The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-21
Minnesota News Items.
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! :.:Grain is growing very Il tAi&htily. .
lsesn RssafS III kots @t
OF the Light Brigade whicA Afmados II famous
charge at Baleklaya. a cemptmeeti4g will
T be held near Chester, On the. f4th.:. Charles
Culver Of Rochester Iwas areteht1ys s<rio9sly
frame 81 4 barn 1Oox96 feet beione{n& toD. +.
Mack Of Viola, was .hft6d' up md crushed
BY . high wind on +: the + 1sta Inst ..
On Saturday night the residence Of M: A.
Park caught fire from the bursting Of Z lam
4 that had been left burning, but t4hnea{ down
IA Sas q ses enpeEa1 seeRnR se
have been burning over. an hour, 'anatnQhen it
broke out through the roof it went very rap.
idly, SO by the time the fire department had It
exdnguished, all the secondstory was burned.
WASHINGTON
i On the afternoon Of the 10th, near Point
Douglas, a thirteen year old girl, 1 daughter
OF Samuel Frick, was caught about . mile
from home and brutally outraged by negro
named Taylor Combs: For similar ofenses
Combs has twice been sentenced to the peni-
tentiary-Once in 1859 for twenty years, for
which after two years imprisonment be was
Pardoned out by Gov. Austin, and again In
1872 when he was sent up for five years, which
term has just expired He was arrested at
Wescott, in Dakota county, two days after
wards.
In Baxter town, the hoppers ARE re-
ported to be doing very little damage.....
John Hurley and son, of Pierce county, Wis,
have commenced breaking on their claims in
this county, and will break over one, hundred
| acres each.
A little son of Henry Dimon of Sauk
and was badly hurt, the front wheel passing
over his head, and the hind wheel over one Of
his feet. :. The barn and sheds on the farm of
John Williams, in the town Of Grove, were
burned recently, the fire having caught from
pile OF straw which had been fred purpose
ly to kill the hoppers which had collected in
it,. Sheets saturated with kerosene and
dragged over the wheat is one of the methods
of fighting the hoppers near Sauk Centre. .....
Two old business men of Sauk Centre have re-
Gently folded their tents and stolen away,
much to the disgust of their numerous credit
Ors.
The records pertaining to the State
road from St. Paul to Shakopee via Mendoza
and Hamilton have been fled in the Clerks
office in Hastings. The expenses of survey
were $53950, and Of right of way $3.50, Of
] "u1Cu OCOIt COuHCy pays uOTt llau Oue-u2U
...Dr. G. Fl. HaWes of Hastings lost yalua.
bic horse by his breaking through = plank.
ing into well forty feet deep: The board
of Commissioners has refused to grant any
liquor license in the town Of Empire.
MORRISON.
Crops continue to look splendid and
there are no hoppers to make the farmers
being broken: :. One day last week d heavy
whir1wind moved northward, six miles east
of Little Falls and in its course, which was
only ten rods wide, blew down and unroofed
several buildings and demolished fencing over
mile in length
A young man named August Rigel of
Lester, while cutting wood, very severely cut
his right foot with the AK. .Dundas talks Of
celebrating the Glorious Fourth. The coun-
try around Dundas is swarming with pigeon
catchers, trappcrs or shooters: The birds are
shipped to Chicago, New York and other
places, and millions have already been for.
warded. .. Prairie Greek Division, No. Il, Of
the Sons of Temperance was organized lately
with IL charter members. =. :. .Messrs. E. T.
Archibald and J. T. Ames have gone to ,Buffa
10, N. Y, to attend the fourth annual conven-
ton Of the National llers,Associaton which
meets at that city on the 18th inst. Oscar
Lockerly, while con-shooting near North
field, was accidentally shot in the arm by a
companion. Mrs. Hedreen, who with her
husband and two lady companions, was return
ing in the night from Prairie Creek, was with
the rest of the party thrown from the carriage
by the team jumping over q four foot culvert
in the road, and severely kicked in the
stomach by one of the horses. A suit against
the county will follow.
FREEBoRN. So, ~5,c-
Thirty-two wolves have been killed
since May 11th, 1877, for which bounty, Of
$96 was paid -. An old folks base ball
club creates lots of fun at Albert Lea. -. One
hundred barrels OF tar and 200 sheets Of iron
ing the 'hoppcrs. ~; f1"'s
| y, KANABEC. II - i,.iH IN
A man name unknown) recently lost
his life by being crushed about the head
and arms, on drive near Brunswick. -
A Brownsville physician cut wen 40
large as an egg from the palm Of boys hand.
-. Miss Anna Beach Of Houston lost 900
while on her way to La Crosse. She there had
a Mrs. Cary arrested and searched but nothing
was found to implicate her. :. Reports Of tho
deprcdations of the chinch bugs have been
greatly exaggerated.
! DODGE.
Concord talks of having big time on
the 4th of July. Potatoes are in active de-
mand in Claremont and bring fair prices -. In
Clarcmont there is an increased acreage Of
beer saloon in Claremont was arrested and
committed to JAIL and the German citizens of
that locality threaten to withdraw their pat
ronage from the village. -. Washed wool in
Dodge Centre is worth 20 to 80 cents Per
Dodge Centre turned out in numbers, to i'm
prove the appearance Of the village cemetery.
sIBLEY. =; e. J
A horse belonging to Henry Buck was
k1.x 1ol l., Ia S1At1
1oot was recently badly cut by an ak falling.on
him. The County Treasurer has received
over $4,000 in payment of taxes in one month
80. Several cattle-buyers are travelling
through the county; purchasing stock. Tho
crops in Kelso and and Arlington towns arc
tar and the necessary sheet iron for grasshop-
per destruction have been sent to the county
Auditor for distribution. 80. Henderson had a
baby party lately -. "A teachers Association
will be held at New Auburn June 10th: "A
handsome new Lutheran church il being
erected in Arlington township. :. Fa1on, Je :.
senland and Washin gton Lake townships will
raise good average crops this season. .:,.'
! LIE sUEUR. ,<:!i..,:i
Oats have headed out. .. The public
schools have closed for the summer. .. "A lit
tie girl in Lc Sucur was recently kicked by 4
horse in the face, greatly endangering one Of
her eyes. Crops are looking we'll. (;
BECKER. u
A dozen or fifteen families rived Al
Detroit during the past week. -. Jumping
claims is still practised in this county. There
are morelhoppers in Redwood than in an any
other town in Becker .. Ten thousand Sal
mon fry were recently deposited by the State
Fish Commissioners in Detroit Lake and three
thousand in Floyd Lake.. The hoppers' n
the town of Hamber are dying of very fast. ]:
POLK. :. ..s... . i
Tickets for the snecial election on. thI