The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-02-26
MINNESOTA NEWS: ITEMS. r

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+ Wells has new brass band.
! AUDUBON sighs for Grange.
A BRASS band has been. orgspiized a,
Taylor 8 Falls >:5sg -a=:lit f19:E27
4siCo1- FRANCIS: BAAszx has opened a Law
Office in New Ulm. j. :. .;e.,.r lisa
TnE last snow. blockade beyond Nev
Ulm continued ten days.
An epidemic sore throat is prevailing ,rla
IN and around Taylor's Falls. '7,''s
WITH its issue Of Thursday the St,
Cloud Press entered upon its fourth year.
BRAsERD Tribune: The ..Northern
up.
TaE annual town meetings throuehout
the State are to be held March 9th this
year. s-.i...:s.~ ;. ,.-'s
IHE Mankato artesian we'll is. down to
depth Of !,07O feet. and still working
in sand rock. ..-...~- ::'*'S
CORNELIUS WHITE has been appointcp
postmaster at Othello, Olmsted county.
vice VIM. B. Porter, resigned.
Hon. B. F. LAxawoRrHY has been An.
pointed mail agent on the Southern Min
nesota railroad. - -.
JOHN R. Cook, of Rochester, paws q
personal tax of $1,922.O7. Chadburne
Bros. come next with $685.38.. !.
The State Training School for teach.
ers is to be held at Lake City, com,nenc-
lug March 10th, and continuino ona
month. =; 49,
'CHA7r1ELD Democrat -. .Wesle.rn that
= man named Smith was killed At FIJI.
more m "Wednesday last by arunaway team.
NO further particulars. '''''
MORRIS RUSSELL of the Brainerd 7+;.
6at'ae is out hat.footed for the. .bald.
headed charger: Of the prairies,'' IS the
candidate with which to break the Sena-
torial dead lock. y @..'':" :
THERE are reported to be sixty.one
families in the town of Brookville. Red.
wood county, wholly dependent on char
lty Tor support, caused by grasshoppcr
depredations.
Mr.: D. D. JONES, Jr., of South Bend.
Blue Earth county, will build the coming
season. barn and granary 10. by 80 feet.
1t will require 10000 feet Of lumber and
$1,000 shingles for the roofing.
The Mantorvillc Grange has adopted a.
resolution approving Of the course Of
those members of the Legislature who
voted against the measure to appropriate
ten dollars Of public money for private
use by way Of postage: =!
A NAN named Treeberg, chopping wood
near Moose Lake, was killed Monday af.
ternoon by the falling of several trees.
He was not found until several hours
after the accident. He leaves wife and
one child.
The Moorhead and Fargo papers are
agitating the question Of an extension of
the st. Paul and Pacific railroad from
breckenridge to connection with the
Northern Pacific at Moorhead.
The Brainerd Tribune learns that the
Detroit Record has passed into the hands
OF JOINT company, and will be hereaf.
ter edited by A. J. Clark--W. F. Ball.
the editor of the paper since its birth re-
firing.
ALBERT LEA Standard: A cores.
pondent sends us the following statement:
IL know family in this county where a
young lady is her mothers sister. About
swo weeks ago she married her brother,
and her husband is her fathers brother"
Query: What will the next generation
be?
A BRAKEsM4N named Charles Durand
fell between two freight cars near La
Moile, Wednesday afternoon, and was
dragged several rods before the train was
stopped. His left leg was badly injured.
The St. Cloud Times denies the para.
graph in the report of the State Auditor,
crediting Stearns county with having a
bonded Indebtedness Of $8l, 900. On The
contrary. the Times says Stcarns county
has not dollar of indebtedness.
FARIBAu1r Republican The friends
o! the gallant and lamented Lieut.. John
G. Whipple, will be gratified to know that
a pension has at last been awarded to his
widow and son, minor, amounting to
$l9 per month till the latter attains his
majority, and $l7 thereafter, with 81. 400
for arrearages.
Rev. DR.. KIDNEY, Divinity Professor Of
the Seabury Divinity College, was scri
ously injured by q fall Monday forenoon.
In the fall he struck the back Of his head
head on the hard.trodden snow Of the
sidewalk with such force az to render him
unconscious, from which he had not fully
recovered on Wednesday,.
FRANK H1BBARD, a young married man
in the employ Of the railroad company at
Red Wing, went with his wife some two
weeks ago to Winona. From Winona,
Hibbard went to La Cross alone, since
which nothing hasPbeen heard of him. AS
his accounts were all right with the com.
pany, it is conjectured he has met with
foul play.
ST. CHAkLrs is worrying over a dis
tressing conumdrum. A Mr.. Stagg,
whose children have had the chicken pox,
was taken down himself the other day,
and some Of the doctors pronounce his a
case Of genuine smallpox, while others
stick on the chicken.
AUSTIN Transcript: Geo. E. Skinner,
Esq, and two other gentlemen, of Fari.
bault, will build steam grist mill and q
warehouse at Belleview Station, between
Adams and Leroy, as soon a. spring
opens. The mill will have eight run Of
stone and be supplied with all. the mod.
ern appliances for doing first class work.
From fifty to one hundred men will be
employed there during the entire sum
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