The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-10
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.

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Mosr Of the Minneapolis saw mills
will shut down on the 18th.
WILD geese are very plenty in the
northwestern part Of the State.
CaArF1ELD is talking narrow gauge
railroad up the Root valley to Foun.
tain.
A BEET weighing eleven and a half
pounds is what Mr.. G. E. Stacy, Of
olmsted, is Dragging about. Beet it.
The Dodge county Fair was a grand
success. Gov. Davis delivered the ad.
dress.
The cost of the Hospital for Insane
up to this time foots up $3.50, 900, and
when finished will be about $5OO,00O.
Orro MEYER, brother of Ernest Never
Of St. Peter, while en- route to that
place from San Francisco, was robbed
of $4,000.
1T is claimed that valuable iron mine
has been discovered in one of the hills
embraced in the corporate limits of
Duluth.
Mr.. II. J. PECK of Chaska is soon to
remove to Shakopee, where he will form
partnership with Hon. l.. NJ. Brown,
Tor the practice of law.
MEssRs. WEARY & JONES of ST.
Cloud have the contract for manufac-
turing forty bob.sieds for L. K. Bent
'ey OF Winnipeg, Manitoba.
A MOVEMENT is in progress for a tenn
porary or permanent union of the Con-
gregational and Presbyterian churches
# Lake City.
julius HANK1NGs' mill at Browns
vile, Houston county, was burned Thurs
fAy night of last week. Believed in.
cendiary.
PROF. j. W. TAYLOR, formerly cura-
tor of the State Cabinet of Natural
History, Albany, N. Y, is to deliver
course Of lectures on Geology, at Fari-
bault.
The Fergus Falls Advocate SAYS
''wheat is coming in in fair quantities,
Page & Scott taking all that is offered
from G8 to IS cents, according to quail
lty.
THE Duluth Iron Works have recent
[y changed hands. Mr.. B. S. Russell,
the new proprietor, proposes to go ex-
tensively into the manufacture Of
stoves of various kinds.
NEARLY thousand head of cattle.
belonging to Olmsted farmers, herded
during the summer in Mower county.
passed through Rochester one day last
week, being returned to their owners.
The Excelsior cheese factory, Olm-
sted county, has stopped operations af-
ter successful season, turning out
from 10000 to $4,000 cheese, for which
the milk from 100 to ITO COWS was used.
WIN. DAVIS and VIM. Densmore Of
Pine City are building new Touring
and saw-mill on the site of the mill
burned at Newport in May last, to cost
about $4,000.
A FIRE Tuesday night of last week.
destroyed thrcshing machine, six
stacks of grain, and wagon, for Mrs.
Hargrayes Of Mound Prairie. Houston
county.
FRANK GALE, a notorious rough, we'll
known at Winona and other river
towns, has his skull fractured at o
''crib' near Eau Claire, Wis, on We'd
nesday night. His recovery is doubt
full.
REAL ESTATE in Chatfic|d seems to be
in healthy condition. Not long ago
a piece of property sold for 5000. A
little later the same property sold for
$500, and last week it was again sold,
bringing $l,l00.
The Sherbunc County News requests
that delinquent subscribers will not
permit their daughters to use the paper
for hustle. There being so much
due on it there is danger Of catching
cold.
Mrs. DAvy, wife Of George Davy,
Of Rochester, disgusted by family trou.
bles with life, attempted suicide Sun
day Of last week by swallowing an
ounce and a half Of bclladonna. The
poison we'll down, Mrs. Davy changed
her mind, and fortunately in time to
allow stomach pump to remove the
drug.
A PosToFF1cE has been established at
W acouta. Goodhuc county, With Mrs.
Caroline Drum as postmistrcss.
A BANK to be known as the Goodhue
County Savings Bank will soon be es-
tablished in Red Wing.
The third annual fair of the Sibley
County Agricultural Society will be
held at Arlington on the 18th of Octo-
Der.
FLAX is a good crop in Douglas coun-
ty this year, and with the low price of
wheat, the farmers are coneratulatine
themselves on cultivating it so largely
IS they did.
SAMUEL j. WISE OF LIE Sueur broke
several arteries in his kidneys, by fall
from barn Monday. Mr.. Wise did
not feel much injured at the time,
but late Monday night he commenced
expectorating blood, and has since been
confined to his house.
THE Fergus Falls Journal thinks the
code will have to be introduced
INTO this State for the benefit of the
horse thieves. 1t is:
They found tree, and tied the rope
Unto a swinging limb.
1t happened that the other end
Was somehow hitched to him.
TwENrr's1x sheep belonging to George
Baihly were killed by dogs on his farm
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