The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1878-02-21

stitution of which he was the disgrace
Young Ellis in few weeks SO far recov-
cred from the nervous shock as to be sent
to another school; hut never again was
hazing tolerated in the Gosport Academy:
MINNESOTA NEWS ITEMS. =
| NICOLLET COUNTY. ::
The St. Peter Tribune has entered on its
nineteenth year. ..,-,
Nieollet county is afflicted with a. spread
ing horse disease. -.-.,.7 -. So y
There are 63 students in the Swedish COL
lege at st. Peter, and the institution is re-
ported as highly prosperous.
During the two weeks preceding the 9Th
inst, over $4,000 pounds of pork were
bought and shipped at St. Peter, the price
ranging from $3.50 to $500.
On the 31st ult., Henry Lane, an old resi-
dent of Lafayette, Nioollet county, met with
severe accident by falling from straw
stack, having, at the time, hay knife in his
hand. Although his body was cut half
through, ne Ii In fair way of recovery.
DAKOTA COUNTY,
There is not an empty store in Hastings.
An old settlers ball is to be given at Hast
ings on the 28th.
Hastings boasts that there is scarcely
vacant house within its limits.
The trial of the soldier robbers at Hast
lngs has been set for the 21st inst.
The store Of z. w. Poplin, near Vermil-
lion bridge, Dakota county, was recently
burglarized to the extent of $50. No ar
rests.
Henry Sutherland, of Hastings, recently
lost his horse by the animals breaking
through the ice in crossing the Mississippi
river. near Nininger.
Hastings mounted new fire-alarm bell
on the 9Th, and it was kept changing for days
for the delectation of few childish men, to
the utter distraction of the more wisely dis
posed.
Joseph Sedrick, of Sciota, will be tried at
Hastings on the 21st inst, on the charge of
adultery with Mrs. Lucy Straider, on which.
occasion the disgusting revelations incident
to such cases are promised and expected.
Hastings had 100000 bushels of wheat in
store on the 18th, with storage room for 100:
600 more. According to the Hastins Union,
buyers there have paid prices during the
season averaging six cents more than at Red
Wing.
The sheriff of Dakota county utilized tho
pent up labor of his nine prisoners by caus-.
ing them to renovate, white-wash, and paint
the Jail, to clear off the snow from the court
house square sidewalks, and to saw up the
fire wood for the county building.
RICE COUNTY.
A Norwegian paper is to be started at
Northfleld by Messrs. Walsh & Henry, of the
MdH.
Faribault is agitating the propriety and
possibility of establishing there kindergar
ten school.
The Dundas Ne,os of the 10th says it has
had butterfly fluttering about in it's ofice
for several days.
| Five ri1emen of Dundas challenge any
other five rifemen of Rice county to shoe
for prize of $25, or an oyster supper, OF
both.
Charles F. Miller, of Dundas, has received
from United States Agricultural Commits
sioner LeDuc, an order for about 500 worth
of seed of the celebrated amber cane.
Northfeld and Faribault, according to
Superintendent Burt's report, pay smaller
average wages for the instruction of their
youth than any other cities of their character
and size in the State.
John Gilman, at one time county survey
or of Rice and favorably remembered old
settler of that shire, was murdered on the
Goth ult. near Los Angeles, CAL, to which
State he removed in 1874. Plunder is
presumed to have been the incentive of the
bloody deed, as the deceased was supposed to
have quite sem of money upon his person,
nothing being secured. however, but his
watch.
LYON COUNTY.
| Marshall, Lyon county, is talking about
erecting big hotel, and several buildings
are to be erected there in anticipation of the
spring immigration.
| The Marshall, Lyon county, Messenger is
| to be enlarged, and a new dress of type is to
be furnished it. In addition to these attrac-
tions it IS to have prize distribution in the
early part of March.
A horse company has been formed here for
the purpose of improving the stock in the
county. It will be operated under the laws
of the State, and has capital of $1,000.
The shares are all taken, we understand, and
| twenty members have joined the company.
| Two Norman grade stations have been pur-
chased, which will be kept in Marshall
Marshall Messenger.
DODGE COUNTY.
It is in contemplation to connect Mantor-
vile and Kasson, Dodge county, by telephone
l A series of lectures recently delivered in
Mantorville, Dodge county, realized 1925 for
the benefit of Carleton college.
F. E. Beatty, of Mantorville, Dodge coun-
ty, having satisfactorily passed an exanina-
ton at Annapolis, has been promoted to en-
sign, and awaits orders to proceed on a
cruise, probably to China.
MURRAY COUNTY.
Murray county has organized an agricul-
| tural society.
''Blackleg'' is infesting the neat cattle of
Murray county, and numbers of farmers
have lost stock through it's ravages.
society is to be formed in Murray coun-
county, for the preservation of all informa-
ton relative to soldiers therein and to create
social feeling between those who fought
side by side in the late war.
ANoKA COUNTY
At a meeting of the corporators of the
Princeton and Anoka railroad, held at
Princeton on the 11th, it was decided to at
once proceed with the preliminary survey of
the proposed route.
Rev. c. E. Byrde, lately Of Anoka, has
been victimized by hank failure. His
health failing, he determined to make trip
to England with his family, and, with this
object, deposited his money in the Litchfeld
bank, drawing therefrom bill of exchange
on New York. Arriving at the latter
city, he was thunderstruck by the
discovery that the Litchfeld bank had failedr
and his bill of exchange was worthless.
Litchded friends, however, stepped into the
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