The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-02
MINNESOTA NEWS.

MINNESOTA NEWS.
The president has recognized J. B.
Hartsink as vice consul of the Meth
erlands at st. Paul for the State sof
Minnesota.
Architect Durham of Burlington
lost his pocketbook at Winona with
about $500 and valuable papers.
The next day it was handed to him
by an honest hickman, who found
it in the hack.
d. J. Johnson's merchant tailor
ing establishment at Pennington
was broken into, and about $500
worth of goods stolen. No clue to
the thieves.
The residence of E. Gage at
Winona, was entered while Mr.. Gage
and Mrs. Gage were both up town
and gold watch and chain worth
SIS and 81 in money was stolen.
A letter has been received by his
family from Gen. c. H. Berry, express
ing his appreciation of tho honor and
confidence placed in him by the presi-
dent in appointing him to the su-
preme bench of Idaho but he is not
ready yet to say whether he will &C.
cept the position or not.
John Gross, a German aged twenty
six, in the employ of the Beef Slough
Logging company, fell from the edge
of the boarding boat at the Minnesota
boom while intoxicated and was
drowned. Ordinarily Gross was
good swimmer:
The Minneapolis & St. Louis eleva-
tor at Madison was struck by light
ming and totally consumed.
George scherer, a member of the
Vigilant Hose company of Winona,
was accidentally run over by the
Mystic hose cart in running to a fire,
and both legs were badly crushed.
Some one hired q horse and buggy
from Mr.. Nisken's hotel at Farming
ton to 60 to Rosemount, seven miles
distant, and has not yet returned. 1t
Is learned that a companion entered
the buggy with him at the outskirts
of the village, and it is thought from
other suspicious circumstances that
they are persons implicated in the
robbery of Johnson's tailoring es-
Establishment few nights ago.
Burglars entered the Milwaukee
depot at Zumbrota and took few
dollars from the till. A deaf and dumb
man was arrested on suspicion, but
no money was found in his clothes
and he was released.
At picnic held at Mendoza, near
st. Paul, a fight took place between
Fred Bryant, a son of Judge d. N.
Bryant, and Lawrence Ried, presi-
ident of the village, in which Ried is
reported seriously injured. Threats of
lynching were INDUCED in by some of
the most prominent ofReid's friends,
but wiser counsels prevailed.
While a party of young men of
Aitkin were in bathing near town
Charles Everts, a single man about
% years of age and a good swimmer,
was drowned. He has relatives in
Orange county, New York. He was
a steady, temperate young man.
The hardware store of C. B.
johnson of Cannon Falls was
burglarized Of about $500 worth.
The thieves entered through the
cellar. They cut a hole through
the door to the cellar large enough to
put an arm through and turn the
key which was left in the door.
The board of directors of the Lake
Crystal Farmers Mutual Fire Insur-
ance company held q meeting at
Lake Crystal. Applications have
been made for Insurance to the
amount of $4,000, and On agent
will soon be sent out to work for the
company. The company was organ
lied May 5, with a capital stock of
$25, 900.
A band of gypsies have been at
Marshall some days and one night
some Of them were arrested for rob-
bling Mrs. j. Middleton, q farmers
wife, of bedding, clothing, and pro-
visions. A neighbor, who was pass
ing found her in fainting condition
q few minutes after. He summoned
help and arrested the thieves. On
trial they were found guilty and fined.
The funeral of the late George B.
Whipple, held at tho cathedral at
Faribault was attended by the
largest audience ever seen on q SIM
liar occasion in that city.
The heaviest rain and wind storm
known at St. Cloud for years swept
over that city from the Northwest.
There was a little hail, and water ran
In the streets in torrents. AS the first
storm passed it was succeeded by one
from the southwest. A mile north
west of town at the Manitoba Will
mar junction, a perfect cyclone cloud
was formed. 1t, however, connected
with the ground but a small space,
lifting the railroad section house and
hay stacks above the grove, damag-
ing trees and leveling fences and teie-
graph wires. 1t passed up Sank riv-
er but did not seem to connect again.
1t looked like waterspout.
The now celebrated case of the
East and West Norway Lake
churches against Johannes Halver-
son, the pastor of the minority, for
the possession of the parsonage, is
on trial at Whitman Iudna e T.