The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-07-12
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Minnesota News Items.
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Wheat receipts at Rochester. are lighter
! now than for several seasons past but prices
are we'll maintained. . A'son of Mr.. Chapman
OF Rochester while handling revolver recent
ly, was shot in the back. . .Doutney the temp
erance revivalist is expected at Rochester July
the st. Charles club recently by score of Is
to2.. VIM Hyslop of Chester has sold over
800 pounds of wool at 80 cents per pound. His
sheep averaged six pounds each. :. Twenty
boxes Of cigars were recently found in straw
stack at Olmsted, having evidently been stolen
all spoiled. :. Miss Mary Ann Quinlan of
Rochester was one of class Of. Deaf and Dumb
which graduated at Faribault recently.
Blue berries are in the Rochester: Market.:..
An epileptic patient, a ten year old son Of a
German farmer Claus Behrns of~Greenwood
Prairie has been cured by having made bed
fellow OF little puppy: SO says the Rochester
Post.
There is no practicing physician in this
county >. Long Prairie is making prcpara-
tions to &c celebrate the Fourth in becoming
Reynolds, was recently entered and five dol
lars stolen. John OstrandeA of Long
Prairie recently cut two inch ga on his leg
jurcd.
Tramps are numerous: The question of
narrow gauge road will be voted upon in
Watertown July Goth.
HOUSTON.
Hokah is to have balloon ascension
on the Fourth. .. A large number of two car
| loads of cmigrants from Southern Norway,
who arrived in La Crosse recently, sought
homes in this county. ..On the 18th ult.,
Louis Brenner, Of Brownsville, fell from his
wagon and was almost instantly killed by be-
| ing run over. "A number Of cxcursionists
went to Albert Lee, on St. Johns day to at
tend the Masonic celebration there.
SlBLEY.
Henderson is now an Italianmoney Or
der post office. ... The Teachers association
burn July 7th.. Captain sigler, of Henderson
has received forty Springfield rifles for bis
company.
Base ball is about played out in Hast
ings. .. Anton johnson, the young Norwegian
in the employ of Walter Gibbons, of Empire,
who was recently taken violently insane, has
been sent to St. Peter: The Hastings Sport.
electing J. G.. Meloy, President; J. F. Newton,
Secretary, and L. 8. Fo]lett, Treasurer. Crop
reports are of the most encouraging charac-
ter .. Hon. NJ. H: Sullivan, of Rosemount, is
to deliver the Fourth of July Grafton at Buffa-
| 10, Wright county.
Trade is very lively in Little Falls. -.
Snake root is being dug in large quantities in
damaged the corn in Two Rivers. Crops in
Green Prairie are looking we'll. Little Falls
is to have the privilege of selecting depot
grounds, provided the town donates the same
to the Railroad Company. Crops in Rich
Prairie are luxuriant and bountifu].
MOWER.
Barley is heading out. The weather
has been little too cold for corn, but just the
thing for wheat. The Austin Cornet band
is engaged to play at Lie Roy, on the Fourth.
>. Emigrant wagons with "Black Hills or
Bust inscribed on them: arc seen passing
through the streets of Austin. .Brownsdalc
has brass band, which is vigorously practis-
ing for the coming Fourth.
! GOODHUE.
Drunken Indians are frequent sight
on the streets of Red Wing Arthur White
man. aged eleven, was drowned OH the 2lst
ult, in the river just above Zumbrota. Blsh-
op ireland, of St. Paul, will administer the rite
OF confirmation and also lecture for the benefit
of the Catholic Society of Cannon Falls on
Sunday, July 29th "A little son of Horace
Blood of the town of Stranton came near los
ated hogs, but was fortunately rescued by
his father.
Master Henry Hulnason, of Dodge Gen.
trc has a hen which is caring for her own
chickens and also for a brood left by the un
timely demise Of the natural mother, and in
addition to these duties, lays an egg every day,
Sundays not excepted" ".... The work on the
town hall and engine house at Kasson is pro-
crossing slowly. -. The Kasson post is
worth 81 600 per annum. Freddie Barnhart,
a 12-ycar -old boy Of Mantorville, was drowned
recently while bathing in pond.
wABASHAW.
Preparations are being made for issu
ing county map. The prospects for most
abundant potato crop arc very promising..:.
putting up grist mill at Elgin, provided
liberal bonus is offered by the citizens of that
place. .. Chicken thieves arc roughly handled
at Sand Prairie-two having been captured
recently and sent up for 80 days. g.. P.
Clark, of Wabashaw, was recently thrown
from q buggy and sustained q compound,
comminutcd fracture of the right leg which
will result in the shortening of the limb from
one to two inches.
l Tuck nf pnnr Prince.