The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.

freeman Pearson, of Zumbrota, had q
morse stolen from his stable the other night.
1wo OF the three prisoners who broke
taken. @
George Anderson, of Granite Falls, cot
his hand caught in threshinQ machine and
lost two fingers.
An incendiary fire lately occurred in Lake
City by which an unoccupied house was en-
tirely destroyed.
Charles G. Stenbeig, of Carver county,
aged IS years, committed suicide by cutting
his throat with a razor.
st. Charles Times, Sept. 6: Corn is out
OF the way of the frost and the farmers are
cutting it and putting it in shock. This is a
great corn State.
Charles Rice, of St. Charles, Winona
county, got his arm caught in threshing
machine, and it was so mangled as to make
amputation necessary.
Miss Lydia Austin, late matron of the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum at Faribault, was
seriously, and it was at first thought fatally
injured by fall from Z buggy.
A tramp fire at Morristown, Rice county,
caused the destruction OF cooper-shop-
contents 10000 shaved hoop poles, tools and
OsAoA VAVtoAIys AOHo over V1.UU.
Two desperadoes, horse thieves, in Jail in
Stearns county, made a desperate effort to
break Jail. The sheriff has put bracelets
upon them, and confined them in cells. They
will stay.
Fires have been raging in the woods for a
distance of 100 miles along the north shore
of Lake Superior. The fire started back of
Duluth, and at the last accounts had entend-
ed beg ond Silver 1slct.
A prize ring fight between two rouehs
took place in Red Wing. The fight lasted
an hour and fifteen minutes. It resulted in
draw game, and the two bullies being
thoroughly exhausted, cried quits, shook
hands and agreed to call it even.
The dead body of John Schroeder was
found in the town of Pennington. He was
possessed of small sum of money. He
was last seen about in company with Fred
Hittman. All the circumstances point to
Hittman as the murderer. Officers are in
pursuit of him.
Warren Brayton, of New Haven township,
Dodge county, while in the bush with his
gun, had the hammer accidentally caught by
twig, and the contents discharged into his
arm between the shoulder and the elbow.
No bone was injured. but the flesh wound
was very severe one.
Shakopee Argus: A whole family have
been swept away by that dire disease, con-
sumption. About two years ago Mr.. Thom-
as McGrath, of Glendale, died. Afterwards
his widow died. Since her death four of her
children have died, all of consumption.
John, an excellent young man of % years,
is the last victim, whose death occurred a
few days ago.
Fergus Falls 4ddcocate, Sept. 6: Mr..
Ames, of Alexandria, collecting agent for
Tom Cowing, is continually travelling over
this county, and from the nature of his
business pays particular attention to the
crops. He estimates the average yield for
the county at between twenty and twenty-one
bushels to the acre. H. NJ. Wangness,
Trondjhem, has threshed, his wheat yielding
nineteen bushels to the acre, and oats seventy
bushels. Louis Nelson's wheat went seven. :.
teen bushels, and Peter Ifset's twenty three
bushels, both in the neighborhood of Pelican
Rapids.
A robber went into the house of Mr.. Gun
ther, near Mankato. Mrs. Gunther was
alone; her husband was some distance away,
at work on the farm. The fellow told her
he wanted her money; she replied she had
none for him. He declared he would search
the house and proceeded to do it. She
rushed out and made an outcry, calling her
husband. The william started to leave when
she seized him bravely, hoping to detain him
till her husband came, but he broke violently
away from her grasp, and ran into the
woods. Her husband coming, she described
the tramp. Mr.. Gunther took a gun and
went in pursuit, but could not find him.
The other day in Reed & Sherwood's saw
mill at Anoka the saws run on to seven diff
ferent pieces of iron and steel which some
miserable and dastardly william had driven
into the logs, in spirit of revenge. One
of the circular saws had great number of
teeth knocked out, utterly running it for
further work, while another was injured con-
siderably. Fourteen gang saws also suffered
the loss of teeth, and altogether pecuniary
loss of not less than $500 has been caused
to the proprietors, besides the life of
almost every man who works in the mill en-
dangered. Considering the danger to
human life, nothing less than the spirit of
fiend could influence the preparation of
such an outrage.