The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-08-15
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Judge Smith T. Barnes of Blue Earth
City is dead.
The new wooden mill at Pillsbury has
opened for business.
September will be celebrated at
Winona as German day.
Gilbert's store, at Buffalo. was bur-
glarized of goods worth $500.
A receiver has been appointed for the
St. Cloud Street Railway company.
Northwestern Minnesota editors or.
ganized an association at Alexandra.
The Pine Tree Lumber company has
voluntarily paid into the state treasury
a, 900 for trespass.
A 9-year. old son of Dan More, q
prominent farmer near Fountain, lost
both his legs in a binder accident.
Battery A of the Minnesota national
guard has been mustered out of the
service by order Of Adjutant General
Muehlberg.
There is said to be some doubt that
A. w. Rankin of West Superior will
accept the position of inspector of
graded schools. The salary is said not
to be sufficient.
The attorney general holds that the
census results may be given out in bull
letins' at the discretion of secretary OF
state; also that daily newspaper need
not be published on legal holidays.
The Eastern Minnesota railroad COM
pany has been sued for the amount of
losses paid by insurance companies at
Thompson. 1t is claimed the fires
were caused by the railroad company's
negligence.
The Catholic retreat at Winona closed
Friday. The sessions were held in the
Winona Seminary. Besides the other
divines, Archbishop Ireland of st. Paul
and Bishop Cotter of Winona attended
the retreat.
The Rockefellers have settled the
suit brought by the McKinleys against
the Lake Superior Consolidated mines.
It is said the amount paid was in the
neighborhood of 100000. The suit
was for $500, 900.
At the last meeting of the state high
school board it was decided to appoint
A. w. Rankin inspector of graded
schools. George B. Alton, inspector of
high schools, had his salary raised
from $4,000 to 81, 500 year.
Driving on the Rum river has again
f,no IF r..
ting the logs down as far as Milaca, at
least. Foley Bros. & Guthrie expect
to run their big mill day and night
Their cut will come close to 20, 600, 900
feet.
The Ironton Structural Steel COM
pany, which has completed the erec-
ton of big steel rolling mill and open
hearth furnace at Duluth, has begun
work. 1t employs $50 men and rolls a
36-inch steal beam, the largest turned
out by any mill in the United States.
Governor Clough has appointed G..
G. Hartley and Alex McDougal of
Duluth, and J. Fl. Sutherland, men,
bers of the commission from Minnesota
to confer with similar commission
from Wisconsin, with view to annex
ing Superior to Duluth. The governor
himself is a member of the commission
under the joint resolution.
The dry spell at Mapleton is un.
broken. Two of the former saloon
keepers have come to the conclusion
that the council will keep the license at
$3.50, and have opened up lunch coun-
tiers and are selling soft drinks. The
fight between the saloonmen and the
council has been bitter one, and a
great deal of i'll feeling now exists.
Conductor McManus of the Duluth
road, says he is absolutely sure that the
J. v. Wheeler, who is reported to have
been drowned in Forest lake recently,
paid him a cash fare from Wyoming ia
Duluth on the night the alleged drown.
ing took place. Mr.. McManus gives .
close description of Wheeler, and tis
positive that he is not mistaken in the
man.