The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-02-08

Will. J. Gordon, agent of Keith Bros, 81
Chicago who died recently at Fargo,
lea*ss e widowed mother in Sank Rapids,
and wife, the daughter of Leonard Robin
8 n If Haven, with child, nS'n !is.ne in
st. Paul.
= The state grange of Minnesota will meet
ut the agricultural college, Minneapolis on
will be the electing of officers !cr the ensu-
ing year.
Moorhead was lighted last week for the
first time with the electric light the forty
lamps bu, ming with great brilliancy.
"Uncle" Dick Smith who lived a
bachelor life on 8 homestead in the town OF
Alberta. about twenty two miles from Sank
Rapids, a week ago last Friday, returned
home after walking long distance trough
the cold, put his stock in the barn and went
into the house to kindle fire. bu: was I'M:
able to do so, and took to tine bed. A few
days afterwards he was found badly frozen.
Hewas taken to Sank Rapids where he soon
after died.
D. s. Hall, register of the O. s. office at
Benson, writes: We are instructed by the
commissioner Of the general land office to
notify parties whose land patents ate in this
office ready for delivery, that upon the sur:
render of their duplicate certificates of entry
their papers will be delivered to them
There are now IN this Office over 5000 pat
ents for land in Hennepin. Wright, Renville,
Kandiyohi, Swift, Pope, Chippewa, Lac uui
Parle, Yellow Medicine Stevens and Big
Stone counties. Many Of these patents, for
lands in Hennepin and Wright counties es.
pscially, have been issued for more than
twenty years They should be delivered and
recorded in the proper county. It is impos-
sible to find the pos Office address OF many
who doubtless own much land and have neg
lected to receive and record their only evil
dence Of title. A publication of the above
condition of affairs may bring it to the no
tice of some of the parties interested.
At Dasse!, rec nty. at midnight, A. d.
Stages farmhouse burned to the ground, and
four children, two boys aged four and seven,
and two girls aged ten and twelve, per
ished in the flames. The family slept up
stains, and the fire caught in the kitchen,
giving the parents barely time to escape.
Mr.. Stage, clad only in his night dress,
tiled to reach . neighbors. but lay down in
the snow and would have died if he had
not been found. Mrs. Stage had her hands
and feet badly frozen before assistance came.
Frank Rose, Wilmar butcher, was fined
ST. the other day Tor cruelty beating an old
worn-ou or he had bought for So. The
beast fell down from weakness, and Rose
drove his team over It, after beating it q
long time.
Judge NJ. L. Brown says that if the offe,
of $3.50 reward for the detection OF the Shak
opee grave robbers is put in some tangible
shape, he will reveal the names of ths
guilty parties.
J. W. Emery has been appointed post.
master at Pennington, MINI.
Joseph Holton, not A. r. Bolton, was
caught out in the blizzard north OF Lake
Park last week, and it was not until the next
motning that he found his way to thu
d'Englebronner farm. He dug his way nm.
der huge snow drift, and managed to keer
from freezing during the night, though the
mercury registered on that morning in tn.
neiehborhood of 30 deg. below. The team
he drove was valuable. One horse was fro
zen and the othcr escaped all right.