The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-13
NEWS NEBULE.
Michigan has 600 oranges.

Mlchlgan mas 800 oranges.
Indianapolis has nine brass bands.
G. H. Price, American Consul at o.
tawa, has resigned.
The New York City Hall is to have
its dirty face washed.
The King of Brazil will remain three
months in the United States.
An Indiana topper took cold from
drinking whisky out of damp glass.
A little girl was drowned in rain
! barrel at Willialnsport, Pa, last week.
A painter in .Muskegon, Mich, fell
into pail of whitewasl and lost his
eyes.
Thomas Cord was cut off at Mack
inaw, Mich, the other day by a shot,
gun.
In Colorado every man goes around
with his pocket full of specimens of
ores.
Mr.. Charles Bradlaugh was recently
presented in London with Il purse Of
EGO.
The police of Evansville, Ind, made
l,3ll arrests during the year ending
April l.
! A farmer of Santa Ynez, Cal, recent
ly traded 240 mustangs for one blooded
stallion.
Anthony Trollope is about to try his
hand upon ''The American Senator in
England
The Cardiff giant, OF at least one of
him, was sold at St. Louis the other
day for $37.
The women of Albany, n. Y, have
contributed $1,000 toward the state CEN
tennial banner.
The trial of John Sullivan, the
Mishawaka murderer, has been post
poned until June.
A two-year old bear was caught in
Knox county, Indiana, the other night.
You can catch almost anything in In.
diana.
AS enlarged, the Philadelphia
Ledger contains more matter than any
other two.cent paper published in the
country.
The value of presents made to and
by the Prince of Wales in India will
not, it is said, exceed in both instances
100000.
The law abolishing capital punish
ment in Iowa was not repealed, and
the farmers will not raise any hemp
this year.
Iowa will have to eat all the prairie
chickens she kills, or throw them
away. 1t is against the law there to
ship them.
| Blue Lick, Ind, has band of Wig
ilants. A young married man was
whipped by them with hickory wythes
a few nights since.
An Irishman, claiming to be en-
route to Philadelphia from Vinton, Ia.,
was robbed Of $500 by three-card
monte men, the other day.
| A tablet in memory of the late JUS
tice Nelson, of the United States SUI
preme Court, has been placed in Christ
church. at Cooperstown.
A near-sighted mechanic of Michigan
City, who smelled of buzz-saw while
constructing a piece of scroll.work,
carries his nose in sling.
The Chronicle says nearly every
family in Allentown has diphtheria or
some other kind of throat affection
within it's fold at present.
Mrs. Mckenzie, who ran off the
track with Bridges lately, is said to
be in Montreal. The husband is de-
termined to sue for divorce.
Mr.: E. W. Nichols, prominent
brooklyn merchant, has been missing
from his home since Tuesday last,
under mysterious circumstances.
Seventy-fve trichinB were counted
in a piece of muscle the size of q pea,
taken from the body of Mena Hoffman,
who died in Indianapolis last week.
William Osenbaugh, of Fort Wayne,
was instantly killed Monday by the
express train. He was walking on the
track and did not notice it's approach.
A young farmer named Herrod, re-
siding near Centerburg, Posey county,
Ind, was chloroformed by bur-
glars Sunday night, and $500 taken
from his pocket-book.
!, The London correspondent of the
New York Times says that the Queen
is very unpopular among society
people generally for the action she has
taken in running down the mistletoe.
Mr.. Larkin G. Meade, the young
American sculptor, has once more been
successful in the suits brought against
him by one of his former workmen in
connection with the Lincoln mon
ument.
A very sad accident happened at
Grand Junction, Iowa, a short time
ago. A chunk of coal weighing about
400 pounds fell from a wagon, and
struck a St. Louis drummer square on
the cheek.
A small Catholic war has broken out
} in New Jersey, the Roman Catholic
paupers in the county aims house hav-
ing denounced a preacher employed by
) the Y. NJ. c. A., and driven him from
the building.
Nero Patton, colored, died at Able.
vile, S. c., recently. He was born in
Africa, and came to this country about
IS years ago. He was 100 years old,
and man of good habits and unques.
tionable honesty.
A girl employed in a paper mill at
Westtield, Mass, suffered severe at
tack of the lockjaw, last week, in
which the jaws were set for nearly
two hours. The doctor said the
trouble was the result of an inveterate
habit of chewing gum.
A waiter in Denison, Texas, hotel
| fell down stairs with two pitchers in
his hands, the other day, smashing
them, and sharp fragment of the
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