The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-08-16
G. H. Ketchsn & Co., Waseca, grocers
81 s,y seo. assigned Assets $500 liabilities

have assigned. Assets, $500 Liabilities
81, 200. go, -
McNair's store ut Ve,ndale, was broken
and silks and satins removed. L. Miller
clerk, returned in time to frighten the ras
Gals away. Happily nothing was taker
from the building, the jewelry and silk.
being piled up in the back ofthe store ready
for transportation. The next m orning Mar
shall D. w. Seal arrested Suspicious look,
ing character with heavy satchel, con-
tanning gold watches, chains, rings, opers
glasses and other valuables valued at an es
innate of $1,000. rs~
The safe OF Benson Bros, grocers, at
st. Cloud, was opened by burglars on tn,
9TH, and $3.50 in cash and q fine new GOLD
watch taken. The watch which was val
liable one had been presented to John Ben.
son few days since. The safe was entered
by drilling holes near the dial and break
ing the lock. One man is in Jail on sus
picion.
Andrew and George Ensinger, brothers
living at the foot of North Mountain, 'nea,
Carlisle, Pa, quarreled aud George proba-
bly, fatally shot Andrew.
A little daughter of MI. and Mrs. G. T.
Hines, at East st. Cloud, died recently. bel.
ladonna having been administered bv mis-.
take for cough medicine.
In Davidson, Meeker county, a youne
Swede child was burned to death in a
eranery occupied by its parents.
Under the head A Champion Dead Beat,
the Carlton County Press gives ,upthe rec
ord of DR.. Walter Lennox, who has been
contidencing people in that section and
hR0Nrnhk r,fn. 30 NJ
neapoiis where he disappeared from view.
The M. r. church at Owatonna recently
cleared one hundred dollars at festival, to
be added 10 the church funds to repair dam.
ages sustained by the church edifice durine
the late storm.
In Wells, MIMI, Henry Schaacht
jumped from al ladder aud struck upon q
pitchfork which was standing upright
with the tines in the ground the handle o1
the fork entering his BODY fully eight
inches. He died soon after.
Hon. NJ. II. Dunnell will deliver the nd.
dress at the Mcleod county agricultural
fair. held at Hutchinson, Sept. 3.
Thomas n. Burns, who robbed Pete,
Schmidt of Chaska was arrested in lows
and was jailed at Chaska by Sheriff On.
!oit. Burns waived examination and In
default of 81 900 bail was committed ia
1hakopee Jail. Stsrkend, the orieinator Of
the Job, Is ia jail ct Chaska awaiting the
same tate as Burns. Burns says If his part.
ner had been honest and whacked up he
would never have been trapped. He vas
at EsthefVils, r., living 1uxuriously Ion
the stolen money.
knights Templar from Rochester, Albert
Lea, Owatonna and Wasecs, encamped l.s,
week on Clear Lake, Waseca. -.
Henry g schlichting. an old and well
known reaident of Carver county, and 10,
some time past of Norwood, committed sui.
eide by shooting himself in the head With q
revolver. "''''
The corner stone of new ed,iice for The
First byterisn church Ut Saltwater VA
la'd on Sunday last. The church was or
Ean'Eed Dec. 8, l849, by Bev. Edward D
NELL. then of the Galena Presbytery.
Cokato has . horse owned by Isaac
Homer that viii take the pump handle in
Its mouth and pump itself q drink, If
water pail fs placed under the spout it Will
pump the water into that II not It will drink
from the spout. =.
1t Is stated the Close Brothers have Dur.
chased all the railroad lands in Mobiles and
ROCK counties, and will either sell the land
OF place tenants upon every section. =
While Gov. Gilman's daughters Nellie
and Carrie were berrying in Alberta
they were chased by bear, but fled in
safety.
John Crerar got drunk at Browns Valley,
his team ran away and one horse was killed
ard the other badly hurt.