The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-23
DAKOTA.

The skating rink craze has reached the
Black Hills.
Judge Edgerton begins term Of court in
Mitchell on the 21st.
school-house at hurley.
Bismarck Presbyterians have commenced
the erection of a $15, 900 church.
The new town of Alpena, in Jerauld county,
will soon boast of church building.
A daily Democratic campaign paper is to be
published at Huron. It will be called the Ap-
peal.
There are ninety-six lodges of Good TEN
plars in the territory, with membership OF
1900.
NJ. l. Couch, who has been running . large
general store at Columbia, was closed by cred.
itors last week.
Bismarck will exhibit at New Orleans, among
other products, sixteen potatoes weighing
sixty-four pounds.
On the two closing days of last week the
price of flax seed In Sioux Falls ran up to 81 9f
and $l.22 per bushel.
Three thousand three hundred head of cattle
were expected to reach Pierre for shipment by
the 18th of this month.
Frank Blakcsly, formerly proprietor of the
st. Charles hotel at Pierre, has begun the cree
ton of tow mill at Egan.
A few nights since j. F. Leighthouser was
found dead en- the road between Bridgewatcr
and his farm. Heart disease was the cause.
The capacity of the Sioux Falls water-works
pumps is 100000 gallons daily. There arc
five miles of mains and forty-two hydrants.
A. r. MacNidcr has purchased the stock OF
the bankrupt firm of Robert MacNidcr & Co.,
at Bismarck, and will continue the business.
At Bismarck Mrs. Lambert has been fined
$40 and sent to Jail for fifteen days for being
convicted of keeping a naughty sort of a
house.
= DR.. Avery has been appointed temporary
superintendent of the Yankton insane asylum
to act until a permanent superintendent is
chosen.
Yankton Press Is: The first prospect hole
at the Jcncks coal farm is down about one hun.
drcd feet. Considerable float coal was found
in the drift.
Mark Harris, a prominent citizen of Howard
was recently married to Miss Eta johnson, OF
the same place. The ceremony was performed
at Winfrcd.
In recent tretting meeting at Aberdeen,
Little Frank took first money in three straight
heats, German Boy second, Thornlcss third.
Best time, :35.
report of the financial condition of McCook
county shows assets to the amount of SIG, 155
80, while the entire Indebtedness is only $13,
21.67. This indicates a very healthy state OF
affairs
Frank Stiles, of Chamberlain, recently sen.
fenced to three and a half years in the peniten-
tiary at Sioux Falls, for having received a pair
Of stolen horses, formerly kept a hotel at
Sibley, 10.
TO settle an Ohio election bet at Huron, D.
E. Wellman wheeled j. A. Miner through the
streets in whcclbarrow. band of music
headed the procession, and there was a large
crowd to witness the fun.
The Mitchell hook and ladder company chal-
lcnges any of the hook and ladder companies
that participated in the late Aberdeen tourna-
ment to hub and hub race for $500 and the
championship of Dakota.
Yankton Herald, II: The new coal company
recently organized here will soon be in readi-
ness to solve the coal question which has ex-
cited our people for so many weeks, and which
means so much to Yankton.
Elmer W. Hcrdic, the brakeman who fell
from train near Parker on the 10th and had
an arm and both legs cut of, lived but a short
time after the accident. His fathers family
live near Worthington, MINI.
Sioux Falls Press, II: The Episcopal college
building is going up slowly but solidly. 1t is
calculated to show what can be done with
Sioux Falls granite in the way or making fine
walls in this beautiful improvement.
The commissioners of Brulc county have
ordered that at the November election the
voters designate their choice for county seat.
The fight is between Kimball and Chamber
lain, the latter now being the county seat.
In the Canton Advocate of the 10th, Dick
Edwards publishes the following card: II ask
the favor of all the saloonkeepers and bar
tenders and all of my friends not to ask, sell
or give me drink of any kind for a year. 1
want to quit"
The resident of Mrs. j. Bishop, at Pierre,
was entered by burglar the other night when
she was alone in the house. She gave up her
money which was s1.25, but when he made an
indecent assault upon her the plucky woman
showed fight and beat the villain off,
A young man named Fred Cloutier, who
lived on farm in the vicinity of Fargo three
years ago. recently committed suicide on his
claim 100 miles north of Bismarck, for the
reason, as alleged, that some girl in the Red
River valley failed to return his love.
For the territory's exhibit at New Orleans
So, 900 is required, and of this amount s2O,OOO
has already been raised, and there seems to be
no question but that the remaining 5000 will
be forthcoming. OF the amount already pro-
vidcd, north Dakota has contributed $4,000.
DR.. Amblcr, a Methodist minister of Sank
Center, was found guilty on the charge Of rape
committed year ago upon the person of Mrs.
Keith, of Casselton, D. T., former member of
his flock whom he was treating as physician,
and was expelled from the church during the
N. E. conference at Duluth just closed.
The national homestead monument scheme
is not dead. Jas. Davies, of Mitchell, the
patron saint of the enterprise, has just re-
ceived from Chicago architect draft of a
design for the monument, which is said to be
very appropriate and acceptable. Mr.. Davies
is very sanguinc that the next Congress will
give the work an appropriation.
Bismarck Tribune, H.; About month ago
a soldier at Fort Yates, named Macanerly,
having received his pay and procured his
monthly supply of the joyful, thought he
would gain fame and notoriety by swimming
the Missouri, starting from point near the
fort. He was not seen or heard of again until
few days ago, when his body was found on
sandbar about four miles below the post. The
body had evidently been out of the water for
some time, as the head, hands and feet had
been eaten by the coyotes. The body was
hnrio1 l,v tho cOlIinr-