The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-08-22

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Minnesota News.
Douglass county has 1851 horses-a in
crease of 1877 over last year. H.: p,,.s
.Mumps and whooping cough have put in
an appearance at Melrose, Stearns county.
One Kaufman, of Danville, was arrested
for stealing two sacks of oats, and taken to
Mankato for trial.
An II year old child of Michael Fox, of
Hastings, lost his life the other day by his
clothes taking fire. -*..-::-.c Il
Robert Van Dyke. Esq, has been appointed
attorney for the Midland; Diyisionyof. the c.
n. aud St. p. railroad:
Fred. Williams fell of q load OF. grain the
other day near Pomme de Terre, and both
his jaw bones were broken.
An accomplished Oroldss lady, a teacher
and noted belle, drove her father : harves-
ter team all through the. season; ! t",
The honey crop in this State, if not an
entire failure, is said to be greatly impaired
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The other day, year old daughter of
Hermann Schroeder, of Hastings, fell from
ladder and broke her left leg below the knee.
Mrs. Mary Devlin, who occupied room at
the residence of Thomas Mccall, in Faribault,
was found dead in her bed the other night.
Two men in Mankato were prosecuted
and fined for violating the game law in
cho tim oSrvc nh Sn1ro 1ofo~
A farm barn belonging to William Shut,
near High Forest village, was destroyed by
fire few days since. The origin of the fire
was accidental.
The Midland narrow guage railroad has
passed into the hands of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul company, and formal
possession has been taken.
At St. Charles few nights since while
harvest hand named BENZ. Dougherty was
sleeping off drunken debauch in a box car,
his pockets were rifled of $25.
The Duluth Neus reports that on the 18th
of August, seven car loads of silver ore
reached that town by the Northern Pacific,
and went out bv the St. Louis.
A child at Dodge Centre was bitten twice
b. a rattlesnake the other day, on the town
plat hear the Kinney House. The bites came
near proving fatal, but the child was saved.
While Mr.. Pirath, of Mankato, was wait
ing on customer, some one stole from an
open drawer a bag of silver containing some
$50. A suspected person has been arrested.
An incendiary confagration was nipped at
Clairmont the other day by timely discov-
cry. Combustibles had been placed in the
front part of G. Johreiss' store, and set on
fire.
Duluth Ne,cs, Aug. Is: Fifteen car loads
of Northern Pacific wheat came in yesterday
from Dalrymple's farm, the first Northern
Pacific wheat of the season, and the earliest
receipts from that section ever known.
A tramp visited the residence of Judge
Calkins, of Currie, during the absence of the
judge, and impertinantly demanded of Mrs.
G. that she furnish him supper. Through
fear she did so. The william eat his supper
and left without Offering her any further in
dignity. y ..
The lazy tramps who would not work in
the harvest fields are now lying in wait to
rob those who did. The other day at Hast
ings two harvest hands were robbed by
tramps, the one of $25, the other of $50.
Such robberies are being repeated in very
many localities.
The other night five young men of Anoka
went over to Osseo, and getting outside of
too much lager and tanglefoot, got into
row at saloon and smashed things-some
of these enterprising youths got hurt, and
besides it cost each afew dollars to settle
with the marshal of Osseo.
Two accidents occurred near Norwood, in
Carver county, the other day. Mrs. Heck
man was thrown from q wagon, while rashly
attempting to hold runaway team. Her
injuries are likely to prove fatal. A son of
Peter Krorls fell from wheat stack and was
so badly hurt that his recovery is doubtful.
bail storms have been unusually frequent
and severe throughout the late harvest. The
towns of Leaf: Valley and Ida, Douglas
county, were severely visited fortnight ago,
with hail of great size. Mn. SweEson, who
was out milking, was badly bruised; by the
falling hail and on reaching the house she
tainted. ~, %a -.
man in West Mankato the other day
attempted to commit suicide in box car by
taking strychniue. He was discovered, a
physician called, and may recover with good
care, though his limbs are parslyzed. The
reason he gives for the act is, that he was
sick, had no money, ont Of employment, and
had no friends. ''o'
Two boys were fooling with loaded gun
in Mankato the other day, when 'Nts. Kelly's
little four years old boy got before, the muz-
zle of the gun. His mother seeing him
snatched him away, and the gun instantly
exploded. By the narrowest possible mar
ing, the mother saved her child. .2:
An industrious German farmer by the
name of Fred Milbradt, living about twelve
miles south of Heron lake, met with fatal
accident at O'Clock on Sunday afternoon.
He was engaged in cutting his grain, and
went to the front of his reaper to remove
some obstruction from the sickle, and while
thus engaged his team started, causing the
rake to strike him 81 the head and the
sickle to cut him SO severely that he died in
few minutes after the accident.;,.Y
few days ago, in Madelia, Samuel Ash
shamelessly exposed his person to two small
girls and made infamous proposals to them.
One of them was q daughter Of Capt. w. w.
Murphy. He went in pursuit of the william
with loaded gnn, and when he overlook
him shot, the contents passing through his
forearm and into the left side of the chest
above the heart. Ash was just alive at the
last report. Capt. Murphy has been before
the justice on q charge of manslaughter, and
was put under bail to await the result of the
shooting.
Anoka Ueion; One day last week about
p. n, Anoka and the immediate vicinity
were struck by terrific thunder, hail and
| wind storm. It came from the northwest,
lasting only few minutes, but did consid
erable damage. Many fruit and shade trees,
fences, signs, etc., were blown down, and
boards for Forepaugh's Circus were demol-
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over $40. In eli parts Of the city glass was
damaged greatly d many fields.