The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-05-15


First Minnesota infantry, died on Sat
urday at the age Of n years.
A fire near Smith Lake destroyed Mr..
Crowder's barn, entailing loss of 3d.
600.
Under the new village government q.
Duluth, last Sunday, an order was is
sued some time ago by Mayor Ensign
to close up saloons on Sunday. The
order included billiard rooms and oil
like establishments. Aid. NJ. Fink of
the Second ward, who owns brewery
and keeps q bar ct it, was ar
rested for selling liquor on Sunday, and
fined $25. A warrant is also out for
Thomas Cullyford, proprietor of the
Hotel st. Louis, the leading hotel in
Duluth, for the same ofense. Mayor
Ensign's attempt to enforce all ordi-
nances in existence is the first that has
been made for years, and will be sup
ported by citizens.
Minneapolis will open her chamber
of commerce. building June 5.
H. W. Cannon has resigned the offices
of secretary and treasurer of the Still
water Gas Light and Water companies
and Matt Clark has been elected in his
place.
s. A. Olsen, who shot himself dead at
Denver, lived eight years in St. Paul.
The report of the United States
statistical agent for Minnesota esti-
mates the increase in wheat acreage in
in the state for 1884 at 81 per cent, or
about $4,000 acres. This, with an
average yield equal to that of last season,
would add about 1,40O,O bushels to
the total wheat production of the state.
In some localities, however, the grain
is said to have wintered badly. This is
particularly the case in unwooded
prairie sections. To what extent this is
true, however, is not stated.
Webb Roster, shot twice by Fred
Grover at Genoa, Olmsted county last
week in q dispute over a Jug of whiskey,
has since died.
Joe Deiring of Saltwater, tinsmith.
has deserted his family, leaving them in
| destitute circumstances.
Mrs. Sarah Gardner of Faribault,
mother of the late T. A. Gardner, died
recently Of extreme old age.
The United States Agricultural de-
partments statistical agent for Mime
sofa, in his report for May states that
wheat planting is virtually finished in
this state for the season, some tracts of
low lands which the rains of ten DAYS
ago made too wet for planting, being all
that remained to plant. The aggre-
gate area planted will exceed that of
last year by about 81 per cent, or some
$4,000 acres, and for the most part the
seed has been put into the ground un-
der favorable circumstances. Much of
the grain is up and growing finely. The
number of acres to be put in oats, rye,
barley, and flax will exceed those
planted in these grains last year very
considerably; but the area planted in
corn will necessarily be largely reduced
owing to the difficulty experienced in
obtaining seed that can he depended
upon.
The total number of immigrants and
settlers passing through St. Paul dur
ing the week ending the Sd. inst,
! was about two thousand seven hun
dred. Ofthis number the Manitoba
took out about one thousand five hun
dred, 1000 of whom were destined for
points north of Barnesville. The North
! ern Pacific took out about one thousand,
| nearly all of whom were ticketed to
points on the extreme western division.
The remaining two hundred were tax
en- out by the Duluth, Omaha and Mil.
waukee & St. Paul.
L. A. Place, a brakeman on the Chi.
cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
construction train, was instantly killed
by being caught between the cars
while making coupling to the pile
driver at Worthington recently. His
home was Gloversville, N. Y. He
went to Worthington from Omaha and
began work April 20.
Cap. Mike the old ex-detective on the
Minneapolis police has opened detec-
tive Office.
Mathew Rahilly, died of consumption
Friday, the I'd, at the residence of his
brother, Hon. P. A. Rahilly, in Mount
Pleasant, Wabasha county, aged forty
nine.
Benjamin Parker went tc Robert Par
ker's residence in Zumbrota on a visit,
He was paying his attentions to a young
lady, and staid very late in the night,
until after midnight He left the house
and started out after his horse to ride
home. About o'clock in the morning
he was found lying few rods from the
house, dead.
Rev. Robert Thompson of New York
city has accepted the call to the Presby-
terrain church, at Winona. Having al
ready arranged for trip to Europe, he
will come to Winona on his return in
the fall.
The forthcoming annual report OF
State Insurance Inspector McGill, a
summary of which is printed elsewhere,
is full of interesting facts, figures and
suggestions. In 1883 the risks written
in Minnesota aggregated $18S, O68, COG.
The premiums received by the compan-
les were 50 ,457 1875 losses incurred, 81 >
92O, JOB; and losses paid, 81 $40, 1854.
The total fire losses in the state were 49,
387 $50, an amount which the commits
sioner rightly characterizes as excess
i've.
A Duluth man received thirty eight.
pound Columbia salon fresh from
Portland recently.
The Fergus Falls Journal discovers
that seed wheat which elevators have
been sellingin the Red river valley for
81. % bushel was bought at Pelican
Rapids, Otter Tail county.
William Morris is threatened with tai
and feathers at Eagle Lake for bringing
a mistress from England and keeping
her in his house with his wife.
Senator Girard of Winnipeg lost q
valuable gold watch at GAINESVILLE
while at his bath in the sleeping car.
A council was held in the first Con-
| pregational church at Winona. and Or