The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-05-12
MINNESOTA NEWS:

S225. IL.
NEw U1x's only ice house has been swept;
away BY the high water.
The mother of Judge Farmer was buried at
Spring Valley Last week.
The damage by high water at Aontevedio
is claimed to be over $4,000.
The village Of Sleepy Eye has bought nrs
engine-one operated by hand.
THERE are 995 members Of the four building
and loan associations Of Minneapolis.
! THERE was S728 paid for 1O4 wolves killed
in Fillmore county during the month OF
April.
| THOUSANDS OF dead lish are to be seen on
the shores of Cannon lake since the breaking
up of the ice.
| SEEDING throughout the state 10 nearly I'm.
| ished and m earnest wish for rain is univer-
| sally expressed.
THERE is 4 demand in Minnesota for
timothy seed that exceeds the supply, and
farmers are paying s per bushel-
| The Worthingtou Adpance is informed that
every acre of railroad land in Mobiles county
has either been sold or reserved for English
| colonists.
IT is rumored that the University farm,
| near St. Paul, is to be sold, 40 it fails In &C.
| complishing its original purpose OF teaching
! the festive students how to farm.
LAST week Christopher Mertins, of Jordan,
Scott county, committed suicide BY cutting
his throat. III health was the cause. He
| was "a years old, and in good circumstances.
The Minnesota Free Press says the farm
ers say they thought the crop Of gophers had
| been diminished by the floods, but the terrible
mischievous creatures are n numerous ~
| ever"
SEVERAL families along the bottoms in the
vicinity of Beaver Falls, Renville county,
! were obliged to move out of their houses on
account of the sudden overflow of the MIN
! nesota river.
Mr.. v. B. GATCHELL, of Minneapolis, lost
leg the other day by being run over BY rail-
road train at Ramsey, Aneka county. Ampu-
| tation was performed, and he was taken to his
home in Minneapolis.
MB. E. B. Llr1EL, of Clear Mills, Meeker
county, 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.
THE cornice stones OF the Catholic block in
| St. Paul were being removed the other day.
This is the first movement made for the erepair
of the dangerous cornices, under the city
| ordinance recently pissed.
G. w. WooDwoRrH has fourteen farms in
the counties of Olmsted, Dodge, Wabashs,
and Winona, and says he has never seen the
ground in better condition for seeding tllan 1t
has been thus far this season.
A15-rEAR old son of Mrs. Caroline Keller,
of New Ulm, Vas badly injured the other day
by having lumber pile fall on him. But for
the plastic condition of the ground his legs
would have been ruinously crushed.
In an address before the American Agricul-
tural Association, in New York, E. Pekar, the
Hungarian commissioner recently sent over,
announced that the hinty winter wheat of
Minnesota was the grain mostly sought in
| his country.
A LAD has been arrested In Rochester on
complaint of girl of l6 years, who charges
bastardy. She alleges that the ofYense was
| committed while sewing in the family of the
boys father last summer, and says he
promised to marry her.
! A M1NSEAPoLIs paper says: Standing
waist deep in the water TO drill holes In the
rock is less comfortable to do than to look ut
but it is what crew of men are engaged at
just below the platform, the object being to
blast away the rock At that point so that the
water will not back up into the tunnels of the
mill company.
| PREVIOUS to the food at st. Peter, rats were
numerous at the slaughter house ,and when the
water got up around the bnilding the rats
took shelter on the first floor. They were 50
numerous that Mr.. Whips took = fork and
forked them into the water. The number of
the pesky things is variously estimated at
from 5OOto l,000.
PHILIP GANG1oN, who had one eye destroyed
last winter by the explosion of = dynamite
cartridge while working in wheel-pit owned
by the Minnapolis Mill Company, has CON-
menced suit against the company for $4,000
damages sustained through the loss Of the
eye. After the injury the company are said to
have supported Ganglon's family and paid al
the bills resulting from the injury.