The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1881-08-25
STATE ITEMS.


raised in Mower county.
The City Mill in Mankato is making
about GOO barrels Of -four daily.
| There is an active boom in Fergus Falls
in real estate.
There are seventy-one organized coun-
ties in the State of Minnesota.
The Rochester Post will issue daily
paper during fair week, as heretofore.
Agricultural societies are organizing in
Renvillc and Yellow Medicine counties.
1t has been dccidcd!to build new brick
school house in Fergus Falls, to cost
$4,000.
Over two hundred dollars have been
subscribed toward the building of Bap.
fist church at Hector.
All Bow, a Chinese washcc man at Far
ibault, was severely pounded and robbed
of $500 recently.
Wolves are numerous in Spring Lake
township. Scott county, and the killing
. of many sheep is reported.
The Faribanlt Republican estimates the
average yield of wheat in that county at
thirteen bushels per acre, of good quail
ty.
The Mankato Review thinks the harvest
in Blue Earth comfy will not pan out
more than from five to eight bushels per
acre.
Some $50, 900 have been contributed to
the relief fund OF New Tim, and other
storm devasted localities in the ncighbor-
hood
Underwood & Emery. of Lake City.
ave 1000 bearing apple trees in their
J, :chard, which they claim will yield
500 bushels.
Hon. Henry P9hlcr started from Hen
Q, son last week for Europe. He intends
,.uakc tour of the continent and re-
. i'm about the middle of October.
The barn of Emanuel Stapf, of Castle
e ok, was burned last week. being fired
ro N the wad of gun. Loss on barn and
.ou, tents estimated at $4.O6S; insured for
b1.5 70.
10. clrim Ista, of Hampton, was badly
yorcd by bull.recently. and it is feared
hat hi > recovery is hardly possible. He
IS quite am old man. being upwards of
,ixty.
The s. iDanl Dispatch thinks there is
no doubt that the grasshopper scourge
will be fcl in the Northwest next year.
lad 1t adv. SEES farmers to take measures
In time to 'rotect themselves.
Irisasser &c 4 that Minnesota contains
no lessshan 10, lakes, with an average
exteutof 500 :res each. These lakes. it
il said cover me twentieth of the surface
Of the State.
L, Hall, ESQ. of the Glencoe Register,
has sold his dir, and bookstore, and will
hereafter devote all his time to the news
paper, one of he brightest and most
readable in the 81 ate.
A reckless inebr. i.ste jumped from the
middle of the susp ension bridge at Min
neapolis last Sunda y. into the water forty
feet below, for the drinks. He swan to
shore, and the presun upton is that he got
his drink.
Acyclone two and,a half miles in width
struck Vernon Centre and Amboy, Blue
Earth county, ON the 18th. doing great
damage to crops. aspect ally corn, Many
buildings were unroofc q and otherwise
destroyed. No loss of li1e.
On a recent morning u young girl I,
dauehter of Mr.. Becher, a German farmer
in East Castle Rock, Dakota county, fell
from load Of wheat and instantly ex-
pired. No marks or bruises were found
upon her person.
The new capitol will be : Minnesota
production exclusively. The walls will
be built'o of Red Wing pressed brick, and
the stone for the water sheds. window
caps and stills will come from the quarries
| ct Frontenac and st. Louis.
Miss Williams, the equestrienne cham
pion of England, who is to ride in the 90
im;!e race at the Minneapolis exposition
against Miss Belle Cook. of California.
champion of america, for the champion
ship of tho world, reached Minneapolis
on the morning of 21st.
Roch ester Post: Mr.. E. B. Jordon,
whose large nursery and orchard is about
two miles east of this city, has about two
thousand apple trees of the Duchess var
iety in bearing. from which he has al
ready gathered and shipped over three
hundred bushels Of fine applcs-he thinks
about one-half of the crop.
James s. Mills, editor of the Hastings
News. has brought libel suit against H.
Eillitt, of.the Hastings New Era, on &C
lcount of an article Published in the latter