The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-02-05
NUMBER ! ! { .22..
MINNESOTA "A. NEWS ITEMS.

=: MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
NEARLY all the wells Of Elk river are
frozen up. ~ u :. ~ -.1
The land office at Alexandra was re-
opened last week. *.>
A GROVE Of Druids was organized at
Delano, W Wednesday. : al;
The school houses in Faribault county
are valued at 81, ,555. .5,1''2s. *@
The building improvements in 81 pring
Valley the past year aggregated $3l,150.
THERE are but three places in Lincoln
and Lyon counties where liquors arc sold
even for medicine. '3& .:. u, .:s~t3s >
f. FREQuExr explosions Of kcro;ss;cere lamps
and narrow escapes Of fire in consequece
are reported, - :S '.'@
HASTINGS is to have a grand bali On
the I'D inst: to raise funds for the pur-
chase OF = fire engine. rv-~:
SroSE is being hauled for the Jesuit
college building to be erected at Markato
the coming season. =:
The artesian well at Mankato is down
upwards of 700 feet, and the water is
within 100 feet of the top of the bore
Mr.. GuDR1As, treasurer of Anoka couni-
ty, lost three children b. diphtheriaa few
days since, all three being buried in one
grave. .,
WErsER Posi- G. A. R. Of Shakopee, are
giving minstrel entertainments and social
hops for the benefit of the grasshopper
sufferers.
The Sherburne County News has com.
menced suit against the county for paw
for publishing the delinquent tax for 1872
and prior years.
ROCHESTER Post: The indications
now are that there will be more buildings
erected and improvements made in our
city next summer than in any season for
three years past.
=. THERE is not Touring mill in Meekcr
county doing any merchant work at the
present time, the low price Of -four en-
failing loss on all manufactured.
The Prairie Schooner says that over
hundred thousand bushels of last sea-
sons wheat crop will be shipped, from
Marshall the coming summer.
The Wright County Times thinks the
prospects for new steamboat on the Mis-
sissippi river, above Minneapolis, are not
very brilliant.
GEO. DoERFIER of Wright county, in
dicted Tor embczzlement of funds FROM
the St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Co., has been
arrested and bound over for trial in the
sum Of 500.
The Austin Beard of Trade has re.
solved to hold monthly market or fair
on the second Tuesday of each month,
Tor the sales and purchase Of stock, grain,
etc.
Mr.. A. BALDWIN, proprietor of the
North Star Iron Works, Winona, proposes
to extend his business by the erection Of
a large brick foundry and machine shop.
The new buildings will cost about $4,000.
DURING the month of January three
women, residents Of St. Cloud, who had
lived their threescore years and ten,
went to their rest. Mrs. F. d. McIntirc,
aged II; Mrs. Chloe Bonham, aged II,
and Mrs. Mary Fawcett, aged 70.
! The Litchtield News-Ledger estimates
that there still remains in the section Of
country tributary to Litchfield 10000
bushels Of wheat to be marketed, an
amount sufficient, which if bringing
good price, ''would give US all wealth
enough to pay our debts and make us all
happy
Tim Mankato Union gives currency to
the rumor that Gen. Jams H. Baker, U.
S. Commissioner Of Pensions, will soon
lead to the altar a young and fair daugh-
ter Of that county, who snaps her fingers
at the old crone's warning:
eff you change the name but not the letter,
You change for the worse and not the better"
Tue Rochester Post understands that
parties connected with certain Iowa rail-
roads are willing to undertake the con-
struction of that portion Of the Lake Pc
pin & Omaha railroad, between Waba-
shaw and Rochester, the present year,
provided the people along the line renew
their bonuses.
i You can steal rails now. One I. L.
Il Fenelon was tried before Justice Griffith
of Austin the other day for stealing rails
from fence. Though the charge was
proven, the attorney raised the point that
the rails were part of the realty and
not therefore subject Of larceny-in other
|. words that real estate cannot be stolen.
The point was sustained by the learned
justice and the prisoner was discharged.
Two young ladies, Miss Marshall and
Miss Pond, of Faribault, were the other
day assaulted on the street by a rough.
Miss Marshall Immediately struck the
rascal twice in the face with a sharp
knife and escaped. Miss MARSHALL
t knife, when she reached the house, showed
signs Of having done its duty we'll, as it.
was covered with blood, and two pieces Of
flesh were clinging to the blade.
= The revival meetings in Blue Earth
county have been attended with most sat.
e isfactory results to those engaged in the
' work. The meetings at Crystal Lake
| closed with eighty converts. At Red
. Jacket Mills the result was the CONVEX
r sion Of every person in the neighborhood
y not before a memb bcr of the church. At
4 Mankato and Garden City there were
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