The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-12
EORTHWE9TERN NEWS

To be register Of land offices: Abernethy
Grover, Of Montana, at Miles City, Mont
To be receivers ofpublic moneys: Luke A.
Burke Of Dakota, at Aberdeen, OAK. Wen
general Of the United States at Montreal.
To be collector of customs: Horace B.
Moore for Duluth, Mimi. George Hayes
of Minnesota to be supervising inspector of
steam vessels for the Fifth district.
ney, for the Indians of the Cheyenne River
agency, Dakota.
James B. Hayes of Wisconsin to be chief
justice Of tho supreme court of Idaho. To
be United STATES attorneys: John w.
House: for the Eastern district OF Wiscon-
sin; William 81. White, for the territory of
Postmssters-iowa: +. B. Crawford,
Sioux City; W.. A. McAllister, Vinton; f.
n: Funk, Manning. Clinton Babbitt, Be-
lott, Wis. James Cannon, Mankato, Mimi;
springs; Isaac T. Carr, Neiilsville; Charles
r. Gleason, Eau Claire.
Charles n. Thomas otKentucky to be as.
sociate justice Of the supreme court of Da-
kota.
The st. Croix Valley Standard in its last
issue reports tho sale of the St. Croix Falls,
Wis, water power owned by the heirs of
the late Caleb Cushing, and opposite Tay-
lors Falls, Mimi. The purchase includes
2,4Oo acres OF improved and timoered
acres Riparian reservation, in st. Croix
Falls village, having river front Of two
miles. IS acres lying one mile along the
Minnesota shore OF st. Croix river. and
the e1 %ss. T "a Row,er: F: Rice, Jr:,
the purchasers: The great waterpower is
| to be developed at once.
Rev. Geo. c. Haddock, pastor of the
Methodist church at Sioux City, Iowa was
shot and killed by some unknown assassin
on the evening of the End. He was walk
behind him In the darkness and killed him.
! MIR. Haddock was prohfbitionist and
engaged In warm controversy on that
| subject and his murder is supposed to
grow cut Of that.
The practical conclusion of congress en-
abled Senator Sabin of Minnesota to leave
Washington Monday, making four days
| sea voyage to Boston, to avoid the hard
! ship of railroad journey in his weak
state. After couple months of quiet sea-
shore life his physicians think be NAV be
sufficiently tnvigorated to make the journey
to Minnesota.
AT Bloomer, Wis, H. G. Schultz, editor
Of the Advance, was assaulted in his Of
flee by Edward Fessenden; farmer, who
charged Schultz with overreachirg him in
land trade. Fessenden rained blows up
on the head of his victim with an iron rod,
and the injured man it is thought will die.
James Edmons, the town marshal TO
Claremont, Dodge County, MIMI, re-
ceived a pistol shot from 80 calibre
weapon directly through the breastbOne
just below the heart, from enc of the
possee who were assisting him in pursuit
Of four burglars. He will die.
Mrs. Drenkhaln, widow living south of
Lewiston, Mimi, has seven hundred acres
Of grain. She runs four self-binders with
five horses attached to each, and full
| crew Of shockers, and bosses the whole
outfit herself.
The dam at Fair Haven, Mirn., broke,
aud large portion of it was swept away.
The accident was caused by tho settling of
the new portion of the structure. The mill
will not run for some time.
The bill FORGETTING the Northern Pacific
land grant has failed to pass Congress at
| this session ana may never be heard of
again: The bill repeating the presumption
law also failed to pass.
The ninth annual exhibition of the Bar
ron County, Wis, Agricultural society will
be held at Chetek, Wis.,, Tuesday, Wednes.
day and Thursday, Sept. IA, Is and 16,
| 1856.
The Westville Lumber company, at Eau
Claire, shut down its saw mill, discharging
| one hundred men, owing to the lack of
logs caused by the prolonged drouth.
Ex-Gov. Taylor of Wisconsin has been
| tai To
widow. Taylor and his former wife were
divorced two years ago.
Victor johnson of Pipestone, MINI, was
shot in the shoulder through the careless
| ness of q companion drawing his gun out
of wagon muzZle first.
q. A. Raven, who has been studying law
at Valley City, OAK, has been denied ad.
mission to the bar, on the ground that he
was an anarchist.
Efforts are being made throughout Mon
! tana to raise q sum for monument to Miss
Jane Macarthur, the heroine of the Sun riv-
or tragedy.
Gov. Gill Pierce will deliver the address
at the opening of the North Dakota Agri-
cultural Exposition, Sept. 81, at Grand
Forks.
Charles n. Thomas of Kentucky, has
been appointed associate justice of
Dakota, vice VIM. E. Church, resigned.
Watertown, Mimi. has purchased the
fire engine and truck from tho local com
pany, SO as to make it village property.
Ex-Gov. Davis, of st. Paul, has accepted
an invitation to deliver the opening ad 1res1
at Minneapolis Exposition, Aug. 23d:
The inquest in tho Search murder case
at GAINESVILLE, Wis.,, has adjourned without
obtaining clue to the guilty parties.
There is much sickness at Hurley
Marathon county, Wis, from drinking
water with too much iron in it.
Geo. Perry, formerly N. p, station
agent at Brainerd, Mimi, committed
suicide at Omaha, on the 5th.
Mrs. Charles Britton, Of Coal Harbor
was drowned while crossing the river in
pursuit of her husband.
The forest fires in Outagamie county
Wis.,, have destroyed much hay and grain
and several buildings.
Mrs. Jerome Howard will be a candidate
for superintendent of the Wilkin county
Mimi, public schools.
L. Cross was fatally shot in saloon row
at Utica, Mimi, by J. Bohrs.
Mr.. Crane of Granite Falls, Mimi, has q
silver cup 159 years old.
Oshkosh, Wis, has 7,17S school children
and Racine 1921.
Resume OF . Congressional Session.
The first session of the Forty-ninth
congress, which ended Aug. 5th,
covered a period of PAL days, exclusive
of Sundays. OF this time the senate
was in session 164 days, and the house
1876 lays. During that time there
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