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

A new Jail is to lie built at Chaska.
Little Falls will have a monthly fair
and market day.
T. III. Helinski has been named as
postmaster at Duluth.
Representative Hall of Minnesota is
quite ill at Washington.
E. N. Kilturn, postmaster at Biwa-
blk, is said to be short 5000.
The Mississippi has been rising rapidly
above St. Paul for the past few days.
The earnings Of the grain inspection
department for March were s., 9Sl.9O.
The senate has passed the bill for q
bridge across the st. Louis river at Du-
luth.
The Milwaukee ticket office at Man
kato was robbed of cents one night
last week.
Fire burned out all the telephone con-
nections at Duluth. Loss to the COM
pany, $4,000.
The Swedish-American National bank
OF Minneapolis has Leen authorized to
begin business.
The Minneapolis mills ground more
flour last week than in any similar time
in four months.
Paul Engels, president of the Twin
City Packing company, died at st. Paul
of heart disease.
Mangus Larson, sailor, fell through
hatchway of the steamer Fiske at
Duluth and was instantly killed.
James Howard. the fourth of the St.
Paul bank robbers, has been sentenced
to Saltwater for term of six years.
Rev. Frank Peterson, secretary of the
Baptist union, reports that Minnesota
contributed $4,000 to foreign missions
this year.
Secretary Hart has received informa-
ton that the county commissioners of
Big Stone county are meditating the
construction of county Jail.
Ohio fish companies, it is said, will re-
move to Minnesota in order to evade
the laws. They will operate in the
lakes IN the Canadian boundary.
The United States district court at
Mankato during the afternoon disposed
of all the cases on the calendar and
adjourned. The calendar contained but
five cases.
The bodies of two children lost in
the woods of Stearns county, for
over week were found in Rice lake.
They had evidently wandered on the
rotten ice and went through.
In the case of Renville county against
Beard and Gray, bankers at Fairfax,
and the sureties on their bond, the jury
returned verdict in favor of the county
for the full amount, $1,S77.
J. Adam Bede, the new United States
marshal for Minnesota, has taken
charge of his office and appointed IS
deputies Edward D. Brown of Duluth
and Matt Shortall of Saltwater.
A fight is in progress on the question
of relocating the county seat of Jackson
county. Lakefeld is desirous of securing
the prize now held by Jackson. An
election will be held May 16 to settle it.
The name of the postoffice at Lone
Tree Lake, Brown county, Oscar A.
Dresser, postm aster, has been changed
to Lone Tree, and Otter Tail City, Otter
Tail county, Henry Crete postmaster, to
Otter Tail.
Citizens of Itasca county have antici
pated Coxey by sending a petition to
congress asking government appropri
alton of $4,000 for the construction of a
wagon road from Grand Rapids te
Rainy Lake City.
Mrs. Sophia Stade died Tuesday night
at the residence in West Albany
of her son-in-law, John Dankwart, ST..
aged 100 years, lacking l month and 1s
days. She settled with her husband al
West Albany 30 years ago.
Congressman Fletcher has succeeded
in getting favorable report from the
subcommittee appointed to conside,
the claim of Minnesota for $51, 300 paid
by the state for arms during the Sioux
outbreak. The amount will go into the
sundry civil bill.
Another big sale of cash wheat has
been made at Minneapolis by the
Northwestern Elevator company to the
Consolidated Milling company, the
wheat to be carried to August at a diff
ference of Ia cents over May price.
The amount transferred was 800. 600
bushels.
Since 1882 there have been 100, 3S3
marriages and s. 749 divorces in Mime
sofa. The largest number of marriages
in the IL years, 1857, occurred in 1892,
and the largest number of divorces. 6O6,
| in 1891. Both fell decidedly in 1909