The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-03-24
MINNESOTA NEWS.

AnE eOnA " 0uICutttSOn Has cIcclcu leA-
perance ticket.
The appropriation made by the Legislature
aggregate s., ,C23,s5 for two years.
IT is claimed that lie sueur and Hennepiu
counties rank first in the quantity of maple
sugar In this state.
The water in the river at Minneapolis is
still very low, and the mills are somewhat
embarrassed thereby.
1T Is believed that no fish remain alive in
Fountain lake, the air having been excluded
by the solid freezing of the ice.
THE steamer Jennie Hayes will make two
trips day between Saltwater and Taylor's
Falls as soon as navigation opens.
FLocKs of wild geese are beginning to put
in an appearance, flying northward, and the
black crow sporlively appears in some local
tiles.
CHARLES JOHNSON, living with Ole Olson,
near Ortonville, snicided by hanging himself
10 barn. He had been partially insane for
some time.
In Chippewa county the proposition
authorizing the issue Of $l5, 900 bonds for the
purpose Of building court house and jail
was defeated.
THE building boom has commenced in
Moorhead, Clay county, developing great
activity In the making Of brick and general
building materials.
FARMER living near Crookston has lost
go worth Of valuable fowls by feeding them
oats, the sharp points of which worked their
way through their crops.
TIE eugar makers, where maple tree groves
exist, are busily preparing for sugar making,
with favorable prospects of large make of
| maple sugar and molasses.
GOVERNOR P11lsBURI has appointed as
additional judges of the supreme court Of
Minnesota, William Mitchell, of Winona, and
Greenleaf Clark, Of St. Paul.
A PRELIMINARY meeting was held in Hast
ings recently to consider the organization of
building association. Associations of this
character are becoming deservedly popular.
The outlet Of Lake Ripley in Meeker county,
ts to be damned to increase the depth of
water, which thus may be increased from two
to fonr feet during the months Of summer
MIR. Milo HASTINGS, Of Minnesota Falls,
says that it was necessary to dig down
through the snow to reach the top of his hay
stacks, the snow in the hollows being drifted
fifty feet deep in places.
A FAMILY in Shakopee who had been eating
raw pork were recently suddenly prostrated by
sickness, and of five children three died The
doctors pronounced the cause to be spotted
fever rather than trichiniasis.
THE remains of the members of the Dustin
family, who were massacred by Indians near
Smith Lake, and there buried, are about to be
removed to Howard Lake cemetery, in Wright
county, by the express wish of surviving
relatives.
CAPT. n. ". D1cKERsoN, an old and highly
respected citizen of Blue Earth county, is
dead. Capt. Dickerson came to this state in
the fall OF 1854 He was man universally
respected, and his death is severe loss to this
community.
In November last the daughter of Martin
E1lingson ran away from her home in Red
Wing and has not been seen or heard of since.
She was between fourteen and fifteen years of
age, and has dark hair and complexion, and
her name Is Engborg, or Enga Ellingson.
DR.. BARTLETT, Of the insane asylum, is
arranging to send about fifty of the female
soon a. this can te accomplished, be will
have room for other patients that are now
being kept In county jails in various parts of
the state. This would have been done, prob
ably before this, but for the snow blockade,
which has made 1t dangerous to attempt to
send away patients.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Chicago
& Dakota Railway Company have heen fled in
the Office of the Secretary of State. The pro-
posed line as set down in the articles of incor-
poration, is to start from point on the Wi
mona & St. Peter railroad, at or near Tracy
station, Lyon county, thence in a westerly di.
rection to the state line in the county of Lin
coin. The general Offices Of the company are
to be located at Winona.
MooRHEAD 10 to have $60, 900 hotel. Its
dimensions are to be Of generous proportions,
teing 1551135 feet on the ground and four
stories high, with 100 guests rooms, some
Of them arranged in suites with bath room
attached, and all provided with luxurious con-