The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1893-11-09
NEWS IN MINES )TA.

A case of smallpox has developed at
Featherstone, Goodhue county.
Senator J. B. Hompe has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Deer Creek.
Contracts for spur tracks to the st.
Cloud granite quarries have been let.
Forest fires caused the destruction Of
bridge 10 on the Eastern Minnesota rail-
road.
D. w. Lawler has been appointed
general counsel for the Great Western
railway.
The Southern Minnesota Teachers as
ISOLATION meet at Mankato Friday and
Saturday.
The assets of ex-Mayor j. B. Sutpl1in
of Duluth will reach $75, 600, or treble
the liabilities.
Two prisoners in the Waseca Jail dug
out last week. Both were under sentence
to state prison.
Methodist bishops and secretaries of
districts met in st. Paul last week to dis
cusS church extension.
The state convention of the Young
Woman's Christian association was held
at Minneapolis last week.
The internal revenue collections in
Minnesota for October were $23O, O0O, and
the customs collections $4,000.
e About so sections of stumpage was
sold at the capital Saturday. Prices
ranged from 81 to 1926 per thousand.
Fred Boyle of Burton shot and killed
his son, aged 80. There had been bad
feeling between the two for some time.
Mayor Eustis of Minneapolis thinks
bloodhounds would be good thing to
have to aid police, in view of the great
number of burgfaries and hold-ups.
Three men have been arrested in ST..
Paul who are suspected of having not
only killed Josef sHerda in st. Paul last
week, but also j. S. Harris at Minneapo-
lis some time ago. They all have Grim
inal records.
George Hecker of Barnum tried to
make up with his wife, but she wouldn't
make up. Then he fired five shots at
her, but she was ,uninjured. While
locked in Jail afterward he strangled
himself with his handkerchief.
The case of L. Fl. Cole, the Minnea-
polls real estate man who has been I'M
der Indictment for the past six months,
has been nolle prosecuted. The indict-
ment charged him with securing sigma
lures to deeds and other Instruments to
property in Otter Tail county and this
city, through Misrepresentation
Seventy thousand Minnesotans regis
tered at the worlds fair and it is esti-
mated that nearly half as many more
visited the grounds without registering.
Allowing the expenses of each one while
away from home to have been $50, the
aggregate amount spent by citizens Of
the state in seeing the sights would be
the enormous sum of $5,000,O00.
A Duluth telegram says Frank Porter,
we'll known quarterbreed, states he
has found coal near Lake Kaboogama.
II do not mean float" he said, s'but a
well defined vein which have traced a
distance of 200 feet, and which, even
near the surface, has width of about
eight feet. I have taken steps to acquire
title and claim the distinction of being
the first to locate a coal vein in the
Rainy river country.
The department Of public instruction
has been looking into the free text book
question with view to finding out how
the plan has worked where tried, and
circulars have been sent to county super
intendents and answers received, so far.
from about half the number. The re-
turns already in indicate that about 2, OOO
districts have adopted the free text book
plan. Of the counties heard from. &C
per cent report that the plan meets with
| general favor.
Partisan Newspaper Novelty.
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