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

House for rent. Inquire at j. R.
Wolff & Co.'s 6-t.f.
MISS Nina Pratt will have fall and
winter display of millinery goods at
her store tomorrow and Saturday ev-
enings.
Chas. Richie of Three Lakes had
an exciting runaway last Saturday
morning,according to report brought
in by Henry Petrie. His team was at
tached to pillow and we're blowing on
the north side of one of the lakes.
They took fright and ran into the
lake, throwing the pillow into the air at
every jump. They pulled it nearly
through the lake when they ran
against snag and were obliged to re-
main in the water until they were res
cued.
Mrs. H. J. Fountain is with her
parents, the Charters, south of the
city. Mrs. Fountain arrived last
Thursday and was suffering with
jaundice and dropsy at the time. She
is now recovering. DR.. Fountain
came down from Hanley with Dan
Robey Saturday evening, returning
Monday. The doctor is growing a
mustache and Spanish goatee, and
with the long hair he has always wore,
looks very much like a Kentucky
colonel Of the deepest dyed Bourbon
style. He states that the medicine
business is improving.
The reconstruction of the watering
trough at the intersection of Mill and
Second streets is evidently carried on
with the idea OF making it stay. A
concrete foundation of about four feet
in depth and AXIS feet square was
placed in last Saturday by Contractor
jain. -Four iron rods were cemented
in from the bottom. Two huge Ka-
sofa stones are set on the concrete
with the rods running through them.
On top of the stones the basin is set,
the same being screwed on to the
rods. The trough is lower than it
was before and the drinking spout
has been removed. But teams will
not knock it down any more.
The rain of last Saturday, Saturday
night, Sunday and Sunday night was
one of the heaviest rains this country
has seen for long time. The ground
was thoroughly soaked and open Gel
lars were flooded with water. The
Francois hotel cellar, The GAZETTE
basement and the Mckay cellar all on
Second street were flooded. A load
of brick standing over sewer on Sec
ond street in front of the new GAZETTE
building proved too heavy weight
for the improperly tamped sewer and
one wheel sank down about two feet
The owner spent portion of Sunday
forenoon unloading the brick and
wondering whether there was quick
silver basin under that particular
spot.
There was to have been a special
excursion over the Northwestern line
to New Ulm last Sunday morning.
The occaeion was band tournament
in the latter city, in which from twen-
ty to thirty bands participated, and
all of them crack organizations. The
train pulled into the Redwood depot
about Z O'Clock in the morning and
was to have pulled out forty minutes
later. It had been raining heavily all
of the night previous and was coming
down at pretty good pace when the
train pulled in. By the time the train
was to have pulled out there were on
ly dozen passengers on the platform
and special order came over the wire
to disband the excursion, pay money
back, and return the train to Sleepy
Eye. When the news got out that nc
train was to make the run minister
was heard to remark that "the ele.
ments had come up to the help of the
Lord against the mighty"
Last Saturday morning. an insane
woman was being brought by her
husband from st. Peter to their home
in Olivia. 1t was supposed when she
was released,that she was we'll enough
to be allowed to return and take
charge once more of her family of five
children. Evidently this was mis-
take for she became quite violent on
the way, and it was plain that she
must go right back to the asylum.