The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-03-22
MINNESOTA NEWS.
To Improve the minnesota.

| t00 pE&CClC8OuIty anu Cost % mOAauk snS
Minnesota river navigable from MankaSo
| to ito mouth, at Fort Smelling. Maj. Allen
finds that the stream can be made navi.
gable for steamers drawing two feet OF
water by removing the impeding snags AMI
\ the construction OF movable dams and
locks at the mouth and points further up
the river. His plan is TO make tins
ago ~ tho heavy spring floods
| in that valley. His estimate Of the cost Of
six locks and dams is az follows: Work.
81. 221. 900; land danrages. $135. 975; re-
| moving snags, $35, 900; 10 per cent. Tor
contingencies. 81 35, 7O3; total, 81, 527. 1888
For the same improvement, with len locks
the estimate is: Cost OF work: S1,8l3.~
! 500; land damages, $67, $50; snags, Sr-
OOOcontinc encies. ST. &c. O6S; total, 81, SSS,-
96S' President S. F. Barney. of the Man
kato board Of trade, claims that So. 5OO,-
OGO worth of products would BE- shipped
bv water annually were the Minnesota
navigable and the present freight rates re-
cuced 20 per cent. ,
Deputy Surveyor Sinclair, who has JUST:
returned from trip through the upper
| Mississippi lumber camps, estimates this
seasons shortage in the log cut at about
| 20 per cent. The season has been an m
| usually bad one, February having been
the only month 1T all favorable to the
logging interests.
A technieaity in thu printed form OF
| certain ballots used at the recent Brain
! erd election has been discovered. 1fthrown
| out, it would result in sending Mrs. c. F.
| Kindred, Mrs. Capt. Won and Mrs.
| Florence Potter as members o! tho board
! OF education.
The citizens Of Ellen Lake have petition
| IT fh0 Snov-
| diem" pension bill.
Somebody in St. Paul joculaIly sent Il
| telegram to Mayor Hewitt. of New York.
offering assistance to the distressed people
of that blzzardy city, and the Mayor
thanks the people OF st. Paul for their
| good intention, but says they can ges
along without outside aid. Mayor Smith
is considerably exercised over the sending
OF the original telegram, and characterizes
it in his blunt fashion as "a I.ece OF TOOL
ishness.' Gotham's mayor, it appears.
failed to see the point OF the w,sttcism.
and took the coincidence in downright
earnest.
B. Frank. a millinery dealer OF Winona~
assigned to Chas Nockin. His liabilities:
are twenty five hundred dollars, and his
assets little less.
A large majority OF Flour City ministers
object to the hanging OF Barrett, contend
ing that he should be imprisoned for lille.
The attorney general has decided that.
school Trustees must pay teachers WIS bout
| deduction for holidays. He says: II sue~
gest that you advise the trustees that they
are, under the law. required TO pay for
teaching on those days the same as though
| school had been held
State Treasurer Bobleter has COM
pleted q statement of the interest received
by various banks throughout the state
for the month Of February. The state
ment is as follows: Commercial National
bank, S144.73; Merchants National.
SLAP. 10; Germania bank. $141.19; Bank OF
Minnesota, $13S.42; National German
American bank s13o.47 St. Paul Nation
bank, 1882; Peoples bank. $50. 7S:
Scandal bank, $lS.96; First NazsonnE
| Bank O! Faribault. $14.2S; Scandinavian
American bank, S13.97; total. SoO6.47.
The Universalist church at Rochester
has been holding successful revival ser.
| vices.
Dakota county draws $2.951.2S from
the spring apportionment OF the school
fund, the basis being 4,O99.
state teachers institute for Wabashn
| county will be held at Lake City during the
week commencing March -.
County Superintendent Ryan will ex-
anime teachers at places and on dates AS
follows: Lake City, March "a; Miliville,
March 25; Mazeppa, March ~; Wabasha,
March 90; Plainview, -iarch 81.
In the district court J. R. Wyman OF
West Concord, Dodge county, was convict
cd Of selling liquor without Il license and
sentenced to pay Il fine OF 500 and costs
and thirty days imprisonment in jail.
Michael Becker, convicted OF forgery. was
sentenced to the state prison for six
months.
f. A. Paradis. Who has been editor Of
the Plainville News for several years. will
commence the publication OF Il periodical
in St. Paul The Word is to lie it's name.
and it will treat OF political economy.
The c. & n. w. railway officers at Rocl.~
ester, have been notified not to
| chip any live stock or perisha BILE goods to
| Chicago or elsewhere, as trouble with the
eng ineers is feared.
The Democratic State convention will
be held in St. Paul on May II, Mt II
| o'clock noon.
Herman Abbes, who recently shot him.
| self in Cincinnati, was employed by county
! auditor Vossburg of st. Cloud for a few
| weeks.
Faribau]t is to ha We large canning es-
| tablishnent in time to care for tho next
! crop OF vegetables and fruit.
| ALBEIT Hy recently UieU III hastings,
aged fifty-tive years.
Fred Skillman, aged twenty-four years.
! recently died ut Zumbrotu.
J. W. Daniels, OF CIoquet, is said TO
! have proved up the first claim ever settled
1853, and the claim quarter section in
| the heart OF West Superior, which is now
worth 100000.
In the District Court at Little Falls.
| Judge Searis sentenced Valentine West
! bra chit to a second term IN the penitentia-
| ry for rape. His first term was for two
! years, and expired two years ago. Now
lie gets the full limit OF the law, 80 years.
He is forty years old.
Judge Severance appointed George I.
Barr. OF Mankato, receiver for the Manka-
amount of his bond at S12O, 600. At the
hearing it was shown that the indebted.
ness OF the company is $685. bonded
and $3.50, 900 floating.
| At Zumbrota Company D., state militia,
have elected tho following officers: Cap
| tain, c. f. Johnson; first lieutenant
Thomas Brusegard; second lieutenant, Geo.
| Schafar.
The socialistic element OF the St. Paul
laborins classes is preparing to take an
active hand in the approaching campaign.
| III various attempts 10 unite with ana IN
| culcate their peculiar doctrines among the
labor assemblies proper they have been
rather promptly and ef!ectually snubbed
and their efforts frustrated; hence they
have finally decided to combine themselves
into an independent clique.
Thomas Newton, who shot John lingo in
Winnipeg on Aug. 16 last. was found guilty