The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-11-22
The woman's Christian Homo,


The WOman's Christian Home.
Alta recent meeting in st. Paul of the
promoters Of the Woman's Christian
Home, officers were elected for the ensu-
ing year as follows: President, Mrs. 81.
d. Gates; Vice-Presidents, Mesdames F.
B. Farwell, T. II. Pitts and s. j. r. Nc
MILAN; Recording Secretary, Mrs. F. w.
h. PREM; Corresponding Secretary, Mrs.
G. s. SIN tn; Treasurer, Mrs. E. NJ. Van
Duzee; Auditing Committee, Mrs w. p.
Jewett; Executive Committee, Mesdames
A. B. Sticknev, H. r. Stanton, F. D.
Hayer, Reuben Warner and Badger.
Pension Fraud Punished.
Mrs. Sarah E. Green. of Minneapolis,
who was recently sentenced to pay fine
of 81 900 for obtaining q pension ON the rep.
resentation that her husband, Henry F.
Green, was dead, failed to raise the money
and must suffer imprisonment instead.
The main witness in the case was Henry
F. Green himself. Mrs. Green's attorney,
John M. T. Rails, who was sentenced to
pay fine of 81, $50 or serve two years in
the penitentiary, paid his fine and was re-
leased.
No Gambling in Minneapolis.
The other night the edict went forth
from high authority at police headquarters
closing all the gambling places in Mime
apolis and ordering them to stay closed
The order informed the syndicate that no
more gambling would be tolerated, and
that the apparatus must be removed at
once, and further stated that any evasion
or disobedience Of this order would result
in general raids conducted on strictly bust
npin n3r1oo without f,,v<
Lost House, Barn and Contents.
Robert Wilson, one of the substantial
farmers of Lincoln County, living near
Lake Benton, was burned out the other
day, losing house and contents, also his
barn with grain, hay and machinery.
Loss 81 600, insurance, s., 800. Mr.. Wilson
endeavored to draw q load of hay away,
but the flames swept under the wagon and
burned him severely. His family escaped
with no material loss more than first
stated.
Both Hands Blown on.
Louis Olsen had both hands blown of by
premature discharge of cannon during
ratification parade at Winona the other
night. Olsen is a prominent membe: OF
the Grand Army of the Republic and dur.
aug UAO wal wac N0uAOuCOI VI tu0 Kun
which blew his hands off, He was mem
Der of the old Company A, First Minnesota
Volunteers, and went all through the wal
unscathed.
A New Company.
The Flour City Manufacturing Company
of Minneapolis filed articles of incorpora
ton with the Secretary of State the Other
day. The capital stock of the company /.
800, 600, and the incorporators are Charles
p. Haseltine, Enoch Holmes and Edmund
G. Fisher. The business Of the COMPANY
will be the manufacture and sale Of millinl
and elevator machinery.
The News Briefly ChronicIedl.
During an election row at Tower one
man was fatally shot.
Governor McGill has issued Thanks
giving proclamation, designating Thurs
day, November 29, as the day for giving
thanks.
An $4,000 contract for dredging for the
United st ties Government in the Duluth
harbor was awarded recently to Duluth
firms.
The millers OF Minneapolis complain o.
milling being very dull, and genera
SHUT ng down of the mills seems likely tx
occur as soon as navigation closes.
G. s. Spencer, q salesman living with hi.
wife in Minneapolis, while eating supper
the other evening choked to death on
piece of meat.
Sigsmund Keller, we'll -known travelinf
man, was arrested at Minneapolis the othel
night by Milwaukee officer who tool
him back to answer a charge Of embezzle
ment.
ch4 -
featuring Company at Minneapolis was de
stroyed by tire early few mornings ago
The building and contents were valued a
$4,000 and were insured for about one-hal1
their value. The origin Of the fire was un
known.
Cheboygan (Mich.) and Minneapoli.
parties are about erecting a sash, blind ant
door factory at Duluth. -
Governor McGill recently annulled the
quarantine proclamat. on prohibiting thu
unrestricted Shipment into Minnesota O.
cattle from certain States where pleuro
pneumonia was known to exist. -
Mathewson's grocery store in the Cool
House block at Rochester caught fire a few
days ago and was damaged by fire to the
amount Of $1,000. The cause of the fire wa.
unknown. Fully insured.
The Standard Oil Company will built
two large tanks of forty thousand barrels
capacity at Oneota, which point will b,
their base Of supplies for the Northwest
ern country in future.
Afalling trestle at the Ohio coal dock II
Duluth recently severely injured Johr
Burns, q workman.
Mrs. Joanna Hardy, forty-dve- year OLE
lady living at Minneapolis, committed sui
eide the other day BY taking arsenic. Mrs
Hardy had been mildly insane for som.
time owing to ill-health, but was nevel
considered liable to do any injury.
Philip Berg was arrested recently q
Minneapolis for stealing cow from g. r
Rudeen. He sold her to butcher and b,
the time Rudeen found out where sh,