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

A FIRE at Minneapolis destroyed the feed
mill of J. D. Osmer, causing loss of 81, 600.
Several fremen were injured by inhalinp
! flames.
SEVENTEEN head of cattle belonging to A.
Cooler, of Lamberton have died recently, and
the owner thinks feeding them oats in the
sheaf is what killed them.
GooD work is being done by the committee
| OF the st. Paul Chamber of Commerce for
| the sufferers by the Missouri river floods, sew
| eral hundred dollars having already beea COL
lected.
Two men named Gustav Gunerius and
Mr.. Hansen, were killed at South MINNEAPOLIS.
few days since by being crushed beneath the
falling walls of a building, which they were
raising.
By collision in the yards of the Milwaukee
Il st. Paul Railroad Co., at Minneapolis,
few days since, one man, Joseph Snyder, was
severely injured and three locomotives were
rendered useless.
DIFFICULT surgical operation was per-
formed at st. Luke's hospital, st. Paul, a few
days since, being the removal of an ovarian
tumor weighing forty-five pounds from lady
named Mrs. Leigh, residing at Breckenridge
TERRIBLE case of sickness is reported
from the town Of Cresco, this state A family
named Weaver, eight in number, living on an
island in the center of a large marsh. were
found nearly all down with the most malig-
nant form of scarlet fever ever known. Three
in the family died in twenty four hours.
A son and daughter of John C. Smith, Of
the town of Parker, Morrison county, killed
bear the other day. The bear was in hole,
and the boy shot the animal, but the shot did
not kill it. Miss Smith then armed herself
with an Ak and kept the bear in the hole by
chopplng its nose whenever it started to come
out, until her brother had time to re-oad his
gun and fire shot that proved fatal.
THE time clock on .he vault of the First Ma
tional bank at Minneapolis got dead and stop
ped over Sunday, and was not running Mon
day morning. What they were to do about
it became exceedingly interesting to the bank
officials as the business hours approached, and
they were about tclegraphiug to Chiciso for
currency, when the President CHANGED to think
that clockwork can IL started occasionally BY
shaking A sledge-han.mer and stick of tim
Der were brought into r:". and the time-clock
responded in gratifying manner, so that
business went on as usual, and the financiers
recovered from their cold sweat.
State Teachers Institute.
The State Institute IL II its annual session
in the Normal School building at Winona,
April SG. About 100 teachers were in attend
ance. Prof.. Shepard called the institute to
lie instruction, to Q, en- Ink: institute formal
]y. He said the h,ll;ng of tbs State teach
er's Institute was due entirely l.; ~. generos-
ity Of the faculty Of the state n"r:n; school
OF Wlaona, who lad ass,l;ns::: The con-
troll and direction Of the institute after the
term OF their sett az teachers in the
normal school had ~;:s.': anl without addi-
tional compensation ;':ey had laugh thirty
six weeks in the norma school, longer time
than eighty out Of tile a:rity six high schools
Of the state held, "a, :: voluntarily and with
out pay had coussE;r ~ serve the state in
conducting this iasti:.'. He thought it for
tunate that this gatl;:r!rg Of teachers could
be held under s1c!; favorable auspices, having
all the convcnic1:rS. ar'. :ratus and appliances
of this grandly fo:n;shcd institution, with its
accomplished corps Of teachers and instruct
Ors.
Professor SHEPARD :l,yl. briefly outlined the
work of the ns'i:;,tz, .shich is to he confined
mainly TO the stud g: AMI teachings Of the Gle
mentary and ru:a| schools