The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-06-11
STATE NEWS ITEMS.

l. A NEW steam 1eeQ MIL IS Oelng erected
in Princeton 80 u - ...'i=st5
"A FEW native grasshoppers have been
discovered I'm Jackson county.
AN anti.horse thief; association has been
formed in Viola, Olmsteds county.
Sr. CHARLES. claims to be tho best
wheat market in Southern Minnesota.
A public reading room has been organ.
lied in Medford, Steele county.
In Brownsville, Houston county, it
costs $3.50 for one boy to kick another.
JACOB R1cKERr's farm house near Roch-
ester was burned on the evening of tho
25th. = ....r..
The pigeon roost at Preston is nine
miles long by three wide and is fairly blue
with birds.
HATTIE RUSSELL, the girl.slayer of Jno,
Pugsley, at Duluth. has been tried and
! acquitted.
The population Of Elk River, sher-
burne county, as shown by the recent
census, is $40.
TIE early sown wheat in Cascade town.
ship. Olmsted county, is looking feeble
and unpromising.
THE wheat receipts for the six days
Immediately preceding May 9th. in
Rochester were So, 745.
GRAssHoPPERs are not doing much dam
| age in Mile Lac county as yet, and tho
winter wheat is looking we'll.
The school house lately burned in
school district No. %, Dakota county, has
been rebuilt at cost Of about 500.
| KETTLE River, from the lower falls to
Moose Lake, so miles, is navigable at tho
dryest season for the largest river steam.
boats.
| Two German girls in South Brook,
| Cottonwood county, walked distance Of
30 miles in ten hours for the full Of at.
tending a law suit.
G. A. DEGRAFF is supervising the con.
struction Of half mile track on his farm
near GAINESVILLE, for training purposes.
The river at Taylor's Falls dropped
two feet on the Goth, owing to the shut
ting down Of the dams, but there is still
good driving stage of water.
CROPS in the northwest portion Of Cot-
tonwood county are looking good and tho
farmers are encouraged over the prospect
Of more than average yields.
The evidence in the. impeachment trial
of Sheriff Sheahan, of Freeborn county,
has been concluded, and the case will 60
to the. Governor for final action.
GEoRa1E, only son of N. Collins of Tay-
lor's Falls, was recently seriously injured
by cutting the ball of his eye with 4
crimping iron.
| FoRrY-E1aHr million logs have been
sluiced at Chengwatonna dam this spring.
But one drive Of 100000 feet is loft on
the Snake river.
JUDGE THOMAS LANAHAN was elected, on
the 28th, mayor of Brainerd. to fill the
vacancy occasioncd by the resignation of
NJ. G. Russell.
JOHN QuAcKENBusH of Viola, and Henry
Dodge Of Haverkill, Olmsted county,
have both been convicted of horse steal
ing, in the District Court Of Rice county.
A CIGAR peddler was fined $6 for selling
a single box of cigars in Rush City, for
which he received only 81 Tho informer
was the man to whom the sale was made.
THREE children of Mr.. Oleson, Of
Fountain, Fillmore county, were badly in:
ured by team running away-two Of
them being run over and the third thrown
out OF the wagon.
THE house and barn of Thomas Malo.
ley, five miles above Minneiska, were
struck by lightning on the night Of tho
lst inst. One horse was killed and tho
buildings badly shattered.
A WORKMAN named Charley Foster foil
from the roof of a building in Elk River
on the 22d, and narrowly escaped death.
The accident was caused by the breaking
Of the supports Of the scaffold.
The mail route from Flandrau to Lake
Benton, Lyon county, has been extended
to Marshtield, and the Marshall and Lake
Benton route discontinued between
| Marshall and Lake Benton.
The capital stock Of the Kasson & Red
Wing Telegraph Company is 81, ,000, ,divid-
ed into two hundred shares of $40 each.
H. H. Palmer and D. S. Kasson are the
only incorporators.