The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-08-13

The Jackson county fair will be held at
Jackson Sept. 20 and 80.
hail storm in Kittson county ruined
Thousands OF acres of grain.
Is. J. Johnsons house, near St. Charles,
was burned by lightning, with it's contents
mysterious Welshman claims the land
on which Fergus Falls is built The claim
Is sale at long range.
Whitmore & Coz elevator, at Boyd, was
burned by lightning. Loss $25 900. 1t will
be rebuilt Immediately.
fifteen-year-old boy, named Tallef Jen-
son, was bitten by a rattlesnake, near Rush
lord, but his life was saved by free use of
alcohol.
Capt: Robert B. Montague. Of the firm OF
Miller y Montague, died AZ his residence in
(uluth, after an illness Of several months,
from heart disease.
1he report OF the adjutant general for the
fiscal year ending July 81, 1885, shows the
pension business transacted during the year
The claims filed numbered 354 rel ected, II:
allowed, 256; amount ofmonthly pensions.
S2,l3O.2h; amount Of back pensions, sos:
$3.50, -
Observer Lyons, in his review of the
weather had at St. Paul last month, saws
the mean temperature was 1925 deg. The
average OF the last fourteen midsummer
months is 71.2. There have been four cor
responding months that had higher max
mum temperature, and only one that had
a higher minimum temperature.
The adjutant general Of the State has is
sued the following order: Company d, First
regiment NJ. N. g., Capt. Ed S. Bean COM
manding, is directed to proceed to the city
OF New York for the purpose OF participant
ing, and representing the military forces of
Minnesota n tho ~,
late Gen. U. S. Grant. Upon arriving in
New York Capt. Bean will report With his
command TO Maj. Gen halieock as officer
in command of the military escort.
The Southern Minnesota Fair associa-
ton, for their fair at Rochester Sept IA to
10, 1885, Offering the following premiums:
Cows showing largest yield OF butter, first,
$l2; second, 50; third $3.50. The cows
will be MIXED, the cream separated and
churned on the ground. The tests will be
made three days, Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, and the cows must be on the
ground, ready for the first milking, Monday
night.
At the annual meeting Of the State Dental
Association, held at Minneapolis the fol-
iowlng officers were elected President
DR.. f. A. Williamson. Red Wing; Vics
President-Dr. c. NJ. Bailey, Minneapolis:
Recording Secrctary-Dr NJ. G. Jenison, Min.
neapolis; Corresponding Secretary-Dr.
c. H. Goodrich, St. Paul; Treasurer-Dr.
H. NJ. Reid; Members Of the board Of
dental examiners; DIR. G. V. l. Brown and
DIR. DIV. Lyon, both DIST. Paul
William Rademacher, a farmer living liz
!he northwest colner al Louisville Town.
ship, Scott county, came to Shokopee, and
surrendering himself to the sheriff, st ated
that he had killed the son of Edward o.
Dowd his neighbor, in self defense. He said
there was an old feud between him and o..
Dowd regarding boundaries that he had
dooryarl the O'Dowd boy picked up his
(Rademacher's) AK and followed him into
his own dwelling. The family called to him
tolook ont. The O'Dowd boy was coming
in with the AK, whereupon he picked up his
loaded shotgun and emptied the contents
int into shg YOUTH who dropped dead on ths
Gov. Hubbard designated the follovin.
citizens to act as a cOmmittee to represent
the state OF Minnesota at the funeral OBJ
sequies OF Gen. Grant in New York city:
Hon. W. D. Washburn, Hon. J. B. Gill.
lan Col c. w. Johnson, Mai. r. X. Hender-
son and Capt. J. n. Cross, OF Minneapolis:
Cen. ). Is. Sanf".n, Gen. r. w. Johnson.
Hon. s. J. X. Mcmillan and Hon. Edmund
Rice, OF St. Paul. Hon. Knute Nelson Of
Alexandria, Col. G. H. Graves Of Duluth.
H non n; Is. Strait Of shakeRee HoH'J: =.
Maketield OF Blue Earth CITY, Hon. Milo
White OF Chatfeld: D. Sinclair OF Winona.
Hon: F. Meagher OF Mankato: L. A. Han
cock OF Red Wing, Hon. Il. B. Clement Of
Faribault, and Hon. L. z. Rogers of Le
Sueur. -:
A dispatch from New Ulm, Brown county,
gives some OF the fatalities attending tho
extreme heat few days ago: Mrs. Anna
Sperl, aged seventy years.: was overcome
by heat and was found dead In the hepd
|! Whe9a she was engaged wedding: j ohm VIII
tahrt OF Milford, seventy four years Of age,
was sunstruck and was found dead in y
slough. lace downward in a foot of water,
where he had gone to cool himself. August
Richter, aged twenty-one, who was working
Tor Stephen Gluth, in the town of Eden, was
sunstruck and died soon after "A man
named Brey, working in the field for Hubert
Hilicsheim, was FRUSTRATED, and died in
lew minutes after taking him to the house.
man whtr h:idjust comen from the old
country was sunstruck and died. in Cornish,
Sibley county. Twenty-Five horses drop
ped dead in the harvest fields.