The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-08-27

| secd crops lOr 1884 and acreage for 1885
The acreage OF wheat for 1885 il 8, 1871 ,67l
acres, .ls compared with 8, 1O9, 874 in 1884
an increase OIL ,797 acres. The oats, corn
barley and flax seed crops show similar in
creased acreage. OF oats there are l.
wa; Oo2 acres; us compared with
LOSS, 63S in 1884, an increase OF 1894
The corn crop shows 625, O7O in 1885 tC
OBS, 1873 in 1884, an increase Of 50, 937
acres. The barley crop is 293, COZ in 1885
u.s. against 1856, 1852 in 1884, an increase oi
| $500 acres. Flax seed shows a very graft
lying Increased culture, there being 229, 57a
acres under cultivation, an increase of lO3..
533, or nearly 100 per cent over the 1876.
| O45 acreage Of 1884.
The new Danish Lutheran church ut AL.
bert Lea will be dedicated Sept. 6.
Work on the new elevator at Graceville
10000 bushels capacity.
Hon. Z. T. Wilder OF Red Wing has been
appointed delegate at large to the North
western waterway convention at St. Paul.
w. F. Mirick who killed Peter Gross at
Anoka, has been jailed at Minneapolis.
Brit Mickey, aged twenty years, and
George Merriam and George Mabey, all OF
Lake City, and aged about twenty
JS6AAoS "CAC AIIdASucu UClOFC inc InuUlClDIl
court at Madison, Wis. charged with stealing
$lO2 in United States bond coupons from
4: F. Mickey, the father OF Brit. Young Nc
Key was handed over to his father, who
will have him tried Mt Lake City, and sent
to the Minnesota prison. The other boys
were released. r. F. Mickey WAS formerly
in tho drygo0ds trade ut Madison, James
villeand Oshkosh.
Col. Harrington will have Deputy COL
,lector Richards place in St. Paul.
John W. Comrack died at Princeton, In
Mile Laos county, which place he has made
his home most of the time since 1874. Mr..
long time he was pilot on tho Mississippi
river. He was elected scrseant-at-arms Tor
several OF the early sessions Of the terri
torlal house OF representatives. He mar
ried q daughter OF John Jackins in 1849,
who then resided at Saltwater, but subsc-
quently removed to St. Anthony.
The log market is brisk at Saltwater, and
local lumbernan thinks there will be
another advance in prices.
The Sta Bank OF Minneapolis with $6O,-
900 capital and K. Kordgaar cashier, has
been admitted to do business in Minnesota.
The last number OF the Army and Navy
Journal contained the following reference to
st. Paul's crack company in tho Grant
'~~AoAesA PAoSSocAoA az ANcW 10TH. NOIll-
pany u, First Minnesota regiment, during
the parade, as well Us on two subsequent
occasions in the armOry of the Twelfth rcgi.
nent, demonstrated precision OF drill
which can hardly be surpassed by any or
ganization in the country"
The wheat that has been thrcshed in
aieekcr county shows that the crop is very
uneven: Some pieces have gone less than
slx bushels OF very shrunken wheat to the
acre, while Others are yielding as we'll as
last year, both III quantity and quality.
The official census returns gives the vii
!age OF Bird Island a population of SGT.
kenviile county contains 49, 1T inhabit-
ants according to the official returns.
August Towsky, an alleged physician OF
st. Paul, shoots his wife, probably not
fatally. No cause is assigned for the act,
though he claims that it was accidental.
ought to take part in the second edition
OF the New Orleans exposition.
Vandusen & Co. g elevator and coalsheds
ct Minneota, thirty miles distant from
I'Eacy burned recently, consuming a car
Load OF grain and barge quantity Of coal.
The fire company went from here on q 500
cinl train, but arrived too late to be ofany
use. The origin OF the fire is unknown.
The commissioner of statistics places the
wheat acreage OF Minnesota at 3,18I,071
acres, an increase Of II. 1877 over 1884.
In the vicinity of kasota the average
yield OF wheatis said to be twenty bushels
to the aero a.
lletroit capitalists havo been at Duluth
examining sites for extensive works to
manufacture stoves for the Northwestern
trade. They will employ about 900 men,
and will probably select a site on the west
side.
Winona Republican: The cutting oismall
stacking is in progress. Neither wheat nor
barley will come up to the average stand
ard OF last year; although there are excep-
tional fields that will grade better than
others. Corn promises to BE- tie best CROP
for 4ca,a: " IS glazing nicely, and in about
two weeks, should this weather hold. will
be beyond injury by frost.
The St. Joseph sisters have arrived in
Gracevilc and have taken possession of
their property. school building 5Ox6O
iect and three stories high will be built this
fall.
c. R. McKcnncy, late Of the Rushiord
Star has purchased Of NJ, c. Russell the
Lake City Sentinel, printing establishment
and has taken possession.
Mayor Macdonald having taken his lk
lice at st. Cloud, called u special session
OF the council and resigned as mayor
Three boys, Frank kellogg. Frank Good.
son and Walter Vaughn, aged about thir.
teen and fifteen years. stole a skifi and ran
away from Red Wing. They were traced to
the head OF the lake, afterward to Fronte-
nae, where all trace Of them was lost
New York World: Henry NJ. Rice of Min
nesota is one OF Gen. Toombs' most init
mate friends. They served in congress to-
Sethcr, and Mr.. Rice located Gen. Toombs'
Lake Superior lands for him. He lives in
st. Paul, and has hanging in his parlor a
l'le-size portrait picture OF Gen. Toombs,
also by Hcaly. Once during the war, the
lnA:ln'to neonie 81 tl.etcl at tho door OF Mr..
Nice and clalnorad for the picture that they
might destroy II. ut is only over my dead
body that You can get it," quietly answered
Mr.. Rice. "And it still hangs there" said
Gen. Toombs, with the face on the out
side"
Winona Republicans: Tho party OF rail-
road contractors who left this city in car
riagcs to look over the proposed route OF
the Winona, Alma. & Northern railroad.
between this city and La Crosse, met with
an Indian adventure. They were riding
the r.lld discharge OF firearms, and upon
looking around saw an Indian, mounted
on u pony, g;,lloping towards them at a
rapid rate, braEdshing a revolver and OK.
claiming, me shoot dog suiting his action
Is the wond by ,ir,ng in ftont ana rear 81
the carriage: Observing that the Winnie,
bago was intoxicated, the contractors had
little forctastc Of Indian warfare by over.
powcring the red man and taking away his
revolver before he had Il chance to scaln
any OF them.
1t is reported that at the conservation OF
st. PauIs Episcopal church at Owatonna
! THAT there WIS " debt OF $500 remaining
| which Mr.. Percival OF England paid making
| the church free OF debt, besides furnishing
many OF the interior parts, to perpetuate
the memory OF hia grandchild and son, who
Mere i4uriers4.' ~. 4,etc.val wlll leave tol
| England in a few days:
| Two sections OF tho Island Power Com.
pany's building Ut Minneapolis, was burned
,ntailing Il loss i nearly SO, 900, with but
| $1,000 insurance.
The blue lodge Masons OF Minneapolis
and their families numbering in all g.
500, had picnic and and steamer ride ON
Lake Minnctonka.
| Mrs. Sylvanus Cloudy OF Harmony, Fill.
more county, clopcd wit., n dssipated fol-.
low named George Brunx, taking her two