The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-06-24

BIinneosa will celebrate July Sd. A. C.
Forbes and Col McPhail are the orators.
Frank Rose, of Oronoco, aged II, wa
drowned week ago while bathing in the
Zumbro river
Owing to the loss Of ice by the recent
food, q Hastings ice dealer advanced his
price from twenty cents to one dollar pei
hundred.
The city council of Mortified have con.
tracted for q firc-engine room and city
hall, to be built Of brick, with stone base.
ment, at a cost of $2,95O.
Lake Benton win hold celebration on
July Sd, at which Judge Cox is to be the
orator. Boating, picnic,ng and fireworks
are the order of exercises.
Saltwater is in the front now, and q
census enumerator is chuckling over q
fat take. having found a family consisting
of father, mother and nineteen children.
The late storm blew down an immense
amount of timber in the Big Woods, and
it is in such condition that owners will
be compelled to work it up into cord
wood.
G. G. Brooks, the colored porter at the
Mankato House in that city, has received
information that by the death of an uncle
in Otterville, ILL.,, he has fallen heir to the
snug little fortune of $4,000
The census returns of population in the
following towns are gathered from our
exchanges: Rochester, 5,10S; Lake City,
ass; Waseca. 1,716; LIE Sueur, 1.4Os;
Oronoco, Olmsted county. 9S7.
The railroad company have found an
abundant supply of water at Tracy. The
we'll is III feet deep and eight feet in di-
ameter. The citizens of that place rejoice,
as it is the only good we'll their village
contains.
According to Mr.. VIM. Cheney, the resi-
dent observer for the United States signal
service, the total rainfall in Minneapolis
during May amounted to 300 inches.
The highest temperature was 81 deg, on
the I'd, and the lowest, 46, on the 9th.
The LeSueur News states that the sister
OF Chester A. Arthur, the Republican
nominee for Vice President, once taught
school in that county. During the fall OF
1874, Miss Anne Arthur gave instructions
in music to pupils in LIE Sueur with good
success. She is said to be a first-cla IS
musician.
Bird Island Post: On Thursday Holver
Anderson, Of Birch Cooley, eloped " it'll
the wife of Knute Rye. postmaster a,
Franklin. Each of them leave four chill
dren, one of Mrs. Rye's being only ten
months old. Anderson is somewhat of q
libertine, having been tried for bastardy
two or three years ago, the victim being
girl working in his family.
New Ulm Review: Last week we gave
an account of the doings of the two con.
fidence men who represented themselves
as the agents for house manufacturing
iron fence posts and barbcd wire. Since
then we have learned that Mic. Klinkham
mer, of Sigel, is victim at tie hands OF
these men to the tune of q $3.50 note.
The note, so we are Informed, was given
as security to Lake-Crystal livery firm
for team which they hired and forgot
to return. Anton Brey and the genial host
o the Dakota House. of this city. have
small unpaid accounts against the wor.
thies, the former tor livery hire, 50. and
the latter for board, S.. The Lake Crys-
tai livery men and deputy sheriff are in
pursuit. and at last accounts had tracked
the rascals to Bird Island, on the H. & D.
railroad.