The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-05-09

George Whittet expects big crop
of strawberries this year. He says
that he will commence picking as
early as any grower in this section of
the State.
Rev. James M. Cleary, president of
the Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America, and one of the most eff
fective and eloquent of Catholic ora
tors, will lecture at the opera house on
the evening of June 18th. Father
Cleary is we'll known in this country
and he will undoubted be greeted by
large crowd representing all denom-
nations and interested in temperance.
Lightning struck the barn of Gott-
lieb Kuenzli in Honnor township, east
of North Redwood, about six o'clock
last Friday evening. The lightning
struck the roof, passed through it to
a rafter and descended the rafter to
the floor where it set fire to pile of
hay. Mr.. Kuenzli was embarrassing
his horses at the time and discovering
the blaze, took off his "duck" coat and
put out the flames. The damage was
slight. There was no insurance on
the barn.
On Tuesday afternoon VIM. Schultz
of Walnut Grove, who was indicted
by the grand jury at previous term
of court on three different counts of
selling liquor on Sunday and of selling
liquor to minors, appeared before
Judge Weber and plead guilty to
the charge of selling liquor to minors.
County Attorney Clague dismissed
the other two counts against him.
Schultz was sentenced to pay fine
of $50 by Judge Webber on We'd
nesday morning. The disposal of the
cases against Schultz leaves only two
criminal cases to be tried, the one
against McGinnis, trivial case, and
one against G. D. Thompson. the lat
ter being on trial when this PAPER
went to press yesterday.
After extended conference with
County Attorney Clague Judge Web
Der announced Tuesday morning that
an extraordinary grand jury would not
be called for this term of court. Mr..
Clague concluded some days ago, after
the revealing of the horrible state of af-
fairs, in Granite Rock township. that
jury would be necessary, but Judge
Weber informed him that new in
dictments could not be tried at this
term and that he had better clean up
his calendar and prepare to try new
indictments on the first day of the
November term. As a result the
recognizance of James Hughes, ar
rested for taking indecent liberties
with Katie Rock, "a child under fourteen
years of age, was reduced to $500 and
on Tuesday the bail was furnished,
J Archie Stewart and Taylor Simmons
going on Hughes bond. Streifel will
haye to remain in jail until the Nov
ember term of court.
Echo is in hard luck. It invested
! $1,000 in water works and has no
: water. All of the water mains we're
laid before the boring of the we'll oc-
Cured. The construction of tbs tower
and all small items were also
carried out before this occurred.
Then the water seekers went down
400 feet to granite ledge without
striking enough water to supply a.
family we'll. It was impossible to-
work through the ledge. The drill
was pulled up and forced through The
earth in another place with the same
result. State Geologist Winchell was
i. consulted in the matter and that
official gave it as his opinion that the
granite ledge extends back from the
Minnesota river distance of 20 miles,
making it impossible for Echo to Sc
cure water. The 5000 in the system
is practically complete loss unless
Echo decided to run an aqueduct
from some point outside of a twenty
mile limit.
A Sleepy Eye special to the Journal
of Monday says that about II o'clock
Sunday night, Alfred Koechele,
a young man employed as a timer
by Hanson & Goettsche, made
murderous assault on Fritz Koehne
with a revolver, shooting at him twice.
The first shot struck Koehne in the
neck and the other did not take effect.
The assault occurred on Main street.
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