The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-01

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the Fowler Furniture company of Minneapolis,
which failed recently, being loser in the sum
Of $4,000. This failure, by tho way has not
yet come to the public notice, although being
for the sum of 81, 600, with assets nominal.
Willard was for some time in the furniture bus.
mess.
The Mazeppa mills started up Monday, afte,
a suspension of six months, caused by assign
ment The New proprietors are Jesse Mcintyre
J. c. Pierce of Red Wing and Paul Hauser OF
St. Paul W. P. Brown, lately vice president
Of the Mazeppa Mill company, is engaged as
superintendent The mills have capacity Of
GO barrels daily
On JAM 10 and Is the reserve militia compa-
MES at Duluth and St Cloud will be inspected
for admission to the national Guard of Mime
sofa The company making the better show
ing will take the place of Company X. Second
regiment, which is now vacant Company A.
Second regiment, New Ulm, has recently en-
listed forty men, and is fast reg aiming its old
position.
Twice within the past three weeks guests at
the Brunswick hotel in Faribault have been
rescued from imminent death from es,aping
gas which they had neglected through ignor-
ance or other causes to turn OF after extin-
gushing, by the watchfulncss of the night
clerk. The first bridal couple from the
country. the last q prominent lawyer from
NOrthfeld
Officers Ferguson and Flynn arrested two
toughs who came to the Northern Pacific
Junction, and were proceeding to the jail with
had hardly done 80 when Officer Flynn knocked
hn fol dial <S,,s,o 10
him twice, but without effect, when Flynp
drew his revolver and shot him threw leg
He managed to escape but was afterward ar
rested.
Henry A. Wilson, one of the oldest and best
known lawyers of St. Paul, died Wednesday
morning at his residence. Deceased came to
Madison, Wis, in 1856, and removed to st.
Paul in 1874, entering into partnership with
the firm was dissolved, Wilson and O'Brien
remaining in partnership till Nov. l of the
present year, when Mr. Wilson retired owinf
to i'll health.
An association for the relief of superannuat-
ed ministers of the Methodist conference has
been organized and will be incorporated in
few days Judge Brill ofSt Paul is president,
Rev. DR.. Wayne of Minneapolis secretary, and
B. F. Nelson treasurer. final meeting will
be held in a few days in st. Paul, at which
for the founding of Methodist religious
weekly paper, similar in character to the large
family of Christian Advocates.
As the early freight was moving from the
station at Rochester, Clarence Jackson, brake
man, caught on to the tender to swing him
self aboard, but missed his hold and fell be-
fore the forward car, the wheels Of which
passed over his neck, entirely severing the
head. Jackson was aged twenty years, and 4
stepson of Mr.: Risker of Rochester. He had
only entered the employment of the company
recently, and was boarding his first train out
when the accident occurred.
The certificate of incorporation of the CON-
mercial bank of Minneapolis has been fled
The purpose of the corporation is the carrying
on Of a general banking business The CAPT.
tai stock of the corporation is slOo, GOO, divided
into LOCO shares of 100 each. Directors
Winthrop Young, D. NJ. Clough, A. W. Has
tings, William NJ Barrows, S. H. Chute, J. s.
Pillsbmry, William Lochren, R; 4. Davidson
formerly existed as the private bank of L. A.
Davidson.
At the meeting of the Seventh Judicial Dis
trict Bar association, at St Cloud, const,tut;o,
was adopted, and J. W. Mason of Fergus Fail =
was elected president with one vice president
from each county; o. W. Baldwin, secreta~y
D. 3. Searie, treasurer. C. L. Lewis. L. T.
Searle and H. Jenkins were appointed a com.
nittee to draft BILL for adoption by the legis-
1T ire, allowing an add.t onal judge for th
Seventh district The meeting resolved tina,
the laws rega ding attachments are too cum.
bersOme, and the laws OF Wisconsin on the sub
ject arc preferable,