The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-09-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Mcleod county has organized teachers
association.
Over 1900 ties day are shipped on the
d. q d. railway from Hastings.
1t Is alleged that the Mississippi river il
lower then it has been for sixteen years.
The sheriff of Redwood county has cap-
tured and lodged thief in the Jail at New
Ulm.
August Hinkle, of Bear Valley, had leg
| broken in a scuffle. The fracture was very
/ bad one.
By an accident near Forest City, Meeker
county, a child of Mr.. Rogers had an arm
broken.
Waseca has voted $4,000 additional for
| their new school house, with only seven
opposing votes.
large number of people from St. Louis
are spending the summer in Faribault for
health and recreation.
Senator Window delivers the address at
the Mississippi Industrial fair to be held at
Red Wing, Sept. 10, IL and IL.
H. H. French's house in Plainyiev, Waba-
shaw county, was bhrglarized few nights
ago, and the burglar got $40 for his booty.
In field near Wabashaw rattlesnake
was found coiled under bundle of wheat.
AAO "ss' A"A fCotOA y hIu trau6u
No. 1.
Fights aud petty thieving are getting to be
numerous in Mazeppa. and the authorities
are kept busy in arresting, trying and fning
the scalawags.
st. Cloud Times: The supply of black
berries this year is something wonderful.
They have been coming into the city lately
by the wagon load
The father of E. B. Slocum, of Castle Rock,
was run over by team, two of the wheels
passing over his body, and was severely, it
is feared fatally injured.
A farmer in Dakota county had his
reaper, left in the grain field, broken en-
tirely to pieces by a gang of that valuable
citizens known as tramps.
A railroad employe at Hastings, while
coupling cars, had two of his fingers jam
med off. A short time since similar acci-
dent happened to his other hand.
Miss Agnes Cardin, of Elmore, Faribault
county, was severely burned by the explosion
of gasoline stove, which she had impru-
IDENTITY placed OH a hot wood stove.
Although the grain crop in Plainview is o
poor one, the yield of poker players. tramps,
etc., is reported to be immense, anu yet so
worthless as to be of unquotable value.
In stating the sales of old wheat one of
our local exchanges owns to a mistake of
$1 ,OOO, ,OOO,0On. It is hardly worth while,
though to use up type metal in correcting
SO light mistake.
Ihe number of cases (nlost Of them hard
cases. during one week. that stood for judg-
ment in the Hastings police court, reached
l9, and the aggregate fines and costs amount
ed to quite pretty sum.
In some portions of the State, especially
on the borders of Wisconsin and over the
line, the squirrels are said to be unusually
numerous and very fat. The woods are full
of them, and the hunters are after them in
force.
James Mead and John F. Larabee, two
young men Of Blue Earth City, went to a
lake to shoot wild geese. While in the boat
rowing, Larabee accidentally discharged the
contents of his own gun into his body, and
survived but few hours.
Hugh Shaw, of South Mazeppa, beat
Elisha Gray with whisky jug, inficting
dangerous injuries on his lead, and render
ing him insensible. The infuriated rough
was placed under arrest. He contrived to
effect a settlement with Gray by paying him
500
1t is stated that railway twelve miles in
length is to be built this fall from Chatfeld
to Eyota, by the Northwestern railroad
company, for which service they demand
bonus of $5O,O0O-to which Chatfeld con-
tribes $4,000: Elmira $4,000, and Jordan
$4,000.
Madelia (Watonwan county, Times, Aug.
80: We understand that Mr.. A. J. Nichol-
sons whea: yielded twenty buehels to the
acre. Some of.this grain, we believe, he
thought at one time would not pay him to
harvest it and would have to be burned off
the ground.
Albert Lea (Freeborn county, Standard.
Aug. 20: The most of the wheat already
marketed in this county graded No. 8, and
we think that will be about the average
grade for the whole crop. A considerable
amount will go No. ., and quite quantity
will be No. 4 and rejected.
Westward ho. seems to be the watchword
of the great squirrel host. 70 accomplish
this they swim rivers and lakes, and great
numbers yield up their lives to the treacher-
o. waters, their bodies being washed to the
shores. ''Lo, the poor Indian,'' predicts
from this strange emigration hard winter.