The Worthington advance., 1881-09-01

MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
A large number of buildings in MINNEAPOLIS
were struck by lightning on Friday morning.
Hon. ". G. Ward, Of Wxsoca, has given up
the editorial chair Of the radical to Mr.. John F.
Murphy.
John Miller Of Carlston, Freeborn county.
lost four horses and buggy, from the vieit Of
= midnight robber.
The Redwood county fair will be held at
Redwood Falls on Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept 2Sth and Goth
The house Of Gen. Sibley at st. Paul was
entered on Tuesday night and $3.50 of silvor
ware and $50 in money taken
Mrs. Swift of st. Peter wife Of Ex-Governor
Swift. deceased, has had q stroke Of apoplexy.
She ID In dangerous condition.
The annual delegate convention Of tho Min
mencing Saturday, Sept 24th, next, and con-
tinuing over Sunday.
Upwards of 10000 barrels Of flonr were
shipped from Duluth in one day. The St Paul
Il Duluth brings In on an average. 5000 par
rels per day from Minneapolis.
Robert Wear Of Lake City has been appointed
first assistant to the professor Of mathematics
IN the normal school at Holly Springs Miss
and vii! enter upon the duties Of that position
September 5.
Gov. Pillsbury has reappointed the following
named gentlemen as membors of the state board
Of equalization: W. Dawson, st. Paul; E. ".
Trask, Caledonia; Felix A. Boror, Le Suenr.
and II. g. Sjoberg, Kirkhoven.
A dispatch has been received from J. A.
Leonard Of Rochester from Queens
town. saving he WAS eight 1ave IN the
water from New York to Queenstown. He is
appointed U. s. consul at Lietl,, Scotland.
The American Land and Colonization conf
pany Of Scotland. limited, has purchased from
John B. Dumont and Jason G. Eastors nearly
5000 acres of land in Redwood county, for
$1O, ,241.34. This land consists OF forty eight
tracts OF forty and eighty acres, located ia diff
ferent towns.
Lightning struck the building corner of Eighth
| street and Eleventh avenue north, Minneapolis,
owned by Mr.. Haley of Boston and occupied bv
Abraham T. Salter, both rs grocery storo and
dwelling, shattering i; aud setting II on fire.
The building, valued at So, 600, was destroyed,
and $500 in value of furniture. Mr. Salter
was insured to the amount of 81 900.
". Pratt's steam thresher and two stacks Of
wheat were burned OIL the Monticello prairie
Wright county. The thrcsher was set between
the two stacks and had just got to work when
Ouo VI CuC StdCk6 WINS SCI Oil ufC Dy sparks from
the engine. The operatives, in their frantic
endeavors to save the wheat, overlooked the
danger tho thresher was in until too lato to
! draw it away from the burning stacks, and it
was consumed. together with both stacks.
George McGowen, who recently shot An
drew Dick at Hartmann's saloon, Minneapolis,
lived at Brownsville, Mower county, two or
three years ago, bnt left the place under a
cloud, having attempted to collect debt from
farmer by whom he had been employed bv
perforating the latter with pitchfork. He was
known then as a lawiess and ugly sort OF
pilgrim, and the people were generally afraid
of him.
The New Ulm relic; committee has sent tho
following sums to adjacent towns where dam
age was sustained from the cyclone: Town Of
Wellington, $500; Cairo. $500; West Newton,
ty, $500; Butternut Valley, Blue Earth county,
$500; Phi Kaufenberg, Mulligan, $50; and
Nels Anderson. Durnstown, $3.50; Milford,
Brown county, $3.50. The committee has also
contracted house for Joseph Pfeiffer in tire
latter named town.
Judge Wilkin of the district court at St.
Paul, has rendered decision Of ini crest to
was in tho matter of the application of Nick
Klinger for writ Of habens col pus, remand
ing the former to the hands Of the sheriff.
Judge Wi]kin decided that municipal court has
no power to suspend the sentence of a person
duly convicted in that court and that the exer-
the exercise OF the pardoning power, which,
under tho constitution, is vested solely in the
executive of the state
At Fairbault, during severe thunder storm,
the lightning struck the large barn in the rear
of the Barron house, it Immediately took fire,
sumed. The barn had been used by DR.. Dalli-
more for 4 a1oarding and sale stable. There
were ten horses in it at the time, eight of which
were saved. II. E. Baron owned the barn, and
estimates his loss AZ ST. 200; insured for $500
in the Hartford. DR.: baltimore lost a horse,
surance Albert Roper, proprietor of the Bar
ron house, lost about $500 worth of articles
stored in the barn.
Several weeks ago dispatch appeared from
Washington that tho postofiice at L.nesboro,
Fillmore county, was delinquent for the quarter
stated that this statement was without founda-
circulation. It ia sufficient to say that Mr.. O.G
Wall, the postmaster, holds an acknow-
ledgment from the auditor of the treasury for
the postOffice department., that his quarterly
account "for the quarter ending June 3Oth,
1881, has been received, audited and found
statement first published, and does justice to a
faithful officer.
Hon. Thomas Simpson, president of the
State Normal school at WinOna writes to r, c.
Judson, secretary of the State Agricultural So
ciety, that he will exhibit at the State fair, at
Rochester, some Of the results of the State
Normal school at Winona, such as writing free
ing, etc. also, some of the apparatus from the
departments of natural history and chemistry,
and some of the public charts in physiology;
also, some very interesting and attractive
specimens from the large museum (Which is un-
equaled west of the Alleghanies) and illustra-
tionn from the art gallery, etc.
On the Goth inst, George Collett, of the town.
ship of Aldon, Freeborn county, came to Albert
Lea and procured warrant for tho arres: of
Frank Metsaw of the same township, charging
him with an assault with an intent to commit
rape upon the person of Mrs. Collett, an old
was placed in the hands of Sheriff shehan, who,
with Deputy Sheriff Greene, went to the house
Of the accused and arrested him and brought
him IN and lodged him in jail. On Monday he
was arranged before Justice Blackmer and was
held to bail in tho some Of 81 900, which was
district court, to await the action of the grand
jury.
division of the order of railway Conluc
tors was arranged at ST. Paul last week. There
were forty y-seven charter membcrs present
from northwestern railways, and of these TWEEN.
ty-eight were inducted into the workings of the
order, and the rest to be afterwards initiated
by tho new division officers The order is 4
secret one, but the following officers, yesterday
chosen, are made public: Chief conductor,
James A. Mitchell, s. P. 4 D. F.; assistant chief
conductor, NJ. Brinkerhon, Northern Pacific;
secretary and treasurer, ". H. Doyle North,
ern Pacific; senior conductor of ceremonies
c: H. jerks, st. p, NJ & NJ; junior conductor
Of ceremonies, Nicholas Bonce, st. p, NJ. &
NJ inside sentinel, Fl: Molloy, st. r, N. NJ. !;
ontside sentinel, d. r. Dixon, st. p, NJ Il N.
Robert Collye1.
From Potter's American Monthly.
do you know Bob Collver, sil?" famil-
iarly inquired one Sunday evening passen-
ger of another in north side CHICAGO