The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-12-04

Sunday. ...T The rebellion in Buenos Ayres
is nearly at an end.
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
CITIZENS of Sterling, Blue Earth
county, are agitating the question Of
building cheese factory.
JAMES IsHERwooD of Jackson has been
tried, found guilty and fined 800 and
costs for setting prairie fire.
The new bridge over the Buffalo
river at Georgetown will be 900 feet
span and pile, and the grade work 600
cubic yards.
THE charge is made that the school
fund Of Pine county has been appro-
priated to other uses ahan school pur.
poses.
Cot. N. A. GEsNER and family of Lake
City will spend the winter in New York
city.
THE LIE Sueur Sentinel says the pop.
ulation of LIE Sueur county is about
$4,000.
DEER hunters from the interior of
the State who have been up north, re-
port game very scarce.
The Catholic church at Rochester
has received its new bell, weighing 1900
pounds and costing 500.
The Red River Star is authorized to
state that the ru.nors aaoat to the
effect that the employees Of the North
ern Pacific at Bismarck and Fargo are
''short," are utterly false.
CLARK. of the Northern Pacific Mir.
ror, predicts that Fargo will have pop.
ulation of 5000 within three years.
THE G. A. r. Of Hokah propose a
reunion of the soldiers of Houston
county, to wind up with ball. :Decem-
bcr Oath.
Some fifteen or twenty young men Of
Winona have organized a Philomathean
society, and will hold weekly reunions
during the winter months.
STATE exchanges generally report an
advance in wheat and more liberal re-.
|ceipts. The great bulk of the offerings
however, are taken by millers.
The committee Of the Wisconsin
Norwegian Synod at St. Peter will pur.
chase 81 900 worth of wheat for distri-
button to the frontier grasshopper suf-
ferers.
FARh1NoToN has been imposed upon
by temperance lecturer who, upon
the conclusion Of his lecture, straight
way proceeded to saloon and ''took
something' for his stomach's sake.
The surveying corps of the Central
Railroad have been making preliminary
examinations with the view OF connect.
ing with the Central of 1owa--a project
which will certainly be accomplished
early in the spring.
The members of Co. D. Ninth Min
nesota Regiment, will hold reunion at
}Nuttcr's Hall in St. Peter on the even.
ing of the 18th of December, being the
tenth anniversary of the battle OF
Nashville. All soldiers are invited to
attend.
REV. L, II. HuMAsoN, Of Rock Dell,
Olmsted county, reached his S0th year
on the 18th instant and preached ser.
mon on his anniversary. He was the
recipien: Of numerous gifts from his
trends and neighbors.
The home of Capt I. NJ. Thomson of
Detroit, together with some fifty bush.
els of -four, his winters stock Of provis.
ions, and most of his household goods
was burned Thursday Of last week.
WEDNESDAY night Of last week Mr.
Lockwood Of Garden City, had sixteen
stacks Of fax burned. A separator
standing near by was also burned. Tn.
fact that the stacks had been insured
for the benefit Of Mr.. Lockwood's credi
tors, and other suspicious circum
stances, leads to the suspicion that the
fire was the work Of an incendiary.
TnE new Touring mill at LIE Sueu1
was put in operation for the first tim,
Monday.
Two hundred and thirty thousant
hoop.poles have been shipped from l.
Sueur this season.
THE Catholic Fair ut Red Wing, t,
raise funds for the new church building
netted $1,000.
| Mr.. JOHN WALLACE, late of Ea,
Claire, has located at Wabashaw, wher
he is erecting building for the manu-
facture Of boilers.
ALEX. MOORE expects to have his nev
grist mill at Little Sauk running with
in forty days.
| The County Commissioners Of Wa
tonwan county have purchased thrc
and half tons Of corn meal for distri
button to the destitute of the county.
TaE Turner's Of Winona got up
torch light procession in honor. Of tn
visit of Hon. Carl Schurz to that cit1
saturday, and headed by I brass BAN
waited upon the Senator and paid thei
respects.