The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-03-28
Minnesota News items.
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OLNSTB0i COUNTY.

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E. W. Newberry ~ arrested in Rocheste
on the 14th for bigamy.
Eyota, Olmsted county, has voted IN
license by majority of fifteen, and Pleas
ant Grove, Of the saIne county, recently in
oorporated, by majority of one. - :.
;. Work has been commenced upon the ne,
railroad, and already some twenty-five ca
loads of ties have been received. We un
derstand that the right Of way has been pur
chased for part of tho way, and severa
hundred yards of ground have been broker
and partly graded.-Rochester Record an.
Union. a H. ,s5=$. Il
i FREBBoRN COUNTY.
The Danish Lutherans of Albert Lea ar
about to commence the erection of nev
church. *sS:ssisal:s .:
"a lodge st ! Unit}sd VI v worrkmen has bee,
established at Albert Lea, with membership
of ten.
More rain has fallen at Albert Lea the pas
week than for the same length of time dur
ing the year past.
Fred Reiber and II. Rico have confessed
to wheat stealing from the elevator at Alden
Freeborn county, and have implicated A
Rymerson. All have been bound over.
DOUGKAs COUNTY.
The Alexandria Post says land buyers are
swarming into Douglas county and prices
are going up. Several sales have been made
during the past week.
( wAsECA COUNTY.
Mrs. Patrick Healey, resident of Waseca
since 1856, died on the 8th, of typhoid
pneumonia, aged So years.
| Mrs. McManus, of Waseca, Saturday, the
/ 9th fo1hr <>E o:1 h~, kn1v
Medical aid was promptly summoned and the
patient relieved of the poisonous dose before
! it had time to do it's deadly work
MARTIN COUNTY.
| Fairmont, Martin county, voted license by
small majority.
DAKOTA COUNTY
John J. Rhodes is prominently talked OF
| as the coming mayor of Hastings.
The library of Hastings has been removed
to afford more room for the post Office.
One-half the wheat sowing is completed
| IN Dakota county, says the Hastings UnSon.
A small tenement, occupied by Polander,
was destroyed by fire at Hastings on the
10Th, involving loss of 800, the household
goods being saved.
The house and barn of Mr.. James Kear-
ney, Pennington, were destroyed by fire
Saturday light, the 10th. and nearly all their
contents consumed.
Squire Thompson has been fined SIS for
contempt Of court by rival justice, Squire
Keegan, both of Rosemount township, Dako-
ia county. The former has appealed to
the district court.
According to the Hastings Ne,o Era, ''the
Hastings and Dakota grading contract has
been ordered to be let. The number of miles
to be graded is forty. which, with the thirty
miles now under contract, will complete the
distance from Glencoe west to Granite Falls.
Work will first be commenced in the deep
cuts on Hawk creek, Renville county,
STATE AT LARGE.
Henderson is putting up street lamps.
"Some land, some land, my kingdom for
some land,'' is the cry all along the frontier.
A man named Beaulieu was drowned while
! attempting to cross the Red river on the ice
at Moorhead, on the 18th inst.
Michael McGraw, ST., resident of Green
leaf township, Meeker county, since 1859,
died on the 5th, aged 81 years.
Redwood county, and that section of the
State, has been visited by rain storm con-
tinuing from Friday, the 8th, to Tuesday,
known in years.
Minnesota farmers, says the La Crosse
LIBERAL Democrat, are too busy putting in
grain to have any market, and if they were
so disposed the roads are too bad. Hence q
falling of in wheat receipts per Minnesota
railroad.
A convention of farmers was recently held
in Becker county, the object being to consult
on the destruction of blackbirds. The pro-
ceedings are described as having been char
monious and enthusiastic" and resulted in a
determination to purchase strychnine at
wholesale, with which to SOW the county
simultaneously in all parts.
A new timetable will 90 into effect upon
the Winona & st. Peter railroad on the LIST
prox.
Mr.. J. H. Smyser and Mr.. Tetley arrived
at Muskoda last Monday to commence oper-
atoms on the 1900 acre farm of Messrs.
Delworth, Porter d Co., of Pittsburgh. The
farm is situated 21@ miles west of Muskoda.
They intend building dwelling house and a
Dutch barn. Two car loads of horses are
expected tomorrow for the farm. A side
track will be laid and other facilities are in
contemplation. Advocate.
DODGE COUNTY.
A State teachers institute will meet at
Mantorville Monday, April LIST, and continue
two weeks.
The fines collected from the six saloons in
kasson last year, principally for selling
liquor without license, was $3.50.
The town of Milton, Dodge county, voted
against issuing bonds in $1,000 in aid of the
Rochester & St. Paul railroad, by majority
of nine, with 260 votes polled.
MORRISON COUNTY.
Mr.. Calhoun Hays, of the town of Two
Rivers, Morrison county, has the honor of
holding the Offices of justice of the peace,
assessor and town clerk, to which he was
elected by an almost unanimous vote.
ST. LOU COUNTY.
Duluth was visited by severe northeaster
Sunday, the 10th, doing considerable damage
to the rip-rapping at the breakwater in the
outer harbor, carrying it all, or nearly all,
over the breakwater and depositing it on the
west side. Heavy rocks, weighing thousands
of pounds, were thus hoisted out of the
water by the action of the waves and depos-
tied on the other side ofthe breakwater.
srEARNs COUNTY.
The st. Cloud Times calls loudly for Gen.
G. G. Andrews to come home and run for
Congress. If he should come home now,
says the Times, and enter the lists for Con-
gress, he would make it lively for some of
the old POLITICAL hacks.
We learn that, during the warm weather
in January, John Ferschweiler, of LIE Sauk,
in this county, seeded field of wheat. The
grain came up in the last days of February,
and is now growing finely, presenting q
be autifa and healthy sppearance.-St.C Cloud
Times.