The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1876-10-26
41NNRoTA sTlerE NEWS.

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ssAr 4. Paul On the essning Of the 18th,
Awreiee sidHsy travelling agept forfstri
BIOS, Chicago, was arrested ~upon the
charge of forgery. The charge is that Sid
ney collected, on Aug. %, eighty dollars from
Nolsen u Frank, pocketed the money, and
forged note on the firm for ninety five. dol
lars, which he mailed his firm the following
day.
KAvANKuaH,,"w who left St. PGua'
early in the season has returned. He esti-
mates the number now in the Hills at 5000,
most of whom intend to stay there during
the winter, and thinks they will have very
rough time of it, Some few men have struck
bonanzas, but the great majority have just
managed to live during the summer, placer
diggers only getting four dollars per day,
and few underground diggers from eight
dollars to ten dollars.
KELLY and Terry, recently convicted of
mail robbery, at st. Paul, have been taken to
the Penitentiary. Before going, both were
driven to the residence of Terry's parents,
that he might bid good-by to his mother, an
almost heartbroken lady, who, until his ar
rest, did not imagine her boy had one serious
fault. -s-
AN engineer corps is to be put in the field
at once to survey and permanently locate
the line of the Hastings & Dakota Railroad
from Glencoe to Granite Falls, with a view
to its early construction.
THREE of the horses captured from the
Northtield robbers were recently sold on the
order of the County Commissioners for the
benefit of the County. They bought re-
spectively $64, $65 aud $s3. Two others
were advertised to be sold, but were replev.
ined by parties who claimed to have pur-
chased them of Cole Younger.
DR.. LINN, the family physician of Rev. R.
F. Sample, of Minneapolis, states that Mrs.
Samples illness was not caused by poison,
but was a well defined case of typhoid-pneu-
monia. Mrs. Sample did not partake of the
poisoned coffee, and the sudden and severe
illness which excited suspicion was confined
to other members of the family-the servant
girl and three of the children. From all that
can be ascertained in regard to the admins
tration of the sickening drug (now believed
to be aqua ammonia), the crime may be
traced to vicious stupidity.
On the night of the 18th, between ten and
eleven o'clock, while Mr.. Isaac Seligmau,
travelling agent for a Chicago firm, was COM
ing from Chattield to Fountain he had mar
row escape from being killed. The night
being very dark, the driver missed the road
and threw him down an embankment six
feet high, in the middle of the river, two
heavy trunks and buggy falling on top Of
him. He extricated himself from his dam
gerous position, and after loading his trunks
again proceeded, and arrived at Fountain at
midnight badly but not dangerously bruised.
STATE AUDITOR WH1TCoMB, who has just
returned from the sale of school lands in
Otter Tail, Pope, Douglas and Swift Coun-
ties, reports the sales only about one-third
what they would have been had it not been
for the grasshopper invasion and general de-
struction OF crops the past two seasons. He
says there is not more than enoug h wheat in
these counties for bread and seed, but still
the necessities of some are such that they
are obliged to sell portion Ct their small
supply. For all this he says settlers are
hopeful and plucky, this feeling being en-
couraged by the fact that large portion of
the eggs deposited this season are being de-
stroyed by the grub-worm. At the same
time farmers are flowing and narrowing old
breakings, where eggs have been deposited,
for the purpose of turning up and destroy
Ing cocoons. Great care is exercised to pre-
! vent burning the grass this fall, the O.. ject
being to preserve it for burning when the
| hoppers hatch out in the spring. Auditor
Whitcomb does not anticipate any actual
restitution in these counties, but there must
no ofSon mo 1osc s11H
| ing during the winter.
TIE order of Sons of Temperance is grow
Ing very rapidly throughout the State.
! A MAN named Goodrich, in Albert Lea,
was recently robbed of notes and securities
aegregating $4,000 Four persons have
been arrested, and an application has been
made to the Sheriff of Rice County for their
safe keeping.
FRIGHT on -four was advanced, on the
sd, ten cents barrel between Minneapolis
and Chicago.
MRS. BUFFuM, the wife of the disgraced
| minister of Hartford, Conn.,, will, with her
child, make her home with her brother, in
Minneapolis.
The electors, of the State will vote in
| November. on constitutional amendment
permitting the Governor to veto parts of au
appropriation bill while approving the rest.
Also on one limiting the reliability Of stock
holders. .,u..... .- ...,,-5.
The St. Paul Gas Company has reduced
the price Of its commodity from s. TO $3.50
per 1000 cubic feet "., .s
The other day, while Charles Daily. Of
Mankato, was taking q shotgun from its
hooks, it was accidentally discharged, the
load striking his little sister in the shoulder
and inflicting fatal injuries. t..4..
IT is not common to report many of the
poorer yields of wheat, but Mr.. Burton, of
Dakota County, has called at the Office Of
the st. Paul Press and Tribune and left his
figures. They are not very favorable to the
State Of Minnesota that has such world
wide reputation for successful growing Of
the great cereal. From $50 bushels sowing
Mr.. Burton harvested 255, while 1875, 1,4O1
were raised on sixty-fve acres. This year,
it seems, the average was only from four to
five bushels to the acre. It is to be feared
that there are more such reports to follow
This 10 not in the grasshopper region either
It Is quite evident this Centennial year is
not one over which the wheat growers Of
Miunesota will have much to boast as far az
| that crop is concerned at least. Mr.. Burton
does not state the cause of this poor yield
In many parts Of the State it was very dry,
| while in others there seem to have been
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