The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1877-01-11

Peck, Of Peoria, H. ldoubtfaD; Mrs. O. E. Palmer.
Of Binghamton, r.; George A. burlington, Of
Of cheaS s e ch os
Shattuck of the Cleveland Mt Vernon & Della
ware Railroad; I; stindel (doubtful); Mrs. True
worthy and da;ngh;sr Of Oakland c Mrs.
8. D.. Waite. Of Toledo; Webb, Of Boston; Is
Rev. A. H. Washburne. of Cleveland.
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS.
The cost of building improvements in
Fergus Falls the past season was S26,
DURING the last three weeks of the deer
season, over 500 saddles of venison were
hipped from Little Falls.
CHARLES BUSH was recently accidentally
killed while loading logs on sled at
Perkins Camp, on the Nammcacagan. The
chain broke or slipped and the log rolled
back and over the lower part of the body and
legs. He lived about two hours.
Dosr shocking discovery was made on
the morning of the 18th at WATERFOWL,
Wright County. A whole family, named
Weitzwein, were found in an clubhouse, the
Youngest frozen, and the mother and two
little ones in speeches. condition. The
being unable to work, the family has been
wandering about all winter, picking up o
scanty subsistence as best they could, Sleep
ing in the woods and outhouscs, wherever
they could obtain shelter from the weather.
STATE AUDITOR WH1TcoMB has about
closed his annual statement of tax collections
for the year, and he finds that the aggregate
foots up $1,000 less than last year. This.
however, is not owing to any unusual dclin-
quencies of the taxpayers, for they never
paid up more closely or promptly, but be-
cause the County Trcasurcrs have not sent
along the cash. The railroad companies
paid into the State Treasury s141, 475, which
is 49,, COZ more than was paid lastyea The
insurance tax is also 81 ,0.2 greater than be-
fore.
Bob YOUNGER has recovered the use OF
his arm, broken in the skirmish at Madelia,
and is now at work with his brothers in the
saltwater pail factory.
8. P. SNYDER, of Wabasha, has lately
bought of the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company $1,000 acres of land in the valley
of Red River.
In the year 1875 there were 54l marriages
in the county of Hcnnepin, and 454 in 1876
a falling off of ninety In the matter
of divorces, there were twenty eight granted
by the courts in 1875, and thirty in 1S76-a
clear majority of two for the centennial year
over its immediate predecessor.
THE exports from Minnesota to Manitoba,
during the last year, according to the figures
of the State Commissioner of Statistics ag.
grcgated in value sS02, 400, and the imports
$794, S6S. This is, of course, exclusive of the
| merchandise eargoed in bonded packages.
The difficulties Of transportation on Red
River DUNG the summer months, and the
almost total blockade of the trade during
the winter, are well known, and it only re-
mains for the opening of direct rail commu-
nication between the United States and the
populous and prosperous regions north of
the boundary line to quicken the trade be-
tween Minnesota and Manitoba into proper
| tions which can now be scarcely estimated.
| ANDREW E. BoEN, of Auradal, Otter Tail
County, lately received Il painful wound
from the accidental discharge OF rifle he
was laying on the ground. The ball entered
the right side, in the vicinity of the lower
rib, crushing the two succeeding ones, broke
/
thickncsscs Of wooden scarf which he for
tunatcly had about his neck, just broke the
skin on his lower jaw, and fell back, with
force exhausted, into tie scarf.
| THE residence of Joseph Wyzynowski, in
| st. Paul, was burned on the 9th, involving
a loss of about 5000.
| THE Regents of the State University re-
Gently adopted a rule dcprivinS students of
the usual weeks holiday from Christmas
| to New Years. The Senior class met, and
adopted rctcllious resolutions. After setting
forth in several prcambles that the action is
without precedent, and detrimental to the
University, the resolutions declare that
1--WE, the Senior class, absent ourselves
from all rectatiOns during the coming
| week."
THE State Board of Health have issued
the following circular:
Smallpox is epidemic in many towns in
| Wisconsin, and continues to spread where il
has found foothold. 1t has also broken
out in a very severe form in Manitoba. NG
cases are as yet reported in Minnesota, but
our people are in constant communication
with the infected localities. Prevention is
better than cure" and the State Board oil
Health urge physicians, local author ties
school boards, and especially upon parents
to make every effort in their power to secure
q thorough vaccination of our population
In this way we can with the greatest Ger.
tainty prevent an epidemic of this dreaded
| disease. The operation is SO simple and free
from danger; the result is SO certain and pos
tive; that no one has an excuse for neg
Letting to use it., All that is necessary to Sc
fresh and pure. Second-That it is carefully
introduced into the lit lie wound. Third
That rcvaccination be advised, and used, as
the only sure evidence of pro ection. To re
move, as far as possible, all doubt of tho
purity of the virus used, this Board have in
structcd their secretary to furnish, at cos
price, ten ivory points for one dollar, or
single ivory point for twenty-five cents
charged with animal virus direct from thu
heifer, to all who inclose the money with tho
order, but they assure the people that equal
ly pure virus is easily obtained through rep
utable druggists, or, better It'll, from thci1
physicians, under whose care it Is always bcs
to have vaccination done. Should smallpox
appear anywhere in the stare this Board re
quest that anyone, knowing the fact, Civ,
no ice of it immediately to the Secretary, a
Red Wing, that We may cooperate with tn,
local authorities in limiting it to the plac,
where it occurs. Send the notice BY tcle
graph If possible, e. o. D.
By order of the state Board of Health
CHARLES N. HEWITT, Secretary.
MINNESOTA, like all the older Western
States, is exhausting her wheat growing ca
pacity, the average yield Of the State runnin,
below eight bushels per acre. The paten
process Of grinding spring wheat into fin,
pastry flour has, however, built up grea
milling industry in the State.
GOVERNOR PILLsBURY has appointc,
Christian Grovald, NJ. D., of Goodhu
County, member Of the State Board o
Heath, vice DR.. Albert Senklcr, resigned.
Mr.. T. H. EvARTs, of Fillmore County
} has been appointed by Governor Pillsbury
member OF the Board Of Managers of tn
State Inebriate Asylum, in place Of Hon.
. &. Crandall, whose term of Office had ex
pired, and who declined reappointmcnt.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
1t is reported that Carl Rosa, the lat
Parepa's husband, is soon to MARI,
again.
Gen. Burnside, says the Brookly