The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1894-05-17
NEWS IN MINNESOTA.

NEWS In MlNNESUIA.
The mercury touched 81 at st. Paul
Sunday.
Commonweal organizers worked
Hastings last week.
At Benson. Brakeman Grover P. Fit
ger was killed while coupling cars.
The Populists Of Wright county will
hold a convention ut Buffalo May rs.
The Northwestern elevator at Roth
say burned with 3 900 bushels of wheat.
G. w. Dalton. horsethief, was sen.
fenced at Winona to serve year at
Saltwater.
The nomi nation of John G. Wise to
be postmaster at Mankato, Mimi, was
confirmed Friday.
A number of persons at Dawson have
been called upon to tell what they
know about blind pigs.
A hundred Gracev lie citizens have
sent memorial to COM Boon
endorsing the Coxey move.
Joe White, convicted in Minneapolis
of the murder of james R. Harris, was
sentenced to state prison for life.
Commander Wilson's branch of the
Coxey army has arrived in Minneapo-
lis. A recruiting Office has been opened.
Joseph White, convicted of the muir.
der of James R. Harris of Minneapolis,
has been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Judge Wescott Wilkin died at the
Windsor hotel. St. Paul. Saturday. He
served ~ years on the Ramsey county
bench.
James E. Moore of St. Paul suicided
by shooting himself in the head He
was a we'll known and respected bust
ness man.
The Sons of Veterans will hold their
state encampment at Monticello in June.
Great preparations are being made for
the occasion.
President Monfort of the worlds fair
commission has issued the call for the
final meeting to be held in the governors
Office at II a. m. on May "a.
The Waterous Fire Engine manufac-
tory at South Park, St. Paul, burned
Friday night. The loss is $40, 600, COW
cred by $32, 900 of insurance.
Postofices were esta blished last week
at Page, Mile Laos county, Charles II.
Page, postmaster. and at st. George,
Nicollet county, Joseph Remnant, post
master.
Six burglaries occurred in Mankato
in six days, the thieves getting away
with much plumber. A mass meeting
was held last week to adopt means of
preventing them.
A special election held a; Winnebago
City to vote $4,000 bonds for pumping
station and well, and completing the
waterworks system, the vote stood 1O4
for and A aga nst.
Joseph H. Paul, a promin ent young
farmer, died at Pillsbury after an ILL
ness of IA hours, with cholera morbus,
the disease having many characteristics
of the Asiatic type.
:" J. T. Heck Of Winona, foreman of a
branch of the government printing
Office, has been notified that his success
sor has been appointed. He has held
his place since 1870.
The Red river drainage commission
will visit and inspect the work done
during the past year the latter part of
this month. They will be accompanied
by Governor Nelson.
President Northrup of the state uni
versity has been engaged as the com.
mencement speaker for the Fergus Falls
high school, June 21, and for the nor
NAL school at Moorheed, June q.
Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollarsof Minnesota school funds will be
invested in Tennessee state bonds. It
was desired to buy Minnesota bonds,
but none could be had except at big
premium.
man Schmock, a boy years old
and girl of l, were burned to death.
The children were playing with hay
burned in the kitchen stove, and set fire
to the house..
The commissioner of the general land
Office has rejected the claim of Min
nesota to S.340 acres of land in the St,
Cloud district, claimed under the swamp
land act of March, 1860. About LOO
entries are cancelled.
A breach that has existed in the Min.
nesOta order of the Eastern Star was
healed at the recent meeting in ST. Paul
and the two separate bodies that have
existed for the past ten years will here