The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-09-26
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

The Minnesota Boat club will play
foot ball this fall.
Governor Clough will appoint the
board Of arbitration this week.
The Pingree potato patch scheme was
success III st. Paul and Minneapolis.
The grand lodge, knights of Pvthias,
convened in annual session at ST Paul
Tuesday.
George E. Skinner, an old resident
and prominent citizen of st, Paul. died
Saturday.
Judge Kelly of St. Paul was burned
while trying to rescue his horse from a
burning barn.
Nearly 100 members We're initiated in
| the Modern Woodmen lodge at Willmar
Friday evening.
Homeopathic surgeons Of the state
discussed matters of interest at Mime
apolis Thursday
Work to prepare fitting welcome to
q. "A. r. visitors in 1896, has already
begun at St. Paul.
The st. Paul beard of education, has
decided to maintain night schools from
Oct. to March 20.
The Northern German Methodist
Episcopal conference favors abolishing
the itineracy system.
The German Methodist Episcopal
conference at st. Paul declared against
women as delegates.
The national triennial assembly of the
Welsh Presbyterian church met at Min
neapolis Thursday.
The Zenith City took from Duluth a
cargo of $4,000 bushels of wheat, the
largest ever loaded there.
At Grand Rapids, Peter McKenna,
charged with the Bacon murder, was
held to the grand jury without bail.
Chief of Police Smith of Minneapolis
has issued ukase against the wearing
OF knickerbockers by lady bicyclists.
Daniel Flint, policeman at Brecken-
ride, was shot twice by hobo he was
trying to arrest. Neither wound will
prove fatal.
Professional base ball players are 60
ing into winter quarters. Three were
arrested at st. Paul Sunday. They
were painting the town.
The Epworth and Oxford Methodist
churches at St. Paul will be consolidat,
with the First Methodist church, and .
new building will be erected.
The state insurance department and
fire insurance men have agreed upon
riders to be attached to the standard
policy, so there will be no test suits
against the law.
Judge Severance has allowed jacob
Freund, who is awaiting the action of
the grand jury on the charge of murder
in the first degree at Blue Earth City,
to furnish bail in $4,000.
The state board of equalization raised
the valuations Of bank stock and of logs
and lumber. Ten percent was added, to-
merchandise valuations in St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth.
Lieutenant Mercer, U. S. A., Indian
agent for La Pointe agency, paid the
Chippewa Indians on Vermillion Lake
reservation their annual annuities,.
amounting to 81 200, at Tower.
The latest census bulletins give Fill
more county a. population Of 2O,638, a
gain Of $685. Freeborn, 2O,l3S, gain
2,176; Faribault, 2O,139, gain S,431.
Grant, 1887, gain l,112; Goodhue, 49,.
1858, gain 3,462; Hennepin, 2l8, $50, gain
80, 1856.
Auditor Dunn has Cancelled 10 timbe,
permits in Aitkin, St. Louis and Itasca
counties, and has notified the holders of
another batch of similar permits that
they will be required to deposit sum
equal to Is per cent Of the value'of the
timber to be cut, otherwise their permits
also, will be cancelled.
Two new steel tank elevators, having
a capacity of 10000 bushels each, will
be built at once by the Springfield roller
mill. They will be fitted with pneu-
aatic conveyors for grain, which can
also be used to unload cars. These ele,
vators are patented, and will be the first
to be erected in Minnesota. They are
air tight and the grain is taken. out or.
put into them by pneumatic suction
The surveys recently made in the vi,
cinity of Red Lake are being examined.
by government land Office, engineers,
headed by Colonel T. R. Hinsdale Of
Washington. He said with referenceto
the report that the Red Lake reservation
may be opened this fall that there is a
strong movement in that direction, but
he thinks it will take nearly year to
complete the details that are necessary
before opening this vast and very yalu-
able domain to settlement.