The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-18
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uen. holman Is Dulldlng nne residence ct
Emerson.
What Coleri1gc particularly feels the need
of Is bank.
10 Mulligan s. Co. have completed I s. ,OCO
elevator at Wayne.
Mcssrs. Davey and Halstead, of Ponca, have
bought the town site of Newcastle.
Fremont claims population Of 1900, which
makes it the third city in the state.
The crowd on the state fair grounds at Oma-
ha on Thursday was estimated at . 900.
They are figuring on new elevator at West
Psint, to cost between $1,000 and $4,000.
Fremont lacks 81 900 of having raised enough
money to pay the expenses of the late reunion
Fremont retains the county seat by about
threc-f1fth majority-about !, 800 votes out OF
5000.
The Concord school house ia approaching
completion. 1t is 26 by a., with 44-foot
tower.
Work has common ccd upon the foundation
Of the government building to be erected in
Omaha.
The Union Pacifics, at Omaha, har. been de.
feated in three successive games of ball by the
St. Paul club.
The Republican is the name of a new paper
at Valentine. Il is 4 large, good looking, well
! filed sheet.
| Bids will be received by the state board OF
agriculture for the location of the state fair fo1
the next five years.
Henry Kinds, of Dixon county, is putting up
$40 tons of hay to feed his herd of 500 cattle
the coming winter.
| They are excited at Brownsville in consc-
qucnce Of having struck six-inch vein of coal
at depth of eighty-fye feet.
| Tom Lound, of Wayne county, is under $500
bonds to answer the charge of an attempted
rape upon Mrs. r. f. Tcmplin.
A.scwly completed elevator at Nebraska
City, owned by Cotton, Daft & Co., burned on
the night of the 10th. 1t cost $3.50.
Pat Barry, a leading farmer of Dakota coun-
ty, says that the corr in the neighborhood of
Jackson is the best for years, and mostly out
Of the way Of frost.
Thomas Lee, the man who built ana control
led the grand stand which fell at the Fremont
reunion and injured SO many persons, was ar
rested and put in Jail.
Frank Neigh, whose parents reside at West
Point, was recently tried for killing man in
New Mexico and acquitted, it being proven that
he acted i'll self defense.
JAS. Iattlestad, of Canton, D. r., has pu,
chased the material of the Memo News, and
will remove it to Santec Agency, where he will
commence the publication of paper.
At Omaha on the 5th, VIM. McArdlc COM
mittcd suicide by shooting himself through the
head. He lived with his brother and poor
health is the only cause for self-dcstruction
The Dixon county fair will be held at Ponca,
commencing on the 23d. and the Cedar count =
fair will be held at Harrington, beginning on
the Both. In each case the fair Will hold three
days.
1t is authortaitively stated that the proposed
extension of the Pacific Mutual telegraph line
from St. Joe to Omaha, via Lincoln, has been
abandoned after the setting of twenty threee
miles Of poles.
In drunken row at Omaha, Sunday night,
John Murphy, teamstcr was stabbed by some
one unknown and received perhaps fatal
wound. There were numerous rows that
night, which was wild one, even for Omaha.
Thirty men, two cars Of teams and one of
wagons and tools were shipped BY Cullinan to
the Valentine extension few DAYS ago Al
most every day several cars of graders outfits
are shipped from Sioux City to the grade be-
yond Valentine.
Ryan, the Jackson man who shot Dan Foley,
had an examination at Dakota City on Mon
day, and was released, there being no evidence
produced that he had fired at the old man.
Dan, who was supposed to be fatally hurt, has
almost recovered frsm til. wound
kammercr, the Nebraska City man, re-
ported as having been made way with by
OMAHA toughs, is safe in his home in Otoc
county. He says his sudden departure from
Omaha was due to the suspicious actions OF
some crooks who were folio wing him aboul
town.
The Ex-Prisoncrs' association of Nebraska
fsj
bcrs enrolled, and elected the following Off
GERS: President, L. Z. Wheeler, BEATRICE
vice-prcsdent, II. G. Adc!, Wahoo; Secretary,
J. W. clearinghouse, Grand Island; Treasurer,
S. s. Skinner, Tecumsch.
w. " Gibson, chairman of the Saline cour-
ty farmers alliance, stated publicly last Mon
dav that he was Informed on good authority
1,,t Il ,
lands of Custer county and that he had been
furnished the whcrewith by none others than
Governor Dawes and +. I. Foss.
Company E, Sixth regiment Iowa Nationa!
Guard, has been organized at Pattersonyiile
with forty-tive members. A. L. Burnel}, cap
tain, W. S. Tuttlc first lieutenant, and w. G.
Wyatt second lieutenant. The company is or
dcrcd to report ut Mason City on the 18th inst
to attend rcgimcntal cucampmcnt.
The Sarpy county fair will be held on October
LIST, 2d, Bird and 4th. The society is in Il -four
islAing condition and the prospects for big
time u: the next meeting are very bright. The
society has just purchased ten acres OF addi-
tional land which will be added to the already
commodious grounds of the association.
Beatrice special, 9Th George Stark, an old
citizen Of this county, died suddenly carly this
morning OF heart disease. He was at home,
nine miles southeast Of here, and was in his
wagon, about to drive away, when he fell dead
Hc was Is years Old, and had lived in this
county since 1854. He leaves wife and ten
children.
At Omaha, Monday night Chas. Castlegreen,
a Union Pacific brakeman, fell from his train
and was cut to pieces. He was So years Old
and leaves wife and child who reside at Kan
sas City. How the accident occurred is not
known, some thinking that tic brake chain
gave way, and Others that he stumbled and fell
under the wheels.
On Wednesday night Jacob stcen, Postmaster
at Reno, near Atlantic, shot his wife, killing
her almost instantly, and then turning his
weapon shot himself, inaicting & wound which
proved fatal in short time Mr.. Stccn was
quite 4 prominent man in the community, and
was at one time a candidate for representative
from Cass county. It is not known that he