. Her discour ses related to mission work in foreign lands. The members of the Caecilian Society will give a concert and theatre at their hall on the 17th of February. On this occasion the Aloysius Band, a gamzation. will make its first ance. new or appear- Fred Wendland has gone to Minnea. polis to post himself .on setting up' and repairing farm machinery. The machine companies oiler free instruction to repre sentatives oftheir agents in order to save the expense of sending out experts everv fall. Albert Jehnson of Springfield has again secured a good position as travel ing salesman for a Milwaukee boot and shoe house. Mr. Johnson at one time resided in New Jim, and his friends will congratulate him on his return of good luck. A son of old Good Thunder, the Indian chief, was in the city during the week for the purpose of consulting Jos. Galles re garding the purchase of instruments for a band at the Lower Agency. He was accompanied by a son of the old Indian scout, Crook. The Chicago Mandolin, Banjo and Guitar Club gave a concert at Turner Hall Thursday evening. The audience was small, the building unusually cold, and this perhaps accounts for the inferior quality of the entertainment. Under other circumstances the quartette would have undoubtedly given better satisfac tion. Gustav Fischer in a letter to the writ er from Philadelphia says that he often runs across signs above the business pla ces which remind him of New Ulm. For instance, he mentions two as follows: "Drink Burg and Pfaender's Celebrated Lager Beer" and "Buy Your Jewelry of the Spoerhase Brothers," both of which sound very familiar. ,l*\-^~-i^'*\-L\ The Washburn forces late last Tuesday night offered to transfer their strength to John Lind, but that gentleman promptly refused, stating that he had never had any idea of becoming a candidate and was only on the field in the interests of his friend, Mr. Washburn. Had Mr. Lind consented, the fight would undoubtedly have been prolonged and the issue ren dered uncertain. The St. Peter Herald records this pecu liar discovery. Geo. W. Johnson lives in rooms over Haesecke's Clothing Store and by chance discovered that a swarm of bees had gotten between the wall and the plaster and had been busily oc cupied for some years. Mr. Johnson and C. W. Carpenter made an investiga tion and estimated the amount of honey found to be between 1,500 and 2,000 pounds. George says he has honey to give away. A little son of John Geiger is very sick. Mrs. Anton Schwerzler and "children are all sick with the measles. D. E. Allyn, editor of the News, has rented the Bogen building on Broadway. A. Wicherski of Chicago arrived here on Monday to attend the funeral of his brother. Dr. Schoch has changed his mind about going to California. He may go to Kansas however. Franfc Gugisberg of Lafayette will start a saloon in the Baarsch building as soon as Selffert moves out. The January course in the State Dairy School having ended, Chas. Kickusch will return to New Ulm to-morrow. Mrs. E. C. Behnke celebrated the anni versary of her birth in the company of a few friends Friday afternoon and even ing. Ruemke & Huevelmann have decided to add a complete clothing department te their store. The change will be made at once. Mr. Lind will deliver an address be fore the Literary Society at Turner Hall late in February, most likely on the labor problem. There will be an important meeting of the Fire Department at Turner Hall next Monday evening. The list of mem bers is to be overhauled, we understand. A Washington special reports that Dr. A. W. Daniels of St. Peter has been ap pointed as a member of the pension ex amining board for the Sleepy Eye dis trict. Water was struck at a depth of 228 feet on the farm of W. N. C. Bushard in Lafayette. It will be forced to different parts of the farm by means of a steam pump. While Mrs. Ernst Strelow was cork ing a large stone jar filled with boiling hot water last Wednesday, the stopper was blown off and the escaping steam severely scalded her about the face, neck and arms. Dr. Weiser was at once called for treatment. A series of meetings will be held at the M. E. church of this city commenc ing on the 3rd of February. Services will be held every afternoon at 2 o'clock and every evening at 7:00. Rev. F. Meierbachtel of Springfield will assist Rev. Baurngarten and all are cordially invited to attend. Col. Pfaender intends to make a trip to Germany next spring. To assist in the celebration of the founding of the Ulm Turnverein, which occurred over fifty years ago, is one of the chief objects of the Colonel's visit, he having been one of +he original charter members at the age of eighteen. The jury system was the subject of de bate at the Literary meeting at Turner Hall Sunday afternoon and the great majority were opposed to the system as it is found in practice to-day and in fav or of modifications requiring anv educa tional -qualification or competency to pass upon legal questions. At the next meeting, some phase of the labor prob lem will be discussed. The ice-men in the employ of Behnke and Reinhart, about twenty-five in num ber, having finished their harvest on Sat urday, all pile-i into bob-sleighs drawn by two span of horses and enjoyed a live ly ride up and down the principal streets of the city. Children, or young men and ladies, couldn't have looked happier, and the sight was a novel one that at tracted attention from every window. Mayor Koch is overwhelmed these days with petitions from the poor of the city for relief. Often he is imposed up on, and has therefore made it a practice to personally investigate every case brought to hia notice, granting relief where it is actually needed ana refusing it in cases where there is plainly an ef fort being made to work the city. It is to be regretted that there should be any such cases, but the mayor meets with plenty of them. 4* .^ c^ ,*" vyl -^i^^^^'ii -i'i^S^^S^^^ The Oregon Medicine Co. is now hold ing forth at Courtland. Miss Minna Wellner has gone to St. Peter to work for Johnson & Mueller. John Timm, cashier of a bank in Sha kopee, spent Sunday with his friend Geo. Graff. John C. Geiger has quit the road for the winter. He still retains his position, however. Mrs. J. H. Hanson of Norseland is in the city receiving medical treatment from Dr. Hirsch. Jacob Bender has been under the weather for several days and unible to leave the house. The Catholic parochial school has been reopened, all the cases of diphthe ria having completely recovered. Mrs. Matthew Gratz received $2,000 this week in payment of the policy held by her husband as a Modern Woodman. Photographer Manderfeld was noticed on our streets Sunday without a bicycle. This is worthy of record as one of the things that happens rarely. John Karpen of Swan Lake, according to the St. Peter Herald, has become a public benefactor. He has killed sixty five pole-cats during the past two months and has the skins to prove the state ment. While in the city this week, Fr. Heim erdinger made arrangements for com pletely remodeling his mill at Golden Gate. With a new building and entirely new machinery, he expects to have one of the best grist mills in the country. The birth and deatli record lor Nicol let county for the past year shows that in Courtland township there were 21 births and 7 deaths, in Lafayette 18 births and 11 deaths, in West Newton 22 births and 3 deaths and in Ridgely 12 births and no deatns. The piano recital given by Miss Alpha Hirsch at the Congregational Church Friday evening was accorded a liberal attendance and in return gave those pre sent an enjoyable treat. The various selections showed remarkable proficiency on the part of the pupils and reflected much credit upon the instructor. During the progress of the case against Jos. A. Eckstein in the United Str.tos Courts last summer, which was purely a case of spite-work, the Review urged the abolishment of the present method of paying district attorneys—that of fee ing them and thus placing a premium upon uncalled-for prosecution. A bill is now before congress to remedy ihis evil and a strong fight is being made for its passage by the judiciary committee. In conversation with A. II. Lienhard on Monday, we learned that he has a photograph in his possession of Jos. Smith, the founder of Mormonism back in Illinois, presented to him by members of the Smith family. It will be remem bered that Smith had but one wife, not being a believer in polygamy, and Lien hard says that, when a little chap, he of ten sat on her lap and was many a time the recipient of a slice of bread and but ter at her hands. His parents and the Smith family were neighbors and inti mate friends. Dr. Weiser received some unusually sad news from his old home in Pennsyl vania on Monday. The Owl Club, of which he had been a member, had ar ranged for their annual sleigh-rio^e from Selins Grove to Middleburgh, and when the members started out with their la dies, they formed a jolly party and little dreamt of the calamity that was soon to befall them. Near Middleborgh they were compelled to cross a railroad track near a curve, and their singing drowned the noise of an approaching train, which struck the sleigh and killed two of the party outright. Several others were bad ly maimed and only three escaped inju ry. Miss Minnie Schoch, who is well known here, was to have been one of the party, but was fortunately detained at home. ^VaM§ fe»'#^j!«i. it-j, i.rf -j For Select Havana Cigars Smoke $