The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-08-11
A Young child of Neil Byington's

ne MISSES NeStldu SutoA enluoO
Misses Bessie Chollar and Daisy Clay
son at their country home last Mon
day.
Emil Schmahl and Horace Baldwin
shipped % head of fat cattle and 6s
head of hogs to the South St. Paul
Stockyards Monday.
Redwood youngsters all have de-
sire to chew gum with that beautiful
female automaton in the grocery store
window of J. M. Huntington.
Mckay Bros. were not touched by
the hail storm of two weeks ago, as re-
ported. On the contrary, they have a
| fine crop, which they commenced har-
vesting Monday.
H. Hitchcock, of the Old Reliable
drug store, has been appointed del
egate from this State to the South Da-
kota Pharmaceutical Association
meeting to be held Aug. is.
Conductor Tom Hughes conducted
a train of seventeen loaded freight
cars, passenger coach and caboose
into Redwood Falls last Monday. The
yards were full of cars all day Monday.
A small hail storm in Renville coun-
ty, around Beaver Falls, did very lit
tie damage, last Friday morning. The
hail was not accompanied by wind,
and hence was not effective in dam
aging grain.
John Lauer, of Lamberton, candi
date for the Republican nomination
for the shrievality was in town Mon
day. The gentleman has lived in Red
wood county for twenty-five years. He
considers his chances bright at the
present time.
Harvey Moon, blacksmith at North
Redwood, had his left leg broken
while at work in his shop last Monday.
He was shoeing horse, and the horse
fell upon him in such manner as to
break the leg. DR.. Finn set the limb,
and the injured man is slowly recov-
oring.
County Auditor Anderson states
that corrections in the report of the
Board of Equalization would make the
increase in the town of Lamberton
only 5 per cent, instead of so per cent.
and the assessment of M. L. MCGEE,
on the southwest quarter of section %,
town 100, range 81, was lowered $500,
instead of $1,000.
D. L. Bigham has been busily en-
gagged surveying in Morgan and
Sherman townships during the past
two weeks, and is even now 80 con-
tracts behind work. He states that
old settlers have infringed on State
and railroad lands, and new settlers,
purchasing the latter, are compelled
to secure surveyor in order to find
their corners.
E. B. Barnes purchased a $3.50
Hambletonian team while in St. Paul
last Friday. He drove to Redwood
Falls, and shortly after reaching here,
he sold one of them for 81. The mare,
six years old, over-reached in such a
manor as to catch a shoe, and whom
just outside of town, pulled off it's
shoe and hoof. Mr.. Barnes had the
foot in a rag and did not know what
had happened until he reached the
barn, when ho sorrowfully disposed Of
her for 81 to fellow who will attempt
to grow the hoof on and use the mare
for breeding purposes.
Orlando Gray, of Three Lakes, dis
trict agent of the Alliance Hail Insur-
ance Co., Of which John j. Furlong,
of Austin, is president, has been bust
ly engaged for some time past in ad-
justing hail losses of that company.
He claims that the company did an
immense business during tho past
year, and while the losses were great,
the assets would far exceed them.
Mr.. Gray wrote 253 hail insurance
policies, during the season. He has
recently travelled through Brown, Red
wood, Cottonwood, Murray, Jackson
and Watonwan counties and declares
that crops in Redwood look better
than in the other counties.
DR.. Lyman and Geo. French wit
messed bloody fight, in which Editor
Whiteman, of the Herald, was boldly
whipped, while at Ortonville last
week. The doctor states that Ed
itor Whiteman was coming out of the
postoffice in that place, when fellow
named Gregg, angry at an article that
appeared in previous issue, struck
him in the face and knocked him out
into the street. The editor picked
himself up and displayed a very
bloody face. After he reached home
and doctor summoned it was found
that rib was broken. Gregg is unde,
arrest. Editor Whiteman is cripple
and was at one time connected with
the Minneapolis Journal, and was the
engrossing clerk of the 1889 senate.
Further particulars of the serious
accident in Henryville, Renville coun
ty, on Wednesday, Aug. 2, in which
Mr.. Jurgen Solteau, of that town, was
nearly, if not fatally injured, as learned
from August H. Seebeck, Mr.. Solteau's
brother-in-law, are to the effect that the
old gentleman, aged 70, had his right
thigh and one rib broken. He was ou