The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-26

cay of paralysis. He arrived home on Sat-
urday morning from the east, where he had
been spending the wiuter for his health
He was about seventy years old.
The bank of Detroit. Becker Co., offers to
take one-half interest in 10000 hotel to
be erected in Detroit this season and also
guarantee the outside party ten per cent. in
terest on the investment. The citizens OF
Detroit and the railroad company gnaran-
tee bonus of So, 2l5 in cash and freight to
any party who will build a hotel there to
cost not less than SIC, 600 during the coming
year.
County Auditor Khudson, of Wa:onwan
who was elected state senator last fall, re-
fused to receive his salary as auditor during
his absance attending to legislative duties,
amounting to $179.15 and paid the clerk
hire out of his own pocket.
Articles incorporating the bank of Min
apolis, with a capital stock of $4,000,
have been filed with the secretary of state.
The incorporators are ThomasW ilson, J. II.
Bissel. ID. N. Clough, MI. Buferdine, vii
liam Wright, Wayland Angler, J. F. Byers
and Nils Peterson, all of Minneapolis.
Mr.. Winslow, of the firm of Auerbach.
Finch & Van slyck, st. Paul, swore out a
warrant before Judge Burr for the arrest of
Horace Goettel, their freight receiving clerk,
charging him with the embezzlement OF
$1,000.
P. T. Reynolds, sheriff of Lincoln county,
arrived in st. Paul, recently in charge [ OF
D. Fl. Ackerson, ex-sheriff of the same
county, whom he had arrested in Minneap-
oils on charge Of larceny. Ackerson,
while in Office, received an execution from
J.. c. Oswald & Co.. of St. Paul, in August
last, for $780, which sum he collected and
appropriated. When found he was en-
He is married man with several children,
whom he leaves in Minneapolis in destitute
circumstances. He acknowledged his guilt
and seemed greatly broken down by his ar
rest.
Congressman Strait says the citizens
Shakopee will bring suit against the Omaha
road for removing its shops from the village.
The right of way through town was given
under contract that the shops should be 10.
Gated there. The Omaha people say they
bought the right of way of another COM
pany, and have nothing to do with this con-
tract.
Sealed proposals for building west wing
to the second hospital for the insane at
Rochester, are advertised for, to be opened
on May Is. The east wing is completed,
and will be occupied as soon as the fnrni-
tnre can be moved in. It is perfectly fire.
proof and all of its equipments are such as
to make a very com Portable home for the
inmates.
Mrs. Hutchinson, one of the victims o
the recent accident at a railway crossing in
Fergus Falls, is in critical condition, and,
even in case she RECEIVERS, it is greatly feared
that her mind will never return to its nor
NAL condition.
Avoca furnishes a singular episode of
crime. A man kills his wife, and tells his
neighhors she has run away from him. He
then commits suicide, apparently as q
of his bereavement. Six
later the body of his wife is found,
and the dead man is convicted of murder,
40 far as circumstantial evidence goes.
The recent fire in Henry's Touring mill
at Belle p 80: to have been in
cendiary. The value of the mill W as $l5,-
600: insurance, So 500, divided equally with
the Fire Association of Philadelphia, the
British American, State Insurance, Iowa,
Mechanics & Traders, New York Manufac-
L liz
Hamburg.
An unknown man, but who claimed to
have brother in Duluth named Pierce, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat on
Minnesota Point Wednesday, and will prob
ably die.
Mrs. Mary Perrant died few days ago in
Albion Of cancer. She was the wife of Zeb
Perrant, whose trial for infanticide, which
took place about twelve years ago at Buffa-
10, is still fresh i'm the minds of many old
settlers. Zeb PER- mt was sentenced to the
but afterward pardoned out.
Mrs. Perrant whose death We record, was
the mother ofthe strangled child.
One hundred dollars reward is offered by
the merchants Of Howard Lake for the ar
rest of the burglars who broke open the safe
of the elevator in that village on the night
Of April 4.
b. T. Lyons, an old gentleman OF Clear
water, who has seen the SHOWS OF seventy
winters, recently married Mrs. Cynthia
Meacham, lady spoken of as about four
years younger than he.
William johnson, of the town of Rey-
nolds, died recently aged sixty-four years
burglar who was trying to get into his store
but he got away.
A respectable looking man named Turn
er. who formerly lived at or near Preston,
county, where his relatives reside,
has been in oh rye of the authorities of
Rochester for several days destitute. He
says that about year ago his brother, now
living in Fillmore county, had him pro.
nounced insane. He was sent to the St.
Peter asylum. DR.. Bowers of the latter in
stitution. examined and declared him sane
and he was discharged. Turner went to
Dakota where he went to work in . livery
stable; but his employer. having heard of
his insanity, discharged him and refused to
pay him for work already done. Turner
came back to Fillmore county and lay in
TAIL five months, charged with insanity. He
was then taken to the Rochester asylum,
but the authorities knowing him to be sane
would not lreceive him. TIE people of
Rochester are disposed to assist the unfor-
tunate fellow. ....
Friday, May 1s, will be observed in the
St. Paul public schools as the "Longfellow
day" The exercises will include
concert readings, declarations, sketches Of
the life and character Of the poet and the
the Longfellow Memorial association. The
cards are furnished ut 10 cents each, and the
money received will be turned into the fund
for the purchase of the land between Long
fellows residence and the Charles river. up
on which monument to the poet is to be
erected. e rf