The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-09
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
GOVERNOR CLOUGH AND OTHERS
SUED FOR DAMAGES.

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the Complainants-Some State Ofacers
Reappointed-Coal Near Appleto,.
Coal in apparently abundant quantity
has been discovered near Appleton.
Hon. John Zelch has been appointed
state boiler inspector, vice Sutton.
Contract for the new court house a,
Waterville has been let for $3S, 900.
Fire at Blooming Prairie did damage
to the extent of from ST., 200 to SIS, 900.
A contract has been let for the con.
struction of Fort Karnival at St. Paul.
A. G. Matthews, doing business at
Lake Benton as private banker. has
assigned.
Attorney General Childs has decided
that legal newspapers must be printed
altogether in English.
The work of laying ties and rails on
the Minneapolis, New Ulm and South.
western railroad has begun.
Total receipts of the St. Paul post.
Office during 1886 were $422, 046. OF, an
increase of $5S,371.6S over 1894.
Burglars opened the safe of LYMAN
Bros at Excelsior, Mimi, took $24 in
money and also stole a large quantity
of flour.
While trying to save her children
Mrs. Chris Peterson of Granite Falls
was fatally burned. One child also
persisted.
Owing to the refusal of the council to
issue license to druggists, Glenwood,
with a population Of over 1900, is
without drug store.
Michael Prokop, a farmer near Wi.
mona, gave his insane son whisky.
whereupon the latter stabbed his father
with perhaps fatal results.
The state insurance department has
revoked the license of the Minnesota
Insurance company of Minneapolis be-
cause judgment remained unpaid.
The St. James building record for the
year 1895 foots up 1886, 900, an increase
of $4,000 over 1894. The population
increased during the year over 20 per
cent.
Ralph Parker of Alexandria, and
well known citizen of that place,
went to Minneapolis Saturday, but on
Monday disappeared and has not since
been seen. His friends fear foul play.
Near Glencoe man named Bergman
lost an eye and another man, whose
name could not be learned, had hand
shattered by the explosion of shotgun
with which they were celebrating the
New Year.
Governor Clough, his private secre-
tary Tams Bixby, president of the HUI
name Society, D. R. Noyes, and T. L.
Wilson are the defendants in three
suits for damages aggregating $75, 900.
The actions are brought by river steam
boatmen, and grow out of the stopping
of the Needham Moore fight last sum
mer. The damages are asked for false
imprisonment.
The Fort Ridgley monument COM
mission has encountered great difficulty
in collecting names of defenders of the
fort during the siege of 1862 to be
inscribed on the monument. Names
have been collected through the most
reliable sources available, but as the
committee wants everything correct it
invites suggestions of any kind that
may aid in the historical accuracy of
the record. Charles E. Flandrau of st
Paul is chairman of the commission.
C.E Rhodes, alias Charles E. Esch,
bought Christmas presents almost with.
out number in st. Paul and Minneapolis
the last three weeks, and he did it on
other peoples money by some very
clever forgeries. The amount he has
gathered in this way foots up about
$4,000. He has worked" IL banks in
st. Paul and Minneapolis, and the DO.
lice do not know whether he is in Lon
don, Havana or st. Paul. Rhodes for
geries were in the majority Of cases &C.
complished by means Of bank cashiers
certifcation stamp.
Hundreds of the good citizens Of Du-
luth, regardless Of party, met at the
city hall to place in nomination candi-
dates for mayor and for aldermen from
the eight wards, with the object in
view Of wiping out of existence the
Duluth Gas and Water company. s.
D. Allen, the former city attorney and
a sworn enemy of the gas company, was
chosen as the standard bearer. The
nominees for aldermen are all men
whom the company has used it's infu-
ence against at various times.
Governor Clough has made the fol.
lowing reappointments: M. D. Ken.
yon, public examiner; Ira B. Mills,
Moorhead, member of the board of rail-
road and warehouse commissions; J. G.
Pyle, st. Paul, director Of the state
institute for detectives; N. o. Werner,
Minneapolis, member Of the board of
managers Of the state training school;
II. S. Griswold. Chatfield, member Of
the board of managers Of the state re-
formatory; j. s. O'Brien, Saltwater,
member Of the board of managers Of
the state prison.