The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-08-06

copied a call to Galesburr, H., and win n.
move to that place in about month
At Warren, Mimi, two grain warehouses
were blown twelvefeet off their foundations.
One is owned by Palmer and the other by
A. H. Gilbert The skating rink is almost
a wreck.
The fifteenth annual fair of the Dodge
County Agricultural and Mechanical associ-
alton will lie held on the grounds of the
kasson Driving Park association Sept. 22,
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run and complete returns of the census
OF Duluth make the population 1904,
against 3, 473 in 1SSO-a gain of 14.54l.
or about 40 per cent in five years. or over
80 per cent year.
The position to which Mrs. Donovan OF
WinOna was elected at Saratoga, was that
OF vice president OF the Froebel Institute Of
North America, in recognition of her ability
in Kindergarten work.
At Austin, Frank Langum, the nine-year-
old son OF Conductor Langum. was taken
with Il violent attack of hydrophobia He
was bitten last winter while on the way to
school by Mr.. Ellis dog
in Goodhue county, died at Florence re-
Gently, OF consumption, aged seventy-one
years. He came to Florence in 1855. He
leaves a wife and four children.
Hon. Alexander Fiddes of Jackson re-
ports that the barley and oats in his Sec
ton OF the country is nearly all cut, and
that neither the bad weather nor the re-
cent storms have in any way affected the
crops.
Mrs. r. H. Powell was struck by a passen-
ger train on the Southern Minnesota divis.
ion at Winnebago City while crossing tho
railroad bridge, and fell forty feet, breaking
both legs in two places. Her condition l.,
critical
The recent storm at Audubon, was quite
severe and the damage considerable. At
W!nona the lightning was appalling and
did considerable damage about the city.
Joseph Curley, a son of Mr.. B. A. Curley
was killed by lightning.
Notice is given by the lighthouse board
that on and after Aug 6, 1885, a fixed
white light Of the fifth order will be shown
from the lighthouse recently erected at the
outer end OF the north pier at the mouth of
the st. Louis river. Lake Superior,
A writ OF prohibition has been applied for
to the supreme court, to lie against the
court martial assembled to try Col. Bend
The grounds OF application are those set
forth at length by j. n. Castle, counsel for
the accused, at the sessions Of the court al
ready held.
A bold robbery was committed in the
town OF Cottonwood, nine miles from New
Ulm, on Monday, July 20, at the residence
of Henry Pfisterer, by August Broocha, a
peddler He took from Il bureau drawer
notes amounting to s., 200, a watch valued
at $50 and some cash.
Near Troy, this county, says the Win
ona Republican, Will and Jake Cole at
tempted to kill their father, Jacob Cole
Will knocked the old man down with club
and Jake shot at him twice with revolver
but the shots failed to take effect. Officers
from st. Charles arrested them.
The terrific wind storm which aecompan
led the rain Monday morning, 9th inst
left iii and ahuut Minneapolis numerous
evidences Of its destructive nature, and
some ve:y remarkable experiences and es-
eapes fro,n death, ut least serious injury,
are heard from nearly alldircctions-
Jim Wall, the bad man from Montana.
who was lodged i'll the Ramsey county Jail
Tor sale keeping that night. tried to commit
suicide by hang ing himself O the bars uih;s
cell with a handkerchief. lie was blue in
= ". Il
Wednesday with his c,ptors lur Wyoming.
George Borden OF Vernd:,lc was arrested
at Muskada, by \. Whaley, Jr,, marshal of
Hawley, On Il charge Of stealth. u cheek ON
tho Northern Pacific railroad for Sl75o.
from Henry Stackelcwh.us, an employee Of
the company. On IL search the check was
found Oh Rol1lon> hidden in the lining of his
vest,
II. f, Hayden, local agent of the Omaha
railroad at Saltwater, had been arrested
upon warrant charging him with the en-
bezzlement OF So, Of the company's
money On the eth day of June last. Mr..
Hayden protests his innocence and saws
he will be able to make everything right
or rather to show that he is an innocent
man.
There was quite large attendance at
Red Wing recently, on the occasion of the
sale OF the property OF the Minnesota Ele-
vator company. The elevator sand ware
houses, some twenty-nine IN number, To-
Gated on the river, the Chippewa and the
Midland divisions ofthe Chicago. Milwaukee
l. st. Paul railroad, were bought by II, J.
O'Neill Of Winona, who has been o,,eratin:
them the past year under :. sa,sc Th0
property doubtless cost originally about
$11O,OuO,
Articles G. Incorporation have been pre-
payp;i f.lG the Ada, Duluth & Northern Da-
.nt:, Hallway company. The line is toex-
tend from some point within the town linz
its OF Ada, Norman county. cast by the
most feasible route to Dulnth or connect
with some line OF railway running direct to
Duluth; and west by the nearest feasible
route to point the Red River OF tho
North, at or near Caledonia, n,k thence
west or northwest through the TerritoryoI
Dakota, to some poin: l.os 90 yet decided
uDOn. The pripCipnl nlaca ~ h,s;pas,
be Atlti
At Granite Falls, Mrs John Purvis has
been arrested on the charge OF poisoning
her husband. Her husband, who had been
aillns FOR some days, died rather suddenly,
and the body was recently buried over in
Chippewa county. 1t was afterwards e<-
hnmed, and large quantities of quicksilver
were found. 1t was further learned that
she had purchased a quantity Of the drug
got the arsenic at Jolnsons. Mira pu,vis
was remanded to Jail unit! Aug. ! to await
the result OF an analysis OF tho contents OF
the stomach, which will be made at tho
state university.
Testimony is being taken in the United
States district court room, at the govern.
ment building. st. Paul, by f. NJ Watson,
representing the department OF justice ofthe
United States. and c. +. Larrabee, repre-
o'h'iu- tht Interior ueIEtftillenC, rClAtlSV ttA
the claims Of the traders who furnished sup
plies and provisions ia tho Sioux in Mime
sofa prior to TIE outbreak OF 1862, for the
payment ii which congress appropriated
s1bO,OOO at its last session. The claims
foot up $l42,""o, the claimants being
Nathan Myrirk, St. Paul. SHA. 00g Qlalni
Perkins, assignee nl ,ouls Robert, 80 900;
Alexander l.. F:,ri'a,lt, $3O, 900; Amanda
Is. Forbes, widow Of the late Henry Forbes,
5000; |. and c. NJ. DAILY, assisnees for b.
F. Pratt, $4,000
During the storm Wednesday, at Moor
head, the lightning struck the chimney OF
the Grand Pacific hotel, cutting hole III
the roof letting down the brick and mortar
into a slecping-room. Two persons were
very badly but not seriously injured. The
Moorhead foundry was also struck and
damaged to the extent Of 81, 900. At Far
go the electric light tower was thrown
down. At Detroit, Mimi, every windmill
in the town-and there were quite q nua,:
ber-was blown down and broken, Tho
total damages in Detroit, a. estimated