The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-30
NORTHWESTERN NEWS.
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Monona county has short potato crop.
Statistics show that there are about So 600
Germans in the state.
A large addition is to be made to the Els
worth packing house at Dcs Moincs.
An effort viii; be made to build Congrega-
tional church at Hawarden this fall.
The Fort Dodge packing house expects to be-
gin slaughtcrng about November Is.
j. B. Swinburne. late Of the Delhi Monitor,
has purchased the Humboldt Kosmos.
Periodical police raids are made upon Des
Moincs bar-rooms, with varying results.
During the season just ended the jefferson
creamery made ITO, 600 pounds of butter.
Algona Congregationalists have decided to
build new church, to cost not less than S1O,-
900.
The annual grand cncampment of the Odd
Fellows is being held in Council Bluffs this
week.
A Spirit Lake boy caught IA frogs in two
days timc and sold them for 20 cents
dozen.
Mrs. Carrie Stevens has sold her hotel prop
erty at Newell to L. B. Watson, of Fort
Dodge.
large and paving vein Of coal only four miles
away.
Rock Rapids is without fire protection, and
the necessity of organizing a fire company is
being talked up.
The state has issued a warrant for $40, 200, to
pay for land bought for the new insane asylum
to be erected at Clarinda.
A stock of prohibited drinks found on the
premises of Andy McCarty, at Sibey has been
contscated by the minons of the law.
Judge Hedges, of Iowa City, has decided
that the prohibitory law is constitutional, and
that the court could grant an injunction.
The Davenport wooden mills have been
awarded the contract for furnishing the gov
eminent with 1000 blankets, at $3.50 each
The keolluk canning works the past season
put up AGO, 9S5 cans of tomatoes, and are now
at work on 100000 cans of pumpkin and
squash.
Marion Adams, horse thief burned his way
out Of the Waterloo Jail the other night, burn
ing the siding until he made a place big enough
to let himself out.
A fire broke out in the fine residence of John
Wcarc, at Cedar Rapids, on Monday last, but
was extinguishcd before any considerable dam
age had been done.
The loss by the burning of Sicbel & Co.'s
| WOODEN mills at OSkalOOsa last week was SIS
900, with an insurance of $1,000. The works
will probably be rebuilt.
Mrs. Jacob Hotz, of Iowa City, wife of the
recorder, recently attempted suicide by taking
Rough on Rats" The intcmperancc Of her
husband was the cause.
Webster City has two tile factories, which
during the past year turned out SIC, 900 feet of
tile, which if laid down in straig hit line would
measure sevcnty-two miles.
4. s. Mead, of Spirit Lake, is dead from the
effect OF injuries received in recent runaway
in which he was thrown from the wagon and
the wheels passed over him.
On the 21st.. Nick Kcllcn, farmer near AL
ton, was found dead on the road east of town
with his skull fractured. He is supposed to
have fallen out of his wagon.
Wilhelm Ehrnghaus, German 81 wears old,
shot and killed himself at Davenport on the
22nd. His wife had recently left him, and do
nestle troubles are presumed to be responsible
| for the act.
Thos. Young, a prominent citizen of Mills
county, committed suicide last week by sever
ing an artery in lis left wrist He was about
g. He went to secluded place to commit
the act, and his body was not found for four
days.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette understands that
Henry Rickcl, the attorney for the Citizens
league, of that place, will resign, owing to a
total lack of support from the organization
which has heretofore made such a decided
fight against the liquor men.
Cedar Rapids Republican, 10: The numbc,
Of hogs cut to date this season at the packing
house of T. NJ. Sinclair 4 Co., in this city, is
1909, or just 1874 less than for the correspond
ing period last year. Work has been resumed
at the packing house, and the new crop is com
ing in now.
\ fractions team went off a bridge nea
Peterson the other day, carrying down will
them the buggy, in which was NJ. c. Porter, O.
Sutherland. The fall was twenty feet. Mr.
Porter escaped serious injury, but one of tn,
horses was fatally hurt and the buggy smashct
into kindling wood
Politics must be warm in Decatur county
Leon special of the 18th says that E. j. San
key, Democratic candidate for clerk of tn
courts had been arrested for carrying con
ccalcd weapons, and also for threatening t,
kill some of his ncighbors He will probably
be withdrawn from the ticket, if he is not sen
to Jail.
The Globe saws that E. F. Bethel, LeMar
agricultural implement dealer has dccamped
, after having conducted crooked business a
long as he could keep his stcalngs covered up
One plan was to sell machinery for cash, pu
the money in his own pocket, and then forg
the buyers name to note which he woul,
turn over TO the manufacturing company TO
security.
Joshua Trcssler, of Walnut, was captured a
Carroll on the Goth. He is wanted for tn
murder of an old man named Ivcrson, at AL
bert Lea. MINI. The other brothers were con
nccted with the murder, and arc now in Jail q
Albert Lea. They have confessed the crime
and say that Joshua did the shooting. Ivcrso]
had sold bunch Of cattle and to rob him O
the money the murder was planned
t The fine residence of Joseph Sampson, a
Storm Lake, had narrow escape from dc
, struction by fire the other evening. The fir
originated under the open CRATE, the brick
of which became so hot as to set fire to tn
woodwork beneath The family smelled tn
burning wood early in the evening and huntc
till it was found. The damage will not great
exceed 500. 1t is quite coincidence that W
Brubacher, on returning home from the Samr
son alarm, found that his own house was o.
fire from exactly the same cause lie tore on
the CRATE and extinguished the flames bcfor
, any great damage had been done.