The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1880-09-02
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
At Lake City. on Friday, last Benjamin
Jackson was bound over in the sum of
$500. for an assault on John Sterling with
pitchfork.
Damerel's livery stable, at Hastings,
was burned early on Monday morning.
Of nine horses. only one was saved.
Loss $4,000; insurance, "a, $40.
WIN. Boright of LeSueur got sixteen
bushels Of wheat per acre this year from
land that has produced wheat crop for
twenty five successive years.
A new town called Jericho" six miles
west of Glencoe in Mcleod county, has
been staked out and opened up to the
world, as a rival of Glencoe or any other
city. -
A deer attempted to swim the lake at
Lexington, LIE Sueur county, the other
day, but some unfeeling boys pursued the
poor animal in boat and killed it in the
water.
A new Methodist Episcopal church edi.
flee is being erected ut Lamberton, Red
wood county. Mr.. Lamberton presented
the lot to the society, on whicls to place
the house.
The ncighbors of William Mcpherson,
of Crookston, turned out on recent
Sabbath and harvested his entire wheat
crop. Sickness in the family of Mr.. Nc
Pherson made it impossible for him to at
tend to the crop himself.
Alexander Faribault, founder of the
town of Faribault, Rice county, being in
straitcncd circumstances, proposes to put
up his gold watch, the only present prop
erty in his possession, to be ratfled for
to aid him in his necessities.
A liberal New England firm has sent to
Carleton college, in Northfield, a fine bell
from the Troy, N. Y, foundry, weighing
over 1900 pounds, which is twice the
weight of the one destroyed by fire. 1t
is already in the tower of the new Willis
hall.
Mrs. George De Witt, of Pennington,
has growing in her garden sunf1Ower
twenty feet in height. and which meas
ures ten inches at the base. There are
on this mammoth plant fortysix flowers,
the largest eighteen inches in diameter,
the smallest five inches. Some of the
leaves are IA by 20 inches in diameter.
\ lad and miss of Hastings, aged re-
spectively II and Is, were married the
other day. They left for Prescott. where
they were married secretly. on the steam
er Anuie Barnes, and returned the next
morning. The officiating official may
have rendered himself liable to the pen
atty of the law for performing the mar
riage ceremony for children.
Mr.. James .Macnamara, who was acci-
IDENTIFY shot in the left arm while at long
distance from home, chicken hunting,
about twelve days ago, died very sudden
ly and quite unexpectedly, at Owatonna,
Friday night last. Deceased had been
baggage master at the Milwaukee & St.
Paul depot there for many years. and was
much respected. AwIra aud ~o,-a-,,
young children are left.
Chatfield Democrat: Mr. Robert Laird,
Of Elmira, informs US of good crop of
calves in fifteen months time. One year
ago last May one of his cows gave birth
to twins, both heifers; one of these
calves in fourteen months gave birth to IA
calf, and one month later the other heifer
added one to the list; and during this
time the old COW was not idle, but gave
birth to another calf, making in all five
calves in fifteen months. 1t is more
profitable than raising wheat and we
would advise our farmers to invest in
that breed of stock.
At the village of Taopi, Mower county,
on Thursday night, G. w. rutland was
shot at through window of hotel,
under circumstances similar to the assault
on Judge Page, at Austin. He was not
hit, although the ball passed within few
inches of his head. Mr.. Rrland has made
himself obnoxious to some of the saloon
keepers in connection with temperance
agitation, and it is said that his life had
been threatened for this. 1t was in pros
ecuting whisky case at Taopi that
Judge Page had been employed the day
previous to his attempted assassination.
These circumstances may suggest clue
to the double attempt at assassination.
One day last week several gentlemen
went on horseback from Frontenac, on
Lake Pepin, to the top of II high bluff by
the lake short distance above that place.
Hitching their stceds, they wandered
along the edge of the bluff to view the
prospect. One of the horses,> young
and ncrv Gus animal belonging to Gen.
Mclean, became frightened, broke the
strap with which he was hitchcd, and ran
off the bluff, making an almost sheer de-
scent of $50 feet, his downward course
being marked by a swathe through the
brush. Strangely enough, he was but
little injured by his rough experience Of
the force of gravity, none of his bones
being broken nor his flesh lacerated,
though his bruises made him somewhat
lame and sore
A regular cyclone visited Dodge Center
about 3 o'clock in the afternoon OF
| August 9th, and for about one minute
held everything under subjection, demol-
ishing completely the new Baptist church,
rolling entirely from its foundation the
steam grist mill and entirely demolishing
it, unroofing the Chicago s Northwest
ern depot, also the livery barn of E. X
Whiting, and the barns of c. D. Tuthill,
Lew Leighton and Henry Fairbanks, and
partially unroofing many dwellings and