* Astronomy

On April 9, 1894, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon a peculiar rumbling sound startled the people of Fisher in Polk County, in the Red River Valley, northwestern Minnesota.
In July of the same year while making hay on a meadow in Sec. 23, R. 49, T. 150, a stone was found which had embedded itself in the sod a few inches from the force of its fall, the impact of the mass having also turned back the turf in all directions around it. There being no drift bowlders [sic] in the region on the surface, this was at once connected with the rumbling noise.
On examination it proved to be a chondritic meteoric stone. Its weight was about 9.5 pounds and it was entirely covered with the usual black crust.
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