The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-03-15

County Attorney Pierce was in New
Ulm on Thursday and Saturday at
tending to matters in connection with
the Madigan case.
St. Peter Herald: Redwood coun-
ty does not let week go by without
making discovery of some character.
This week they have found mine of
asbestos.
The Mesdames Mcmillan and Warn
or entertained the Ladies' Guild and
the st. Agnes Guild of the Episcopal
church at the Mcmillan Manor last
Thursday afternoon.
Supt. Race has been holding exam
nations on the South side of the coun-
ty during the present week. He COM
menced holding them in the court
house at this place, concluding last
evening.
The St. Peter Tribune is against
the formation of new county out of
Renville, Brown and Nicollet counties,
particularly SO far as it affects Nicol-
let county, which it says, is a very
small county already. Nicollet coun-
ty will keep her towns and further re-
marks are useless. Renyille, it adds,
might be cut in two, and either of the
counties thus formed, would be as
large as Nicollet or Sibley.
In a conversation with Hon. John
Lind last Thursday that gentleman
stated that he was not a candidate for
the United States Senatorship. 81
don't believe" he added, 'that there
is man who would not like to have
the Office. But l know that l cannot
get it this year, and I wouldn't walk
two blocks to make fight for a thing
that know l cannot GET
Rey.J. V. Hawk had an unfortunate
experience while driving in Nicollet a
week ago. Some part of his sleigh
having given away, Mr.. Hawk alight-
ed to fix it, and while thus engaged
the horse became frightened and dart
ed off down the road leaving the Rev.
gentleman near the road in a tumble.
When the horse was finally captured
it was ascertained that the sleigh had
been reduced to tooth picks.
Andrew D. Stewart, the champion
of Populistic principles, and J. R.
Lankard, the bright young Repub-
lican farmer of Kintire township, will
debate on the subject of the free coin
age of silver at the opera house to-
morrow evening. Mr.. Lankard will
speak against the free coinage, while
Mr.. Stewart will speak in favor of it.
Both gentlemen have made this sub
ject careful study and an interesting
debate may be looked for.
Belview Independent: Commits
sioners Arnold and Pease passed
through here yesterday on their re-
turn from the much-talked-of bridge
They made arrangements with Mr.
Helgeson to haul the lumber from
this place and build new approaches
to the bridge. Probably "questioner'
would be a good overseer. On their
road home Messrs. Pease and Arnold
stopped at the asbestos mines and
procured some SPECIMENS. Mr.. Arm
old had his overcoat pockets full of it
Frank G. Wilmeroth. at one time a
popular clerk with H. G. Ackmann
and general favorite among the boys
in this city, came up from Cedar Rap
ids, Ia, where he has been attending
commercial college during the past
winter, last Thursday evening. "There
is only one town." says Frank, land
that is Redwood Falls, and the way
that the Iowa and Chicago papers
have been advertising it during the
past winter, l commenced to think
that there was no town in Iowa as
large as it."
At the regular meeting of the high
school literary society last Friday af-
ternoon Miss Daisy Clayson read an
essay. entitled "The Bastile,'' Miss
Pearl Seitz read a School Girls
Trial." Chas. Everett "a School Boys
Trial." Angelo Bissell "The Loss OF
the Arctic" and Miss May Ferris "The
Burial of the Drummer Boy" The
debate on "Resolved, that novel read
ing is injurious TO the mind" was de-
cided in the negative, taken by 10y
Pugh and Aubrey Kendall while Ad-
die Bigham and Marie jackson had