The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1911-01-10
AROUND THE COUNTY.
Items of interest Taken from the
Country Papers.

CereQ the puDllSnefS trust ana the
combination bid was accepted today.
In this way practically every tax
payer in the county will be able to
learn what the commissioners are
doing with all that tax money.
Window Reporter: The E. C.
Huntington family are looking for
ward with feelings Of mingled
pleasure and sorrow at the prospect
of soon moving to St. Paul, pleasure
at the anticipation of a home in the
city, and sorrow at leaving their
home and old-time friends here.
Without this family Window will
not seem the same. E. &. is expect
ed home today or tomorrow, when
it is expected plans will be complet-
ed for their removal to make home
at his work at the state farm school.
They expect to reside in St. Paul.
Olivia Times: A peculiar accident
occurred at j. M. Comford's Monday
morning which might have resulted
far more seriously than it did. A
tank of water in the kitchen is heat
ed by passing through pipes that
connect with the fire box Of the cook
stove. On Sunday Mr.. and Mrs.
Comford were away from home and
the water in the pipes and tank froze
up. Some time after the fire was
started Monday morning and while
Mrs. Comford was getting breakfast
an explosion took place in which the
stove was blown into hundred
pieces, some of the pieces going
through the window and others scat
tering about the floor. The ice in
the pipes prevented the steam which
formed in the water front from cir
culating and hence the explosion.
Mrs. Comford was standing by the
side of the stove when the explosion
occurred but fortunately escaped
injury.
Granite Falls Journal: A young
Bohemian by the name of Joseph
Herzan, living not far from the FL
mon residence in Mcleod county has
been arrested for the shooting of
Mrs. Fimon, aged ga, Sunday night,
Dec. 4. Detectives have been at
work on the case ever since, and
they finally placed the guilt upon
Herzan, aged 20. He has confessed
and says he went to the Fimon resi-
dence to make them give up their
money. When the husband went
up stairs. ostensibly to get the mon
ey, but jumped from a window and
gave the alarm, he says the old lady
held a lantern up to his face and
said she knew him. This, he says,
scared him so badly that he shot
without thinking what he was doing.
1t is we'll for him and the communi-
ty that he was not apprehended i'm
mediately, for if he had been there
is little question but Mcleod county
would have had second lynching.
Window Citizen: The little son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Hawkins
nearly choked himself to death last
Thursday afternoon. as we'll as Sc
verely frightening his parents.
While the parents were temporarily
absent from the room the boy, who
was playing with some spools,
among other things, in some manner
swallowed one of them. In his at
tempts to help himself he made such
a commotion that his parents were
called to his assistance, and they did
everything to assist him that was in
their power to do, and yet at one
time it was thought he would surely
choke to death. Finally, however,
the spool was worked down into the
stomach so that the immediate dan
ger was passed. A physician was
called, but could do no more than
had been done. In the evening the
youngSter was taken to Heron Lake
by auto where an X-ray examination
was made of the stomach, but it was
impossible to locate the spool. In
all probabilities the youngster will
experience but little trouble with
the extraordinary swallow" for a
time, and eventually it may be nee
essary to remove the spool by an op
Grafton.
"Thnv never knock dead ono,, !,