The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-08-07

111tA lI1aassoss District.
Tho Republican congressional convention Of
The Fifth district for the purpose 81 nominat-
ing candidate % the successor Of Hon. Milo
White, representative, met in the new court
house st Austin. The convention was calle.l
% order by Chairman Wilkins. Maj O. d.
Gould WAS elected temporary chairman. After
transacting the usual formal business, Mr..
White was nominated % his own successor, and
elected, Steele county alone being against him.
He made brief speech of acceptance The
chairman announced the following congress
sionA committee for the ensuing year
George A. Andrus (at large), chairman; Lars
Q! Hamre, fillmore; G. J. Lomen, Houston;
J: G; slade, Minona; Clint l. Luce, Freedom;
9. D. Ford, Wabasha; L s Peck, Dodge; W
A. sperry, Steele; g. L Case, Mower
+. W. Fetige was arrested in Fergus Falls
stupidity drunk and bearing on his person let
tern to friends telling them to take care of his
body. He still wants to kill hmself.
A Fsribault boy had fifty birdshot picked
out Of his hide the other day. He had
been dieting on fruit in his neighbor's garden.
Last weeks gale unroofed the Wabasha
county workhouse. No injury was done in
mates
Hon. ". H. Officer is slowly recovering from
his protracted and serious illness. He is able
70 be about the house during part Of every day,
Dut has not yet been out of doors.
Nels Anderson, swede, was drowned in the
bay at Duluth, while bathing The body was
recovered He leaves = wife and five chill
dren.
William W., youngest son of Gen. T. l. Ros-
scr, died at the summer residence Of the fam
lily at Lake Park, Lake Minnetonka, from
blood-poisoning The trouble is traced to =
colored stocking worn over IN abrasion, and
what at first proved to be but q temporary
trouble proved fatal
Mrs. Alice Walker, who lived in Sam Judd's
house in Marine, has been arrested for setting
1t on tre, on the evidence of an accomplice.
Officer Laughlin of Minneapolis, shot on
Saturday, the the 26th, by Cantieny, desper-
ado, died on Monday. Cantieny was taken to
the St. Paul jail to save him from lynching
J. B. Babcock, one Of the most prominent
and respected citizens Of jackson, died aged
forty-fo years.
A barn, twenty tons ~ hay AMI horse, be-
longing to Hans Markson of Havana, burned.
Mr.. LeFleur of Mcorhead, while at work on
church in the town of Moland, fell over thirty
feet Thursday, striking on his mead and caus-
ing severe depression of the skull, making
him unconscious The operation of trephining
was made, but the patient has not returned to
consciousness. 1t is feared that he has suf-
fered internal injuries.
Now that the Northern Pacific has completed
the preliminaries toward securing the lease Of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation company,
the ratification and other formalities will be
gone through with in few days.
Monsignor Capel preached in the st. Paul
! cathedral Sunday.
George Liessim, aged twenty-five, living .
few miles west from Winona, in fit of tenn
porary alteration stabbed himself several
times IN the face, throat and body: He was
overpowered and taken to Winona His wounds
are serious.
The Minnesota Editorial Association met at
Mahtomedi white Bear Lake, on Monday, Gov:
Davis delivered an address and the following
ohcers were elected: For president B. B. Her
bert; vice-presidents, A. W. McKinstry, w. ].
WhipPle and s G. Pease; corresponding secre-
tary, MAJ. L. NJ Newson; recording secretary
Liberty Hall treasurer, D. Ramalay; executive
committee, H. p Hall, H. A. Castle, W. H
day for an excursion to Lake Superior
Rye, oats and barley are about harvested in
southern Minnesota, and the yield, as far as re-
ported, is fully up to expectations.
Traverse county farmers will hold q conven-
ton Aug 4, to elect delegates to the farmers
senatorial and representative convention to be
held at Herman, Grant County, Aug ). The
latter convention will include representatives
eVNf% I,oF ON~ lDh@
will consider the question Of relief from cor
porate oppression.
meeting will be held at Herman. Aug. ?. to
organize brotherhood of Union veterans of
the late war;
Brown 4 Bagley will build saw mill at Clio.
ques with capacity of {, 600 feet per day.
J Edward Ellis, boy four years old, had hie
hand severed at the wrist by mower Bloom
i ing Prairie.
Nels Nelson, a Swede, while under the in
fuence of liquor, proceeded to take q bath
, in St Louis Bay Sunday afternoon and was
drowned
Ex-Mayor John L. Prince of St Paul. enter
tanned most brilliantly Monsignor 7. J. CapeL
l. Mrs. Ellen (MeadowcIofD Goslee of Lyle
, town, Mimi, was seriously burned by attempt
caught fire and before the flames were extin-
guished her limbs were severely burned She
has been confined to the bed since the acct
dent Her husband, in assisting to put out the
fire, had his hands so badly injured that he
cannot work for several weeks
The st. Paul police caught William Rex. 4
|, $1,7OO defaulter from Chicago.
c. F. Cornellssen, general store, Fergus
, Falls, has assigned to Angle l. Perkins. Me-
nard Brothers, crockery, Fergus Falls, have
been attached by Allen, Moon l. Co., st. Paul.
Both the involved concerns are small
Between Big Stone lake and Lake Traverse
m artesian well 400 feet deep, with flow of
400 barrels in twenty four hours, rising to
height Of 100 feet above the ground has just
been finished
A lotof rowdies from Ortonvillo, MIMI, went
over the lake to Big Stone City, Oak, and ere
ated . disturbance at q camp meeting, going
and destroying what they could, insulting
and frightening the women and children. They
also badly maltreated Rev. O. E. MURRAY.
but did not injure him seriously The fellows
then fled, and are being sought by Dakota of.
ficers.
r. O. Balstad, of Fergus Falls, has been held
for trial for stealing steer from B. A Clarke
Prof. H. H. Kingsley, of the Alexandria,
schools, has accepted the position of assis-
tant professor of mathematics at Michigan
university, Ann Arbor.
Fergus Falls special:-The Ames l. French
farm, seven miles west, eighteen hundred acres
under cultivation, was swept with tho hail
Thursday, and some parts of it are not worth
harvesting A. l. Coles $50 acres near the
city limits are cut up 80 that the field presenta
the appearance of being harvested B. A.
Peabody put his losses at 81, SOC. The Wemple
farm was also ell cut up, and = strip Of about
mus crop The loss will probably be Is Del
cent Of the crop tributary to this section. The
storm cut tract of country in the shape of a
letter o, coming from the northwest to the city
limits, thence southwest to the Grant COUNTY
line, travelling about fifteen miles and CUTTING
an average path two miles wide. No window
lights on the windward side of houses escaped
Stones were picked up ten inches in circumfer-
ence and piled against the sides of buildings
foot deep. The loss may reach $4,000 &c
$10O, 600, or much more if any other sections
not heard from were visited by the storm.