The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-02-16
MINNESOTA NEWS.

A. L. Levi, we'll known member Of the
Hennepin county bar. dies in New York. .
The curriers' complete the contest for the
carnival prizes the first and third going to
Winnipeg. and the second to St. Paul.
An examination by physicians Of Sid.
dons, after bis fight with Weir at Duluth
showed th.t he had sustained . double
fracture.
The Philip Best Brewing Company Of
Milwaukee will erect q building at Bridge
square, st. Paul, to cost 5000, 900.
Louisa A. Kohler, formerly q teacher in
Mankato. commits suicide in st. Paul by
taking arsenic and blowing out the gas.
The committee who have in charge the
work ofarranging details for the law school,
to be established at the university next
fall. have secured the services AZ lecturers
OF United States Senator McMillen, Judge
MITCHELL oil the supreme court, and the
Hon. Gordon E. Cole of Faribault. Other
lecturers will be secured in due time.
The election OF Prof. John Dewey,
now q professor in the University OF
Michigan, to the chair OF mental and NOR.
sofa. 10 a highly important step for the in.
terests OF the state university.
At Marshall, Hawkins & Jones' carpen.
ter OF the town. burned.
H. s. Teton OF Brainerd, retail dealer in
boots and shoes, assigned to Leon E.
Leem.
The report of State Insurance Commis-
sioner Shandrew, shows that tho American
fire insurance companies OF the United
States doing business in Minnesota during
the past year have written risks to the
amount OF s42,O76.52S. and paid losses
$324.675, while foreign companies have
926. and paid $29O.O3O losses.
The only journal in America devoted ex-
clusively to geologry has just been started,
and is now being published ut the Univer-
sity OF Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Senator Davis resigns his membership
| OF the Minnesota Republican national
committee.
Freight rates between Chicago and st.
Paul 60 down still another peg, and the
same rates apply at Duluth.
Mrs. Sarah E. Oliver OF Minneapolis has
paid to the trustees OF Manchester college
$50. 600. of which amount S25, 100 is for
the Andrew and Sarah E. Oliver professor
ship and IS. 900 for the Sarah E. Oliver
scholarship. The income from the pro.
fessorship is to be applied to the salary
| Of the incumbent, and the income from the
scholarship lie to aid needy and worthy
young men in their preparation for the
| ministry. The above amount is exclusive
OF the synod's memorial fund of 5000. 900
now being raised by the Synod OF Miune.
sofa for Manchester and Albert Lea COL
leges.
The smallest baby in the world" at
Lynn, Mass, is almost If not quite e>iualed
in Faribault county. There was born to
Mrs. Fred Miller, at Rice lake. seven miles
south OF Wells. a speck of humanity that
barely tipped the beam at one and halt
pounds. Its feet are not over an inch in
length. and q gentleman's ordinary finger
ring will 90 over the foot and up on the
ankle. A ANAL child's teacup will cover
its head. The father is large, heavy
man. and the mother very little under the
ordinary size. The child in perfectly FORM
ed and healthy.
At St. Cloud, John Ostrender and T. H.
Bly, OF Paynesville have been bound over
for selling liquor without a license. Other
cases will fellow.
The house OF NJ. H. Miller Vadena, was
burned. Loss $500; insurance $500.
Ira De Graft, well and favorabl y known
resident Of Winona and pioneer OF Min.
nesota, died somewhat suddenly at the
Merchants hotel. St. Paul Col. De Graft
OF St. Paul was by the bedside OF his br 9th.
er ut the time OF his death. Mr.. DeGraff
was sixty years OF age. and was born at
Richmondville: Schoharie county, N. Y.
Leaving home at an early age. he came
West, and for number OF years was en-
ployed in railroad construction with Col.
De Graft. In 1872 he retired from active
life owing to i'll health and has since occu.
pied his time in looking after his private
interests at Winona and Dayton, Ohio,
where he owned extensive properties.
Rev. Frank p. Woodbury. OF Rockford,
Ill.,, says he accepts the cali to the pasto-
rate OF Minneapolis. He will commence his
pastoral duties the last Sunday in March.
Probably the most brilliant society re.
ception ever given in Southern Minnesota
was the festival OF Ceur de Lion Com
mandery OF Winona No. 3, knight Tenn
plar.
A jury OF medical experts decide that
Nicholas Kill. the alleged murderer OF St.
Paul, is crazy.
The charge OF bigamy brought against
John Wilkins in St. Paul is not proven.
and he is discharged from custody.
James Funk, the Willmar wife murderer.
is convicted.
Nels Hanson committed suicide at De-
troit, Baker Co. For several weeks he had
been worried about q small law suit pend
ing in the court and had several times
threatened to take his life.
I. E. Fathers OF Pleasant Grove, Ohm.
sted Co., while in Minneapolis recently.
contracted the So called ''winter cholera"
came home sick and died OF the mystic.
rious disease.
Claude c. Knapp recently in business in
Rochester, and one of the prominent
young men of the city. died at Sioux City,
Iowa, OF acute typhoid fever contra cted
only few days before.
Papers were served at Rush City in the
a ri T. re
Lawyer Dent, Justices Clark and Beers and
6. w. Violet OF Rush City, claiming dam.
ages in the sum of $25, 900 each for the ar.
rest and imprisonment of the plaintiff in
December last on the charge of obi tanning
goods under false pretenses.
At Dul"th, G. w. Clark. OF the real estate
firm of Clark, Seleck & Pryor, died from
typhoid fever and complication of other
diseases.
Though the First Methodist church at St. |
Paul was momentarily weakened BY the |
withdrawal OF DR.. Smith and about fifty OF |
its mbers, it has not been permanently de- |
prived OF power, financially or otherwise. !
Members OF the organization state that |
Rev. DR.. F. 0. Holman. the present pas
tor. is doing a good work and is popular |
with His congregation. the size CT which has !
not perceptibly diminished since the PEG. |
pies church was started. |
George Haas. aged ~, OF st. Paul, died |
on the 9Th. He was born near Strasbure
Germany and came to St. Paul in 1852.
The eight-round glove contest between |
Ike Weir Tommy Burk, the champion OF |
the Pacific slope. at the Minneapolis
Comique was II veritable farce. Burk
showed no familiarity with the gloves, in |
fact is a perfect novice in the art.
, Elmer Russell, young man OF the |
town OF Ger,nania, has been arrested, |
charged with selling mor,gaged property |
belonging to L. r. Burrows of Verndale.
The annual report OF the register of |
births and deaths for Olmsted county |
shows 322 births and 225 deaths in the |
county during 1887.
: Rochester complains OF 10000 gallons
OF sewerage daily discharged from the In |
sane Hospital into a creek near the city
J A new slaughtering establishment is to !
a,:lt 10 1,