The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-14

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MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS.
| M'LEoD. =
The foundation for the Catholic church
In Glencoe is completed and ready for .th<
! superstructure. A citizen of Glencoe. be
coming alarmed at the 'hoppers, sold 60 acres
Of wheat In Renyille county for 500. New
buildings and other Improvements are beina
maze n. & IN Glencoe. The Glencoe Regi.ter calli
that it be laid away for future inspection Is !
reminder OF the troublous times of the past
-. There are at least two men In the county
VINO thlnk It wicked to kill grasshoppers. God
SEM tnem, they Say, for some special purpose
face Of Providence. Queer reasoners these
;:...A tramp who was working in family fol
board and clothes packed up provision, cloth.
ing, &C., during the family's absence and ait
out, taking with him the dog=and.a . small
wo1fn ne w use Is hs goes along
calities was covered with dead 'hoppers prove
to be erroneous. What was found, and fed te
the reports, was simply the sloughed-off skins
OF the insect. .'Hoppers are less plentiful
and are doing much less damage in the tim.
sered se districts than on the prairie. An old
] ~~~e~.. NNAE EAIVN GAV NAItZCu0 O1 dUtCQlO-
son with music from an old bag-pipe, which
instrument, he claimed, was played by his
uncle at the battle of Waterloo.
BENTON.
The recent rains have given fair stage
OF water and the prospects Of getting out the
logs has decidedly improved. Mrs. VIM. H.
Minnie Mary Lee" Is visiting at sauk
Rapids. The ligh. draught Steamer Polaria
recently left Sauk Rapids with q shingle mill
which is to be located 100 miles above Brain.
erd The hoppers are numerous in some
1ocahtles, but have thus far done little damage
RENvILLE.
The recent rains sadly interfered with
prairie grass burning. .. Sherdie Stoddard,
1856 willow and cottonwood cuttings. All
done in half day. -. s. A. Greenslit's stable
YVES struck by lightning on the night of the
10th inst, and with three sheep out ola flock OF
100, was burned. Loss 500.
The young German girl, Helena Sem
onds, indicted for arn-burning, has been &C.
quilted. The Sioux City & st. Paul Railroad
-. Henry LOOMS Of St. Peter has been ar: ar:
rested for selling wheat tickets belonging to q
Mankato firm which had been lost in the street,
He was held to bail in $1,000. Mosquitoes
came along with the hand-organ man in st.
Peter. "A New Sweden man caught 81 bush
els Of hoppers in one day. "A farmer of Bel
BY the black leg. Heightened young men in
st. Peter catch cats BY the tail and throw
them over the transom into saloons.
sTEELE.
The contract for the new Catholic
school building at Owatonna has been given to
Conrad Bohn of Winona. Cyrus Cornell, a
merchant of Owatonna died on the 25th ult.
from ininries received three years ago. :. "A
son Of Henry Hill of Owatonna fell with his
LETT arm in a kettle of boiling potash badly
| scalding the member. A few days previous, a
lit tie daughter of the same gentleman fell and
broke her arm while playing Petty larccn-
les are being committed in the town of Meri-
dan. The team OF an ice wagon in Owatonna
| consists Of a large black horse and diminu-
tive mule, the largest part of which is its cars.
The team recently ran away and tosk a swing
around the circle.
FREEBoRN.
Wheat is looking finely, and that sown
carly has stooled out and already covers the
gronnd. =. "A Mrs. Barmhart, of Moscow, was
| attacked recently by ram, which broke her
leg just above the ankle. >. Fifty barrels OF
coal tar and 1900 sheets of iron have been the
States contribution to the county for grass
Pers is being generally prosecuted throughout
the county.
Hotels were crowded and every body
happy in Preston during court week.. il. The
wheat crop is looking splendidly. An anti
bond mass meeting was lately held at Wykof.
at which were adopted resolutions -favoring
the defeat OF IT.. the & proposed constitutional
fuses to permit cattle to run at large.
HOVER.
) Crop reports are excellent. ). Large
amounts of land have changed hands in the
only cents per dozen my in Ie s ae .PFsirie ie
schooners moving westward are frequent
sight in Austin =. .Elbridge Frost, aged 18,
while blowing upon his fathers farm near
There is fine fishing at Red Cedar Mills, two
miles south of Austin
Work is being pushed upon the Nor
wegian college at Northdeld. An eastern
gentleman shipped lately from Northtleld four
barrels and three large boxes Of pigeons
which nc had secured from the roosts near
there. SO far Dundas has only sent one
representative to the Black Hills.
wAToNwAN,
No tar has been ordered from the Gov,
a supply from the stores being already on
hand. The war against the hoppcrs is being
vigorously prosecuted. .. Wood instead OF
iron, is being used at St. James for machines
to kill the hoppers with.
The wife of Ole Wygard has been sent
to the Insane Asylum at st. Peter ;. VIM.
Ross boasts of owning the first painted house
| is being done in different sections of the
county.
CH1sAGo.
The rye crop has headed out finely
Rush City has no public schools in summer
-. Alexander Mckenzie, of North Branch,
lost his house and furniture by fire last week.
MORRISON.
A new harness shop has been started at
Little Falls. Little Falls has also town
well Bears are numerous in the. town Of
Culdrum. No damage has yet been done by
arrived in Little Falls, all the way from New
Jersey. He started with fifty cents, and was
10 days in making the journey.
| PINE
:Some malicious person recently tore
away the gates Of the dam of w. H. Grants
cranberry patch, whereby the water was lei
out and twenty acres Of his best marsh, catch
over and utterly ruined. .Aman named Fish
er was found, one day last week, lying near the
railroad track south of Pine CITY, bleeding
profusely and almost insensible His appear
ance indicated brutal treatment, at whose
hands he was unable to state.
ST. LOUIS
Hereafter wheat from Manitoba fol
Canada will pass through Duluth without
other expense than the customs stamp on
the sack. >. 10. Knowlton wears the shfniest
hat in Duluth. IS. G. Fulton, late station
agent at the Junction, has been appointed pas
scnger agent at Duluth.
| BECKER.
Eighty immigrants from Buffalo, N. T.,
/ racanflu arrxad af no&soif and Mill s>&&lo L.