The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-06-06
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Willmar has voted to have an electric
light plant.
The st. Paul Morning Call has been
absorbed by The Globe.
J. Mason, held for attempted mur.
der, broke Jail at Hallock.
There were 6s graduates from the
Mankato normal school this year.
A cavein at the Franklin mine at
Virginia instantly killed two miners.
The cornerstone of new Lutheran
church at Good Thunder has been laid.
Governor Clough has declined to
honor the South Dakota requisition for
Rev. E. S. Darling.
A strike at the Office of The Com.
monwealth, Duluth daily, is over, the
printers going back.
St. Paul police are asked to locate
leila Rogers, domestic, who has mys.
teriously disappeared.
The st. Paul city council has passed
an ordinance requiring all dogs running
at large to be muzzled.
1t has been decided to hold the Min.
nesota sloop contest on White Bear
lake on Sept. 10, IL and H.
Judge Otis of st. Paul holds that
there is no occasion to submit the Sun.
day base ball question to jury.
While eating breakfast Jacob Risbudt
Of st. Olof, choked to death, having
gotten a piece of meat in his windpipe.
Deputy game wardens arrested three
men at Annandale Tuesday for illegal
fishing and confiscated 800 feet Of nets.
A westbound freight on the 500 line
was delayed three hours by caterpillars
between New Paynesville and Eden
Valley.
The Winona normal school graduated
a class Of 119. IL is the largest number
ever turned out in the Northwest at
one time.
A bed of terra Gotta clay of very fine
quality has been discovered at Mont.
gomery and work will be begun at once
in operating it.
Duluth lumbermen last week sent
out the largest lumber feet ever loaded
at that port, the cargoes aggregating
16, 100000 feet.
In st. Cloud the probate judge has
allowed the claim of Mrs. M. j. Mitch.
ell in the sum of $12,79S against her
late husbands estate, j. s. Mitchell.
At Buffalo Lake Carl Steigleck's
barn was struck by lightning and to-
tally consumed. Five horses, two colts
and two cows persisted in the flames.
The jury in the case against ex-
County Auditor Burns of St. Paul,
charged with obtaining money by false
pretenses, failed to agree on a verdict
Work has begun on new grist mill
at Pine Island. It will cost $4,000.
Waterworks and new opera house
will also be constructed during the
summer.
The annual state convention of Min
nesota Universalists will be held
Wednesday and Thursday, June 10 and
IL, at Tuttle Universalist church in
Minneapolis.
At St. Cloud John Hele, indicted for
rape on his two stepdaughters, pleaded
guilty in the district court to one
charge, and Judge Searle gave him
sentence of 20 years in Saltwater.
Loss from lightning of stock barn
in the edge of Lincoln county, a few
miles west of Marshall, is reported.
Sixteen head of cattle, five horses, %
sheep and much other property was
burned
Martin Brecket, oldest son of M. P.
Brecket, the we'll known railroad con-
tractor of Two Harbors, was thrown
from hand car near Mckinley, str.k-
ing on the back of his head and frac-
turing his skull.
R. T. Lang, late cashier of the sus-
pended Farmers and Merchants State
bank at Minneapolis, was acquitted of
the charge of violation of the state
banking laws, and Judge Pond dis
charged the accused.
William Fitzsimmons and Joseph
Vigue, lumbermen, engaged in a fight
at Hinckley. The former was bested
in the struggle, and, without warning,
stabbed his antagonist to the heart,
killing him instantly.
The Bycycler's Security company Of
Minneapolis has filed articles of in
corporation with the secretary of state.
The object of the corporation is to in
sure, rent and and guaranty bicycles.
The capital stock of the concern is fixed
at $4,000.
The examining committee of the
state normal schools states that all
students who are in the graduating
classes and who were away teaching
when tina examinations were made,
must pass an examination before they
will be given diplomas.
Charles Gilman, one of the Oldest and
most respected citizens of Sank RAPIDS.
died at the residence of his son-in-law.
DR.. G. A. Gilman, of St. Cloud, at the
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