The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-06-23
STATE ITEMS.

Rochester Will celebrate the 4tn Win
patriotic horse racing. a@
The annual convention of Universalists
was held in Austin last week.
The Masons at Bird Island will celebrate
St. Johns day-the cath. !.
The State Fish Commissioner put ten
thousand little brook trout into the
streams of Olmstead county recently.
A 14-year old son of DR.. Benjamin. of
Hutchinson. was drowned while bathing.
on the 18th inst.
Friday afternoon a cooper named Nc.
Gowcn shot and killed man named Dick,
at Hartman's beer garden. Minneapolis.
The contractor has commenced the ,ercc-
ton of the north wing of the school
building at Wascca. 1t will cost. com.
plcte, about $4,000.
A. o. Gray has handled $50. 900 cotton
wood trees. besides a large number of
other varieties. during the past season.
and every one of them has been planted in
Pipcstonc county.
The citizens of Austin last week cast
2SS votes in favor of railroad bonds, and
not one against. The C. NJ. & St. P. r. r.
car shops arc to be located there.
Sleepy Eye Herald: A large proportion
of the wheat in stack through the winter
is entirely spoiled by the snow. and the
continued rains of the spring. Those who
are posted claim that not over One-half OF
the grain now threshed will be of any
value in market.
The wheat at the burned elevator in
Faribault was bid in by Knox & Martin Of
Milwaukee for $5.O5O. There was about
$50 bushels that was not injured; the bal
ance was badly smoked. There was about
&c, 900 bushels in the elevator. Knox &
Martin expect to get about q, 1000 bushels
out of the ruins.
A Sensational sequel to last weeks &C.
count of the suffocation of Father Hayes
and his brother. near Anoka, is to the Ct
feet that one Pat Lyons, who slept in the
room adjoining. stole clothing and money
from the brothers at the time OF Their
death. and is even suspected of causing it.
1t is said that the track laying on the
Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad will he
commenced at the crossing of the Hast
ings l. Dakota ut Norwood, and proceed
north and south from the latter point
The former company will also put in
transfer track for the joint use OF both
roads and will build depot near the
crossing.
Mankato Free Press: Last Tuesday
morning while Mr.. John Mecksler. al
old gentleman aged 80. living near Eagle
Lake, was hoeing potatoes close to the
railroad track, he was struck blythe en-
CINE and instantly killed. He is some
what deaf. and although the engine whis
tied he did not hear it, owing to his deaf
ness.
A New Ulm dispatch says that Fred
Brammer. of that town. suicided on thu
18th, in fit of mental alteration, HI
first cut three deep gashes into the side
of his neck with razor, and then raj
and plunged into the Minnesota river, .
half a milo away. His wife discovered
him weltering in his own blood on thu
floor about2 o'clock in the morning. ant
at once fastened to summon help, but sh'
had hardly gone out when he arose ant
rushed out of the house, clad only in .
shirt and pair of pants. He was soor
lost to view in the darkness, but as soor
as day appeared he was tracked to thu
rivers edge, and his body was found il
the river several hours after. He leaves
wife and small children to mourn his III
timely death.