The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-07-12
MINNESOTA NEWS.


grand larceny at St. Cloud and seq
fenced to two years in state prison.
The Red Wing assessors returns
-saows the assessed valuation of real
state to be $1,232,161; personal
property, $514,816; total valuation,
II, 746,977.
Supt. Seymour, of the Green Bay
road, was badly injured by being
thrown from a pile driver near Grand
Rapids. He fell twenty feet, but did
not break any bones. As he weighs
over 200 pounds, he is badly shaken
up.
During the late storm, q barn be-
longing to Hiram Davis, west OF Fari-
bault, was struck by lightning and
burned, together with a threshing
machine and alot ofother farm tools.
Loss, 50, 500. Insurance, 81, 100.
A young man in Pipestone county,
while digging q we'll the other day
struck well preserved. tree twenty
feet below the surface and had to chop
through it before he could proceed
with his work.
John Stein, aged twenty-five, and
Paul Peterson, aged twenty-five,
while ploughing near Georgetown
were struck by lightning and killed.
Charles Stein was also in the field q
short distance, but was not hurt.
Peterson is a swede and has no rela-
tives in this country.
While shearing sheep at Chatfeld,
a son of D. Hisey noticed something
peculiar about the appearance of q
sleeps tongue and, calling his ia
theirs attention to the fact, the sheep
was caught and examined. Upon
opening it's mouth it was seen that q
ring Of some kind was around the
sleeps tongue. After a few moments
it was taken off and found to be g.
solid gold ring, with a handsome set,
valued at about 81. How the ring
came on the sleeps tongue will prob
ably remain q mystery, as it had
been there some time, being deeply
Embedded in the flesh.
The champion fish of the season
was caught at Winona. 1t was q
buffalo and weighed seventy-four
pounds, and was speared by John
Melville, yardmaster of the North
western. One weighing fifty-seven
pounds was captured a few days be-
fore.
Albert Davis, aged eighteen years,
in the employ Of a farmer, Jesse
Whitney, near Blue Earth City,
ended his life under mysterious cir
cumstances. He was found shot, the
fatal bullet having entered the breast.
An empty pistol lay by his side. 1t
was doubtless an accident. His
parents live in Wells:
The Presbyterian church at Currie
has voted to give its pastor six
weeks vacation.
John Fifer, while intoxicated, fell
down stairs at the Stadt Colberg no.
tel at Winona, and fractured his
skull. He came from Portage, Wis,
three weeks ago to work in E. w.
Williams shoe shop. He has q wife
and family at Portage.
The elite OF Beaver Creek who en-
gage in lawn tennis pronounce it as
easy as saving wood.
Farmers and citizens have taken to
the fighting of grasshoppers around
Perham in earnest and there is now
about 200 different contrivances in
operationfor the catching ofhoppers
for which a bounty of 81 per bushel
is being paid. Two hundred and
three hundred bushels ore being
caught daily. 1t is expected that
most of the crops will be saved as
there has been SO much wet weather
that they can do but little damage.
An effort is being made to completely
exterminate them. Crops outside,
and ALSO i4 the district infested with
these locusts never looked better.
Measles and whooping cough are
epidemic at Rochester this summer,
and have already resulted in an un-
usual number OF deaths owing to
complications. The measles, when
alone, are OF q mild type.
DR.. Thomas Peierce, one of the
ablest and best known physicians Of
Winona, met with serious accident.
He went homefrQm call at midnight
and put his horse in the barn, going
up in the hay loft to throw down
some hay. In the dark he fell down
a hole in the floor and broke his leg
in two places, shaking him up badly.
The fracture is bad one, breaking
small bone on the inside and one
on the outside Of his right leg.
The store ofC Sommer at New
Ulm, was robbed by burglars. Four
suits Of clothing, sixteen pair Of
shoes and all OF the best jewelry in
the store was taken. The money in
The cash drawer, about 50, was also
taken.
The Faribault city assessors re.
turns show an increased valuation on
real estate in the city over last year
of $4,000. This years valuation
as basis of taxation of real estate
is $1'32o,ooQ in round numbers.
The board Of education Of Anoka
has elected Il. E. King and wife, OF
Cedar Springs, Mich, as principal and
assistaHt Of the city schools, the for.
mer at q salary of ISL 200 yearly and
the latter at $55 per month,
Mrs. Smith Had Bad Luck.