The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-04-06
NEWS NEBULEs..

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Indianapolis claims a population Of
Bay City, Mich, has 5, 900 volumes in
the public library E...:s ..s \ AM. s=.;
Henry county, Indiana, has but one
democratic town ewisville.
The people Of Clinton and jackson
counties, Iowa, have the choice of ], 800
saloons. '' 81 #:s..@.iI=2, *s.S RI. ]. :. =
The county Jail in Traverse City.
Mich, has been without an occupant
Tor TWO years. ~ @'szf :s3t:{ Es5sy<5 ~ = Al
Peaches raised in southern: Illinois
this year will probably be worth about
rs cents apiece. = .*,.t.s.7<s
.Thos. Blake, a citizen of Mendoza,
ILL.,, was killed recently in a southern
steamboat accident. '. 80. n -e:ssz
The newspapers to be started in the
Black Hills will be edited with six.
shooters and bowie.knives. (.
Mr.. Albert Bromer, of Schwenksville,
Montgomery county, Pa, has clock
supposed to be 200 years old.
Rats gnawed off portion of one of
the hoofs OF large gray horse belong.
ing to Hiram Schiller, of Reading, Pa.
David Snodgrass,5 an old citizen of
Vigor county, Indiana, committed sui
eide recently by hanging himself up by
rope.
Prof. Frank Wells, of the Cleveland
Medical College, was recently elected a
Fellow of the Obsterical Society of
London. .:r.s.!
J. F. Parr, treasurer of Grand Rap
ids, Mich, was lately robbed of $3.50.
His funds are rather below Parr at
present.
Of the III women. now STUDYING at
the Michigan University, four have
chosen law, Al medicine, and SO liter
allure and science. %.
Some of the Fort Wayne physicians
are waging very bitter warfare
against the new medical college to be
established there.
For the reasonable fee of Is cents a
head, Rev. J. F. Chaffee is telling the
people of the upper Mississippi towns
''How to Kill the Devil
It is reported that detective from
Nevada captured murderer near
Oconto, Wis, last week. for whom 4
reward Of $4,000 had been offered.
South Hadley, Mass, has school
teacher who has just completed her
10th year. For more than IS years she
has taught school in the same town.
The Wyoming, Pa, Historical and
Geological society of Wilkesbarre has
forwarded its 1000 pound petrifed
tree.stump to the Centennial grounds.
A keokuk woman sent to a store for
a fresh supply of embroidery the other
day. She had given birth to new pair
of twins, and had only provided for one
baby.
Gov. Kirkwood's official family at
Des Moines has lately been increased
by the appointment of Col. John Pat
tee, his brother-in-law: as private Sec
rotary.
A man i'll Erie, Pa, in trying to man.
age baulky horse fastened chain to
his lower jaw, and, hitching another
horse to the chain, pulled the jaw en-
tirely off.
Hon. John Gordon, of Morgan county,
Illinois, who has taken much pains to
collect statistics in regard to the hog
cholera, estimates the loss in past years
at $5,000,000.
Wilton, Iowa. has free reading
room, and now the ladies of that town
spend their evenings in reading, and
don't tar and feather odious young girls
as much as they did.
M'Crary & Lands Touring mill, at
Florence, Switzerland county, Ind, was
destroyed by fire Wednesday night. 1t
had been insured but an hour before
the fire for SIS, 500.
A company has been organized for
the purpose of building a railroad from
Cedar Rapids, to run in southerly or
southwesterly direction, in order to
reach the Iowa coal-fields at the most
convenient and accessible point or
points.
Some forty of the largest taxpayers
of Otterville school district, Jersey
county, ILL.,, are resisting payment in
the circuit court at this term, on the
ground that the ''old stone school
house, was torn down and a new
$4,000 house built illegally.