I & CflEOMABBT, I nTOTTJ owner recovered his senses and almost ply, and for a few moments we sat in CHERER, s4* LOVE'S SEASONS. forgot his grief as he read t'he silence. Th% wall-flowers to the frolic wind following lines: Again I looked at my watch. Thank Do dance their golden aigulets, GHADBOUHJT, ,. O. H. BOM, Heaven! In five minutes we should "The Burtown Murder—Escape of And elf-maids steal the hawthorne beads ^jr. President: Cashier. be at Blackley, and the awful the Prisoner." After detailing the incidents wear for fairy amulets. ride would be at an end. Scarcely Cor. Minn, and Centre Strs. of the hearing before the magistrate The spring is here,the spring is here— PBOPRLETOR OF THE LUIIEf and the remand of the prisoner, had the thought formulated The love-time of the year, my dear! New Ulm Foundry itself, when the girl opposite me pending the inquest, the paragraph All heavy hang the apple boughs, NEW ULM, MINN. Sprang up trembling like a leaf, and went on as follows: Weighed down by balls of yellow gold "On leaving the court, Watson was shrieked ere I could stop her: The poppy cups, so fiery hright, Collectionsan* all business pertamtng to bankta* &. MACHINE SHOP, conducted between four officers to the "Oh, the hand has touched my foot Meseems would burn the hearts they promptly attended to. van. Just as he was stepping in, and again!" hold, Individual Responsibly, Corner Centre & Front Streets. when the policemen were endeavoring The summer's here, the summer's here— ', The moment the words had left her SEW ULM, MINF. The kiss-time of the year, my dear! to keep back the crowd that pressed lips I beard a sudden movement under $500,000. The Foundry nasbeen thoroughly refitted and round the prison, suddenly snapped the seat,and quicker than thought, The birds are winging for the South, tin now prepared to do all kinds of work on shor* LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS^ his handcuffs in some inexplicable manner, a figure appeared upon the floor. In Mtlee. Repairing of all kinds of machinery aae* The elf-maids haste them to their bowers, Eagle Mill Co. and, knocking down the constables agricultural Implements a specialty. Only e* a moment I flung myself upon the SASH, BLINDS, perienced workmen are employed, and work en* who threw themselves upon him, ruffian and clutched his throat with And dandelion balls do float irneted to my care will be exemptedwith ncatneai Like silver ghosts of golden flowers. broke through the bystanders and the energy of despair, knowing that tnddiipalCh. ALL WORK WARRANTED. —arid all kinds of— The a here, the a here— fled down the street. The whole affair should he once gain his feet it was all CHAS. LEONHARD Manufacturers of The wife-time of the year, my dear! took place as it seemed in a second. over with me, the lighter and weaker Building Material. ROLLER FLOUR One minute, and Watson, rigorously man. Can I ever forget the horror of Now are the heavens more gray iig. $61\ell, guarded, was quietly walking that five minutes' ride! The whole an are the eyes of her I love BY THE into the van in the midst of officers NEW ULM, compartment seemed to be falling upon More dainty white than her sweet breast The snow lies the earth above. the next, and he was free, tearing me. Teeth, naiis, feet, all seemed Gradual Reduction Mian The winter's here, the winter's here— down the street with the police and. to be attacking me at once, but Citizens'Bank, BBEWERJfflALTSTER & BOTTLER Bu love-time lasts the year my dear! the populace at his heels. He was seen through it all I kept my grip upon the System, to dodge down a back alley down at AMKLIE RIVES. murderer's throat, and though I Shut lane, and followed by the crowd streamed with blood and almost lost KlJWt/lM, NEW ULM, MINN. of several hundreds. At the end of consciousness, still held on, while the TM» brewery in one of ihelargost.establlshmenu Shut lane he disappeared round a corner, girls screams rang dimly through my of the kind in ihc Minnesota Valley and is fitted and, strange to say, has not been ears. Suddenly the train stopped the up with allthe modern improvements. Keg and I It happened one afternoon last seen again. There can be no doubt struggle ceased, and I fainted across bottle beer fnmished to any parr of the city on •hor5 notice. My bottlebeer is especially adapted he will be recaptured, but his present NEW ULM, MINN. my captive. year, during the month of December, for family use. escape and disappearance are most Country brewers and others that buy malt Will that I received a telegram calling for When I recovered consciousness at mysterious. We understand that the find Vt to their interest to place theh orders with length I found myself lying upon a table my presence in London the next me. a.11 orders by mail will receive my prompt at'tstioa. fellow possesses singular strength and M.Mzdlen, PresH. S. 7ajen,Vice-Tres'i in the Blackley station waitingroom, morning on an important business agility, but none the less it will be a AUG. SCHRLf, with a sympathetic crowd J. G. Rudolph, Cashier. standing disgrace to our police authorities matter. To such a summons there around me, and best of all, I saw a John Hauenstein. that a prisioner should thus, Directors: was but one answer possible, BO with Obtained, and all PATENT BUM NESS face bending tenderly over me, the in broad day light and in the midst of tended to for 110VEHA TE FEES. Our office is BREWER face o£ the girl of my dream and my just a regretful thought for a card a crowded thoroughfare, effect his escape opposite the U. 3. Patent Office, and we can obtain Werner Bcesch, Chas. Wagner, Dr. C. discomfiture. After making-two or Patents in les3 time (han those remote from party 1 should have to forego I wired from the very hands of justice. WASHINGTON. Send MODEL, DRAWING ot three efforts I managed to ask: "where A reward of £100 has been offered for Weschcke, 0. M. Olsen, E. G. Koch. back this reply: PHOTO of invention. We advise as to patentability is Watson?" free of charge and we make NO CHAJiQJS his reapprehension. Watson is about and UNLESS PATENT IS SECURED.- Mr. Devon, Anderson's Hotel, London "Very nigh dead," replied a ruddyfaced 5 feet 9 inches in height, strongly built, MALTSTER For circular, advice, terms and references to Shall leave Burtown by the 12 tonight, farmer, who stood beside me. and when he escaped was dressed in a DRAFTS TO ALL PARTS actual clients in vour own State. County, City ot and will'call on you to at "You three-quarters strangled the life Towu'wrlte l0i^^g®-gg9\wsraa gray-fustain suit, a red scarf and soft 1 5 KNIGHTLY. out ol his ugly body, he was b^ck in OF EUROPE, AND PASSAGE hat. He may further be distinguished Having dispatched my message I the face when they lifted you off him." by a scar across hi3 chin, and by having Opposite Patent Office, Washington, D. U. Our brewery is fully equipped and able to fil TICKETS SOLD. finished off the day's work with all a "Do you know that he is an escaped an arrow tattooed on the back of all orders. Bingham Bros., 3peed, and then returned to my lodgings wife-murderer?" I inquired feebly. his left hand." Mr. P. Grebe has charge of the bottling estab "Yes, we know7," responded my honfriend. to make preparations for my lishment. Close Attention iven to Coltasting. This was about the extent of theest "The Burtown police flfew Ulm, Minn. journey. These, as the masculine information contained in the paragraph, telegraphed after the train to reader need not be told, consisted DEALERS IN and my readers can agree with have it searched, because principally of craming a soft cap and R. Pfefferle, me that the news was sufficiently exciting a man answering his description had a spirit-flask, together with a few to occupy my thoughts to the been seen in the station before it left. complete exclusion of the unpleasing EW BUSINESS CENTERS —The hn»Mfi)£ corailroads The police have got him safe, my lad, other necessaries, into a carpet-bag, in anew and fertile country ere. experience I had just passed through. this time and no mistake. Why, I after which followed the discussion of ates many new towns, affording exceHeDt* Dealer in As I lay back in my seat to muse saw him handcuffed and his arms business opportunities. Particulars re» LATH, SHINGLES, DOORS, a hearty meal and the delivery of an garding such opportunities in Montana, Minnesota wbat I had read, my thoughts began pinioned behind him, and he a-lying and Dakota will he sent upon application! exhortation to my landlady to feed after a while to wander, and my head half dead the while after the throttling to C. H. WARREN, Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Paul. SASH AND BLIND. my fox-terrier, Grip, at his usual to nod, according to their wont at as you gave him." North Dakota never had belter crops than those jn*t midnight, and before long I fell asleep. hours. Lime, Cement and Coal. CANNED, DRIED & GREEN Do my readers want to hear the harvested. Many opportunities How long I slept I cannot tell—probably to secure fine Gov- The remainder of the evening was rest of my story, now that the catastrophe FRUITS, ernment lands recently surveyed, near excellent for a few minutes only—but in •spent in skimming over the morning is told! If so, I will inform coal fields and adjacent to railroad. Maps and those few minutes I under went a most paprrs, wherein I found little to interest them that Watson, on breaking loose full particulars, free, upon application to C,HWARREN, Lowest prices always. discomforting dream. I dreamed Flo-ur and Feed.! Gen. Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. me. In disgust I Hung it on the from the police, after turning the corner that Chippy Watson stood over me, WORK FOR ANOTHER, or oil sinalJ saij of Shut lane—where it will be remembered floor. It alighted at a graceful angle, ary? Why continue \i ork'mg oil a worof mallet in hand, and that my traveling on whose apex appeared the heading, he disappeared—contrived, Opposite Railroad Depot, STONE,WOODEN AND W I O W out farm? Why try to secure a living front companion was holding his hand to such high-priced or heavily-morigatfeei by an almost incredible effort, to conspicuous as leaded type could NEW ULM, MINX W A E farms? Why work on rented land? Why not start avert the threatened blow. She struggled scale a high wall and so gain the make it: "Shocking Wife Murder in for yourself? Why not secure at once some o! th,^ in vain, and the mallet fell—vet NEW ULM, MINST. low-priced but very fertile and well located landg shelter of a railway embankment. \*«.Burtown—Arrest of the Murderer." with a strangely light touch—ux^on adjacent to railroads now to be obtained by thoat Along this he crept until he With a mental apology to the publishers going to Northern Dakota acd Minnesota, wher* my arm. With a start, I awoke, and reached the mid-town tunnel, where you can make a larger net profit per acre than ox of the Chronicie for the injustice then saw the girl of my dream bending the high-prized or worn-out land yon now occnpy? he had lurked all day until late in the I had done them as caterers to the Why not go and look the situation over, anil over me with a scrap of paper in evening he crept into the station and public craving for horrors, I picked see for yourself, or at least obtain further information, her hand. contrived to secrete himself in a carriage which will be sent free, it you will up the paper and began to digest the THE OHLY TiUB addresBC. H.WARREN, Gen. Pass. Agt, St 1 of the mid-night mail, with the "harrowing details." But her face, how terribly was it Paul, Slim. results before mentioned. The gist of the news was as follows: changed! Instead of the dainty pink Manufacturer of and Dealer in I N I N N E S O A ax flush I had last seen, there was a An abandoned ruffian, Chippy Wateon There is one more incident in close iv a in in CIGARS, by name, had, after the fashion ghastly whiteness in her cheeks, and her connection with that journey to be a is beinp* a id a eyes seemed starting from her head of his'class, beaten in his wife's skull told it is this, that there will be a in to finest to in terror. Holding up one linger, as with a mallet, in consequence of some marriage early this spring. The name TOBACCOS a a a in he a if to command silence, she passed me a a in a to domestic disagreement. Having committed of the bridegroom will be Knightly, a a a a re on a the paper, on which was written the the deed, he colly put on his the name of the bride does not Will purify the BLOOD regulate PIPES, the LlVER and KIDNEYS and a on to W A E N following words: coat and hat, and was proceeding to matter. She was never formally introduced BESTOUE the HEALTH and Via- a A St a in to her future lord and mas.ter, OK of YOUTH. DyspepBiatWanB depart, when the neighbors and Cor. Minnesota and Centre "Some one is underneath my seat OF CROPS is an unknown experience of Appetite, IndigeBtion.Lack of police, attracted by the screams and thereforeit is surely unnecessary Strength and Tired Feeling absolutely in Central and Northern Dakota and has just touched me!" streets. cured: Bones, mtwcles and Minnesota. Maps and full to tell the name she will soon of the unfortunate victim, rushfed Was it the dream which filled me and nerves receive new particulars regarding lands, prices, cease to bear, to a passing acquaintance force. Enlivens the mind in and secured him. This NEW ULM, MINN. with the thought that this was an etc., sent free. Address C. H. WARREN, Gen. and supplies Brain Power. like the reader. Pass. Agt., St. Paul, Minn. was all, or nearly all the paragraph Suffering from eomplaint*peculiar idle alarm? I cannot tell, but this Jno. Neuman, to their sexwill find in BB, Are you mortgaged, paying heary contained, except for the usual information much I know that in an instant there HAKIEE'S IKON TONIC a rents or running behind Can yon safe, speedy cure. Given a clear, healthy complexion. that "the prisoner will be I move to new location Excellent flashed across my mind with overwhelming The Evolution of the Table, All attempts at counterfeiting only adds to itspopularity. lands, cheap, which will increase brought up before the magistrate this force the thought of the escaped Do not experiment—get ORIGINAL AOTJ BEST in value several fold in five years. No other suciy A„ Dr. HARTER'S LIVER PILLS Dealer in morning, .charged with causing the the Woman' World for February wife-murderer. Cure Constipation,Liver Comnlaint and SickH opportunities existing. Full particulars, free, Headache. Sample Dose and Dream Book 81 upon application to C. H. WARREN, Gen. Pass*. willful murder of his wife." It was late in the fourteenth century Returning my companion's silence D:R,IT GOODS, mailed on receipt of two cents In postage, 4gt., St. Paul, Minn. It was now past 11—time for me to signal by a gesture cf acquiescence, I when the first evidence of art in the Flit DR. HARTER MEDICINE CO., ST, LOUIS, MO. Hats, Caps, ^Notions, make my .way down to the station wrote upon the paper: shape of silver cups were noticeable on Cheap Cash Storey rather.more than time, in fact, since "It is probably only a dog. Shall I the buffet. The dishes were made ol Groceries,' Provisions! Iphi, the imposing structure was distant look under the seat?" X^ewter or wood, and spoons of bone, Crockery and Glassware, from my lodgings by fully two miles. Her answer was short and to the wood, or silver. Knives were rare, G$0. jSd0B#, Green, Dried and Canned Fortunately my bag was light, and I point: and on that account guests invited to shared in its pleasing characteristics Fruits* etc, etc. feast carried their own knives. Forks MANUFACTURER OF & DEALER I N "No, do not look. It was a hand." oi beint, mnburdened by superfluous Boats and. Shoes! Here, then, was a sufficient dilemma, came in general use still later on, and weight. .None the less, on reaching my DEALER IN but by comparison with what I will always lake farm produce in exchange for long years after their introduction destination there was only one minute for goods, and pay the highest market price for aM DRY GOODS, had passed before between my fellow•passenger •they were considered ridiculous affectation left wherein to take my ticket and kinds ot paper rags. and myself, it was a dilemma and foppery, and not nearly so NOTIONS, Minn. & 3d N. strs., :,New Ulm, Minn. J- secure aseat. The latter operation, that I felt almost disposed to welcome. convenient as one's own fingers. The HATSi CAPSL thanks feo the slowness of the booking In connection with my store Ihm a flrst-clasi The male sex in my person lord and his lady dipped their fingers A large assortment of men's and saloon furnished with a splendid billiard table antj GROCERIES, CROCKERY clerk in handing me my change, had to was about to assume its rightful position into the same plate, and sipped their my customers will always find good liquors and be accomplished by running the gauntlet boys' boots and shoes, and ladies' and and OILS. of proteetor to its weaker, its wine from the same cup. Even the cigars, and every forenoon a splendid lunch. of the guards and porters as the children's shoes constantly kept on would-be independent companion. queenly Elizabeth,with all her elaborate train began to move. hand. Custom work and repairing Also Musical Instruments Sweet was my revenge, and yet the revenge All goods purchased of me will be delirered ideas of etiquette, was contented No sooner had I ascertained that promptly attended to. scarcely promised to be wholly and WHEELER & WILSON'S any part of the city free of cost. to carry her food to her mouth with •my limbs were uninjured by the^uncermonious pleasurable. Minnesota Street, New Ulm, Mina Latest Improved her fingers, and at first despised the fashion in which the railway Meat Market, SEW1JSG MACHINES. !My first action was to remove any THE CHICAGO and newly invented forks as unseemly and officials had "assisted" me to-my seat, suspicion that there might be in the awkward. than I discovered that the only other All Goods Sold at Bottom Prices mind of the mysterious third occupant tenant of rthe.compartment in which I Very gradually the dining hall grew of our carriage, through the presumably M. EPPLE, Prop'r. was enseonsed wa,s a young lady,.and in comfort and splendor. Dishes of NORTHWESTERN accidental action of having one, moreover, of no small beauty. gold and silver were made, and so eager MiNiraJsoTA ST. NEW ULM,MINN, touched a lady's dress. Giving vent TEW ULM. MINN. Now, I'ani -a shy man as far .as the were th^e nobles for them that they to an audible yawn, as though I had fair sex is concerned. Among .men, I would sacrifice anything to possess just awakened from sleep,! remarked, Empire Mill Co. RAILWAY them. The salt-cellar was tor ,a long E undersigned desires to inform the peopleof have self-possession enough and to in a tone of cool impertinence: 1 New Ulm and ricinlty rhat he has re-established spare, but in the presence of .ladies time the article of the highest importance his meat market and is now preapared to waH "You really must excuse me for addressing on the uoard. It was a great thai self-possession vanishes with on his aid customers and friends with only thi) best fresh and cured meats, saasages, lard and everything you again, madam, but will affair, and it stood directly in the center Penetrates the Centres of Population ROLLER MILL, most uncalled for rapidity. In the usually kept in a first-class market Tb« in you permit me to smoke, to enliven of the table it was the dividing presence of ladies, yes but here there highest market price will be paid for FATCATi TIE, HIDES, WOOL, ETC. this tedious journey?" line the nobles were seated above the was but one, who was bound to keep ILLINOIS, IOWA, salt, the commoners below, hence As I spoke, I accompanied my words M. EPPLK me company for a whole hour, until WISCONSIN", 24 Rollers and 4 Burrs grew the proverb, "Below the salt." the train should make its ifirst stop. by a meaning glance, and was favored Meat Market. The passing of salt was aceremonious with the reply: MICHIGAN, So it happened that, as I^Qniempiat.ed custom, the guest throwing a xrinch the charms*of my vis-a-vis from ibehind "Certainly, if you wish it I cannot We take pleasure in informing '••f'V MINNESOTA, over his left shoulder and murmuring prevent you." the evening paper, which I had public that we are now ready for business. DAKOTA, a blessing. JOS. SGINOBHICH, Prop'r., •time to buy onimy flight to .tihe station, Thereupon I produced my pipe and The best machinery and all thelatest a me&su$e>of my courage iretvir,n«ed, tobacco.-pouch and proceeded slowly NEBRASKA and The salt-aellars were of the most improvements in the manufacture and in the inspiriting words of Mr. to fill the former, as I thought out the New Ulm, Minn. curious devices. Sometimes they represented WYOMING. of flour enable us to compete witfe ^Gilbert, said I to myself: ^'IMJ take plan of action. On reference to my huge animals, sometimes the best mills in the country. sheart and make .-a start faint heart watch, I t,aw that tike train would great full-blown flower or a long, A large supply of fresh meats, sail«age, Its TRAIN SERVICE is carefully /never won fair lady." stop in .another ten minutes. Clearly, We are constantly buying slender stem, and again, they were in hams, lard, etc., constantly on arranged to meet requirements oi "I trust you were not allarmed fey the only thing to do was to wait till Wheat, shape of a chariot, mounted on four land. All orders from the country local travel, as well as to furnish we reach 'Blackley, aiad there get assistance my unceremonious entry?" I remarked wheels, on which they were easily run Bye, promptly attended to. the most attractive Routes foi with some inw&rd misgivings, buit to find out witao our unknown down the table. Corn, travelling companion might be. through travel between important sntaoh outward assurance. The first glass cups came from Ven CASH PAID FOR HIDES. Oafs, For answer, a ^uiet stare and a The longer I pondered over the problem, ice during the sixteenth century, and TEADE CENTRES. Buckwheat, the more curious for its solution slight contraction of the pretty from that time on society began to &c, &c. THE NEW EM jnouth of my companion—indicating did I become, and then, heedless of the lose many of its primitive ways, and At the Highest Market Prices^ Its EQUIFMENT of Day and warning I had received, I struck a her opinion that, as a stranger and became, in a sense, more refined. Parlor Cars, Dining and Palace Miniintroduced, I had wo right to speak match and intentionally dropped it. Henry VIII. was born with luxurious CITY PLANING MILL W"e sell all kinds of Sleeping Cars is without rival. to her. Stooping down, with a muttered tastes he had his banquet chairs ELOVM, malediction, to pick it up, I cast a Its MO AD-BED is perfection, ol This to the ordinary male animal supplied with velvet cushions, and was the moment for strategic attack searching glance underneath the opposite stone-ballasted Steel. about this time the parlor or "talking-room," SHORTS, MANUFACTURES seat, and then my blood ran upon the fair one's scruples for me it as it was called, was introduced, The NORTHWESTERN is the BRAN, &c* cold, as the faint gleam of a taper rethe DOORS, WINDOW SASH, was the exact opposite—the moment and here it was that the favorite route for the Commercial Os-vealed back of a man's hand with AT LOW BATES for flight, hadflightbeen possible. dames took refuge when the dinner Traveler, the Tourist and the Seekers VENETIAN BLINDS, the mark of a tatooed arrow upon it. trich-like, I burried my face behind had advanced beyond prudent limits, after New Homes in the Golden Special Attention given to Chippy Watson, then,.was our companion, my newspaper—there being no sand as it invariably did before thb finish. Northwest, a doomed and desperate MOULDINGS AND FRAMES available—and in a few moments O-ustom VTorlz: The cook that presided over the Detailed information cheerfully heard to my relief, a corresponding mau. kitchen in those days was not the furnished by Planing, turning and all rustle from the opposite side of the By a mighty effort I controlled my counterpart of our nineteenth centuryBridget, An extra stone for giinding feed. C. W. H. HEIDEMAN, Agent, carnage as my pretty prude followed voice sufficiently to say. but he was an artist, and work with rib-saw promptly Steam Cornsheller.s^ edit, The sense of defeat and dis|rac« "Excuse me reaching across you, generally a man of quality. The ladies NewUlra, Mia* and neatly executed. fairly overwhelmed me for a madam but that was my last of the household, even those of MARVIN HU6HIT, H. G. WICKER, Wood taken for cash or in exchange* match, and I could not affo'rd to let hile, and my eyes wandered oyer the noble birth attended to many domestic Vlce-Pres't and Gen. Mangr. Traffic Manager. ^DCjpiife JVIill Co. *.-#? it go out." paper I held in my hand, seeing but .duties, making the bread, preserving All work guaranteed. Bates reason, E. P. WILSON,.- understanding not what they saw. The girl, into whose white cheeks the fruits while to understand able. CASH PURCHASES*?* ,,Ar.^_ General PasBenger Agent* At length they lighted upon a familiar the color showed no trace of returning, the proper use of starch was considered yA*- ZEtLEB Prop'r. name," "Chippy Watson," and their murmured some unintelligible re- a great accomplishment. and CHEAP SALE& -J ir«fjt-ii r.|fc I 'ULU-l i_ I