The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-01-21

NUMBER ~.
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
Killed by Falling into q Well.
Sarah Munson, a daughter of Peter
Munson, living farm near buverne,
met with peculiar death. The young
lady was subject to fits, and while
hauling water from we'll with rope
she was suddenly taken with q fit and
fell head first into the WELL Her fall
was witnessed by her mother and sis
ters, who succeeded in taking the girl
from the water before she was dead.
The shock, however, was too great, and
she died about an hour after the acci-
dent.
St. Paul Stock Yards.
During the year 1891 5s,6os cattle and
calves passed over the scales at the
union stock yards in St Paul, weigh
ing so, ,2ss, ,o24 pounds, an average of
s5S pounds per head; 265, 2l0 hogs were
sold and weighed, aggregating 6o,9so.-
760 pounds, an average OF 226 pounds
per head; 49,321 head of sheep weighed
40, ,321 pounds, average &c pounds per
head The bank clearings OF the Union
Stock Yards bank were $5, 32s, sos.
Another Asylum Needed.
The state board of corrections and
charities at its quarterly meeting in
Minneapolis considered the question of
providing for the great increase in the
number of insane patients. Secretary
Hart showed them that at the present
rate there would be over 5000 to care
for by 1895 or 1000 for each asylum. A
fourth asylum is needed and COM
mittee was named to consider the ques.
ton.
A Courthouse Burned.
Lyon county's new courthouse at
Marshall was burned. 1t was begun
last summer and cost about S30,01O. 1t
was nearly completed, but had not
been accepted. Contractor Smith had,
however, drawn all of the contract
price but 81, 600 The insurance, S1s,-
900, runs to the county. This will
proba bly, rebuild it, as the walls were
not much injured
Elopei with a Marshal.
May Newman, 14-year-old girl who
had been working in the Germania
house at Crookston for the past month,
and George Schoonover, who claimed
to be a special United States deputy
marshal. have disappeared, and it was
thought they had eloped. The girls
parents were notified that she had left,
and they were nearly distracted over
the affair.
State Agricultural Society.
The State Agricultural society held
its annual session in st. Paul and Sec
retary Cross in his report showed about
So, 900 more receipts in 1891 than in
1890. The balance in the treasury was
$40, ,55l. rs. j. II. Burwell was elected
president resolution prohibiting
the sale of liquor and all gambling on
the fair grounds was adopted.
A Lads Awful Fall.
Six-year-old George Price, while
reaching for an icicle out of an open
window on the sixth floor of the Pas
toret- -Stenson building in Duluth, lost
his balance and fell full six stories
straight to the frozen ground without
striking anything to break his fall.
When picked up he was alive, but he
only lived a short time.
Will Open the S!sseton Reservation.
Congressman Pickler, of South Dakota,
telegraphs that President Harrison will
open the Sisseton-Wahpeton reserva-
ton to settlement about April Is.
| This throws 400 quarter-sections open
to homestead entry. Claimants were al
ready at Brow's Malley, and the early
spring will bring an army of home
| seekers
The New. l,r,eny ChronicIcd.
Ernest Fruchting, aged about 20,
was buried in a well in Homestead
township.
The Model shoe store in Duluth,
owned by Mrs. NJ. A. Phillips, failed
for S., 900.
w. w. Attx died at his home in Men
tor. lie was a member of the state
equalization board.
Cannon Falls is deeply stirred up
over the case of Hughes and Sullener,
of that place, who were under arrest
for selling meat unfit for human food.
There were 25S business failures in
Minnesota in 1891, with liabilities of
s.. .G99, 2s1, against 323 failures in 1890,
with liabilities of s., $50, ,S57.
NJ. A. Phillips, shoe dealer at
Duluth, m ade an assignment with liza
biIities of $50. 900 and assets Of $42, 900.
Matte Burnham, alias Grace Win
cd in, nf IL
fame in Winona on the charge of muir
aering a man inPark county, Ind.
Ex-Gov. Campbell, of Ohio, is presi-
dent of the Ohio Mining Company, in
corporated at Duluth with a capital
stock of 81, 10000
H. Pierce, a well-known school,.
teacher, attempted suicide at Cor
morant by shooting himself, but the
ball intended for his heart struck rib
and lodged in his body. He might re-
cover. No cause assigned.
Archbishop Ireland, of St Paul, is
likely to become cardinal, it is said
Levi Halgrcen, aged 80 years, Of
Watertown, was killed by falling
tree at Miller Bros. camp near Aitken.
The remains were taken to Watertown.
Pillsbury academy at Owatonna re-
opened with an attendance of almost
a75, the largest in its history.
The following state institutions have
reported their December current ex-
penses: School for detectives, 5000 3s;
school for blind, Sl,47L77; school for
ieaf, S3,946.51.
The mixed train on the Pelican
Rapids branch of the Great Northern
was wrecked by broken rail near
Niagara Falls and four cars were
litched, but no one hurt.
The Winona City Railway Company
has completed its electrical street car
line, and cars are running regularly.
The cost of the road complete is S55,-
ooo
The St. Paul Press club has adopted
the Australian system of voting to gov
arn its fnture annual elections and in