The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-07-31
The New. Briefly Cnron,c,sd.

DR.. Jean O'Hara, an old Winona ply
sician and war surgeon, died recently.
The commissioners of Steel County
recently voted to build $4,000 court
house at Owat tonna.
A largo number of applications for
pensions under the new law are being
received at the Adjutant Generals office
in St Paul.
East Grand Forks has thirteen sa-
looms, one brewery, one wholesale es-
tablishment and one church with a mem
bership Of less than twenty.
Mary Wolfgruber, s-year-old St.
Paul child, was injured on the Milwau-
kee road last May so that her leg had to
be amputated. Her father now sues for
SEQ, 900 damages.
John H. Johnson, one of the oldest
settlers of Worthington, died recently.
He was soldier of the Ninth Illinois
cavalry during the war, and was about
AZ years old.
The contract for the construction of
the new railway bridge at Winona has
been let to the Union Bridge Company,
of New York, work to be commenced
March l, 1891. The bridge will be used
jointly by the Green Bay, Winona &
St Peter, Chicago, Burlington & North
ern and the Winona & Southwestern
Railway companies.
Duluth will bond in $1OO, 900 for moro
school buildings.
Two farmers going TO Rochester the
other morning were held up by masked
highwaymen and relieved of q small
amount of money and valuables.
Mrs. Kate Town, department insrec-
tor of the Woman's Relief Corps of lin
nesota, died in Worthington recently.
Miss Annie Smith, a pretty chorus
girl, was clandestinely married q few
days ago to Archie Mathers, the son of
leading merchant Of St Paul.
The body Of Otto Riebe was found the
other day in the ruins of the recently
burned Security warehouse at Minneap-
oils.
A Minneapolis and Chicago syndicate
has been formed with a capital of $780,
ccN-. , erect a fine fireproof warehouse
at =, Jnneapolis.
The price of binding twine will not,
ss feared by Minnesota farmers, be ad-
vancod as a result of the recent destruc-
ton by a fire at Minneapolis of the Sc
curity warehouse.
Judge Nelson recently sentenced
Herbert c. Stout, the st. Paul mail rob-
Der, to two years hard labor in prison.
Willard Brown, aged Is years, was
ko11 cho$ -
Frank Rhoades, while hunting near
Verndale. He received full charge of
shot in the left side at distance of ten
feet. The boy lived FIVE hours. .
A jobbing house at St. Paul recently
received 1000 packages of tea, direct
from Japan, said to be the largest i'm
portation ever received in the North
west.
Captain J. II. McCraney, formerly cap
tain of the Minneapolis police depart
ment, died at the city hospital the other
day from the effects of an operation.
The white settlers on the old Mile
Lacs reservation have improved their
farms and buildings very much this sum-
mer, and have very promising crops of
expect an early, settlement, in their
favor, of the much disputed Mile Lacs
reservation affairs. - ..r ..-.-~g
A small cyclone swept over West Du-
luth the other day, doing damage to the
extent Of 81, 600.
For the second time Louis Sutherland,
Of St. Paul, was recently awarded IS, 600
damages in his suit against the Northern
Pacific for injuries received. Two diff
ferent juries have now passed upon the
case.
John G. Taylor, general passenger
agent Ct the 500 road, has rendered his
resignation, to accept the presidency Of
the Railway Building & Loan Associa-
tion, at Minneapolis. Mr.. Taylor has
been associated with the 500 road since
1t was opened. His railroad career dates
from 1868.
The body of house-keeper O. p. Evan
son, of the West Duluth, was found in
Spirit lake recently. Fonl play was
rss S-~ss9
Samuel L. Bushnell died at an early
hour the other morning in Northfield
at the age of 78 years. He was an early
settler in Minnesota. and one Of the
Oldest Masons in the State.
The seven-story warehouse of the Sc
curity Warehouse Company in Mime
arolis, owned by Wood & Morse, was
destroyed by fire the other afternoon
with its contents, entailing loss Of
learly 81, 0o0. 0O0 Otto Reabe perishea
In the flames.