The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1896-01-16
NEWS IN MINNESOTA
MINNESOTA STATE FLAG DREW A
MEDAL AT ATLANTA.

MINNESOTA STATE FLAG DREW A
MEDAL AT ATLANTA.
Report of Commissioner williams on
the Cass-Crow Wing Boundary Matter
Rejected-Ex-Governor Marshall Dies
In California.
An Art Students League has been
organized at St. Paul.
Fire destroyed the creamery of John
Vanasek at Montgomery.
A curfew ordinance has been passed
by the st. Cloud city council.
Daniel Chase, aged 80, resident of
Minneapolis since 1854, is dead.
The annual meeting of the State His
torical society was held at st. Paul
Monday.
Attorney General Childs authorizes
the statement that he is candidate for
reelection.
Ex-Governor Merriam of Minnesota
has purchased team of fast trotters at
Versailles, KY.
Congressman Towne has introduced
bill appropriating $4,000 for public
building at st. Cloud.
Mr.. Pierce of Anoka defeated DR..
Truax and becomes champion checker
player Of the Northwest.
New Paynesville (Minn. would like
to be the county seat of new county
to be formed from Stearns, Meeker and
Kandiyohi counties.
Charles Thompson Of st. Paul, who
was shot through the lung, and whose
recovery was thought impossible, is out
again aftsr only ten days.
Patrick McTighe, prominent far
mer living near Mankato, was held up
by two footpads while driving home
and was relieved of his cash, $40.
The hearing on the injunction pro-
ceedings restraining the commissioners
from locating the fourth insane hospital
at Anoka came up before Judge Kelly
at St. Paul Saturday and was continued
for a week.
State Treasurer Koerner has returned
from New York with $230,O00 worth Of
bonds, purchased with school money.
There are 1000 Virginias, III Alabamas
and 25 state bonds, the average interest
on the purchase being per cent.
Governor Clough has appointed F. F.
Westbrook, professor Of bacteriology at
the state university to the state board
of health, to succeed DR.. Hoegh Of
Minneapolis, whose term expired Jan.
l. He also reappointed on the same
board Doctors w. T. Mayo Of Olmsted
county and Charles F. McComb Of
Duluth.
Governor Clough has received Motif
cation from the officials of the Atlanta
exposition that the state flag won a
silver medal in the flag exhibit at At
lanta. The medal will be accompanied
by diploma Of excellence. The state
flag is the one made by the woman s
board of the state and exhibited at the
worlds fair.
A new town has been created On the
shores of Leech lake and it will soon
have charter to officially recognize its
existence. 1t is called Lawrence, and
the surveyors have just completed the
skeleton Of it's anatomy. It is situated
on the west shore of the lake at the
present terminus of the Brainerd and
Northern railroad.
Dairy Commissioner Anderson has
started his inspectors on the work Of
| investigating the stables of Minnesota
COWS. This is the beginning of work
that is prosecuted each year by the state
dairy and food commission. The in
spection is to be finished previous to the
meeting of the commission in May,
when the dairymen are granted their
licenses
| Colonel w. w. Williams has reported
to Governor Clough the result Of his
investigation Of the number of legal
voters resident in the II townships Of
Cass county which the state commits
sion has been petitioned to annex to
Crow Wing county. He reported that
there were 40 legal voters in the strip
instead Of SO. as claimed by the petit.
TONERS. Therefore, instead of IS names
being sufficient signers of the petition,
" signatures would be needed.
The state annexation commission,
composed of Governor Clough, Auditor
Dunn and Assistant Secretary Of State
Lowen refused to accept the report.
It is alleged Williams did the work i'm
perfectly.