The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-10-21

Donnpily made : spss.eh; IN which. hs d:
clarsd his intsntion to work for the sntife
Republican ticket from governor down 70
coroner, and would stump the county to
that end.
The proprietor Of the Parker hotel at
Sank Center was arrested for breaking into
A. ]. 6mith's warehouse. He was caught
in the act, taken before the justics, pleaded
guilty, and was bound over to court in
$500 bonds, and failing to put up tho se.
curity was taken to st. Cloud.
Tho belief that Rantenberx the Winona,
deiaulting savings bank clerk, 10 sale in
Canada, 10 correct. Sheriff Bogart tracked
him to La Crosse. where no bought ticket
for Toronto via Port Huron.
Joseph Church. an old resident Of Good.
hue county, was found dead near the old
Eames place, four miles below Red Wing.
He, with biz son, had started for his home
the team and the boy driving the cattle.
When near tho Eames place the boy dis.
covered that he was dead.
The democrats OF Dakota county have
nominated d. F. Akin, senator; James
King, Jacob Kummin, representatives.
At Duluth, R. 3. Munger was nominated
by the republicans for Senator, and 8. J.
Knox for Representative
The board Of regents OF the state univer.
sity has appointed the following commit
tees for tho ensuing cchool year: Execu.
tive-Messrs. Pillsbury, Gilfllan, Kiehle
and Buckham. Course OF Study-Messrs.
Davis, Clarke, Pillsbury and President
Northrop. Agricultural Farm-Messrs.
Pillsbury, Hubbard and Nelson. Library
and Museum-Messrs. Kiehle, Clarke and
Northrop.
Winona has q sensation in the disappear
ance OF a bank clerk with some 81 200 in
cash Of the banks funds. The culprit is
X. Rautenbere. German OF Fl years, small
of stature, with smooth face and all the
last December F. A. Rising took the Dung
man into his employ, and assisted him in
various ways, appointing him clerk in the
Winona Savings bank, of which Mr.. Rising
il treasurer. Young Rautenberg posed as
a great temperance advocate, and was al
ways quite anxious to thrust himself for
ward in such moves a. the organization OF
the Y. NJ. c. A.
Estelle, daughter of Judge and Mrs. L. w.
Collins DIST. Cloud, died of diphtheria. She
was seven years OF age.
DR.. NJ. F. Moon of Austin, died Oct ~
from the results of the accident which befell
him Sept. 20.
John Erickson, living near Moorhead.
lost his house, barn and 1 800 bushels OF
wheat by prairie fire.
At Dresbach, Winona county, August
Gerstmann, q young unmarried German,
went hunting in the marshes on the Wis.
consin side, expecting to meet q friend
there. When three days passed without his
returning, a search was instituted. and
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tile missing mans dog aad followed where
the animal led. Soon Il rubber boot torn
with shot was found and q little further
the dead body OF Gerstmann with a bad
wound in the foot and fatal shot wound
in the forehead. 1t seems clear that the
foot wound was accidental, but that owing
to suffering from the wound, exposure,
hunger and despair of assistance, the I'M
fortunate man terminated his own exist
ence.
Dieudonne Joachim OF the town of Wells,
while singing at the funeral service of Fer
dinand Duchene, at the French Catholic
church Faribault, dropped dead from
heart disease.
Wells is Boosting of beet raised near
that place that is two feet in length and
weighs seventeen pounds.
John Pocinick of St. Cloud town. CON-
mitted suicide by hanging himself.
Judge Young decides that the Minneapolis
Bar association must pay taxes on its
library.
DR.. J. B. McGaughey OF Winona, has de-
clined the Democratic nomination for
state senator. The county committee fill
ed the vacancy with W. A. Finkelenburg, a
young German.
At Elbow Lake, the railroad and thresh.
s,> :,>k~ b.,
drink. A row broke out between Hill
men and threshing crew, in which the lat
ter were badly demoralized. The sheriff
and officials we're powerless. The saloon
was held by about forty of Hills men,
when ten of Washburn's men came in. A
row began and lasted all day.
At Eau Claire, Peter Robbeault, convict
ed for assault with intent to murder officer
Elliot, three weeks age. was sentenced to
two years in the state prison. one day OF
each year to he in solitary confinement.
The report OF the assass nation of OK.
President Gonzales of Mexico was false.
Longfellow wrote in 1860, he had "only
imaginary associations with Minnehaha,
never having seen itexcept in day dreams"
An important change will take place in
the officers of the Winona E. St. Peter Nov.
l. S. Sanborn, assistant general superin-
tendent Of the Northwestern at Winona
for the past three years, is promoted to
the position OF assistant general superin.
tendent at Chicago, succeeding w. S. Mel
len, resigned. p. Hollenbeck, as assist
ant general freight agent OF Winona,
who has been with the Northwestern three
years, succeeds Mr.. Sanborn and is in turn
succeeded by f. J. Foster, division freight
agent at Chicago.
In the United States District Court at
St. Paul. Rice and Ryan, who robbed the
St. James Postottice, were convicted OF
the offense. The prosecution proved that
Rice and Ryan were arrested in the very
act Of committing the robbery. The evi.
dence in this respect was so clear and
straightforward as to make doubt almost
impossible.
Scott county democrats nominated FOX
Senator. Mat Nachbar OF Helena; represen.
tative, r. J. Farisy OF Credit River.
The following is a complete official census
OF the Sisseton Sioux Indians: Total mum
Der Of inhabitants, 1,496. The popula.
ton has fallen off since the last census tn K.
en- in 1885, when it was l. $40. The In.
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