The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-07-29
MINNESOTA NEWS.

Unlawful shooting of prairie chickens is
steadily going on.
Tho personal assessment OF Pipe Stone
county is 1901 .325.58.
| There were four deaths from diphtheria
in Cannon Falls last week.
| Haying is in progress in Stevens county,
and the yield is above the average.
| One of the farmers at Beaver Falls conf
,nenced harvesting his wheat July II.
The railroad company are sinking an ar
tesiau we'll near the depot in Faribault.
The crops in Sauk Valley are reported to
he splendid. Harvest is fairly under way.
| Mosquitoes are reported to be presenting
their bills for liquidation in great numbers.
| The postofice at Morristown, Rice county,
is toobe m 3ney order Office after August l.
The farmers of Otter Tail county are re-
ported to be jub,lant over the grain pros
ects.
A drove of over 1O4 head of cattle passed
through Rushford. Fillmore county, last
week.
| One day last week the Washburn Touring
mill at Anoka turned out 200 barrels OF
flour.
"HeTdld' il the name OF q new paper
just issued at Murdoch, Swift county, o. Il.
Hogue editor and publisher. 1t is ''non-
partisan" neutral, but independent"
1t makes good appearance.
A loaded wagon in New Ulm the other day,
| was iuexousably driven on to q sidewalk
where children were playing, and little girl
wes severely, but not dangerously injured.
Her escape from greater injury was remark
able.
A I'll IT.
eon, living six miles from MontevideO, was
thrown from the horse he was riding, the
horse being attacked by bull. and received
kick from the horse, producing bad frac-
ture Of one of his legs.
The diphtheria has broke out in virulent
form in Saratoga, Winona county. William
Christie and Nathan Cross have both lost
child. They were not aware of the nature of
the disease till too late. There are mum
Der of other cases in the same neighbor-
hood.
One night last week two or three Williams
attempted to enter the house of Abe Lent,
at Metrose, but the screams of Mrs. lent,
who was alone, aroused one of the neighbors,
when they ran away. The Same evening
Mrs. Borgerding was attacked near her own
door, but her screams brought her husband
Furgus Falls Journal, July %: One
hundred and fifty men employed on the
railroad grade this side of Lawrence creek
last Friday morning made strike for an ln-
crease in their wages. After being idle two
to their work at the old wages, and the 9TH
ers went harvesting, haying and elsewhere.
On late morning, while James Schwei-
zer, of Belle Creek, Goodhue county, was
examining his hives, thinking the grubs
were at work, the bees became enraged, and
stung him repeatedly about tho head and
face. He was taken to the hoose and help
summoned, but it was some hours before he
fully recovered consciousness. It was mar
row escape from being stnng to death.
Sauk Rapids Sentinel, July 20: A crew of
log drivers about 100 men strong, belonging
to the drives of Leighton & Co., Day & Co.
| and Others of Minneapolis, reached Sauk
Rapids on Sunday, and yesterday cleared
the river of all the logs that were hung up
here since the freshet. Several drives are
still above on their way down the river.
last week the cylinder head of the engine
in the saw mill of g. H. Grannis, at Central
Point, Goodhue county. was knocked out
| and the whole engine wrecked, in conse-
quence of the breaking of the drive wheel
| crank. There were thirteen men employed
| in and about the mill at the time, but all
happened to be in safe places, and none were
hurt.
There are conflicting reports about the
appearance of the growing wheat in Steele
county. Several excessively hot days. with
| rain and close atmosphere, have proven in
furious. Although the wheat generally
looks we'll, it appears to be badly injured in
spots by blight. The indications at present
are that there will be fair average, though
by no means large crop.
Rochester Record and Union: G. W.
Woodworth, of this city, has nearly 700
| acres of wheat in this and three other ad-
joining counties. He says it is nearly ruin
ed by the ravages Of the inscts, aud he would
Le glad to get back tho seed sown in the
| spring. The grain on his farm near Utica is
not worth cutting, and he estimates that the
chinch bugs will average 500 in number to
the square inch over the entire field. Other
crops are looking we'll.
Tho Le Sueur Sentinel Of July % gives an
account of an affray of in Montgomery, Lie
Sueur county, in which John Peshek shot
| and dangerously wounded Thomas Martin.
The Sentinel learns that Mrs. Peshek first
struck Martin with mallet, that Jacob
Wandra took the mallet from her and
| Knocked Martin down, and that Mrs. Peshek
chopped Martin in the face with hatchet
while he was down. Afterward Peshek shot
Martin, as above stated. Peshek is in jail.
Chaska Herald: We learn that the family
| of Gustave Krause, of Chanhassen, Carver
county, has been aorely afflicted of late.
That dread disease, diphtheria, made its ap.
pearance in his family a little over two weeks
ago, and the family have since that time
buried two bright little children, aged re-
spectively two and four years of age, and
another is on the point of death, and the
fourth and only ono left, Is slowly recover
Ing from a severe attack of the same dread
disease.
The editor of the Morrisl Tribune has
taken much trouble to ascertain from the
most intelligent sources possible, the true
condition Of the growing crop throughout
this county. The weight Of the information
gathered shows that the grain is generally
in healthy state, and that the rust has not
in any manner affected the body of the
wheat. We are Of the opinion, that, with
fair weather from the time of writing till
vens county will be at least eighteen bushels
per acre.
st. Cloud Times: A party of wandering
g. psies camped on the east side yesterday,
and number of the women came over to
do some shopping. They were hardy,
bronzed, vheather- beaten lot, and spoke in
. strange unknown tongue when conversing
among themselves. They came here from
Kansas and are on their way up north. A
few of them came originally from ENGLAND
and remained in Ohio for several years. They
have good horses, fine light spring wagons,
covered ard Allied up for sleeping purposes,
and complete supply of camp equipage.
Their camp appeared to swarm with young
children.
Browns Valley Reporter: The post mis-
tress of Stephny, Big Stone county, had
little experience with a couple of tramps one
day last week, in which she showed remarka.
BILE bravery a. welt as good sense. It ap.
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