The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1873-06-12

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The apportionment Of Delegates
which has been fixed upon, is based
upon the Republican vote for General
Grant in 1872; one delegate for eacl,
ESQ votes and major fraction thereof
and also one for each county at large
Officers of County Committees o,
localC,ubs will confer a favor by send :
my to the Secretary Of the State Com.
mittee the names Of the delegates as
soon as selected by County Con ntions,
so that printed rolls may be prepared
for the use Of the Convention.
BY order Of the Republican State
Central Committee.
G. STEBBINS, Chairman.
r. N. McLAEEN, Secretary.
Dated St. Psnl, May 24th: 1873.
STATE NEWS.
A horse thief got away with five
horses belonging 10 a Mr.. Nelson,
of Glenwood. last week.
Sand from the Red Wing san d
hills is being loaded on barges to sup.
ply the glass works at Rock Island.
The Herald now counts twenty-five
steamers in the regular lines plying
to and from Duluth this season.
The freight and telegraph station
at Oak Lake on the Northern Pacific
has been discontinued.
Winona has base ball club called
the Modocs. A club from Trempe-
Wisconsin, extermin ated them the
other day.
Patrick Dobbin, about "a years old,
was found dead Thursday last near his
fathers fran in Sharon, LeSeuer coun
ty. He lay 10 pool Of water, where
he had probably fallen in tit and had
drowned
The Lanesboro Clarion tells OF !,
young mau'who jumped on freigh,
train at Rushford to get free ride to
Houston. The liberal conductor car.
ried him by Houston to Hokah, and
then let him walk back for nothing.
The steamer Osceola has been paid
SIS per hour by the Winona & St.
Peter railroad company for the delay
to that boat caused by the imperfec,
working Of the St. Peer draw bridge:
This was a profitable occurrence ior
the Osceola.
At Judson, ia Blue Earth county, a
two year old daughter of W. G. VII.
liaus broke through the boards cover.
Ing an abandoned we'll, thirty fec.
deep, fell in and was drowned. He,
body was discovered about twenty
minutes after.
During the thunder shower o: the
night Of the 2Sth ult. the lightning
followed the telegraph wires into the
New Ulm depot and danced around
promiscuously, doing some damage,
and the depot narrowly escaped des,
truction by fire in consequence.
s. B. Merrill, of Lake City, had his
left eye torn out by singular acci.
dent on Saturday last. He was steop.
ing near the head Of COW, and the
COW threw her head around Just as he
was raising his head. and one of he,
horns struck just under mis- eye, and
tore it from the socket.
At Princeton in Mile Lac county
Tuesday, boy and girl aged 10 and
IL years. children Of Mr.. Townsend,
were playing together and commenced
throwing kernels Of corn and othe,
small articles at each other, until the
thoughtless little girl threw pair ol
scissors which struck the boy poin,
first, penetrated to the heart and Killed
him instantly. The two children were
much attached to each other.
The Northfeld STANFORD sometime
since published rumor thai
Prof. McNaughtou, former Superin-
tendent Of the public schools ia tha,
place, was dead. The last issue Of tha,
paper has Information received from
him, that be still lives, but that during
his illness he passed 50 tar into tht
dark shadow that he was given up 70,
dead, and in this condition was car
ried some sixty miles in his coffin
For two weeks life was a::blank to him
but he still lives, aud when the lette,
was written was able to walk a mile .
day, His friends will rejoice at BIZ
improvement.-Faribaul Repwblicaa
In New York. June I'd, Frank A