The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-12-02
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SLEEPY Ere has { population Of 500.
HAris worth $500 PEI ton ia Anok..
AxAx named Geo. IL. Suites Of ,Zum.
b1ota, had his leg broken OF, the 18th
inst. BY the wheel, Of his wagon passing
over it.. '>.'- t$f' 55:'ts5.<&~ 7<f'sft >s'13''s
TIE ice has piled up: in the Dalles in
the St: Croix about Is feet high just be-
low the bridge at Taylor's Fslls-which
seldom happens I'D =! -. ,s-ss:1@5sss H.
RusRroRD young bloods lie in wait and
attack the fellow who .incurs their dis.
A34ee9res shy walking of. from church with
.thstF:ieyorits giri, ~ ~ tssE.s. st
~ + na3 s1hed Kelleher of Hyde Park,
Wabashaw county, recently had his arm
broken by being caught in tho belt OF =
threshing machine. >.:,.:s.s-s
TnE shipments Of wheat from Carver
county over the Minneapolis & St. Louis
Railroad for the month of October
am ounted to something over $1,000 BUSH
els.
AMONG the patents issued to Minnesota
inventors for the week ending November
30th was one to Gustave. lleyderich, of
New Ulm, for mill stone dressing ma.
chine.
BEck's boot and shoe shop, in St.
Charles, caught fire on Wednesday morn.
ing, the 24th inst, but tho flames were
extingaished after considerable damage to
the building.
ABOUT Is barrels Of -four we're DESTROYED
by the recent railroad accident at Red
Wing, which, together with the damage
to the engine and cars, will foot up loss
Of nearly 5000. Q
AN old gentleman named James Sam
pie, living IL miles from Spring Valley,
Fillmore county, was thrown from colt
which he was riding, and almost instant
ly killed on the Goth inst.
AUG. VALKNAx Of Fillmore county.
convicted at the late term Of the Dis
trict Court Of murder in the second de-
gree, Of Fred Walters, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
In default of $500 bail man n.med
Curtiss has been sent to the Rochester
jail, charged with forgery of note for
$l30. Of J. w. Brand. farmer living
near Hamilton in Olmsted county.
JOHN RAKowsK1 Of Duluth, who was
tried at the late term Of the U. 8 Dis.
trict Court in St. Paul, for selling whisky
to Indians, has again been arrested for a
! similar offense, and held to bail in the
sum of $500.
Ed. CARL1x of Belle Plaine, having
filled himself with bad whisky At Blake
ley, left that place for heme, and bccom.
ing tired, laid down on the railroad
track to rest himself. He fell asleep and
was run over by passing train and in.
stantly killed.
The widow Pugh, of Belgrade town
ship. Blue Earth county. the last season,
had ten acres Of corn, not hill Of which
did she hoe, because she noticed that Is
soon Us corn was hoed. the hoppers ate it
up. Nevertheless she harvested 600
bushels Of ears.
TnE Fort Ridgely correspondent Of the
Renville Times has the following item
We understand that the grasshopper com.
mittee appointed by Governor Davis, in
their coming report will advise the farmers
to put Limburger cheese about their
fields to keep off the 'hoppcrs.
CYRUS s. JENKINS, book canvasser,
is in Jail in Preston charged with ab-
stracting pocket book containing 1880
from the overcoat of Mr.. Burnam, with
whom he boarded, and of whose tempo.
rary absence he took advantage to search
his coat and make off with his polls.
FRANK CONWAY, who was indicted with
Isaac Billings in Sibley county, year or
two ago, for stealing = harness from a
lately been convicted in Waseca county,
for horse stealing and sen: enced to five
years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
V. v. M1DDAuaH Of Dodge Centre, left
that place on the 10th Of November to
go to pay his father, DR.. R. W. Middaugh,
some $500. He had 500 in money and
draft on New York of $500. Notwith.
standing the most diligent search nothing
had been heard Of him up to the evening
of the 22d.
Tue sheriff Of Renville county has
hunted up l,700 acres Of land belonging
to the Hastings l. Dakota Railroad Com.
pany which was never before taxed,lsvied
upon the same and will sell it on the 25th
inst. to satisfy IN execution issued upon
= judgment rendered in the Court Of
Common Pleas Of Ramsey county in favor
Of W. X. Rogers for the sum Of So, $500.
PETER PEsNlNo, Of Iberia, Brown coun.
~, had his collar bone broken by being
thrown from his wagon, on Friday even.
ing, the 10Th inst. He was on bis way
home from New Uim accompanied by his
brother, AMI in crossing small bridge
one wheel of the wagon went of the end
Of the bridge, throwing both Of the men
out, injuring Peter ~ above stated, while
his brother escaped uuhurt. ss'
An assault and battery case has just
been settled amicably in Blue Earth City,
Faribault county, af,er two unsuccessful
attempts to have decision Of : jury
thereon. The circumstances are as fol.
lows: A well.to.do farmer named Arm.
strong, who lived near the Bush Creek
postoffice and subscribed for the Chicago
Inter. ocean, complained that hm paper
did not come punctoally, and laid tho
b:ame on the, postmlstress. Shortly sf-
terwards he and his oldest son :; went to