The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-06-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.
Items by Mail and TeIeeraDh.

The citizens of Austin last week cast 288
votes in favor of railroad bonds, and not one
against - IL, :
M: ": Glenn & Go. Is boiler works, and r. R.
Bryants snd Douglass & Halls machine shops
at alnneapohs were destroyed by fire last Sat-
J.. F. Pdea Of Eyota sheared 500 sheep av-
1l6 acres q. f.cloSer and has seventy seven acres @ OF Of
clover and eighty acres of timothy to cut
The dosing exercises at st. Mary's school,
Faribault, on Wednesday. we're very interest
Helen s. Peabody, Jessie s. Card, Mary M.
Mitchell. and Annice E. Williston.
girl ramed Kaplin was killed by the cars
near Owaonna. She was on the track. The
train cameover small rise, whom she was dis
covered ],st ahead. and every effort made ia
warn her and stop the train, but in vain.
Rev. Mr. Kiehle, Of the First PRESBYTERIAN
church, Saltwater, has resigned. and will go to
the Calvary church, in Milwaukee,.
MI. Ed Stevens, who was deputy auditor
and treasurer Of Fillmore county for the last
ten or twelve ytara, is about to take q position
with Hart l. Norton at " mona = 49,
Master Alfred, the fourteen-year-old son of
Dr. Benjamln of Hutchinson, was drowned in
the river near that point while in bathing He
got beyond his depth, lost his presence Of mind
rescue him
At Minneapolis district court, Julia Smith
was granted a decree Of divorce from l. j..
Smith, ana the right to resume her maiden
name of Qsjardin. They were married last
October, aud defendant las convicted in Feb
ruary Of forgery, and sentenced to Saltwater
very eyeatful experience III married life for a
girl of seventeen
A party If 129 Scandina vians arrived in st
DoIy1 l1..,, E.. ~ IL.
ora, Ashb7, Ada, Crookston and other points
in the Red River valley. The arrival Of these
people is ono of the results of the work of the
agents of the st. Paul g. manitoba company
sent to the old country,
'Prof" Benjamin F. Stanley, the Cottage
Grove school teacher and a married man, who
scduced one o. his pupils, Miss Julia Bolles,
had MS trial at Saltwater recently, and was
convicted. When the prisoner was conducted
back to the Jail he was met at the door by his
wife, and the scene was very affectisg.
By theHerm Of Saturday night Mr.. and Mrs.
Chaffee, living in the town Of Lura, Fairbault
county, was killed by the blowing down of their
house. The barn of l. J. Praber, in the same
town, was unroofed, burying his daughter in
the ruins. She was taken out in an uncon-
scious condition, and the injury may prove
fatal
Col. Justus J. Mccarthy formerly resident
the Mexican war he was major Of the noted
Tenth New York Regiment, in which Col Alex
ander Wilkin, Minnesota's hero, was a captain
Ia the spring of 1852 Col MCCARTHY came to
st. Paul, and during his residence was in the
law business, in partnership with Dewitt C.
Cooley.
-, Mr.. Ralph Walters, head miller at Geo. f.
Strait Il Co.'S mill, at Shakopee was seriously if
not mortally injured by being crushed under
the heavy iron smoke stack. MI. Walters was
directing the raising of the stack, blown down
in last Saturdays storm, when, by the giving
away of some ropes or tackle, the stack, weigh
ing about ton, fell upon him, doubling him up
70 that his .pine was severely injured.
The thirteenth Minnesota Turner festival
will be held 10 Minneapolis on the 18th, 18th,
9th and 18th days of July, and the West
Turn Vercin has appointed a COM
nittee to make all necessary preparations for
he event. The Turner societies Of Minnesota
nd Wisconsin, and the class from milwaukee,,
5e ye'fs fesfivs ''" 'lian vres at Frank
Low Frankenfcld, of Henderson, was found
lead in barn, where he had gone to get a team
e dy to take q trip in the country for II. Poeh-
er & Co. 1t iG supposed his death was caused
~ stroke Of apoplexy. He has always been
} strong, healthy man, and his sudden doath is
luite shock to the citizens who have always
leld him in high esteem. He was a brother-in-
aw or hon. Henry POehlef, ana Drotner OF
he Frankenfields of Henderson.
At the first term of district court for Big
Stone county, at Ortonville, no case of interest
vas on the docket with the exception, perhaps,
If that of theState W.. Clara Ewes, who has been
indicted for cohabiting with Frank Ewes, for
nerly her husband. They procured a divorce
'ome three years ago. in order that Ga ch might
enjoy the benefit Of pre- -emption and timber
culture acts, AMI have lived in the same house
ever since. A few days ago they were married
lgain.