The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-06-04

received like notification of his removal from
tho same position. So far a. these gentlemen
are concerned, the question Il considered SET
lied
Edward Dupuis lost his life in passing be-
tMeen two pulleys which run the gang saw in
Walkers mill At Crookston. He fell upon the
lower layer Of = twenty -four inch belt and was
carried around the pulley, being crushed to
man, forty eight years old, and had been mar
ried but two days.
. Elisha Besh.w, . Frenchm4n, is the person
who slept whole week at Northfeld. After
being awake q short time 10 remembered Of
having some money when going to sleep, and
upon Investigation no found his handkerchief
with $435 rolled in it in the strawibed tick. TIE
patient is doing we'll, and the only trouble now
's to get him plenty Of beefsteak and potatoes.
State Auditor Braden has received from Au-
aitor Mcdonald Of Hcnnepin county the follow
ing statement Of Minneapolis tax collections:
For year ending May 81, 1884, >739, 3362 05; for
year ending, Nay Ii; 1855; 37l7,31.O7. Re-
ports from other counties furnish similar close
showing that the new tax law,
which deferred the sales from September to
Nay, does not materially affect the collections.
The Grant county people are enthusiastic
and in earnest over the southern railroad pro-
ject Tho most prominent men of the towns
Of Lien, Pomme de Terre, Stony Brook and
Elbow Lake have been interviewed and ex-
press it As their opinion that easonable
amount Of bonds could be voted from the
towns along the proposed route without diff
Guilty.
Father McGolrick, Catholic, of Minneapolis
made complaint against indecent show pictures
ON bill boards. The case was submitted to the
jury, who, after viewing the bill boards on
which the objectional posters were hung and
deliberating for half an hour, returned \
verdict OF not guilty, the proposition to i'm
pose fine having been favored but by two of
the twelve.
The contract for tho new building at the
deaf and dumb institution at Faribault has
been gwen to l. NJ Emery and William
ONeil Jointly, their bd(S 81, 775) being the lowest
The building is to be of stone 65x4O, and two
Will DO fitted up as gymnasium, and the Sec
ond and third stories used for shops and hos
pital. An addition is also to be made to the
laundry building.
A. l. Thornton, county recorder at Fonda
died recently: Deceased came to Hous-
ton, Mimi, in 1853; he then went into the
surveyor generals Office in St. Paul, where he
was engaged in government surveying, and
then followed civil engineering. Mr. Thornton
made the first sectional map of the State of
and has followed the business with
slight intermissions; up to within the past
four years.
The annual meeting of the Winona conference
OF Congregational churches began at Wabasha,
=; Tuesday evening; continuing Wednesday and
Law If Ia Of
we're Rev Mr. Crum and Mrs Thomas Wilson
Of Winona; Rev. J. H. Morley of St. Paul;
Miss Evans, preceptress Of Carleton college,
and Mrs. Chase of Minneapolis, president of
tho woman's board of home missions for the
Northwest
Mary Jane Clarns, aged seventeen, of Park
cts Prairie, Otter Tail county, indicted by the
grand jury, was arrested and arrangements
male to bring her into the CITY, She did not
appear, but her brother handed the following
letter to her attorneys, Clapp, Woodland &
Cowie: s'This is to certify that Mary Jane
Clarns is dead. [Signed] A. E. Henderson, NJ
D." 1t is presumed that the girl committed
suicide rather than endure public trial
The corner stoneo of the new Young Mems
Christian Association building was laid at North
field. An address was made by Frank Cutler,
secretary of the association, in which he said:
I'VE have come together tonight to lay the
corner stone of the first Y NJ G. A. building
over erected in Minnesota" The building is
to cost, when completed, about 5000. 81, O66
OF which has already been pledged and it is
to be completed the LIST of August
Andrew Nelson and his team were found dead
in slough recently three miles north of
Hawley. Nelson, who was Swede, twenty
six years old and married, went to Hawlev, aud
after purchasing load of lumber got drunk
and started home about dark. He let the road
when near small slough, drove across, MISS
ing the bridge, circled around the slough and
the bridge and was upset in fifteen inches of
water, under tho load of lumber. The team
were mired and drowned.
Philadelphia Record: Russian flour, equal
in quality to that made from choice Minnesota
spring wheat, is offered for delivery in New
York at SC per barrel. This attack upon our
grain is rs bold as the snubbing of John Bull
III Central Asia. 1t must be admitted that the
has his strong points in traffic as
we'll as diplomacy. A nation that can send its
-four ), COO miles from the point of manufac-
ture and sell it in New York at competitive
prices will surely command it's share Of bust
ness.
The following changes have been made in
the postal clerk service: r. l. Mason. vice D.
Warning, on the route from st. Paul to Sioux
City; NJ. B. Miller, vice Joseph Zeis, removed,
on the route from st. Paul to Bismarck, OAK :;
Thomas Clarkins, vice j. s. Murray, appoint
ment expired, route, St. Paul to Elroy;C C. NJ
Brown vice G. S Armstrong, transferred, route,
Watertown, Oak, to Minneapolis; G. w. Flack
Of Reddeli, Oak. vice G. A. Chamberlain, ap-
pointment expired, route, St. Paul and Brock
enridge; Henry Fink vice w. A. Mccain, route,
St Paul to Bismarck.
The insurance commissioner has ruled, un-
der the cooperative life association law,
passed last winter, that no Iowa cooperative
association shall be permitted to do business
in this state without a paid-up capital of 500,
CO., This is the application imposed under
the law of the state Of Iowa on Minnesota as
sOciations of this kind, under ruling of the
Iowa attorney general, and under reciprocal
provision contained In the law passed hero
last winter our insurance commissioner applies
the same to test Iowa This will shut them all
out.
Further details Of the homicide at Marietta,
Lac qui Parle county, shows that Olaf A. Sun
din, the victim, was shot by John Hammergrec,
q hardware merchant, during general quarrel.
The two men, with others, had been drink
ing, and quarrelcd. Mrs. Hammersren tried
to get her husband to go home, when Sundin
assaulted her, and when her husband interfcred
Suhdin chased him some distance with an mp
lifted dashboard. Hammergren halted and
fired to brighten Sundin, who continued to
advance, when Hammergren fired again. shoot
ing Snndin through the body, killing him in
etantly. Hammergren was arrested.
Minnesota produces large quantities of gin
seng aud seneca, and some very choice grades
of both of these roots are dug from the soil of
the state. This fact has attracted tho atten-
ton of Cincinnati business house, which
handles about half of the product in these ar
ticles of the entire country, and the concern
has just opened branch house in St Paul
The firm is engaged in an exporting business
entirely and in the United States only makes
purchases. 1t has resident agent in China,
which is the great market of the world for
ginseng, in connection with which the Chinese
have various superstitions, and which they
also value on account Of supposed medicinal
properties. The St Paul house il the only
branch house maintained by the Cincinnati
firm.
Lists prepared for the next volume of Brad
streets, contain the names of 1901 additional
individuals and firms who have entered upon
business in the state of Minnesota, outside of
the city Of ST. Paul, during the past three
months. The number Of Withdrawals from
business in the meantime has been 733 The