The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-10-16
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The public schools at Ogden, Boone county,
have an enrolment Of 2O3
The corner stone of the new PRESBYTERIAN
church at Fort Madison, was laid last Satur-
day.
By the latest count there are Ills school
buildings in the state, valued at nearly $l5,-
OO0,OOO
The enrolment of school children at Cedar
Rapids numbers 2, 49, the largest in the his
tory of the city.
The cannonadng in the sham battle at Mus
catire last Thursday afternoon, was heard
twenty-six miles away.
Twohundrcd delegates are expected to attend
the Baptist convention, meeting in Dcs Moincs
or the 22d inst.
lnformations against Dubuque saloonkccrs
continue to be fled by s. P. Adams, attorney
for the citizens league
Mr.. Bongcy has traded the BonScy house at
Alyona for 700 acre farm near Florence, Ala.
and will 80 there to live.
Frank Miller was drowned in the river at
Acosauqua on the Sth; also team belonging
| to DouGhcrty & Ovcrr,an.
The Methodist society at LcNlars during the
past year have raised 49, 700 for ministerial
support and other expenses.
John l. Blair, of railway fame, was in Omaha
Saturday. lie is out on 4 tour of inspection of
the Northwestern railway lines.
young man named Flallart has skipped out
from Council Bluffs, leaving his wife and chill
tren in an almost destitute condition.
At recent meeting of the Scott County
Fair association, held at Davenport. it was de-
cidcd to hold 10 more fairs and to sell the fair
grounds.
George Hills, late cashier ut the Sioux CITY &
Pacific Office, was arrested at Vermillion Oak.
and taken to Sioux City, charged with cmbcz-
element
The district court, Judge Lewis presiding,
will sit at LcMars on the 18th inst. There are
2SS6 cases on the dockct-92 equity, 121 law and
% criminal.
The Miller girls who ran away from Mar
shaltown. were arrested at Peterson, CLAY
county, last Saturday, in company with man
named Rogers.
young man named Grant Hcalcv, living ut
Ely, near Cedar Rapids, while handling a shot
gun, accidentally discharged it, The load
nearly blew his head off,
James Kennedy. gambler assaulted Charles
collins, editor OF the Sioux City Times, knock
ing him down with rock and brutal!y beating
him. Kennedy was arrested.
In fit Of alteration Of mind, Mrs. Lon
Wright, OF Spencer, recently threw herself into
the river and was drowned. Her remains were
not found for several days.
Hon. Michael Donohuc, who was mayor of
Davenport in 1s67-S, and for many years a
prominent citizen Of that city, died suddenly
of dropsy CT the I'd, in his Goth year.
Daring the five months beginning with May
and ending with September the little town of
SprinSvi!ic, Linn county, shipped G93,O00
pounds OF butter and ~, GOO pounds of cheese.
A foater was found at Dubuque last Sunday
morning. and it is supposed to be the body of
John Brogan, who disappeared from his
clearinghouse in that city about two weeks
ago.
Muscatinc county, recently had his arm
drawn into cane crushcr and so mauclcd
that it had to be amputated close to the
shoulder
McGun.glc, tHc Woodbnc man who was re.
Gently assaulted by unknown parties in Coun-
Gil Bluffs, was at last accounts, at the point of
death, with no prospect Of recovery from his
injuries.
Rev. Father Lahcy, formerly of New lamp
ton, has been appointed priest of St. Ircn;cus
church in Clinton, in place of Rev w. w.
Dunn, who resigned on account OF continued
iil-hcalth.
Cedar Rapids Republican, Z: Assistant State
Veterinarian Mines returned from Pocahoptas
anu Cherokee counties Saturday night, where
he condemned five horses which were afflicted
with CHAMBERS.
A fight between couple OF farmers, Bodc)l
and D''rdoif, one day last week, living between
Rcmscn and Oycns, may result seriously, one
of the combatants, Burdotf, it is thought, being
injured internally.
Edward L. Buford, Of Clinton, was accident
ally killed by the cars at Clinton on the 9th.
He was about 20 years of age, and had been
connected with the telephone company in
Clinton for a long time.
Circuit court convened in Calhoun county on
the 9TH, but owing to the destruction of papers
In the recent burning of the court house the
most OF the cases were necessarily continued
for substitution of papers.
In fLo n vii
day, II. l.. Stout secured a Judgment, by de-
fault. against the First Congregational church
OF Cherokee, for 1923, with interest at 6 per
cent from March l, 1883. The claim was for
lumber.
G. E. Edgcrton, of the LcAlars National
bank, has gone to Bngha,npton, N. Y, to be
married, the ceremony being appointed for
Thursday of this week. Mr.. and Mrs. Elgcr-
ton will occupy the house in LcMars lately va
Gated by W. P. Hunt.
At Spring Valley, near Dubuque, strange
man broke into the house of Mr.. Trcanor, in
his absence, and outraged Miss Susan Trcnty.
who was spending the night with Mrs Treanor.
Alrs. Ireanor jumped from a second story
window, and, although seriously hurt, ran for
assistance, but the villain escaped.
freight train collidcd with a Muscatinc
street car last Friday. The car was knocked
from the track and turned over on it's side.
There were four passengers in the ear, and
two OF them, Messrs Kennedy and Bush, were
severely hurt. The car was not much injured.
ana the driver escaped by jumping.
Patrick Cassidy, workman in Robinson's
lumber yard, Dubuque was assaulted Satur-
day by the foreman, who struck him several
times over the head with heavy plank His
injuries are very dangerous and probably fatal
The foreman was arrested.
In Clay county, last week, as two brothers,
VIM l.. and John Earl were in boat hunting
ducks, William, who sat in the stern of the
boat, took aim at a flock of ducks and Just as
he shot, john who was in the bow of the boat