The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-09-23

"Blsir BILL" Miss Carrie a. Heibrook Of
%. faul during tho convoltton worked
most earnestly to organise Young
Women's Christian Temperance union.
organised With charter membershtp Of
eleven Of the leading young ladies st the
town. Tho following are tho o6icars:
President, Mss Nary Howe; vice presi
don't, Miss Grace AeKinstrey; recording
retarx, Miss nay Hopkins; o1ta reasu rec.
Miss Georgia L. Batchelder.
The Wisconsin D democratic State Convsn.
ton met at Madison, Sept. 18th, and nomi-
mated state ticket; Governor, Hon. GIL
bert n. Woodward Of La Crosse; 1t. Gov.
ernor, John D. Putnam, River Falls; Sec-
rotary OF State, John G. Ludwig, Hilwau-
kee; Treasure, John A. Johnson, Madison:
attorney General, Geo: "; Bird, Jefferson;
Fond du Lac: r. r. Commissioner, James
Meehan, Stevens Point: Insurance Com
missioner, John KARL, Kew auhee; chair
man State COMMITTEES, W. A. Walker,
Manitowoc. -..I-
Appropriation has been made to the MIN
nesots militia by tho Manitoba road which
In effect IL this: They will expend 81, In
preparing first class camping ground at
Spring Park with an excellent ride range:
and will transport tho companies between
Minneapolis and St. Paul and tho camp
grounds, going and coming, free, with IN
dividual tickets at half rate, provided the
state will designate it a. q state camp
ground and use 1t for that purpose.
John Hillack, who was shot In tho head
by the sheriffs's posse at Glendale, D. T.,
Wednesday, is rapidly recovering. On
Friday he regained consciousness, arose
from his bed, got his rifle and said he waa
going to shoot the sheriff. The bullet is
lodged in the back Of his head. A portion
eo Ct The he brain has ooEed through the wound.
full constitution the doctors say he could
not have pulled through.
The State convention of the Wisconsin
Labor party was held at Neenah on the
18Th, thirty counties being represented.
The following ticket was nominated: Gov
d 1SdS
rotary OF state, J. 4. Japerson, Neenah:
state treasurer, Fred Hoeing, Chippewa;
attorney general, John e. Thomas, Sheboy-
gan; railroad commissioner, Ritner Stew
ems, Gre Mt; superintendent public instruc-
tlon' J. n. Mc3regor, Eau Claire.
The Minnesota Democratic convention
held at st. Paul on the 18th nominated the
following ticket: Governor, A. A. Ames
Of Hennepin; Lieutenant Go vernon, John
Frank OF Mower; Secretary of State, Luke
Jaeger Of Ramsey: State Auditor, G. A.
hundberg Of st: Louis; State Treasurer,
J. N. Ives Of Polk: Clerk Of Court, Go. r.
Gardner Of Freeborn. Three Judges Su-
preme Court, No Nominations.
At Eau Claire, Wis, on tho 18th, Officer
1.of
while reprimanding . Frenchman, Peter
Robier, for being drunk on the streets.
was confronted with q revolver in tho
hands OF Robier, who fired the weapon,
the ball taking effect in Elliott's breast.
above the heart. The wound is serious
and the result is in doubs. Robier was
arrested and jailed.
In the United States Court at Madison.
Wis. J, d. Leonard of Nova Scotia and
Watson Benjamin of Boston were sem
half years each for passing bank notes
raised from dves to twenties. They were
arrested at Bel0it several months ago, and
had on their persons nearly 100 in good
money and about $50 in raised notes. They
purchased bogus bills in Minneapolis.
The district court at Ipswich, D. T., ad-
1ourned on the 18th. One man named
Coleman was sentenced to tho penitentiary
at Sioux Falls for ten months for attempt-
ed burglary, and John Kearns was sen
fenced to the county jail for thirty days
Tor assault and battery. Tho grand jury
returned about eighty indie: meDts, mostly
against the saloon men for selling Nouor
during the first half Of the year, Vhen no
license was issued.
State Treasurer c. McFetridge, who VA
nominated for congress by tho Rspubli-
cans Of the Second Wisconsin district. d.
clines to accept. The district is Democratic
BY about 5, 900 majority, and no Republican
can be elected in it. Delaney, the Demo-
cratic nominee, lives in the same county
to be slaughtered.
The saw mill of tho Chippewa Lumber Il
Boom Company, at Chippewa Falls, Wis.,
was struck by lightning on the morning of
the 10th and burned. 1t was the largest
water power mill in the world EMPLOYING
81: 50O men; Loss 500 600; insurance 346,5OO.
The mill will be rebuilt.
Eight bands. have thus far promised to
attend the band tournament at Red Wing.
Wednesday, Sept %, namely: Canno..
Falls, Mazepps, Vasa. The Gate City, and
Falker of Winona. tho Harmonic of Laka
City, and the Ellsworth and Rochester
bands.
The long contest for the congressional
nomination In the second congressional dis
trlct OF Wisconsin. terminated on the 18th
by the nomination Of A. K. Delaney. The
convention lasted over two weeks and the
nem1natlon occurred on the 516th ballot
Delaney reclining Is votes to IA for o. Meara.
On the 18th q horrible murder was COM
United five miles from Chetek, Wis.,, the
victim being tho wife of farmer named
John Opsalt who cut her throat and then
retlfeo 70 his room and hanged himself
domestic relations.
The Ransom D. T. Gazette relates that
the Lebo Bros, bought some eleven hun
dred acres of Maj. Wisner, payable out of
the crop. grown on it at 81 a bushel, and
the Eleld was nearly twenty-f.ur bushels
an acre. which pays for the land, seed and
5000. e'1 ~ '''01'
The Welsh Presbyterian assembly, COM
prising the synods of Wisconsin, Ohio, Penn
sylvania, New York, Iowa and Minnesota,
has been in session at Milwaukee, Wis.
among the delegates were three clergymen
from Wales and England.
At CrestoD, Iowa, O. v. Haltzschuerr, a
prominent druggist, was found guilty on
thirty separate counts Of selling intoxica-
ting liquors in violation Of the pharmacy
law, In tho superior court, and fined 1880
and costs
AT Milwaukee, on the 18th, Toshio Aoki,
a Japanese, was married by q Justice of the |
Peace to Eva La France, an American girl,
being tho first time that q Japanese has |