The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-04-26

| Miss Fannie Rowe gives musical
at Morgan on Tuesday evening. May
LIST. The programme will consist of
instrumental and vocal music fur
nished by Miss Rowe's Morgan music
class.
Prof. O.C. Gregg,of the State Farm
ers' Institute, with Professors Green
and Hayes, Were at Marshall last week
to establish a.branch of the State ex-
pertinent station in Lyon county ,prin-
cipally to investigate soil treatment in
the growing of grains. The station
has been located on section 30, town
of Lynd, on farm formerly owned
and worked by Gregg.
In regard to the item republished
in this paper last week from the
Sleepy Eye Herald claiming that J.
L. Byram stated that j. N. Jones
would be the next representative from
this county Mr.. Byram stated that it
was Misrepresentation of the state
ment made. Mr.. Byram merely stat
ed from what he had heard that Mr..
Jones would not he a candidate for
Senator but probably would be for
representative. Nothing positive was
mentioned.
St. Peter Tribune: In early days,
Col. Sam McPhail discovered brown
paint at Redwood Falls, and manu-
featured the article by the hundreds
of barrels. Since then the country
has been set wild by the announce
ment, at periods the proper distance
apart, of the existende of coal, gold,
peat and asbestos in the Redwood
country. Nor is this all Paint, and
"whole acres of it, which include the
primary colors and their endless num-
Der of shades, has just been discover
ed little way out of Redwood Falls,
and the excitement runs high. Coal,
gold, peat, asbestos and paint. Ma
ture is helping the people in that Sec
tion,and the people are helping them
selves.
1t appears that DR.. Bissell, the Rock
county physician. who was recently
sentenced to five years at Saltwater
for performing criminal operation,
had intended to commit suicide just
after sentence had been passed upon
him. He had procured a quantity of
morphine which he had packed in one
end of his fever thermometer case and
had concealed it in convenient place
by sewing it into his shirt sleeve. He
had also made provision for conceal
ing it and keeping it in his possession
in case his clothes were removed.
While he stood before the judge and
received his sentence, he was thinking
not of term in the penitentiary but
of the little package of poison con-
cealed on his person, and the sentence
of five years i'll the penitentiary las the
prisoner understood it, was virtually
sentence of death. But the motion
for new trial encouraged him, and
the resolution was given up. On the
way to Saltwater DR.. Bissell made the
confession to the sheriff, who at once
removed the morphine tube.
Prison Mirror: An cid man, with
snow-white hair and enfeebled form,
laboring under the heavy burden of
three score years and ten, wended his
way into the warden's office last Fri
day and asked if the warden would
kindly provide him with something to
eat. It is needless to say that his
humble request was readily and
promptly granted. After appeasing
his hunger the old man proceeded to
unravel to the warden and other list
eners, strange and sadly romatic
tale. 1t was the story of misspent,
useless and depraved life. The old
man had been an inmate of eighteen
prisons, and on two occasions, in years
gone by, found a home within the
realms of our own prison walls. Now,
on the very verge of the grave, home
less, friendless, without means, an
aimless wanderer on the face of the
globe, begging his bread from place
to place,this decrepit old man is reap
ing the sad and bitter harvest of
misspent life. After listening to the
sad story of his life,the warden kindly
provided him with much needed COM
forts, and the old man went on his
| weary uav soaking q p1aco no lxpou