PETEB SCHEBER, FR KUETZING. BLOCI A Graphic Description ofltSurfrounded aud NEW ULM. MINN. Farmers' Home by a Desolate Country DEALER IN A ShockA Morning of Deso- CHAS.-L. ROOS, Managing Editor fi,% NEW GOODS! NEW GOODS! lationDeath and DisasterDumb JACOB HOESCHELER, Prop'r. With Terror.i^g^W^^ Wednesday, July 20,1887. Dealer in FOL*: W E OFFER FOR THE NEXT FE W WEEKS THE A NewYork Herald special fromElPaso Tbe Soldiers' Home will be located Wines, Liquors V*S* says: "I have just returned from the at Minnehaha if that offer of 50 acres of scene of the only active volcano in North Cigars.. *& ad LOWING BARGAINS and ground is made good by September 10. America. The volcano lies twelve miles, as the crow flies from Bavispe in We cannot say that we are pleased by A fine lunch will be served every day. LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS, JLACES. T?/ Ladies lace ties 15, 20 and 25 tbe state of Sonora, in the extreme tbe election of that site, but the commissioners each, all worth double the amount northwest corner of Mexico. A rough 300 yds. Oriental Laces 10 cts. worth I Cor. Minn. & Center streets. I undoubtedly acted according to SASH, BLINDS, 20cts. estimate will place the distance from El Fans we have from 2 cts each up New Ulm, jr Minn. their best judgment and should be supported Paso at 400 miles, calculating on a bee $3.50, the cheapest and the very fine 300 yds. two toned laces 10 and 15 line. The rugged.and desolate natureof in their decision rather than and all kinds of goods. cts., worth 20 to 25 cts. thecountry,theinfrequenoy of itssprings abused by2 parties from competing and the almost deadly heat that exists Building Material. Ladies gauze vests, just received 500 yds. fancy laces 5, 8 and 10 cts. towns. there nine months out of twelve have doz. all sizes we sell 25 cts. each wor.. WOOLEN MILL, worth 10, 15 and 20 cts. effectually kept out the American prospector 40 cts. i' Civil ServiceCommissioner Edgerton, HEW ULM, MOW. although the mountains are full 1000 yds. narrow trimming laces 1 near New Vim. who has spent a good deal of time of of gold, and even the hardy Mexican Lace buntings in pink, navy, lig* ct. per yd. never before offered so low. has largely left it to its primal solitude. late Indiana, says: "There will be John Hauenstein, blue and cream we offer at 12$ cts. p,' Here and there are scattered villages of cts.,1 yard, sold everywhere at 20 to 25 a big contest over Voorhees' seat in the Carding, Spinning, Weaving, Fulling, etc, RIBBONS. which Bavispe is a type. It contains yard. senate. Gov. Gray is understood to be about two thousand five hundred souls, Just received 200 pieces of ribbons 3 BREWER a candidate. Gray could have been if you count a soul to each inhabitant. cts., worth 8 and 10 cts. Also all of the cts.fta1 Pearl buttons 3 cts. worth 5 Wool taken in exchange for blanketings, finest silk goods at remarkably low They are so miserably poor and live in cts. a doz. worth 12 cts., 10 cts. ad elected to the senute to succeed HarrisoD,4had flannels, full-cloth, yarns, etc. prices. a condition of such indescribable squalor worth 15 to 20 cts. Just received Orders should be left at the mill or it not been for the fact that his aud perpetual misery that their lot gross assorted goods. with Mr. H. Kunze, near Turner Hall. retirement from the office of governor MALTSTER. compares unfavorably with the wandering GLOVES. Satisjaction guaranteed in every 'in- ould have let in a i epublican. coyote, their nearest neighbor. We JERSEYS! JERSEYS! Just received 1000 pair of summer stance. went by way of the Carralitos hacienda We have the lowest prices and lai gloves we offer some at 10 cts.. worth B. MARSCFNEB, Prop'r. on the Britton Davis ranch, lying about est assortment of any house in IXm A. meeting of the college presidents Our brewery is fully equipped and 20 cts. also some at 15 and 20 cts., due east of Bavispe, in the* state of able to fill all orders. Ulm. Jerseys trimmed with bea*l nnd prof ssors attending the educational worth 30 and 40 cts. fHEO. MUELLER. HERM. ESSEK. Chihuahua. It was from this point Mr. F. Grebe has charge of the bott-' $2.00 word $3 00, also plain fine godf convention .tt Cuictgo was held June that the real journey commenced. To ling establishment. at $1.50, worth $2.50, all sizes. 12 for the pui pose ut taking steps to secure conceive the fatigue and ardor of the SILK MITTS. New Ulm, Minn. trip one must add a blazing sun that We offer the largest assortment of from railroad lines opecial rates LACE CURTAINS. i MANUFACTURERS OF CtCAft$, seared and shriveled the very granite, any house in Brown Co. Cotton mitts H.FRENZEL, and other accommodations. A general 10 cts. a yard, worth 18 to 20 cts. a parched and alkali laden wind blowing in cream at 10 cts. sold last season at cts., worth 20 to 80 cts. a yard. Ci opinion was expressed that instructors at midday, and filling the throat 25 cts. Silk mitts 6 button lengths 25 i1 not be bought elsewhere for these in colleges as well as students were as with its smarting particles and a reflection cts. a pair worth 45 cts. Better goods ures. Manufacturer of from tbe earth that was like tbe much entitled to special rates as minis 85 cts. worth 50 cts., in all shades. AND DEALERS IN breath of a furnace. The eighth day SODA WATER, ters of the gospel, and a committae was Tobacco and Smokers' Articles, MILLINERY! MiLLINNERY! brought the explorers into the vicinity HOSE. appointed to draw up a circular and jClosing out the balance of stock SELTZER WATER of Bavispe, but a little prior to this we Regular imported goods 25 cts. a pair about cost to make room for our 1 had the hrst intimation of cosmic disturbance submit it to tbe general officers of the and worth 50 cts. 500 doz. just received. stock. in the shape of a fluttering runk hues. 1 Ruemke's Building, New Dim, Minn. tremor of the earth. The shocks, which Champagne Cider. were slight and undulating, increased There are now 163 G. A. R. posts in MILLINERY COMEAND LOOK AT OUR STOCK OF GOODS AND S^S in frequency as we drew near the town. Minnesota, with an aggregate membership Centre Street, New Ulm, Minn. On the 1st of last May just at the gray AND of about 7,700. Six years ago of dawn the villagers were awakened THAT AVE ALWAYS HAVE JUST WHAT WE ADVERTIS^ DRESS MAKING. there were but posts in the State, by a sickening shudder of the earth, followed by a quick tremorthatreduced with 278 members. Applications for a Miss Mary .Hopt, half of tbe abodes of the place to ruins. AND WECAN AND DO ALWAYS SAVEYOU MONEY. post charter must be signed by not less Since that morning of desolation and than ten persons, each of whom must DEALERS IN terror there has been no day unaccompanied i*i Don't forget the Place. opposite the be an honorably discharged soldier or by an earthquake. Sometimes it has been so violent as to loosen masses sailor who served between April 12, 18- Union Hotel, New Ulm, of rock and open vast fissures in the 61 and April 9, 1865, and who has never mountain side, and sometimes it is an Hat on hand a good stock of Millii ery Good* con CHAS, ROOS, been rejected by or dropped from the fist ing in part of Hat*, Bonnets, Velvets, Silks almost imperceptible vibration, but never Ribbons, Feathers, Flowers, be LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS, rolls of any post. No post can be has it entirely ceased, and the superstitious Also Patterns for stamping monograms Stamp, inj of all kinds. Embroidery Work and Fashionable Mexican's have given themselves named after a living person. SASH AND BLIND. dressmaking done to order. up to the apathy of despair. Our ap O Lime, Cement and Coal. pearance, which in other times woulc *N Of 21390 replies received by the Toledo THE CHICAGO have convulsed the village with excite DRUGGIST and STATIONER Blade in response to inquiries ment, scarcely attracted attention. A MOSTH- made regarding presidential preferences, few half naked men and haggard wo Lowest prices always. 11010 were for Blaine, 6684 for men straggled out of their tenements OFFERS THIS WEEK A LARGE STOCK OF of brush to meet us, but many merely Sherman, 2237 for Robt. Lincoln. For WESTERN Opposite Railroad Depot, FISHING TACKLE, BALLS, MAE faglancenofrom their open doorways and vice-president Robt Lincoln was NEW ULM, MINN. made signs. The town, or rather vored by nearly all of them. what was the town, looks like the brok BLES. CROQUET SETS. HAMMOCKS en toy village of a child. There is not Louis Buenger, RAILWAY. a house left standing. Shattered heaps AND CANES. It will still remain an open question Penetrates the Centres of of adobes and yawning holes mark the which is the more admirable figure site,and mingled in the ruin are the few Population in Cor. Minn, and 3d North Sts., the painted savage with his war club or ILLINOIS, IOWA, utensils of their domestic life, for which NEW ULM, MINN. a superstitious terror forbade them to the cultivated gentleman in a frock WISCONSIN, retu n. Many have gone toward the coat, for whom civilization means un south, but the bulk of the people are far limited opportunity to plunder others ffiCHIBiN, too poor to uudertake a journey, which without resources, means death, and so and Dealer in all Kinds of according to the law.PIONEER PRESS WALL PAINT, WALL FINISH, SANITARY MURALI2 MINNESOTA, they have camped within sight of the wreck of their homes in mute and pathetic An alligator's throat is said to be an ALABASTINE, FLOOR PAINTS, WHITE LEAD DAKOTA, hopelessness. The mortality animated sewer. Everything that lodges which attended this disaster must have OIL, BRUSHES. THE LARGEST STOCK OF in his open mouth goes down. Being been great, but it was almost impossible NEBRASKA AND WYOMING. Wx. FRANK. JOHN BENTZIN. to draw any of them into conversation, too lazy to hunt for sonething to THESE GOODS IN THE CITY. Cottonwoo Mills. and quite so. to obtain any accurate information. eat, the alligator will lie with his great PROMPT ATTENTION GIVEN TO MAIL ORDER Over twentv sunken places Its TRAIN SERVICE is carefully mouth open, apparently dead, like the marked recent graves, and as many arranged to meet requirements of 'possum. Soon a bug crawls into it. more dead are probably lying in FojJt Offide Slodk. J\few Ulm, JVliq local travel, as well as to furnish the ruins- From Bavispe we had then a fly,then several gnats,and a coloyn Custom grinding solicited. Will the most attractive Routes for our first sight of our objective B. BEHNZE & CO., of mosquitoes. The alligator doesn't through travel between important grind wheat for $ (one eigth) or exchange point, the volcano. A penant of smoke, close his mouth yet. He is waiting for TRADE CENTRES. 34 lbs. flour. 5 lbs. shorts and 8 trailed by the wind from a low, square a whole drove of things. He does his Its EQUIPMENT of Day and Parlor topped peak to the southeast defined its lbs. bran for one bushel of wheat. Flour location, while a dull and muttering eating by wholesale. A little later a Cars, Dining and Palace Sleeping and feed sold at low rates and delivered roar, almost incessant, told that the Cars is without rival. lizard will cool himself under the shade EXTENSIVE OPENING OF NEW AND DESIRABLE in New Ulm free of expense. forces of nature were at work. The Its ROAD-BED is perfection, of of the upper jaw. Then a few frogs SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS volcano lies about twenty miles from FRANK & BENTZIN. stone-ballasted Steel. will hop up to catch the mosquitoes. the site of the town, but over such an TTVOLI The North-Western is the favorite Then more mosquitoes and gnats will extraordinary broken tract of country route for the Commercial Traveler, that we realized at once that we should light on the frogs. Finally a whole READY-MADE require two days' journy to reach it, the Tourist and the Seekers village of insects and reptiles settle AND and pushed straight ahead without after New Homes in the Golden BREWERY, down for an afternoon picnic. Then delay. The phenomena which we had Northwest. all at once there is an earthquake. The observed at Bavispe increased in volume CLOTHING Detailed information cheerfully as we approached the mountain. We big jaw falls, the alligator blinks one furnished by followed the dry bed of a stream, which JOS. SCHMUCKER, PROPRIETOR. eye, gulps down the entire menagerie, C. W, H. HEIDEMAN. Agen t, S at some forgotten period had worn a and opens his great front door again NEW ULM, MINN. causeway through the granite. It was New Ulm, Minn. G00D DHY for more visitors. MARVIN HUGHITT, H. WICKER, broken by fissures of evident recent origin, Pure beer sold in quantities to suit running from north to south, and Vice-Pres't and Gen. Mangr. Traffic Manager. the purchaser. Special attention paid in some cases four or five feet broad, LP. WILSON, Death by Burning Oil. to the bottling of beer. and of unknown depth. Springing from General Passenger Agent one of these about four miles out, we Twelve Persons killed and one hundred Julius Krause* NORTH-WESTERN HOTEL, encountered a geyser rivaling any of BOOTS & SHOES injured. those in the National Park. It is in the Fainter and Paper Hanger. A St. Thomas, Ont, special of July center of a circular basin with side of FR. GOLLNAST, PROP'R. 16 says: A terrible accident occurred sand and mud and about forty feet in Opposite the Bailxoad Depot diameter. At intervals offifteenmin at the crossing of the Grand Trunk and Ceiling Decofktion. $pediklity. utes an immense stream of boiling water Michigan Central railroads in this city NEW ULM, MINN. ETC. leaps out up to a height of, I should Allwork executed neatly and promptly. last evening. An excursion train on judge, sixty feet. The geyser spouts Ordersmay be left at my residence First class accomodations at the Grand Trunk from Fort Stanley ran for four or five minutes and then subsides in Schapekahm's building corner reasonable rates. Good rs as quickly as it came, disappearing into a freight train on the Michigan Minnesota and Fourth North streets. stabling on the with a mutter that reverberates far J. KRAUSE. Central made up of a number of cars WE TAKE THIS EARLY OPPORTUNITY TO INVITE OUj premises. down into the bowels of the troubled C. Baitrusch, laden with oil. The number of killed earth. FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS TO GIVE US A CALL J, is placed at twelve and the injured WS CHEAMUSH STORE. above one-hundred. When the collision AND EXAMINE OUR GOODS. WE SELL AT occured the passengers commenced -DEALER INDr E. WAGNER, The Standard (Henry George's pa Ms, THE LOWEST PRICES. merging from the car windows, every per) published a Song for the Fourth, visible means of egress being taken advantage Dealer in sung to the air of Yankee Doodle, with of. A majority of the passengers Dry Goods, Groceries, Notions, Fur. A. Behnke, Manager. BESllKE & CC the following chorus: "Yankee Doodle nishing Goods, Green, Dried and in the car next to the engine had Mens and Boys' ClothiDg, wants his land, he's bound to have Canned Fruits. been got out when the engine plunged PIONEER F. H. BEHNKE, it back, sir the folks that have the rent into the train. Engineer Donnelly was DrugtrStor All Goods Sold at Bottom Prices. in hand have got to pay their tax, sir." Ladies' Jackets and Dolmans found in the cab with his hand on the =DEALER IN Here you have Georgeism in a nutshell. S'" lever, as if endeavoring to make the The Stock is all new and of the best LADIES' AND GENTS' *R quality. air-brakes work. To add additional DR. C. WESCHCKE, PROP' Furnishing Goods, 4 horror to an already sufficiently appalling a^M SUtS Q^-Farmers Produce taken Exchange for The Official Gazette of the German Minnesota Street,*^ affair, the section of the freight goods at tbe most liberal price* reichstag publishes an edict which requires NEW ULM, MI train into which the engine of the passenger (M. GAMBLE'S Bcruima. ALSO A full and fresh utock SPBINGFIfcLD, that after the close of the MINN. train ploughed, consisting of GROCERIES, drugs ana medicine* ,choi present year the use of the French language two cars containing tanks filled with odk. AUG. QUENSE perfumeryffine soapsfcom\ G{icoderie^lffuit^di in judicial pleadings shall be erude oil and a car loaded with refined and toilet articles, booh CROCKERY & GLASSWARE suppressed. The edict also provides oil, took fire, and almost before the stationery, colors, varnis BOOTS AND SHOES, etfy, Ifan\Qii, etd, that the use of French in judicial documents passengers heard the crash of the collision, HARNESS MAKER es glass^putty and painte shall be suppressed at the close And the very latest patterns in it was followed by a tremendous supplies. *r and Dealer in GOOD TABLE BUTTEk. of the year 1888. This edict applies to Dress Goods & Trimmings. '^plosion, which could be heard for Whips, Collars, and all other PIANOS, ORGANS AP* Melz, and other tribunals of commerce. miles. A pyramid of red fire and black My purchases have been made di articles usually kept New Brick,Cor. Minn, it Centre Strs., MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, rectand for cash, .and I am thereby clouds towered np in the air, and in a in a first-class harness NEW UM, MINN, enabled to wake the lowest prices. A Husband's Greatest Blasting PURE WINES AND moment sheets of fire reached ont and shop. Gall and examine my stock and com* is a strong, healthy, vigorous wife with QUORS FOR MEDICAL CI enveloped cars, dwellings and warekouief pare prices before purchasing etawhere. New harnesses made to order and re a clear, handsome complexion. These Goods sold at Rockbotto prices for Physicians oretcriptioni carefcj*~ in the vicinity, causing a large 4}\m^ 1 can all be aquired by using Dr. Barter's pairing promptly attended to. cash. Goods delivered in any part of compounded at til nourt of the amount of lost to property. Iron Tonior^ fes& CBALTRUSCH*JOEWMLM, MINN ard right j* M1I13311