The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-02-14

OF the young man, w. J. Huron, junior, On the
charge OF obtaining goods from Mr.. F. s. Hol
llngworth under false pretcnses, was adjourned
until next Tuesday It is said that his swnf:
dlingitransactiOns in Wabashaw and Winona
counties cover about 81 500. He is cool
the complaint was being read in the court
room.
BLUE EARTH.
The city council of Mankato is opposed
to having the rapids declared the head OF nav
lgatiOn on the Minnesota, and to any legisla
ton that will allow the navigation OF tho river
to be obstructed by bridges or otherwise. An
expert from MankatO, having been engaged
to examine the treasury books of Murray
treasurer in 1875 and $955SO against his sue.
cessor, n. T. Shepard, and besides other officers
had overdrawn their salaries. ....A second
member of Mr.. John Young's family, q son
about eighteen years old, died of small pox on
Friday night last. Two young men have
died in the vicinity of Winnebago agency of
the same terrible disease.
HOUSTON.
Fees of county officers of Houston
county last year: NJ. Harrrcaycs. sheriff
$2.136.64; P. Fl. Rosendahl, register of deeds,
$l188.16 Joseph Vossen, c]e,k of court
$l,225.5.. The Zumbrota Independent saws
the Northwestern railroad wants $4,000 from
Pine Island: New Haven, IS GOO; Milton, Dodge
county, 5000; which makes the aid asked for
from Rochester to Pine Island $4,000. MIR.
Clark Thompson, son of Edward Thompson,
to Miss Addie Dunham, daug ghter of W. II.
Dunham, at Hoka, Houston county, by Rev.
j. II. Carpenter, on Wednesday last.
OLMsTEAD.
Nine persons were immersed in the
Baptist church at Rochester, last Sunday. :. .
W: L. breckenridge, ESQ.,, Of Rochester, has
ter Post: Last Saturday afternoon there
were by actual count one hundred and eighty
SIX farmers teams hitched on Broadway b.
tween College and Fifth streets. This. added
to over two hundred more in the city at the
same time would make four hundred teams
IN from the country that day. ."Does prayer
influence men to reform" is the topic of dis
cussiOn in the Rochester Reform club.
RAMSEY.
-Four inches of snow, fair sleighine.
swamps and wild meadows solid, and all tie
farmers busy hauling wood, hay and fencing,
and marketing their surplus wheat and other
products. The ice on rivers and lakes is
about thirteen inches thick-tlle thincst crop
ever known in the State.
An increase Of the Judges salaries is
being advocated. :. Nick Martin, OF Hastings,
that was stolen from him year ago. w.
": Atwood, of Eureka. owns a colt IL wears
old that weighs 1880 pounds; stands is hands
high, measures "A inches around the fore arm
and twenty inches around the thigh, He is a
cross of the Norman and Sampson blood, and
is called Eureka Colonel" -. Judge Crosby
on Friday sentenced Lewis Hicks to two
years in the State prison. Two indictments
were found against him one for passing a
forged order on E. W. Grosvenor, at Norrish's
dry goods store for suit of clothes, and one
for petty larceny. That notorious feather
bed case so long pending in the county courts
has finally come to an end, Mrs. Rheims being
acquitted. The bed, at closing figures, has
The bed is worth about two dollars and a halt.
:;.."'swi glass lager for five cents" at
Hastings.