The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1909-05-05

The Rock Valley church near Echo
was damaged by lightning last week.
1t costs from S65 to S115 to take
a trip in balloon from Boston but
one can go up in the air in Redwood
Falls for nothing.
The recent removal of the office
force of the Sleepy Eye Roller Mills
to Minneapolis will reduce the popu-
lation of Sleepy Eye by forty or
more.
Mike Bunce met his death at Min
neota one day last week by walking
out OF a door on the upper floor of
his house, the door having originally
opened out upon a landing which
had been removed. It is supposed
that he arose in the night and for
getting the removal of the landing
outside, walked out to his death,
falling upon a cement walk and
fracturing his skull.
In a fit of dependency, caused by
continued i'll health, Henry Lomis, a
widely known horseman, committed
suicide by hanging at his home in St.
Peter last week. He was II years
of age. Mr.. Lomis had followed the
racing game in this state for more
than fifty years Nearly all his life
was spent in the atmosphere of the
race course, and as boy in Wiscon-
sin he was successful jockey.
The Business Mems club of st.
James, Mimi, in seeking to have
the Martin Luther College, now at
New Ulm. removed to St. James,
has offered to donate a site and a
: building ST. James Park hotel
building, said to have been erected
at cost of $4,000. The building
is Thoughts to be adequate to meet
the needs of the college for at least
some years. The final disposition
of the matter rests with the general
synod, which will meet in August.
!. The institution, by the way, will eel
citrate on June 18th, in BETTING
. manner, its twenty-ffth anniver-
, sary.
Milroy Echo: This community
was shocked to learn that on Sunday
morning Mr.. Isaac Moore, an old and
highly respected citizen of Westline
township, had died. Since the death
of his wife, some six weeks ago, Mr..
Moore has made his home with his
daughter, Mrs. Fred Slower, in
Gales. and at whose home he was at
the time of his death. Isaac Moore
was born in 1843 in Niagara county,
. New York, and later came west and
located in Wisconsin. When % years
r of age he enlisted in the Thirty-sixth
, Wisconsin and served during the
, Civil war, with the exception of one
year, when he was a prisoner in the
famous Libby prison.
e The Marshall News-Messenger
D thinks there is something rotten
S about the finding of the coroner's
: jury as to the recent suicide of the
e woman at Tyler. The inquest was
: loosely conducted and the fact thai
S the man in the case had the leaf OF
/. the hotel register torn out contain
e ing the registry of the couple a:
O man and wife and another registra
ton made lends color to the suspi
a cion of crookedness, the torn GU
o leaf having the couple registered a.
h man and wife while the second reg
istration was under different names
O The question as asked by the News
: Messenger appears to be one that
G grand jury should inquire into
:. why should a woman in the primt
$ of life, the possessor of handsom,
d competence, with $4,000 on her per
o. son, and bedecked with diamonds
d and other jewelry commit sui
4 eide in the presence of the man VIII,
|. was alleged to owe her S12,OOO?"
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