The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-08-12
STATE ITEMS.

The entrance examination OF the MAN.
kato Normal school will he held Aug. 23d
and gath.
Thomas Mullen, car inspector, was
crushed to death at the NJ. & st. p. yards
in st. Paul, last Friday.
1t is announced that copper ore has
been found in paying quantities in Pine
county, along the Snake river.
A runaway team dashed into funeral
party at lie Sueur, Aug. Q, and injured
nine persons, one of them very seriously
The returns of assessors, as equalized,
place the taxable property of Renville
county at about million and half of
dollars.
A prisoner jumped from moving train
near Mankato last week, through car
window, and took to the brush. He was
recaptured.
Patrick Kelley, in Sibley county, was
killed while unhitching his team from a
reaper, the tongue of which was thrust
into his body.
The penitentiary at Saltwater caught
fire ON the 9th inst. originating in the
boiler room. The fire was put out before
much damage was done.
A severe storm occurred last Saturday
afternoon. near Candy. Considerable
damage was suffered from hail, but in a
quite limited area only.
The total cultivated acreage in Brown
county for 1889, according to the assess.
or's returns, is IS, 109, which is decrease
of 1872 acres from the year before.
Bingham's hardware store, ut Sleepy
Eye, was burglarized of forty or fifty dol
lars worth of goods last Wednesday
night. Supposed to he tramps.
Bird Island Post: According to the
assessors returns, there were 66, 443 acres
of wheat in Renville county this year
against 54,3l2 acres in 1879, an increase
Of 12, 13l acres.
A fire in the town of Dover Center
Olmsted county, Sunday morning, de-
stroycd some half dozen stores and build
ings. The loss was Is, 600, of which abou,
half was covered by insurance.
Forty young men of Scandia, Stevens
county, organized Gopher club for the
determination of gophers. The result
was the capture of between three and
four thousand of the nuisances, somt
members securing upwards of hundred
, day..
! Miss Belle Cooke. the California eques
, trienne, is described as a lady of about
twenty eight years of age, medium height
well formed, with pleasing and intelli
gent face, and modest and lady-likt
bearing. She began riding at the age o1
seven.
Rochester Post: There is farmer boy
13 years old, in the town of Rock Dell
this county, who cut and bound with ,
twine binder fifty-two acres of heavy
wheat in two days, twenty y-seven acres or
Monday and twenty-five Tuesday of thi:
week. Three horses were used.
Now that reaper accidents are goinl
out of vogue, the annual instalment o
steam thresher explosions is in order
The first serious case of this nature wa
reported near Saltwater, Aug. 9th. Her
bert Young. James Graham and Ellsworth
Fay were the principal victims. The en-
gine had been standing out Of doors al
winter, and no proper examination hat
been made before starting up steam. TIL
safety valve had probably rusted down
and showed but fifteen or sixteen ponntl
of steam just before the explosion. tn
Mr.. Young who was injured was there b.
accident. and being practical engineer
his observation on approaching the en-
gine was. Say, old man, you have go
too much steam there, and she can't stan
it and will explode" Before he could d
anything to. put out the fire the engin
exploded with the above result. The eli
CINE was the Monitor upright, made a
Batavia, N. Y, and had been in use bu
three years. Two of the injured men ar
in great danger.