The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-08-09

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NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS LIN MlNNESOIA.
Horse thieves are busy in lie Seuer
county.
A cloudburst did considerable damage
in the vicinity Of Hills.
The cash balance in the state treasury
Aug. l was $2,O95, 924.95.
A contract for waterworks at st.
James has been let for $21, 900.
A general crusade is to be inaugurated
against frebugs at Minneapolis.
Three prairie chickens cost a Staples
man $75 besides the costs Of prosecution.
Joseph A. Eckstein of New Ulm was
arrested on a charge of misuse of the
mails.
Company E, Second regiment, NJ. N.
G., was mustered in at Hastings Sat-
urday.
Slight frosts occurred in various por-
lions of the state Thursday and Friday
nights.
St. Paul hay dealers prophesy fam
inc of that article in that city before
spring.
Nearly 1000 pupils have been regis
tered at the summer school of the
University.
The customs receipts at St. Paul for
July were $14, 1000, and of the internal
revenue Office, $345, 900.
Forty Thousand bushels of wheat
damaged by fire at Mankato sold for 8
cents q bushel at auction,
II. S. Walker, editor of the Stewart
vile S.ar, was married to Miss Murphy,
daughter of Judge Murphy.
A decision by the United States courts
at St. Paul says sawdust must not be
dumped in navigable streams.
A gcld brick weighing 1873 ounces and
valued at SEC, 900 has just been turned
out of che Rainy Lake stamp mill.
Rev. ]. M. Cleary of Minneapolis
was elected president of the Catholic
Total Abstinence union at St. Paul.
E. J. Darrah of st. Paul was NOM
mated for congress by Fourth district
Democrats in convention at Lindstrom
Foley Bros. & Guthrie have secured
the contract to build about Is miles adj
ditional track for the Brainerd and
Northern Minnesota railroad.
An attempt was made by two tramps
to murder Mrs. John Ellsworth, near
Comrorant. They shot at her through
window. No cause is known.
Senator Washburn's bill granting
right Of way through several Indian
reservations to the Northern Mississippi
railway has been favorably reported.
The body of Charles F. Dana, chief
deputy sheriff Of Ramsey county, who
was drowned near Isle Royale in Lake
Superior recently, has been recovered.
Mrs. Sample, wife of the Rev. S. w.
Sample, has sued for a divorce on the
ground of cruel and inhuman treat
ment, her husband making no legal de-
tense.
Caledonia waterworks are completed
and turned over to the village. The
s., 600 bonds issued for their construc-
ton were bought by Houston county
farmers.
Joseph Payne, whose residence is
given as All University avenue, st Paul,
is in quod for the alleged theft of about
500 yards of boiling cloth from the John
& Noye company of Minneapolis, the
same being worth about 81 900.
F. M. Cutcheon and P. J. Smalley,
chairman and secretary of the Demo
cratic state central committee, have re-
signed on account of the refusal Of the
committee to pass resolution endorsing
Cleveland and the house position on the
tariff.
The new Winona city directory indi-
Gates population Of 22,750. The di-
rectory contains 8, 100 names, and to OBJ
tain this result the multiple ~ is used.
The 1892 directory indicated popula-
ton Of 10000, while the census Of 1890
showed population Of 18,206.
"a horrible accident occurred near
Fosston. ]. K. Melland, q farmer living
inst outside the village, put his son,
only years q age, to ent hay. The
oxen became unmanage6ble. and the
little tellow was flung under the ms
chine and terribly manR3od. He died