The Worthington advance., 1888-02-23
MINNESOTA NEWS.

bill written by Mr.. Henry. 1t denounces
Seymour as hypocrite, ''sniveling about
the Savior to attract the attention OF
women and to ruin them" It relates his
Janesville experien:es. charging him with
whipping, and attempting to poison his
wife and embezzling the missionary funds
OF the church there. The handbill has q
ry intimates his intention to follow him
up until he lands in the internal regions.
There is considerable talk of q German
NJ. E. College at Rochester. The conference
expects a cash donation from the citizens
OF $50, 900 to $25, 200 and the gift OF an
eligible site for college buildings.
Sheriff Martin of Isanti county, while at
tempting to arrest one Peter Monson on q
criminal warrant. was assaulted by Non
son with a knife and cut and slashed in q
shocking manner. Eight wounds were in
the head and face. The sheriff but for a
timely arrival OF a doctor would have bled
to death. Monson was afterward arrest
ed, and is now in the village jail.
Mr.. Charles F. Clark. senior member u
the firm of Clark Frost. druggists at the
corner of Third and Robert streets. died at
his residence, 40 Dale street, at o clock on
the morning OF the 10th. Mr.. Clark was tax
en- sick about six weeks ago with typhoid
fever.
A scheme mostly engineered by real e.
state sharks, for uniting st. Paul and Min
neapolis into one municipality. 10 being
walked up by the newspapers and spout
ers.
Foley Bros. OF St. Cloud have closed the
contract with the Manitoba road to build
complete the extension Of the St. Cloud &
Hinckley branch. from Hinckley to West
Superior, seventy miles. The coLtract in
wolves the expenditure of over 81, 600, 900,
and will employ 2, 900 men.
A decision OF Judge L. L. Baxter of the
district OF St. Cloud held invalid all tax
certificates issued under the so-called ''ad-
jOurned forfeited tax sale" OF October,
1881. This was the sale OF lands on which
taxes had become delinquent prior to S79.
and had become forfeited to the state.
The sale was to follow the regular tax sale,
but the state auditor ordered the county
auditor to withhold all lands Oh which at
least the amount OF all taxes was not bid.
and to offer them the next week for the
amount OF the state tax. This Sc and ad-
journed sale is held by Judge Baxter inval-
id and void AS contrary to the provisions
OF the statute.
Herman Harms, the man who has been
sleeping at Utica, Winona county. for tho
last four years, has awakened. On the
IuOTnlHS Ol Cue lOllI, ue dFOuSeu AHu DhAu
to his wife. II feel better. and will get up"
He got up at a. M. and sat up all day,
the first time in four years. He see ms full
ly aroused and is perfectly intelligent. and
in no way shows the effect OF his long sleep.
Wabasha Special: The county treasu rer.
who has just returned from an extended
trip receiving taxes. reports having col.
lected a much larger sum .han anticipat-
ed.
w. L. Coon died ut his residence in Man
kato at the age Of sixty.one years. He
has been a sufferer with paralysis for sew
eral months. Mr.. Coon was born in Duch-
ess county.N. Y; was educated at America
seminary and stndied law at Fond du
Lac. Wis. He came to Mankato in 1856.
He entered the army in 1868, enlisting IN
the Second Minnesota cavalry.
Adrian Special Fire recently destroyed
the horse barn on the Rock county farm,
operated by James Kilpatrick, who re-
Gently failed. The barn contained thirty
horses. twenty tons OF hay: four hundred
bushels OF corn, fourteen sets OF harness
The secretary of war has ansmitted to
congress a deed IRON the city Of Duluth to
the United States OF wenty-eight lots OF
lard in the city of Upper Duluth. fourteen
OF which are situated on Lake avenue and
fourteen on Minnesota avenue. These lots
compose the land through which the ship
canal is to run.
Martin Callahan of St. Peter was found
dead in his barn. 1t is supposed that he
attempted to climb into the haymow to
feed his stock, when he was stricken with
apoplexy, and fell face downward into q
manger.
Church & Graves manufacturing com.
pany of East Minnea polls make an as.
q iVNy ont in hoOofif nj fhoiP
The wife of S. Gustaison, five miles east
OF Morris. went to the barn to milk. She
wandered q mile and a half away, and her
body was found. She was forty years
of age. Her husband was away. Ono
child OF five. and another of eight were left
in the honse and stayed alone all night.
The state supreme court decides that
"For the neglect OF a railroad company to
ferce its tracks as required by statute, the
land owner, over whose farm the same is
laid, may recover as damages the elimina.
tion OF the rental value of the farm
caused thereby. Such damages are not
necessarily limited to what it would cost
to build q fence"
reformatory met at the office of Gordon
E. Cole St. Paul. 1t was decided to ad-
vertise for bids for the proposed building.
One hundred thousand dollars will be ex.
pended this year.
St. Paul's death rate for 1887 is
the lowest of any city in the United States
OF over 100. 900 inhabitants.
Robert G. Evans OF Minneapolis is ch o.
| en- AS the successor OF Senator C. X. Davis
on the Republican national committee.
Senator Davis has introduced a bill for
the payment to H. X. Belden for $1.556
for extra work carrying the mail in Mime
sofa in the early days. OF the war.
Ely is the new mining town on the Yer.
million range, twenty-five miles east of
| Tower, and it is fast becoming an impor-
tant place.
The winter cholera continues to rage in
Minneapolis. 1t is not very fatal but is
! disagreeable in the extreme.
A well-to.do German farmer living at no
| great instance from the city OF Faribault is
| the principal actor in a .reat scandal and
| is the accused. Some months ago one OF
his daughters, a handsome and intelligent
young lady, married a gentleman from an
other city in this state. and very soon af-
| ter the wedding the husband brought the
| girl back to her father and said he would
have no more to do with her; that she
was in an interesting condition. and that
she claimed her own father was the father
OF her child. Afterward the old man took
",
a number OF sorrowins creditors.
1t is just da~ning upon the boomers OF
} the Twin Cities" that the carefully pad
ded and ridiculous statistics sent out. arc
| really doing them an injury. This business
has greatly impaired confidence where it
might he justly entertained.
Articles OF Incorporation are filed BY a
company which il to build the St. Paul
& Duluth's extension to Omaha.
C. F. Davis. an old resident OF st. Cloud.
died aged seventy years. He was former
owner OF n Touring mill at Clearwater.
Wright county.
One OF the Ramsey county jailbreakers
is said to be George La Blash OF Mime.
apolis.
At Hastings. Peter johnson fell from a
scaffold. striking his left side upon a
plank. fracturing rib and receiving sew.
eral severe bruises.