The Worthington advance., 1888-08-09
MINNESOTA NEWS.

ucSS O'0A S3OOO POuAAuo VI HIN pcI
day and makes superior grade of
cheese.
Tramps have been infesting Duluth
in large numbers for some time! The
police are putting them in the chain
gang as rapidly as possible.
James Stephens, age thirteen, was
drowned in Detroit lake. He was in
bathing with a deaf and dumb boy
named Boss and got in too deep.
Congressman Lind succeeded in Sc
curing the passage of a bill for the
relief of John Bush of St. Peter. He
is one of the pioneers of Minnesota.
At an early day Faribault will
have q new newspaper, to be known
as the Faribault Herald. Messrs.
O'Brien & Shields of Shakopee are
the proprietors.
Archie Mason of Ottawa, Canada,
fell under the cars at the depot at
Alexandria and had his right foot
crushed, necessitating amputation
below the knee.
The picture of the hackman at
Winona who found $400 in his hack
and looked up the owner to return it
is to be taken for use in the Sunday
school books.
Ole 1verson of Adams, confined to
Jail at Austin for abusing his wife, at
tempted suicide by cutting his throat
with on old knife. He bled profusely,
but will probably live.
Tho people of Winona have been
taken in by fakir who advertised 4
grand show and sold tickets to
large number of people in advance.
At the time set for the show he skip
ped.
The new Winona directory, which
will be out soon, will contain 1872
names, indicating q population of
23,O16. The last directory contained
6,715 names, Indicating u popula.
tion of about 10000.
There is a kind of bug in lumber
which is destroying q great amount
of stock, says tho St. Peter Tribune.
1t is about the size of a grasshopper,
and chews it's way through the
plank, leaving u large hole.
Two boys stole some clothing, 50
in cash, a note for $50, and a shot
gun at John Daly's in Langdon, and
were arrested. They were aged
twelve and fourteen, and will proba.
| bly, be sent to the reform school.
The coroner's jury that investi-
gated the fatal accident on the Cam
non branch of the Milwaukee road,
caused by running over u COW, de-
cided that the engineer Was not to
blame as he could not see the animal.
Two farmers at Pelican Rapids
went to law over the damage to
crops by stock getting in. The ap-
praisers found the damage amounted
to $1.75, and the cost run up to
large figures. 1t was costly spite
work.
Faribault has q sensation in an at
tempted elopement of a son and
daughter of old and reputable fam
lies. Their steed was not rapid
enough for the duty and they were
overtaken and returned to their re-
sDective families.
AS party of young people, who
had been camping at Robert lake,
were preparing to return home, Miss
Madge Parker, daughter Of William
Parker of Faribault, in attempting
to get into a wagon, was thrown vi
olently to the ground by the step
breaking and sustained serious iniu-
ries. She is partially par;llyzed, but
it is believed she will fully recover.
While Sunday school picnic was
returning from Stewartville to Roch-
ester 4 whiftletree broke on one of
the buses, running the wagon into
n ditch and throwing the driver, D..
A. Fisk, over the dashboard and un-
der the horses feet. One of the bones
of the wrist was broken and he re-
ceived @ severe cash on the head, the
result of a kick. No one else was in.
jured.
W. S. Colburn, who for year past
has managed the Benson roller mills
for Hill & Kinsey of Roberts, Wis,
was arrested upon the nfiilafit of J..
II. Kinsey, charging him with appro-
priating to his own use 500 and
5000 bushels of wheat, the property
of the firm. After an examination
before Judge Eaton he was bound
over in $500 to await the &C.
tion of the grand jury. Colburn,
who has many friends at Benson has
borne an unblemished reputation,
easily gave bail and seemed perfectly
willing to meet the issue.
Newton Foster, living between Fair
Haven and Clearwater, was brought
to Benedict's Hospital at St. Cloud
in a badly scalded and pounded con-
dition. Foster says that he came
home from Clearwater, and while his
wife was getting dinner ready he lay
down an the floor on his back, with
his hands under his head. Suddenly
his wife grabbed Il kettle of boiling
water and threw it into his face,
binding him and then proceeded to
pound him with a potato masher. She
then left and went to tho neighbors
and stayed until arrested-nevct
mentioning anything about the af-
fair. Foster was fearfully scaldcd-
his face being one great blister, clos
ing his eyes and ears; in which condi-
tion he remained for three days, with
out food or water. The burns and
bruises are likely to prove fatal.
Foster says his wife is crazy.
The Celebrated West India CuculO.
From the New York Sun.