The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-06-28


shall Thursday and will probably
remain there during the summer.
Miss Susie Abbott came over from
Renville last week and is now visit
ing with the family Of D. J.. Laird.
Mrs. W. S. Brammer returned
from trip to GAINESVILLE and other
eastern points on Tuesday of last
week.
S. G.. Peterson left for Glencoe
Saturday to spend Sunday with his
family and to make arrangements
for removing them to this city.
G. G. Chollar of Arcadia, Fla,
formerly of this city, was in New
York last week negotiating the sale
ola large quantity of Florida oranges.
H. F. Carter, travelling passenger
agent of the Union Pacific, with
headquarters at St. Paul, was in
the city on Friday and Saturday
last, working up some California
excursion business for his route
1t was reported during the early
portion of last week that the parents
and husband of Miss Alice Hebron
Newell, at one time employed in the
millinery department Of Francois &
Schmahl's store, had been killed in
the New Richmond cyclone. A
letter has since been received from
Mrs. Newell, who resides in Marsh
field, saying that the nearest rela-
tives killed or wounded in the
cyclone were an uncle and aunt
The finest strawberries ever
brought to this city were those
brought in from O. A. Mason s farm
three miles east of this city, last
Thursday. Every berry was as
large as fair sized English walnut,
while one box offered for sale con-
tanned berries, every one of which
measured an inch and a half in
diameter. The general diameter
average was about an inch and a
quarter.
Echo Enterprise: A letter re-
ceived from J. T. Martin last Satur-
day stated that two cousins and an
aunt of Mrs. Martin were killed, also
a cousin of his. That his. brother S
house was not damaged more than
that the windows were all blown
out, while Mrs. Martin S fathers
house was the only oneleft standing
in the block. Three brothers of
the husband of Mrs. Allie Newell
were injured, one dying in the hos
pital in St. Paul. He further said
that the newspaper accounts have
not been overdrawn in the least.
The Omaha company has just
purchased a machine for cutting
steel rails. The cutter has car of
it's own and can be moved along the
line as occasion demands. It was
tested at Worthington last week and
found to be in every way satisfac-
tory. It is operated with COM
pressed air and will saw a rail
through in five seconds. 1t is also
equipped with an apparatus for Dor
ing holes in rails, also operated
with compressed air. The machine
cost $16, 900 and is the first one of
the kind ever brought into the
northwest.
During the storm Of last Wednes-
day morning lightning struck the
of Willet Greene, in Wat
son S addition, ran down the pipe
to the stove, where the current
divided, one passing through the
floor and splintering it badly, while
the other current passed into the
pantry, tore several articles to
and then passed out of the
house. A second before. Mrs.
Greene, who had been standing over
the stove attending to some canning,
feared that a bolt was about to strike
the house, and had just moved away
from the stove when the bolt came.
She was quite severely shocked,
and did not recover from the effects
Of the same for a couple of days. |
The GAINESVILLE Argus of last week
the following: The crew
on No. 81 west Sunday night had a
experience. The train
was caught in a storm about two
miles east of this place and although
a full head of steam was on with one
Of the most powerful freight engines
on the road the train barely moved