The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-19
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINI NESOTA NEWS.
TnE elevator at Cokato. Wright county, has
f'een destroyed by hre.
The st. Cloud council have ordered hook
and ladder outfit at cost of ESQ.,
ONE hundred and four wolves were captured
In Fillmore county, costing the county $72s.
THE damage to milling interests caused By
high water at Redwood Falls Is estimated at
81, 1000.
AN Iowa man bought 212 head Of cattle in
olmsted county, last week, paying therefor
81, 500 in cash.
TIE commissioners of Marshall county
River, the county seat.
The wolf crop ia a good one In Olmsted
county. The county auditor paid out $lse
for wolf bounties last week.
IT is reported that ten of the largest farms
In Stevens county will have An aggregate OF
ii $50 acres In crops this season.
A THIEF in Minneapolis stole lot Of tin
pans from In front of store door the
other day, aud sold them to the proprietor In
side.
1T Is dangerous to approach within hun
dred yards Of Cannon Lake, Faribault. on &C.
count Of the stencil arising from the Thousands
of dead fish.
RABBITS have destroyed the one hundred
and fifty apple trees on A. Marlow's farm,
west Of Wilmar. Mr.. NARROW estimates the
damage at $500.
1AN1oRAN7s are pouring into st. Paul by
every train from the east, and the number Of
arrivals thus early in the season is said to be
without precedent.
The state bounty for wolves killed between
May and November l, Is three dollars per
head. and for those killdd between November
l and May l, five dollars per head.
Two small children OF Frank Lafaver, of
East Rochester, wandered from home
and were subsequently found in the mill
race dead. The were buried in one casket.
1T Is reported that newspaper Is to be
started in Minneapolis with cash capital of
$4,000, as the organ of the anti-high license
and the anti Sunday observance interests.
A MEETING of the Minneapolis and st.
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early day to take steps to have the company
designate some certain day OF each month on
which it will pay them.
E. B. L1rrE11, of Clear Mills, Meeker coun-
ty, was narrowing, the other day, when his
team became frightened and ran away, the
dash resulting in both horses being terribly
lacerated by the harrow teeth.
A FOURTEEN year old son of Mrs. Caroline
Keller, of New Ulm, was badly injured the
other day by having a lumber pile fall on him.
But for the plastic condition of the ground
his legs would have been ruinous]y crushed.
THE Crookston Chronicle says: Up to the
present time more entries have been made in
the Crookston land Office than in any other
month since the Office was located here,
Maple Leaf and Thief River seem 10 be getting
great many settlers.
The enterprising citizens of saltwater re"
joice in the possession of one of the finest
opera houses in the northwest, if not In the
country anywhere. The building was opened
to the public on May II, with Salsbury's
Troubadors as the attraction. The house has
seating capacity Of 300 and cost $4,000.
JAMES MCNRoE died in st. Paul few DAYS
since, from over-indulgence in his favorih
amusement of beating his wife, After he had
exhausted himself at that exercise he WAS In:
terrupted by several neighbors who were ct
traeted by her screams. Munroe had the ex
ira exertion Of driving them out, which over
came him 50 that he fell dead upon hi.
return. What is to be the effect of this warn
ing on others of like ilk
THERE is family in St. Peter embracinf
four generations, consisting Of one great
grandmother, two grandmothers, three moth
ers, one grandfather, two fathers, five aunts,
five unc1es, ten cousins, eight grandchildren,
two great grandchildren, two mothers-in-law,
one father-in-law, eight brothers and sisters,
two sons-in-law, five brothers-in-law eleven
children, eleven sons and daughters, four
nephews and nieces. A total of eighty-two.
Hon. W. J. IVES, of Hutchinson, Mcleod
county, has recently returned from business
trip to the Black Hills. Mr.. Ives made the
trip to the Hills during the time of the foods
in that section, when much of the road was
flooded, making the trip very slow and fatieu-
ing-most OF the distance having to be made
on foot. Mr.. Ives reports the business PROS
poets in the Hills very satisfactory. He
especially denies the reports of large losses by
the stockmen of that section. On the contra.
ry, he says the stock, especially along the
foothills, went through the winter finely and
are in excellent condition this spring.