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Newspaper
New Ulm Review
Location
New Ulm, Minnesota, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1912
Page
3
A limewater breath test yields a fine white precipitate in water. Adding table salt to a silver nitrate solution forms a thick white powder that browns in sunlight. Red cabbage juice with washing soda slowly shifts from red to blue then green as more soda is added.
A crude auction notice lists several land parcels for sale south of Cooter Street in New Ulm. It names Albert Steinhauser as the proprietor or seller and specifies multiple lots across blocks 111 155 and 156, with Lot 6 included.
Buffalo investigator reports J Frank Hickey, a chemist, admitted guilt for the October 12 1911 murder of seven year old Joseph Josephs in Lackawanna and the December 12 1902 murder of New York newsboy Michael Kruck. He made the confession to District Attorney Wesley C Dudley and signed a formal statement.
Rock Island officials announce withdrawal of the new insurance rates adopted by the Modern Woodmen of America after a Springfield court enjoined their enforcement. In other news from Rio de Janeiro, the wife of Brazil’s president, Hermes Jonseca, has died in the capital.
Wheat prices in Duluth for Nos 1 hard 80-81% cents and No 2 Northern 78-79 cents with December and May bids. Flax on track at 1.27 to 1.28 dollars with December 1.27. South St Paul stock cattle cows and heifers listed with spread to be announced. Chicago market shows mixed grain values across wheat corn oats with December to July futures, and live stock prices for beef, pork, butter, eggs, and poultry.
Minneapolis grain notes show December wheat futures at 179440 for May with cash close on track. Listed prices include No 1 Northern at 804% to arrive 81 4c, No 2 Northern at 78¢, No 3 Northern at 764 78ce, No 3 yellow 43 440, No 4 corn ad 41e, No 3 white oats 29%gc to arrive 5, and No 3 cats 2628 to arrive 1.27. cS
H W Parker former Bank of Commerce cashier at Winnebago Minn signed a confession at West Point Georgia admitting a 17000 shortage. He fled Minnesota under the alias Charles A Long after marrying Florence Bauer a Cleveland actress in Atlanta. Parker plans to return to Minnesota to face charges while his wife pledges support.
West Point Georgia jail inmate W. Parker, a Winnebago bank cashier missing $17,000, tried to kill himself by swallowing 25 grains of a drug bought as a headache remedy. He was revived after physicians treated him, had just written a guilty confession, and disclosed bigamy with Florence Bauer of Cleveland while maintaining a wife and three children in Winnebago.
Judge George L. Bunn of St Paul is appointed to the vacancy on the Minnesota Supreme Court created by L. Brown becoming chief justice. Governor Eberhart also names F M Catlin to the Ramsey county district bench replacing Hallam. Reappointments include F B Wood as adjutant general for a war term.
Max Droszewski robbed the Anderson and Ogg grocery in Duluth, fled with about 40 dollars, and fired three shots at pursuing officers and a mob. He was cornered in a shed, knocked out by Patrolman Honnold, and arrested. The clerk was forced to surrender all till cash.
In Badger Minnesota two three year old children, Odean Brenden son of Mr and Mrs Gilbert Brenden and Ablea Petterson daughter of Postmaster and Mrs Charles Petterson, drowned after stepping on thin ice near their homes. Their bodies were recovered about an hour later.
Consul Nickolich, a United States and Canada representative, pleaded guilty in Duluth to grand larceny in the first degree stemming from misappropriated trust funds. Held since Sept 26, he claimed wartime mail delays caused the funds to be delayed. Judge Dibell sentenced him to an indeterminate term from one to ten years in the state penitentiary.
Miss Lucile Cameron of Minneapolis freed on bonds of 1000 after being held as a witness in the Jack Johnson Mann law case. She had been jailed in Rockford with her mother at times, and Mrs Cameron-Falconnet took her home after release. Neither woman disclosed future plans.
Cross examined senator Kern as chief defense counsel at the Indianapolis dynamite conspiracy trial. McManigal testified explosions nationwide were discussed by Iron Workers officials. He cited a Superior, Ohio incident in August 1910 where J J McNamara told him a letter of thanks for the dynamiters’ visit had arrived from Fred Mooney, Duluth business agent.
Minneapolis dock foreman Frank Zylo ordered his son Peter to start coal elevator machinery. The boy complied and moments later found his father's body jammed in a coal bucket as the machine operated toward him. He stopped the equipment, but his father was dead when help arrived.
John M. Scottland dies when a wave flips their skiff near Clark Bay sixty miles from Two Harbors. He and partner Weiken were setting fish nets and loading stone weights. a wave overturned the boat, Scottland became entangled in the net, and the stones dragged him under.
Amos Annis and Michael Cary, both 29, tried to cross Rainy river in an old skiff from Gleemans to Clementson. The boat sprang a leak among ice floes and sank midstream. their cries were heard but aid arrived too late. A separate report notes Armour Co provision house at Union stock yards in Chicago burned for about 200000 dollars.
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