The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-08
The News Briefly Chrouicled.

A schedule of tho assets and liabilities
of f. Allen & Co., of st. Paul, dry-goods
merchants, who lately assigned to Henry
I. Sattler, was recently fled in the dis
trict court The total assets amount to
SS3. 544.24 The total liabilities are about
S122, COO nearly all Of which Is due Eastern
creditora
N. L. Hazelberg. for eight years clerk
OF the district court of Granite Falls, died
few days ago.
The railroads running from Duluth to
Chicago will materially reduce their
through Eastern freight rates.
The Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen,
in annual session recently at Columbus,
O., adjourned to meet at St. Paul in O.
tober, 1889.
1t is announced that Robert Downing,
the tragedian, will marry his leading lady,
Eugenia Blair, at Minneapolis on Thanks.
giving Day.
Frank Hayes, former manager Of John
F. Glow, the pugilist, was shot and dan.
gerously wounded at Duluth the other day
by Risky Barnett, proprietor of the Duluth
Theater.
The Grand Lodge Of Free and Accepted
Masons in the State of Minnesota will meet
In st. Paul in the early part Of January.
TIE courts in Minneapolis have at last
decided that it is crime to 'take, steal
and carry away" an umbrella 81. G.
Brown was recently sent up tor thirty
days for taking one from Hale, Thomas
& Co.
The other evening DR.. D. J. Writings
barn at Mortified was fired and was q
total loss. L. Tschan and d. Whites barns
were also set on fire but the flames were
subdued.
man named Peter Dahl, from Rothsay,
while under the influence Of liquor jumped
from west-bound passenger train near
Saltwater, NJ. T., a few days ago, and fel!
under the train, which severed both lege
from the body. He leaves wife and four
children at Rothsay.
c. Lomsdalen, one of the best known
farmers in the vicinity of Fergus Falls
and whose credit had hitherto beer
considered good, left the country few
days ago. His liabilities were estimated
at $50, OOO
J. l.. Black, of the firm of Black & Reed,
proprietors Of the Bodega, in st. Paul,
other day. His liabilities were about $50.
600.
Fred Muchbauie, car-repairer, while
at work in the Manitoba yards in st. Paul
recently, was struck by an incoming tram,
receiving injuries from which he died sooI
after.
Miss Elvide Dc Rlae, fourteen-y ear old
st. Paul girl, has announced her intention
OF marrying John Stuart, burly negro
N. J. Carpenter, of Chicago, formerly
local manager for the Chicago e. North.
western road, has been appointed general
manager OF the Duluth & Iron Range, with
headquarters in Duluth.
A bulletin Of great value to farmers il
being issued from the experimental sta
ton of the Minnesota College OF Agricult.
ure.
The tug Amethyst was burned to the
waters edge early the other morning al
Duluth. The fire was supposed to have
originated in the boiler-room- The tug
was worth about g, 500 and was fully In.
sured. ~. --. -.
John Stewart (colored), who eloped with
young white girl, was recently found
guilty of abduction in st. Paul.
A vein of soft coal eight inches thick and
only eighteen feet below the surface was
recently discovered at Ruthton,a new towr
on the NJ .nitoba road, twelve miles north
Of Pipestone. The coal was pronounced by
experts to be first
PRESIDENT Hill, OF the St Paul, Minne
apolis & Manitoba railroad. has force
surveying the shortest line from the
Northern Pacific junction to the Casters
Minnesota railway at Duluth for the pur
pose Of making market for Cloquet lum.
ber in the East
An accident occurred the other afternoon
on the Duluth 3 Iron Range road neal
Two Harbors. By the breaking Of whea
seven cars Of ore wero derailed and thu.
oa<s badly smashed Nee~e 80 .p1nssA