The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-11-21
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
GOV. CLOUGH ASKED TO PARDON
PHIL SCHElG.

the New Capitol Buildins-New Paynes-
Vile Farmers Threshing Corn An In
terest ng Supreme Court Decision.
Fairmount's telephone system il now
in running order.
Mankato Knights of Pythis have died.
tcated their new hall.
The question of owning its own light
ing plant is being agitated at st. Paul.
The cornerstone of the Itasca county
court house was laid with Masonic hon
ors.
The Minnesota Wisconsin university
foot ball game was won by Minnesota,
IA to 10.
David B. Hill will speak in St. Paul,
Minneapolis and Duluth the latter part
of November.
The State Federation of Labor will
meet at Winona in annual session on
Sunday, the 9Th Of December.
John Strange, the paper manufac.
turer, announces that he will build q
case. 900 paper mill at Sank Rapids.
St. Paul and Minneapolis humane 30
oieties are moving against the practice
Of crowding live chickens into crates for
shipment.
The reason given for small attendance
Of womans society at St. Paul, is that
IA women Of the 20 members are mothers
Of 10 infants.
A senate has boon organized at
Madison, in which all professional or
business men may once week discuss
with each other in debate tho topics of
the times. +
Fortune has smiled on George L.
Travis, Minneapolis mail carrier, in
the shape Of a 800, 900 inheritance.
Part of the property is in this country
and part in England.
Governor Clough has received petit
ton for the purdon of Phil Scheig. The
petition was signed by President Kirby
Of the Bank of Minneapolis, from whom
Scheig stole the money, and by County
Attorney Nye.
Moses Cook, wanted at Duluth for
defrauding GA firms, all over the North.
west, by purchasing $4,000 worth OF
goods, hiding them in brothers store,
and then falling with no assets, has
been arrested at Wabash. Ind.
Captain Van SAINT, speaker Of the
Minnesota legislature, asked whether
he should be candidate for governor,
| replied in substance, that it was toe
early to say anything definite. He
might conclude to come out as an active
candidate later.
The postoffice department has made q
decision regarding st. Paul letter CARR.
ers reported by spoilers. The excuses
offered by three of them have been &C.
cepted, six have been suspended days
one days, four 10 days, one Is days
and two 80 days.
Cyrus H. Kellogg of the firm of Kel.
logg, johnson & Co., St. Paul, who was
appointed ON the board of arbitration
by Governor Clough to fill the vacancy
caused by the refusal of Senator w. B.
Dean to act on the board, has accepted
Mr.. Kellogg is appointed to represent
the employees of labor,
At meeting of the St. Cloud Bust
ness Mems association, the president
was instructed to appoint committee
of nine to 60 to st. Paul and urge upo1
the business men there to use their in
f1uence in securing the adoption Of
granite, and particularly st. Clouc
granite, in the capitol building.
Commissioner Lamoreaux has teie
graphed the chief examiner of Chippews
pine lands in Minnesota, suspending all
further work in examinations and an
praisements, owing to the appropriation
being exhausted. The commissioner
will recommend that the law be changed
SO that the appraised lands may be sold
st. Paul Carnival association officers
and directors selected Jan. 81 to 81 a.
the time for holding the carnival
Major Wilkinson of Fort Smelling sug
gested that the river was the proper
place for the ice fort, and q band Of
Fort Totem Indians shoald be secured
to man it. Several other details were
discussed.
w. H Phipps, a wealthy farmer neal
New Paynesville, has successfully
shelled corn in common grain thresh
ing machine. His cobs and stalk was
all chopped up, but his stock greedily
ate the mixture. He obtained about
200 bushels of the shelled product. Sew
eral other farmers are to try the ex
pertinent.
The supreme court has decided that 8
notice posted by the Great Western
Railroad company charging John
Wilkes with being "a dangerous, able
and seditious agitator, and responsible
for great deal of trouble at South st.
Paul." is actionable. The case grew
out Of the A. r. U. strike of 1894. and
was brought to the supreme court on q
demurrer from decision Of Judge Otis
who is affirmed
j THEY DRIVE THE DEER.