The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-11
STATE ITEMS.


The Mankato Normal school Is to open
August 22d.
\ hail storm last Friday injured the
standing grain in Lincoln county.
There are 2l2 saloons to which liquor
licences have been granted in Minncapo-
lis.
A professor in Evanston college. Ill.,,
Is going to start creamery at Lake Ben.
ton.
Judge Oscar Stevenson died suddenly
in st. Paul. of heart disease, ON the 9Th
inst.
4 German farmer living i've miles west
of Sleepy Eye. recently had the finger Of
one of his hands cut of by a reaper.
Lightning entered the residence Of vii.
helm Mcisler. q farmer near Hastings,
and killed him instantly as lie lay upon
the lounge.
The County Trcasurcr's office at Min
ncapolis was at noon on Wednesday rob.
bed Of all its currency. No oac knows
who committed the crime.
Preceding Jones, an old citizen of Car
vcr, was run over and killed by railway
train near Cologne. on Friday of last
week.
DR.. Bolm. a we'll known German ply
ic;an of st. Peter, had u stroke Of psraly.
sis few days ago. and Is growing worse.
he cannot survive long.
The Big Stone county Herald says crop
reports from throughout that county are
TO the effect that they will turn out better
than has been expected.
Last Saturday night brakeman named
Charles Wilson. whose parents live In
Mankato. was killed by freight train on
the Sioux City road near the Lc Sueur
brewery.
The Pipe Stone County Star says re-
ports are received to the effect that many
fields Of wheat that were considered very
poor a few weeks ago. are now in good
condition aud u fair yield is expected.
The county board of equalization of
Olmstcad County, raised the assessment
on personal property $6O. OOO. making ov.
er $4,000. 600 in personal taxes in the
county.
Lake City is agitated over the conduct
of Ed. Everson. a merchant. who has
coolly attempted to buy off his wife with
q paltry $500. in order that he may get
rid of her after fifteen years of married
life.
The new New Tim Review favors the
erection OF large new school house in
that city, as more economical: than re-
pairing the old buildings. which arc in
sufficient for the growing needs of its
people.
About third $50 bushcls) Of the ap.
pie crop of Underwood & Emery, propri.
tors of the extensive Je we'll nursery a,
Lake City. was brought to the ground by
the heavy storm of wind and rain that
swept over that region last Friday.
A 14-year-old son of Mr.. Gusroggcn, OF
Frcedcn. Waseca county. was terribly
mangled by reaper the other day, the
team running away. The wonder il tina,
he was not killed outright. The reaper
was made total wreck.
The month of July proved to he one OF
the large months of the year in the matter
Of real-cstatc transfers Mt Minneapolis,
the amount being more than 20 per cent
in excess Of the corresponding month last
year. ami nearly three times that of 1879
\ Goodhac county wife advcrtiscs hel
husband thus, in Red Wing paper
Everybody is warned against Frank
Hickman. lie is the biggest swindlcr
liar and dead beat in the State of Mime
sofa. BY his wife, Mrs. Frank Hick
man."
A now railroad company-the Braincr,i
st. Paul 4 Grand Forks was incorporat.
ed at st. Paul Monday, with hcadquart
era at Braincrd. The line will run from
st. Paul to Grand Forkss, ID. r., via An
Okla. Mile Laos Lake and Braincrd
Capital of the company, $5.OOO.O0
\ freight train on the Minneapolis 4
st. Louis railroad ran into wild trail,
on the 4th inst. near Minneapolis, ant
both engines and several freight car.
were badly wrecked. President Wash
burn was on board the extra train. Thi,
accident following the fatal one chroni
clcd week ago. the train dcspatchcr wa.
thought to be at fault and was bounced.
st. Peter Tribune: On Monday evcnin,
while John Burg was cutting wheat. hi
little child went out to him and followed
around after the reaper. He finally tolt
the child to go to the house, and he sup
posed the child obeyed him, but instead
Of going home the child went into tn,
standing grain: when the machine cam,
around the child was in front Of il. tn,
sickle struck the child in the face, and i
was horribly mangled. One eye was bad
~ cut.
Two drunken tramps laid down on tn,
Sioux City railroad track near Shakopcc
The engineer Of the express train whicl
came along soon after did his best to stoI
his engine. and showed them of the tract
as gently as he could. One of the mel
got of with without a scratch, but III
other one. named Albert Beisaug, mourn
the loss of his left arm, which was to b.
ampntatcd. At last accounts the ma,
was so drunk that he didn't know wha
hurt him.
Society undergoes continue
changes. It is barbarous, it il civil
lied, it is christianized, it is rich, i
is scientific; but this change is no
smelioration. For everything tn"
is given something is taken. Socie
ty acquires new arts, and loses oil
instincts Tho r;r;1;~nI ,no~ h.,