The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-30
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS In MINNESOTA.
Wadena veterans held bean bake
last week.
Mrs. Ignatius Donnelly of Nininger is
dangerously ill.
Mrs. Eichorn of Winona was found
dead in her bed.
Fred Landwehr of Royalton was mis-
taken for deer and shot.
Minnesota exhibits at the worlds fair
have all been shipped home.
A 2-year-old child of Joe Savoy was
! scalded to death at Hinckly.
The Armour Packing company will
| fight the state oleomargarine law.
A new pool room ordinance has been
passed by the st. Paul city council.
A protest against free iron ore has
been numerously signed by Duluthians
Creditors of the Bushnell estate at St..
Paul will realize nearly one cent on the
dollar.
A young man named Strand is in Jail
at Renville for passing counterfeit
money.
Hon. William L. Banning, resident
of st. Paul since 1855, died Sunday,
aged II.
The postofice at Coon Creek, Anoka
county, recently abolished has been re-
established.
State Auditor Biernan disposed of
l,16O acres of state lands in kenabec
county last week
st. Paul school inspectors will ask the
council to provide new buildings and
room for 1890 more pupils.
Company c, Third infantry, Captain
Roe, has been ordered from jackson
Park, Chicago, to Fort Smelling.
During October there was sold in the
state of Minnesota by wholesale dealers
1880 pounds of oleomargarine.
The jury in the Mutually abduction
case at Duluth failed to agree and was
discharged after an all night session.
A. L. Mohier has resigned as general
manager Of the Great Northern. His
successor is General Superintendent
Case. j..
The state board Of health has ordered
quarantine against Grantsburg, which
is experiencing an epidemic of diphtheria
in its worst form.
Gustave Truhn, who killed his wife
and child in Rush Lake Wednesday
night is raving maniac and has been
committed to the Fergus Falls asylum.
The Waterville Gazette says that on
last Tuesday morning, soon after day.
break, a meteor nearly the size of the
moon, was visible in the southwest. leav-
ing well defined trail after it.
The Bank Of Dassel, Meeker county.
with a capital of $4,000 has been ad-
mitted by Examiner Kenyon to do bust
ness, and will begin Dec. Is. Mr.. Ken
yon also admitted the Lu,nbermen's
State Bank of Grand Rapids, capital
$25, 900, to open Dec. II.
| A postoffice has been established at
Ayr, Goodhue county, James Simpson
postmaster. The postofices at Amador,
Chisago county, and Logering, Meeker
county, are discontinued. Mail in the
former case goes to Sunrise City, and in
the latter to Eden Valley.
/ Governor Nelson has appointed w. s
Taylor Of st. Paul. as one of the commits
sioners to take testimony in the Madigan
case. The other commissioner will be
named subject to the governors approval
by s. L. Pierce, attorney for the Red
wood county commissioners.
The state flag has been received at the
capitol, having been sent from Chicago
to be preserved among other state treas
ures. 1t has not yet been decided Just
what disposition will be made of it, but
it will probably be preserved in the col
lection of the Historical society.
AT Fergus Falls Judge Baxter has sem
fenced Clark Hursh of Deer Creek. to
two years in the penitentiary for steal
ing grain; William Clemmer, 10 months
for the same crime; Frank Salter to the
reformatory for stealing bicycle; Mike
Hart to the refor1natory for stealing a
coat.
Commissioner Lamoreaux has received
a report on the gold discoveries in Min
nesota. The special agent states that he
is firmly convinced that the country in
the vicinity of Rainy lake is distinctly a
mineral country unfit for any other pur-
pose whatever. In the quartz of town
ship II the evidence of mineral is
deemed very rich, and the land has been
WITHDRAWN from settlement.