The Redwood gazette., 1896-08-13

MISS MaItle B1gnam Is VlSltlug Will
friends in st. Paul this week.
Miss Ella Laird spent the past three
or four days visiting with her sister in
Granite Falls.
The Wisconsin Business University
of Lacrosse, Wis, offers a three
months course free to students enter
ing on or before September 14lh. Write
for particulars. 52-4t
E. B. Hale threshed ten-acre patch
of wheat last Saturday. 1t averaged
him % bushels of good No. Northern
wheat to the acre. A small patch of
oats, also threshed out, averaged him
IS bushels per acre.
A foot race between Ron. Theiring
and sprinter giving his name as Will
liams occurred on Second street, this
city, Saturday evening. The race was
for 100 yards and was easily won by
Williams, who showed to every person
who witnessed the race that he was a
speedy sprinter.
New Ulm News: Judge and Mrs.
Webber and son Frank returned home
Wednesday evening from trip of
nearly three weeks on Lakes Superior
and Erie. They were on the lakes
about two weeks, and enjoyed the cool
breeze while their friends at home were
sweltering in the intense heat. They
came home greatly refreshed, Of course.
The New Ulm Review reports the
death of Jacob LOesch of that city on
Tuesday Of last week. Death resulted
from congestion of the brain caused by
the intense heat. Loesch was well up
to the time of his death and was chop
ping wood in the yard at the moment
when he fell to the ground, the victim
of sunstroke. The thermometer regis
tered 1O6 at the time of the fatality.
Professor Otto Lugger, State Ento-
mologist, states that the insects now SO
damaging in the West Central counties
are Frit-fies which are related to the
Hessian fly but do not cause so much
damage. He is now studying and eX-
perimenting with this pest and later
will give out much information about
it. The best known remedy is to plow
Immediately after harvesting in order
to plow the insects under.
President II. J. Sloan of the Sheridan
creamery association, was in the city
last Saturday evening securing a load
of ice from the houses of w. r. Cas-
well. President Sloan states that the
extreme hot weather of the past two OF
three weeks has completely absorbed
the ice crop harvested by his associa-
ton last winter and that the associa-
ton would be obliged to depend upon
the Caswell ice houses of this city fol
ice for the remainder of the season.
The water works system was thrown
out of gear for an hour or more last
Sunday morning, owing to a broken
valve at the power house. Not DROP
of water passed through the pipes dur:
ing the break and the time occupied in
repairing and some Of the patrons in.
dulged in more or less kicking. Supt
Parkhill went to work repairing the
break as soon as he found out where
the trouble was and by $50 O'Clock
there was plenty of water for general
use.
/ G. A. Davis, son Of Sylvester Davis
residing southwest of the city, met with
a painful accident shortly after nine
o'clock last Sunday morning He was
loading SS Scalibre revolver at the
time and had just raised the trigger
when bis thumb slipped from the latte,
and exploded one of the cartridges. The
ball passed through the 1eshy portion
of his left hand, going at an angle OF
about As degrees and landing in the
ground. Mr.. Davis felt no pain on ac
count of the wound which he dressed
himself, but which was inspected by
DIR. Finn on the following day.
DIR. Conway of Marshall, attending 9
dental convention in New York, writes
back to Editor Case of the Reporter, in
a sarcastic mood, to the effect that he
finds quite silver sentiment on his
way east nearing Philadelphia, but re
marks that the letter is not for publica
ton. Case comments upon the lette1
in sarcastic vein, as follows: This
comes earlier than we had expected, but
we told Doc when he left here with on.
ly five-dollar gold piece that he would
be reduced to silver basis and SEE
trouble before he got home. We have
referred his case to the Demopop party
in this county, and they have levied a
per capita assessment of 25 cents which
ought to bring in for the Doctors relie1
about $3.50, and we hope he will be able
to pull through.
The heavy storm clouds that were
visible in the northwest last Friday ev.
ening had accomplished ruin and dis
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