The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-05-31
MINNESOTA NEWS,

City. will not be permanently disabled
by his injuries.
A fair and festival was given in the
church at Browntown under the auspi.
ces of the Episcopal church society.
Over $40 was raised for church pur.
poses. c. H. Slocum, of the Glencoe
Register, who, with others, came up
to participate in the exercises, while
getting off the train made misstep
and fell with much force on the track
and was badly injured in the face.
His right cheek and nose were cut SER
iously.
DR.. Hewitt, secretary of the Min.
hesota Health association, has just
completed the death rate tables for
! 1887, which show that IL, 731 deaths
occurred during the year. More than
8 per cent of the deaths resulted from
consumption.
John Bossel, of LIE Sueur. while at
work for the Omaha railroad near
Henderson shoveling gravel, was
struck by a heavy stone, which frac-
tured two or three ribs and gave his
entire system terrible shock.
A vein of soft coal has been discov-
cred on the line of the Minneapolis &
st Louis road near Jordan at depth
of seventy feet below the surface. The
deposit is said to be extensive and a
company has already been formed to
continue explorations and open g.
mine as soon as practicable.
In the district court at New Ulm in
the case of the state vs.. B. Sturne, for
stabbing Joseph Hoescherl, the grand
jury failed to indict and Sturne was
discharged. He has been in Jail there
for year.
Old Abe Post No. 80 has decided to
hold the encampment at Lake Benton
| on June 10, 20 and 21. The ladies
have been doing all in their power to
aid the old soldiers. They have been
instrumental in organizing broom
bregade, composed of 48 young
ladies', who are drilling daily for a
contest between themselves and
companies from q distance. Fack
Bailey, commander, is doing every
thing to insure pleasant welcome to
his visitors.
At Fergus Falls, while the 11-year.
old daughter of a farmer named John
Svenson Dimes, was cooking, her
clothes caught fire. She ran out to
call her father, but q neighbor passing
caught her and carried her to the
Pomme de Terre river, where the fire
was extingulshed, but not before she
was fatally burned.
Thomas Conway of Otter Tail
County was arrested at GAINESVILLE
for horse stealing.
William Otto committed suicide at
St. Cloud by taking dose of strych.
nine while drunk. He was g. tough
citizen, having served term in the
penitentiary.
A special election OF the village OF
Luverne will soon be called to vote
additional bonds to the amount Of
$4,000 to complete the new town
hall. A committee appointed by
the board OF trade has been invseti-
eating the jasper stone quarries with
a view OF operating the same by
JOINT stock company.
Martinka, who was shot at New
Ulm, died at the hospital recent.
ly. A coroner's inquest and post
mortem was held. The verdict of the
jury was that Martinka came to his
death from a gun shot supposed to
have been fired by Marshal Winkle-
man or Patrolman Loesch. The at
torneys for the defense cross.examin-
ed, but submitted no testimony.
Peter Roth, who lived near tn o
Polar Star miles at Faribault died
after q lingering illness. A post NOR
tenn examination was held, AMI it
was found that one of the kidneys
was very much enlarged and filed
with pus. His lungs was found to be
a ffected also. Fourteen years ago he
was accidently shot, and it was one
OF those peculiar cases where the
physician could not tell whether the
ball lodged IN the body or not. No
traces of the ball was found upon the
examination, and the physicians
thinks that his kidney trouble was
caused by fall which he had about
a year AGO.
Prof. William Moore, who has been
principal OF the public schools at
Lake City for several years, will retire
from that position on June 8, the end
of the present school year, and locate
in St. Paul, where he will engage in
law practice.
J. J. LEM, of Mobiles county, has
$50 acres of wheat which is up and
looking finely.
Jackson citizens are catching fish
and storing them alive in the water in
their cellars.
Mrs. Luther, a young widow of st.
Paul. sued Geo. C. Campbell, an old
an wealthy lumberman for breach of
promise. She wanted $4,000, but
the jury gave her only $500.
Senator Davis presented q memor in
from the chamber OF commerce OF Little
Falls. Mimi. praying for an appropriation
Of S. Q, 900 for the improvement OF the
Mississippi river between Little Falls and
Brainerd, representing that more than
$4,000 OF improvements have been on
the bank Of the river at the former place;
that it's water power is unequaled in the
Northwest; that it is destined to he a great
manufacturing center: that about 5000,
900 feet of lumber are fioated down the
Mississippi river to that place every year, q
large portion OF which is manufactured in.
to lumber there that Brainerd also has
an important water power.
A Democratic authority at Washington
states that the following estimate has been
made by democrats and republicans, as to
the probable fate OF the Mills bill. Under a