The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-05-08
PERSONALS.

Sheriff Miller is absent at St. Paul.
D. Shell has returned from visit to
Cedar Rapids.
is. Beers left few days ago for a
trip to Chicago aud the East
Mrs. II. II. Miller has returned from
visit TO Sioux City.
Gov. Qrdway and lady came over the
branch from Sioux Falls OH Monday
and took the train for st. Paul.
Judge Wilson left Tuesday morning
to attend tile session of the Grand
Lodge, A. y. U. w., at St. Paul.
Chas. NJ. Thompson, foreman of tho
Rock Rapids Review, made us a pleas
ant call Monday.
F. j. Porter, the fuel and lumber
merchant of Adrian, came over to the
hub Monday and got in a lot Of bust
ness.
VIM. Gallaher, has arrived from San
ia Barbara, CAL. and is looking to lis
this vicinity and expects to develop his
lands.
We learn that Bert Lewis was con-
victed at Mics City a few days ago.
We have not learned wha. the sentence
is nor any Of the particulars.
DR.. James Sykes, of Beverly, Illinois,
is on his annual or bi-annual visit to
this county, looking to his landed in
terests. The DR.. owns 500 acres in the
vicinity of Adrian and has large part
of it broken.
J. w. Simmons. now Of Sioux Falls,
came over to his old home on Tuesday
and sold 4 piece of Mobiles county land
to Il DakOtian who wants to settle in
this county.
i. II. Bennett, of the Journal news
room. returned yesterday from trip
to New Orleans. lie is all shook NJ
by Il railroad accident. in which he
participated while travelling through
Mississippi. The engineer was sc:,l'!ed
to death, and the baggagemaster had
his left arm broken. The fireman and
express messenger were slightly injnr-
ed. Several passengers were bruis-
ed. A rail placed across the track cans-
ed the accident. April II, near the
same place, the passenger train under
the same conductor aud crew, was
ditched in the same manner.-Sioux
City Journal
n. V. Mcdowell. l.. B. Bennett and
II. G. Shepard returned Tuesday from
their trip to New Orleans. They were
joined ut Cairo by Is. IL. Bennett, MAX
ing Jolly four." But, it seems, tAey
passed through some dangers and h;td
some hair breadth escapes. In Mississ-
ippi they were mistaken for revenue
officers and were ''shadowed" by some
Southern arsenals on horseback. On
the return, the train was wrecked near
Grenada and every car smashed more
or less except the one they were in. At
New Orleans they went into the mint
and each man WAS allowed to take in Ills
hands i package of Treasury notes con-
tanning million and eight hundred
thousand dollars. Whew! "Thou vert
so near and yet so far"
BRAKEMAN KILLED.
On Saturday forenoon last brake
man named l.. a. Place, who was
breaking on the construction train on
the St. Paul & Omaha road, was killed
near the Summit. lie was bending ov-
er 1T the time making the coupling be-
tween the pile-driving car and the Ca
Loose, and, it seems, missed the coup.
ling, and the projection of the pile
driver closed up on the platform Of the
caboose and crushed his head and left
shoulder. When the cars separated
from the reaction. he fell back dead.
The body was brought to Wortl,ing.
ton and the Co, oner notified, who did
| not deem al inquest necessary. The
remains were taken charge of by the
railroad employees and buried on Sun~
day afternoon in the Worthington
Cemetery.
The man was stranger here. having
been on the road but few days. From
papers found on the body and from tel.
egvSphic inquiry, the railroad author
tiles learned that Place was from Co
versyille, Fulton county. n. Y, and
had been employed OH the Union Pa
CHIC in 1882. Last February lie went
to work on the Burlington & Missouri
road, but gait there on the 18th Of
April and went to work OH the st.
Paul Il Omaha o. the Goth. Last Wed.
nesday he went to work OH the con-
struction train, and congratulated
himself upon having an easy berth. lie
had little Or no money and was buried
10y the company.