The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-06-14
NEWS IN MINNESOTA,

st. Cloud stores will closeat $50 D. m
hereafter.
Faribault veterans are in camp thil
week at Minnesota Lake.
Mary Baker, servant girl. wa
drowned at White Bear lake, Sunday
Fire originating from gasoline stove
destroyed Arnudort's Laundry at Sta
pies.
Leonidas Merritt has sued the Biwa
blk and Missaba road for sc, 900 fo1
services.
Fire in the Tibbetts House barn al
Preston destroyed the barn and burned
eight horses.
Patrolmen Bunker and OBrien Of
st. Paul were assessed $500 for making
false arrest.
John Day Smith of Minneapolis il
making an active fight for Fletcher's
seat in congress.
Minnesota has lost another considera-
BILE slice of land through interior dc.
partment decisions.
Mayor Eustis has closed the Theater
Comique at Minneapolis because liquo,
was sold to minor.
The work of laying the foundation
for the Camp Release monument al
Montevideo has begun.
John E. Ward, q we'll known St.
Paul newspaper man, died Sunday OF
Inflammation of the bowels.
Fires destroyed 1000 railroad ties
and 20 cords Of wood on Great North
ern right Of way at Fosston.
Burglars took q considerable quantity
Of cutlery from the hardware store Of
A. A. Cady & Son, at Dover.
The St. Paul school board has decid-
ed to abolish German instruction in all
grades below the high school.
Professor Lugger of the state expert
ment station will attempt to wipe out
chinch bugs around New Ulm.
Fire at Mankato destroyed three
small wooden business buildings. 1t is
supposed to have been incendiary.
Mrs. Maud Graham, of Minneapolis,
secured q divorce at Wshpeton and
married Clinton Nickells within an
hour.
Meeker county commissioners have
appointed G. 81. Dart county treasurer
in place of his son, w. II. Dart, who
was recently removed.
The government crop report gives the
condition of wheat in Minnesota as 81
and the acreage 81. North Dakota con-
dition is put down at 81.
Ramsey county Republicans endorsed
Governor Nelson and Judge Gilfllan
and instructed delegates to the state
convention for Oar Reese for clerk
OF the supreme court.
A destructive fire took place at Min
neiska, inwhich four stores buildings
were destroyed and several others badly
scorched. Gentzkow Bros. are the
heaviest losers.
The jury in the case of William Con-
way, charged with the murder Of Harry
NJ. Walraven at Mankato, was out only
Is minutes and then returned q verdict
Of not guilty. The accused was imme-
diately released after an imprisonment
Of nine months. g
Governor Nelson Saturday honored a
requisition from the governor of South
Dakota for the custody of John Fraun-
felt, charged with burglary in the third
degree, committed in Brown county, s.
D. Fraunfelt has been arrested and is
now in custody.
A Finlander who was held in the city
Jail at Virginia until an officer from
Houghton, Mich, could arrive, cut his
way out and made good his escape. He
was wanted there for highway robbery.
His pal is now serving a 1O-year SEN
tence in Michigan.
The Hubbard and Palmer and the
Minnesota and Western elevators at
Slayton were burned Thursday, loss
$50, 900. The fire was set by an incen-
diary, and was the fourth attempt to
burn them in three days. A notice was
posted on one of them stating that the
elevators would be burned for revenge.
John E. Layne, indicted with Will
lam Conway for the murder of Harry
Walraven, committed last fall, has
been released from custody. Judge
Severance dismissed the defendant, adj
dressing him thus: ''Mr. Layne, the
people of this community entertain a
very strong suspicion against you, and
your presence in this community will
be tolerated most grudgingly."