The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-04-05
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
Frank Ennig, indi.ted for mans laughter
was acquitted by the district cou.t 1t
Worthingtm. The history Of the deed is
g follows On Saturday, the 18th Of last
November William gallagher ?f Leota
township was on his way from Adrian. He
stopped ct the house Of his father-in-law.
George A. Beireis, in Lismore township,
drove Mrs. B. out of the house, battered
the doors and windows with an az and At
tempted an assault upon Frank Ennig, q
German hired man, in charge of the place
during the absence of Nj. Beireis. Gala
CHER left but soon returned, and when few
rods from the house Ennig fired 1T him with
: shotgun. lodging about twenty buckshot
In Gallasher's. body, from the effects of
which he died in few minutes.
By IN act of the late legislature, the corpe-
rate name Of st. Johns (Catholic) College,
Stearns Co., Mimi, has been changed to st..
Johns University. ,s.sl
There was sold from the Maple Point
Stock Farm, Dakota cornty, Leonard John
imported colt to William Boothroyd of
WEIGH, Goodhue county, for 81 800, and IN
imported stallion, fifteen years old, to p.
81. Fockler Of Independence, Iowa, 1885,
FL Mcdonald, auditor for Hennepin
county, in his monthly report to State Au-
ditor Braden states that the collection of
taxes for March amounted to $236, O76, 60
of which SIS, O65, 83 are due the state.
Representative sir Knights from st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Red Wing. Albert Lea and
other communicates in the state have held
. consultation relative to attendance at the
triennial conclave in San Francisco next
August. A general discussion revealed the
fact that North Star state knights would be
we'll represented, and, upon rough calcu.
lation. it was thought that at least 100 Min
nesotians wsuld be there in full rig. AS
previously stated, 1t is highly probable that
Damascus commandery. St. Paul, will send
. battalion to compete for the drill and evolu-
ton prizes. Us5.'..,
At Fishers Landing, Polk county, the
hardware store OF T. A. Dunlave, the saloon
OF Thomas Keely and the blacksmith shop
and dwelling of James Brownlee were total
ly burned. The loss is roughly estimated
at s., 900. The insurance is: Dunlave, ST..
600 in New York Underwriters, $1,000 in
Orient of Hartford. $1,000 in Springfield
Fire and Marine. Keely had 500 in the
Orient: The fire started in the saloon.
Aspecial meeting of the Minneso ia Mil
lers' State association will be held at the Mic.
ollet house, April 10. The election of Off.
GERS and other business postponed at the an
nual meeting will be considered.
The Carleton college contest will take
place at High School hall April 6. Five
students will participate, and the winner
will take part in the intercollegiate contest
between the state University, Carleton and
Hamline, April 10, at High School hall,
Mortified. The victor in this contest will
enter the inter state contest at Minneapolis,
May 3, on which occasion seven OF the
Northwestern states will be represented.
The house of John Carnegie of Preston
was burned last Monday, with its C ntents
Loss, $500. 80
Minterer, who shot himselfat Mankato,
because he could not get his sweetheart
away from her father is getting well.
Judge Weber will hold regular term of
court in St. Peter, beginning on the fourth
day of April.
Johr J. Cantwell, veteran of the Fourth
Minnesota volunteers, died in lie Sueur
recently.
DR.. Scoboria of Elk River, who has Just
returned from the small po1 region, reports
that there have been seventy nine cases and
twenty.six deaths.
Gassler & Co., the Owatonna brewers who
recently burned out, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities about s., 800; assets about
$500.
The Oakland Home Insurance COMPANY
of California has been admitted to do
business in the state of Minnesota.
A farmer manned Erickson, nine miles
south of Moorhead is supposed to have
been murdered by tramps.
Some person or persons entered the front
door Of Lyons, Long & Co.'s store at Osakis,
went through the money drawers and I'M
locked the safe and took out $3.50.
The wife of c. H. Porter, vice president
Of the First National bank, Winona, died
Thursday after brief ill-less, of meningitis.
She was daughter of the well-known mer-
chant, r. D. Cone.
The steam Touring and saw M i'll of Fabe1
& Co. at Cody's lake, in Wheatland, Rice
county, has been burned. Loss about So.
600; insured for S.. 600, as follows; 81 500 in
Mechanics and Traders OF New York;
81, $40 in Amazon of Cincinnati; 81, 900 in
Rhode Island Underwriters association,
and 81 900 in Metropole OF Paris, France.
Carl Heinberg was found dead in bed al
his home in Jordan.
William Jepson, living near Ashton,
Sibley county, cut his throat while tenn.
porarily insane, dying soon after.
Erickson, found dead nine miles north Of
Moorehead. had undoubtedly been killed
with an OK yoke found near him.
Fred Armstrong, son of ex-Sheriff H. F.
Armstrong of Red Wing, who has been g
sufferer rom consumption for more than {
year past, died at his parents home Friday
morning, aged twenty three years. He had
studied at Carlton college, but was com.
PEELED to leave, on account of poor health
before graduating. BE lived an exemplary
life, and many will mourn his loss.
! Thirty thousand dollars of Stevens cou2.
ty bonds have been pleced at par at pc,
cent. with D. c. Shepard of St. Paul. They
will mature in thirty years.
Little Alice Howse, the girl who was SC
badly burned recently at the Lorenzo house.
Sleepy Eye died after six days of suffering.
The contract for building the new school
house at Pipestone, has been let to George
souter of that place for $3.50.
Breezy Witticism.
/ A gentleman, who had partiality fol