The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-04-11
Minnesota News Items.

| wABAsHAw COUNTY.
Oliver Craft, of Wabashaw, settled in Min
nesota in 1928, and has resided in the State
| ever since.
Ex-Sheriff Box, of Wabashaw county, is
about to remove with his family to Crook.
ston. Polk county.
MIR. and Mrs. Halverson, of Lake City,
were expecting their young daughter home
from Chigao, where she had lived for years
and MIR. Halverson returned nightly from
the depot with increasing disappointment. Al
last, a few days ago, he received letter an.
nouncing that she had been taken with
typhoid fever about the time she was to have
started for home, and died after few DAYS
sickness.
! GOODHUE COUNTY.
| Fifty-fve school teachers attended q teach
| ers' institution held at Cannon Falls this
week.
! Cyrus A. Cook has retired from the Can
non Falls Be"con, leaving o. L. Jones its
conductor.
The He'd Wing Scandinavian colonists
| have selected nine sections of land lying in
| Mobiles, Jackson and Murray counties, where
these counties corner.
As to free bridges Jennison says: ''No city
| should be without one," and advises all cities
to follow the examples set by Red Wing, St.
Paul and Winona.
The Mazeppa Tribune, of the 3Oth with a
flourish of head lines, announced that the
track layers were at work on the Midland
railway and were expected at Millville that
evening.
The Red Wing Argus hears rumors that
Judge Crosby contemplates resigning an
that Senator J. G. Mcclure is proposed for
his successor. The Senator's father was
Judge of that district next preceding Judge
Crosby.
The Hon. Joseph F. Potter, of La Crescent
iectured on temperance at Plainview two
evenings week before last. The Ne,cs Says
"He is not very eloquent speaker, but seems
to he thoroughly in earnest in the temper
ance work."
Mlnneola and Zumbrota townships, Good
hue county, are to vote next month on the
proposition to give town bonds $4,000
each town. in aid of the Rochester & North
ern railroad, conditioned on the roads being
completed from Rochester to Zumbrota vii
lage during the present year.
NC LEoD COUNTY.
Liberty Halls Glencoe Register SAYS Budd
Reeve "exhibits wonderful ability in his
original and quiet way of dressing up old
thoughts.''
FARlBAULT COUNTY.
Hubbard, Wells & Co., have built second
grain warehouse at Zumbrota village.
LIE sUEUR COUNTY.
DR.. Otis Aver, of LIE Sueur is about start
ing for Boston to have a surgical operation
performed on himself. Two years ago he
came near dying from laundering opera
ton. he suffers from painful internal
disease of long standing.
STEVENS COUNTY.
Claim jumping is frequent in the vicinity
of Morris and is liable to result in promis-
cuous shooting.
The gravel train men at Morris, struck a
few days ago against their pay being reduced
from $1.5O to $1.25 day, and were paid and
discharged.
Jacob Marx, of Raymond, Stevens county,
once lieutenant in the Prussian army and
an intelligent old man, committed suicide bv
hanging Friday night last. He lived with
his son-in-law, Jacob Fierce to whom it is
said he had loaned $500 he brought with
him from Prussia few years ago and by
whom lie was badly treated.
DOUGLAS COUNTY
The Alexandria Post would not he sur
prised to meet MIR. L. w. Rima, whom Nc
Laren brought from Idaho, on the streets of
Alexandria.
Recently Peter johnson, an apparently
healthy farmer of Moe, Douglas county,
came into his house, sat down and died,
without previous illness or known cause.
CLAY COUNTY.
The Moorhead postoffice has issued 500
nnSt.l orT3ars ir, thu 1oc<S 81
MIR. Douglas, of Moorhead, has the con-
tract for building new steamer and three
barges for Winnipeg shippers.
SCOTT COUNTY.
The monthly cattle fairs at Shakopee con-
tinue successful, bringing an increasing
number of both buyers and sellers.
Shakopee voted by 271 majority (only 90
negatives) to issue $4,000 of city bonds, for
building free bridge over the Minnesota.
The 30th ult., son of Frank Rivers of
Eden Prairie, Scott county, accidentally shot
himself. The charge raked his right side
and entered his face, destroying one eye and
lnfictlng serious but not fatal wounds on his
body.
MARTIN COUNTY.
John Miracle, of Fairmount, Martin coun-
ty, went to his barn few nights ago, in the
evening, without lantern, and encountered
tNo horse thieves, with whom he had round
at tisticutfs before they fed. His face was
badly bruised, but he thinks he gave the
villains as good as they sent.
MURRAY COUNTY,
A public meeting is to be held at Currie,
Murray county, the 18th, to devise measures
for stopping the jumping of claims of grass
hopper refugees.
STEELE COUNTY.
A colony of Owatonna people have taken
up nearly all of one township in Minnehaha
county, D. T., 1G miles from Sioux Falls.
E. H. S. Dartt, of Owatonna is setting out
this spring new orchard of 1880 apple
trees, protected by box elder and Scotch
pine. He has a bearing orchard covering
seven acres.
CARVER COUNTY
A physician at Carver notes that he has an
unusual number of cases of pneumonia this
spring.
A well-to-do farmer brought his crippled
son into Carver the other day, wa nting the
town to take care of the boy.
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