The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-20
STATE NEWS ITEna

STATE NEWS 1TRllA
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0tsaz1s 0enaE.
The fine for drunkenness in sauk Center,
appears to be SIS and costs.
Jacob sheke, Of st. Cloud, was attacked br
COW the other day and badly bruised and
Injured internally.
Henry 1mdeke has been appointed post.
master at Meils Grove, etearns county. in
place Of Aicheal Schmit-reslgned.
In Brockway, Stearns county, the other dav
Pat Colleton and John Campbell, sr., quarrel.
ed, when the former shot the latter inaictIne
dangerous wound. The physician says the
wounded man has about IN even chance for
recovery. Colleton is In jail
st. Cloud Times, May IL: A boy named
Adam Keepers. son Of Nicholas Keppers, Of
Avon, while at werk in the Avon Factory,
yesterday, had his right hand badly laeerated
on circulating saw. One Of his dngers MS
cnt :S;s oa' d. and Two others injured. He came to
other boy named Edward Londy, while work.
ing at the same saw, had his LEFT thumb cut
Glanders among horses are reported I'm Wa.
bashaw and some other counties.
On Sunday. May 9, Bishop Grace confirmed
z class of 80 ut the Catholic church In Red
Wing.
A family by the name o1 De GrafI, moving
from Alma, Wisconsin, to Dakota Territory,
stopped at Mount Pleasant, Wabashew
county, one day last week, and built q
fire BY the roadside, and cooked dinner.
While the daughter, aged sixteen, wss wash
ing the dishes, her clothes caught Are and Be-
her person was fearfully burned from her
ankles to her waist, and her hands ana arms
were also seriously burned. DR.. Adams was
called Tuesday morning; hut rs vet he ia rn
able to determine the result of this painful &C.
cident. The sufferer Is q eister of John De-
Graf, Of the Alma Journal.
DRsWa County.
Considerable damage was done by hail
storms in Brown county, last week.
Dodge County.
James Campbell has been appointed post.
master At Westheld Center, Dodge County.
K. Z. Libby, of Hastings, came near losing
his barn by fire the other day by the careless.
ness of hostler, but the fire was discovered
III time to prevent serious conhagration.
0tter Tail County.
The little daughter Of Ole Lysaid, of swed
run, Otter Tail county, recently fell into q
we'll and was drowned.
A school house in the town of Buse, Otter
Tail county, was recently burned in the night
Portable and well furnished for school pur.
poses.
Fergus Falls Journal: The Norwegian
Lutheran church (synod) having sold Its
church building, which is now converted in
to residence, will probably build 4 new
church this season on their lot Just west of
the court house. It will be the largest church
in town, about 36x6O feet, and in every way q
substantial and ornamental structure.
The Fergus Falls Journal sensibly remarks:
Otter Tail county leads al its neighbors in
everything but big farms. 1t ia larger coun.
ty, has bigger lakes, rivers, water powers,
finer towns, &c. We are right glad that We
have corner against bonanza farms. A few
men only own as much as q single section,
and we only know Of two farmers, Martin &
acres each under the plow. While it looks
good to see the thousands OF acres being bro
ken up in counties about US, it pleases us far
better to see on each quarter section or eighty
1arm mousse ana family.
Riss County.
A hungry thief entered Ira Strutet's
seventy-fVe pounds OF salt pork.
By the storm of last week, the boiler house
Of J. q: Bickel's amber cane works at Cannon
Lake, Rice county, was blown down.
In storm last week, the Gas Works
in Faribault were struck by lightning. The
damage to the works is estimated at from three
to four thousand dollars. No insurance.
Dakota County.
Three scamps were errested the other day
in Hastings for robbing Ulrick Basly of about
$50 in currency. They are in Jail.
1t is alleged that there was never so many
building improvements in Hastings in all
portions OF the city as during this season.
George W. Wells, Of Farmington, Dakota
county, had horse killed by lightning. He
was killed In low shed back of Finch's 81.
loon. The capricious bolt passing by all
higher buildings aud objects, struck the low
shed and killed the horse.
Redwood County.
The commissioners of Redwood county,
organized and named last week, three new
oWnships-Kintive, Vesta and Sheridan.
Nine new school houses have bean built in
Redwood county the present season, most OF
them substantial and complete In all their ap-
pointments.
Todd County.
The Long Prairie, Todd county Argus says:
buildin gs were starting up 20 fast that 1t
would keep our reporter busy to keep track
OF them.
The Long Prair1e, Todd county Argus,
Of May II, gives q circunstantih account Of
the finding OF the dead bodies in the town OF
Gordon, Todd county. The substance Il as
follows: The boys names were Peter Hender-
son. aged 9 years, and John N. Oleson, aged
II years, sons Of two neighbors living sbout
hall . mile apart. John MAs found dead nesr