The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1895-08-01
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

NEWS LIN MlNNEOO1A
Prison life is said not to agree with
Murderer Blixt.
August 6 Bird Island will vote on the
question Of waterworks.
Morrison county's fair will be held
ct Little Falls Sept. 5, 6, Z.
Sons Of Herman celebrated the 25th
birthday of the order at st. Paul.
A state association of master plumb.
ers has been organized at st. Paul.
The Granville Enterprise has been
purchased by Thomas H. Prowse of st.
Paul.
William Powers, charged with sell
ing liquor without a license at Amboy,
was convicted.
J. ]. Bowman, while watching the
ball game at st. Paul, had his nose
broken by foul tip.
Mrs. Henry Panfield committed sui
eide at Duluth because of an uncon.
trollable appetite for drink.
The st. Paul Dental association will
try to secure the next convention of the
American Dental association.
Winnebago City refuses, by vote Of
120 to 5, to surrender her special char.
ter for new one under general laws.
Ollie German, who was kidnapped
from her parents at Browns Valley Is
years ago, has been located at Wichita,
Kan.
The story comes from Mapleton that
swarm of bees had taken possession
of house chimney which is constantly
In use.
Fred Young and Andrew Ostberg OF
Princeton, quarreled over a boundary
line. Young was shot, but will prob.
ably recover.
The Great Northern has changed the
name of the station Schriebers Siding,
Clay county, a little south of Moor
head, to Ruthruff.
Arrangements are being made fo1
the building of another government
Indian school at Nett Lake on the Yer
million reservation.
Clarence E. Watkins has been ap-
pointed to succeed his father, S. S.
Watkins, as superintendent of the state
fish hatchery, at St. Paul.
The reservoirs at the headwaters OF
the Mississippi will be opened Aug.
in order to raise the stage of water in
the river to navigable height
The state commission has awarded
the contract for the construction of the
annex to the Fergus Falls insane hospi-
tai to John Mauretson for 1874, 400.
Joseph Shotley, an Indian, died at Clo-
quet aged so. He spoke four Indian
languages, French, German and Eng
ish. He was an uncle of Louis Reil.
Pierre Bottineau died Saturday at
Red Lake Falls, surrounded by his wife
and children. His career is strongly
associated with the early history of the
state.
Grand Rapids has completed model
Jail at cost Of $4,000. The county
commissioners of Itasca county are ne.
gotiating $50, 900 bonds for a court
house.
There will be meeting of the state
railroad and warehouse commission in
St. Paul Aug. s, for the purpose of es-
tablishing the grade OF Minnesota
cereals for the coming year.
All of the space in the main building
at the state fair has already been re.
quested by exhibitors, and meeting oil
the executive committee has been called
to devise means of finding additional
room.
A. F. Ferris, treasurer of the state
board of game and fish commissioners,
has flied with State Auditor Dunn a
check for $1,000, that being the
amount, outside of expenses, turned
over by Executive Agent Fullerton fol-
the sale of fish seized by game war.
dens. The fish so seized was illegally
caught with nets.
The semi-annual state prison census
has been completed by Secretary Hart,
of the state board Of charities and cor
rections. The total number of prison.
ers in all prisons of the state, June 80
was 1908. OF this number 22S were
from Hennepin county, 221 from Ram
sey county and l21 from st. Louis
county. This is an increase since 1888
in the prison population of the state Of
- per cent.