The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-12-04
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES,

present year.
The latest report Of tho Bradstreet company
shows II ,Go5 business firms in Minnesota, st.
an increase of / 1877 firms in three montha
l. Ri. Gregg Of Wabasha has made An assign
ment Of his property for tho benefit Of his
creditors to O. D. Ford, Of Mazeppa The
schedules are not fled yet Tho previous re-
portof Mr. Gregg's assignment was premature
Andrew Davidson and g. A. Carlson Of Red
Wing are engaged In getting out the stone for
the Minnesota 4 Northern bridge 1t St Paul
1t will take !, GOO square yarls Of stone. They
have ninety men employed in the qusrriea.
Ole Hanson, . Dane about twenty.
FIVE years old, was run over and killed by .
minneapolis Il st. Louis switch engine Of st.
Paul Deceased was walking on the track and
did not hear tho engines approach
Last week was the nvelist Of the season at
the Rochester stock yards. Something like
$4,000 pounds Of hogs wers shipped, beside .
number OF car laads Of beef catfla Thia is in
face OF the fact that many farmers are still
holding their hogs in hope of higher prioea
The reduction in tho Northern Pacific shop
force at Brainerd went into effect last week.
100 men still in the employ of the company.
This force will be kept throughout the winter:
Last winter tho force numbered only 800 men.
W. o. Wright president Of tho Chicago, Free-
port Il st. Paul, is quoted ss saying that it is
the intention Of the company to begin opera
tons between Freeport and st Paul early in
the spring: A force Of surveyors is now this
side of the Wisconsin river.
Mr.. J. p. Berry died at his residence in
Pleasant hill recently after = protracted illness
Mr.. Berry came to Minnesota in 1857 when Q
boy, and ever since the war of the Rebellion.
in which he participated as Union soldier,
has been prominent in the social, educational
and political affairs of the southern section Of
Winona county.
The articles Of incorporation of the Continen-
tai Express company, with = capital stock Of
$500, 600, has been fled with tho register of deeds
atMinneapolis. The object of the incorporation
is set forth as the operating of an express or
fast transportation route or rontes by land or
water, or both, between any points in the do
main of the United States.
Mr.. G. NJ. Seymour Of Saltwater leaves Mon
day for South America, whittier he goes in
company with the committee appointed by
congress to investigate and report upon the
condition of commerce between that country
and the United States. The trip will be made
H. W. Sprague was arrested. in Chicago 10
Gently, and started toward saltwater: He is
SAID tn be defaulter to the amount Of $1,000
from tho Northwestern Car company for which
he was bookeeper. He was arrested at music
store, for which he had formerly Travelled ~
salesman. He was recognized by pictures In
the hands of the detectives.
Maj. Hjortsberg, chief clerk Of the secretary
of state, is compiling the legislative manual
for 1885. Among the illustrations will be four
plates OF the state university, showing the
main building, drill hall, agricultural building
and experimental fruit farm. The state fis6
hatchery will also be represented, the other
plates of public institutions being similar to
those of the last manual
few votes were cast in Renville county for
J. NJ Bowler for the state senate In reply to
the county auditor, Attorney General Hahn
holds that he should not be given a certificate
OF election unless there was vacancy, and he
aPprehends there was none, because no writ Of
election was issued by the governor, as is re-
quired by section II, article 4, of constitution.
Commissioner Price of the Indian Depart
ment says the charge that the annuties have
been withheld from the White Earth Indians ia
untrue. In fact, the money has not been in
st. Paul at all; hence it could not been kept
back for the benefit of the banks. Sept Is the
Indian Office issued requisition on the treas
ury for S44 Is. to pay all the bands III Mime
sofa. Oct q it was found that Agent Luse
had not received tho money. The Indian Of
fee asked Treasurer Wyman what the trouble
was, and lie replied that he had mailed draft
Sept. % for Luse's credit with the Second Ma
hn~, y A. s0Sl ~
another draftfor $4,000 The remaining $l5.-
Coo draft, Mr.. Wyman explained, was held back
by ths treasury until the balance of deposit
with the Seconu National would allow further
deposit to Luse's credit OF course, Luse would
not pay out part of the money before he got il
all from Washington. Special Agent MilGurn,
who must be present when tho moneys are
paid the Indians, is at Fort Peck, Mont, and
was telcSraphed recently to 60 to White Earth
and witness the payment
The Washington school building at Anoka
was burned, with its contents, recently Loss,
$4,000; insurance, s6,OOO The flames started
from the furnace in the cellar. The building
was occupied at the time, but all the pupils
were safely removed
Joeph Farley, lonely settler near Lake
vermillion, was murdered and burned in his
cabin few days ago.
Orleans.
Articles Of incorporation Of the Aitlnn, Mile
Laos & Minneapolis were fled with the secre-
tary of state. The company is to build line
of railroad and telegraph from Aitkin to some
point on the south or east shore of Mile Laos
lake: thence southerly to Minneapolis. The
principal place of businessis Aitkin. The cap
al s%o so
edness is not to exceed two-thirds of the capt.
al stock. The incorporators are D. J. Knox,
c. W. Mcdonald, J. J. Mcdonald, F. E. Krech.
Thomas r. Foley, Aitkin; W. w. Parker
Spearfsh, Dak. Moses Mckinney, Minneap-
Oils, and George W. Knox, Orange City, Fla.
A crowd Of men took Policeman Fogclstian OF
Brainerd into saloon put out tho lights, re-
loved him of his star and turned hun out
Frank Rice, working as q mason in Detroit,
was found dead in his bed
Mrs. Sheard, residing in Brainard, while in
a somnambulistic state, left her bed, and while
wandering about the house, fell down two
flights OF stairs. and was found in tho morning
lying in the cellar insensible. There are hopes
of her recovery.
The first district conference of the Minneapo-
lis district Methodist society will bo held in
Anoka, Dec l, and s next AS this IL the
one hundredth anniversary of the NJ e. soci-
ETY. more than usual interest is manifested.
The Close brothers, and friends. Of Pipe
Stone, hunt wolves in regular English fox
hunting style. At the last hunt = wolf was
killed in fifty minutes, after run of twelve
miles.
James Ryan and James Mccarthy of HYDE
Park, Wabasha county were going home with
q team from Hammond's ford, but stopped on
account Of severe snow storm at the shanty
of Tim Donohue in the timber While they
were all asleep the shanty took fire. James
Mccarthy barely escaped, and rescued the team
hitched In an adjoining shed. The other tro
men were burned to death. Donohue was q
bachelor but James Ryan had a wife and four
children.
At Morris, Thanksgiving morning, fire de-
stroyed the one-story building on Fifth street
owned by Charles Wilson and occupied by A.
W. Nordquist, tailor, and damaged nearly to
destruction the fine new Tribune building,
owned by z. W. Randall, editor, occupied on
the second floor as printing Office and on the
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