The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-09-10

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MINNESOTA sNA'lTERS.
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the St. Croix are 'lekvingt for the pineries.
FLAX raising is' plo6tABlslln W sshing-
ton countyIthte II gt eBtire, rs, Sep having been
already contracted for st $l1 per ton.
Two men escaped. IRON The tlheel Afbert Lea
jail On the 30th' by cuttinktothe bars
Of the: windows. They +wereI Subsequent
ly recaptured.
fAcKERxAx iB.os!> Of Young 'Arineries;;
Carver county, t4hreshed from 8 1.2 acres
= crop of wheat averaging 2 yield Of 40
bushels to the acre "a ,,:1 - r u
The track and bridges on tho ,Winona'
d St. Peter: railroad between Lewiston
and Minnesota City .hAqe been washed
away for distanoe Of ten miles. ~. -: ~. -:
A NAN and his daughter, whose names
are unknown, while trying to cross =:
swollen stream near Oronoc0, in Olmsted
county, were drowned on the 1st. W., - .'' " "
A PAINTER, named James Nc Lauehlan,
had terrible fall of 25 to: 80 feet, on the
Goth ult., while engaged in painting"a =
school house in Rochester. ""i',s. 4
WV. MCCARTHY, a cripple, was brutally
assaulted on the 28th ult., by man
named Hans Erick, near the Minneapolis
cepot in Carver. The brute escaped. i
WHILE some parties were excavating
for fume in the river bed at Sunrise,
Chisago county, the other day, they
found large piece of solid copper, weigh .
ing 12 l-2 pounds.
AFTER paying the expenses Of the re.
cent survey to Lake Superior via the St.
Croix, the commission will have funds
enough to make a survey of1.the route
from the Mississippi to the Lake.
A GERMAN named August Yalkinan,
while engaged in a quarrel with August
Yonkman about anIlold threshing ma
chine, two miles. north Of Rushford,
stabbed and instantly killed the latter.
The murderer is still at large.
RECENTLY young man in Raymond,
Stearns county arose from bed in his
sleep dressed himself and started on a
tramp. Hegot five miles from home
when he was suddenly awakened by
stepping off bridge into the water.
The cranberry crop in the vicinity Of
Rush and Pine cities, which, it was esti-
mated, would yield from 5000 to 1000
bushels, was totslly destroyed by the re-
cent frost. The berries would have been
ready for gathering in about ten days.
A HARVESTER named McClune, being At
tackled near Chester, Olmsted county, by
some half dozen other laborers. fred =
pistol into the crowd. striking one Thos.
Fuller, but not seriously injuring him.
At this, the crowd incontinentlY dis
persed.
SALTWATER Lum,bern,d7a From "a
acres, W. H. Guernsey, of Alton, secured
1900 bushels of first-class barley, which
he disposed of for $l per bushel. Imme-.
diately contiguous thereto he raised =
prime, No. article of wheat, which
threshed out at the rate of full 20 bushels
to the acre.
FERGUS FALLS Journal: We under
stand that A. Fl. Rosebocm Of Cherry
Valley, N. Y. contemplates purchasing
between three and four thousand acres Of
land lying between Otter Tail and Battle
Lake, with the view of farming on large
scale. This land is held in trust by
Bishop Whipple for the college at Fari-
bault. =. liz
EXPERIMENTS made with the new lum-
ber dryer recently put up at Saltwater,
indicate that boar weighing 33 pounds,
after remaining 48 hours in the machine
had shrunk to ID IL pounds, and on be-
ing again subjected to the same test for
another period Of 48 hours further
shrinkage of only half pound was no:
ticeable.
The Gleucoc butcher suddenly :ttlit
OUT after having laid unlawful hands on
other peoples bovines and sold them out
to his customers. Such conduct moves
the Register to remark that; 4 butcher
who is not willing to pay the low prices
that beef cattle command in this market
at this time, but will resort to stealing.
ought to be fed on buffalo fish for the re-
mainder of his natural life.
FAR1BAuLr Democrat: About year
since, Rev. Erik L. Peterson, Of this do
cese, began the never before attempted
work of translating the mission servica
of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer
into the Norwegian language. The work
completed, it was neatly printed at the
office of the Chicago Skandinauie1e, and
is a very handsome job. Besides the
mission service the book contains forty
hymns and forms very perfect work for
the purpose for which it is intended. '!'s
RUSH CITY Post: A large bear was re-
cent?, killed in the vicinity Of Spring
Lake by Swede. The bear was in tho
habit Of going into his cellar from the
outside in the night time and drinking
milk from pans. The Swede set a rife
for him SO it would 60 off when the bear
passed into the cellar. He went in and
the result is the bears head, nicely
stuffed, is sticking up in the depot at
North Branch.
| Minnesota State Fair.
| MORE than usual interest is manifested
in the coming State Fair to be held in
St. Paul Sept. IA, Is, 16, and 18th. The