The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1900-03-07

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Minneapolis Saturday, remaining
there for several days.
There was meeting Of the mem
bers Of the Republican league IN
st. Paul on Thursday Of last week
and the Pioneer Press contains the
following item Of interest to Red
wood county Republicans: The
kpresident and secretary of the Rel
wood county league having re-
moved from the county, on the sng-
gestion of Mr.. Larson, President
| Wright named I. n. Tompkins Of
Redwood Falls as temporary presi-
dent and Fred Gerhard of Lanber-
ton as temporary secretary of the
Redwood county league.
The March apportionmento of State
school funds now being made by
State Auditor Dunn is on the basis
of $1.25 per pupil and is compare
lively the largest apportionment of
school fund ever made in the
State. Redwood county having
1874 pupils entitled to the appor-
tioument, will receive 81. 49,. 80.
Renyille county has 5,213 pupils en-
titled to apportionment and will re-
ceive s6,5l6.25.T ,Lyon county has
1922 pupils and will receive S., O52.-
80, Brown county has 3,505 pupils
and will receive 81, 381. 25. Cotton
wood county has 2,499 pupils and
will receive So, 1870.
Noble Coucheron of Echo, who
has assisted the Redwood Falls or
chestra on several occasions, ex-
poets to visit here frequently, be
having organized a class for the
purpose of teaching them the art Of
pia ying the. flute. Mr.. Coucheron
is Norwegian by birth, but he Sc
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ents, his grandfather having moved
from France to Norway and taking
up permanent residence among
the Morse race Mr.. Coucheron S
mother was Norwegian girl, and
having been brought up in Norway,
with a Norwegian mother, and his
father not talking anything else but
the Morse language in the house, he
became thoroughly Norwegianized.
It may not be generally known
but it is nevertheless a fact that
the case of S. D. Peterson VS.. the
Western Union Telegraph Co., an
action brought to recover $4,000
damages by reason of the company
transmitting message to Mr.. Pet
erson at ST. Paul. from New Ulm,
in which. it read Slippery Sam,
Your Name is Pants, ; has been
settled. Mr.. Peterson was paid
81, 900 by the company, most, if not
all of which went for expenses. The
case went to the supreme court sey-
eral different times, all on account
of excessive verdicts rendered by
the jury, and the Supreme Court
granted a new trial on each appli-
cation, until the case was settled.
NJ. J. Smith, father of Geo. w.
and Charles n. Smith, who has
been visiting with his sons in this
city for some time, had narrow
escape from death on Tuesday even
ing of last week at the home of the
first named son. Mr.. Smith had
retired for the evening. and later
woke up with very severe pain in
his stomach. In order to get to
sleep he moistened cloth with
chloroform and placed it over his
mouth. This cloth he failed to re-
move before he went to sleep and
the next morning he was suffering
from the effects of the dose of chlor-
oform. DR.. Pease was called and
after working over him for several
hours the patient was restored to
consciousness. Mr.. Smith is an old
soldier and came here recently from
| Iowa.
There was a sheriff sale of clocks
at the court house last Thursday
morning. The sale has tale.
When E. J. Steuerwald closed out
his stock here he took the clocks.
including a regulator, over to Bell
& Persons, and asked them to pack
them and ship them to him at Elan
drau, South Dakota The clocks
had been nicely packed and boxed
and marked to Mr.. Steuerwald. and
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