The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-08-23
Minnesota News Items, i
WADENA.

WADENA.
| The special election to decide the.Ques-
tion of the county's issuing $500 Of bonds
in aid OF the Minnesota Northern railroad, has
been postponed to Sept. :1st. .. AL the small.
Pox patients have been discharged from the
tagion Is now passed. =.
LIE Roy is being canvassed by young
ladies who solicit signers to Join the new tenn
Perance organization recently started in that
town: The barn of Layman near lie Roy,
containing ten tons of hay and large num-
the night Of the 9TH. -Four horses which were Ere
IN the building were rescued. Loss 81 900.
Insured for $500. ..... ... - .~.
| wABAsHAw.
The barn of Caleb Jones Of Lake City,
which was struck by lightning and burned
about month ago is being rebuilt. Charles
WIS., resident Of Lake city for yesrs died
prevailed for several weeks and is injuring the
corn CROP. "A threshing machine on Mr..
JEWELS place n9ar Lake City, threshes and
| cleans thee bushels Of oats per minute, or
AGO buchels in 10 hours run. Geo. p.
Smith, who is in charge Of the Lake City
Driving Park was recently badly bitten on the
left arm by one of the blooded horses belong.
ing to Willis Baker. The animal caught him
between the elbow and the wrist tearing the
flesh from the bone and severely decorating
| the muscles.
Men with teams are hired at $3.50 q
day to distribute.ties for the tracklayers on the
Brainerd Branch. .. The weather has been dry
Tor several weeks. In Little Falls, recently,
q quantity of cherries, from which the brandy
had been drawn, were thrown out and eaten
by hogs. The animals became dead drunk, and
remained in thatcondition ten or twelve hours.
t,<aG Sr<4 ~So 41- - 81 -Nyo
18th ult., was entered by unknown parties and
an oil painting of st. Anthony of Padua, cost
ing $500, destroyed by being cut into several
pieces. Some Of the fixtures Of the building
were also taken out and thrown into tho river.
The perpetrators of tho outrage are un-
known.
Several valuable dogs have recently
been poisoned in Albert Lea. :. On the morn
gram describing horse that had just been
stolen near GAINESVILLE, and in less than two
hours after it's receipt the thief had
been lodged in Jail. >. The Freeborn County
!Scandiaau, five column Norwegian paper
has been started in Albert Lea by John An
expected, will be the average yield Of wheat
throughout the county.
wABAsHAw.
From 80 acres of land, Mr.. Leslie of
the Halfway House Brewery threshed ,005
bushels of barley, this immense yield being
the third consecutive crop. Low water in
the wells about Reads, owing to the prevail
ing drought.
VIM. Kane and Frank Moon, of Heron
Lake, are the owners of a new Minnesota
Chief" thresher-the screen and belt of which
were made by Cole Younger in the Saltwater
penitentiary.
The yield of wheat upon Major Ken
nedy's farm, near Pennington, the present
season is as follows: On II acres Of new
breaking, 464 bushels an average Of about
27A bushels to the acre; on IS acres, 1878
bushels, an average Of over 81 bushels to the
acre, and on another 65 acres, ,488 bushels.
This last included ~ acres of the "Lost
Nation" wheat, which yielded Is bushels to
the acre, The total yield on the 147 acres
amounted to 1896 bushels, an average of a lit
tie over 2214 bushels. One field Of 10 acres in
that section has yielded an average of 80 bush
els to the acre. Three thousand bushels OF
new wheat was received at the Pennington
elevator on the 18th.
Several wheatfelds in the town of Med
ford had the rust so badly that it is not thought
the yield will exceed three bushels to the
acre. Last year in the same fields oats were
similarly affected, and this season it is the
wheat and not the oats which have suffered.
...:B Better weather for harvesting than that
which the farmers have had this year was
never known. -. Two persons will be returned
to Steele county in consequence Of the recent
order of the superintendent of the State in
sane at asylum, at st: Peter, discharging all in.
necessary. In Medford, few days ago, a
little son of Henry Pasco, in attempting to
jump on q moving train, fell, and had the skin
Of the right leg torn off from the knee down to
the foot.
w1NoNA.
John Kelley and John Keller have been
arrested and held to bail in $500 each for seiz-
ing and forcibly carrying away the pocket
book of Andrew Allen, containing some twelve
the room of Mr.. Kneely in the Merchants
Hotel in st. Charles was entered by burglar
who succeeded in finding and getting away
with $50 in money belonging to Knee1y who
awoke In time.to give the intruder an incdectu-
al shot. "A lodge Of the Ancient Orderiof Unit
twenty members has been organized in st.
Charles. Wheat is yielding more per acre
than was expected. Samples thus far market
ed, weigh from 60 to 63 pounds per bushel....
Geo. Monroe, a brakeman on the Winona &
St. Peter Railroad fell under locomotive in
instantly killed. Miss Susie Wade, who for
the past three years has been teaching in the
Normal Schools Of the Argentine Republic,
with great success, has arrived In Winona.
Miss Wadewas formerly teacher In the city
schools Of Rochester.
Petty thefts arc reported in various
sections of the county,. "A party Of four
young men and nine young ladies went out
near Dodge Centre, and re-
ported killing over hundred birds. They,
however, brought home but seven. .Ihe
home festival: "A Dodge Center hunter
brought into that place three dozen chickens
before eight O'Clock in the morning OF the
18th The number Of reaper accidents re-
ported this year is unusually small. Light
S@s ea% s has
been held to bail in e2O0 for breaking into the
basement window Of C. W. Cushman's store
in Mantorville. :. The Board of Equalization
has raised the valuation Of all personal prop
erty in the county 10000 over the returns Of
the assessors. "A refreshing RAIN leu a.
number Of farmers ran their harvester:
through the night to obviate the difficulty of
bindiag caused by the brittloness Of the straw
in the daytime. "A large number Of the
citizens of Mantorville celebrated "chicken-
snootlng Gay Dy gong on org nuRe Re,e..a aHu
Grove near that place.
HOUSTON.
On the evening Of the 18th, an un-
known man, who having been caught in the
commission of an unnatural crime was being
conveyed to prison by Constable Levin,
threw himself suddenly In front OF an ep-
preaching engine at Hokah, and was Instantly
killed. he was . powerfully. built man and
was at the time somewhat the worse for Whis.
ky. He died refusing to reveal his name, but
said he had wife and five children in Spring.
field, Ill :. Brownsville has IN artesian we'll,
said 10 he f1a hest IN tha West which ik 5Q14