The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-06-13
Murder OF m Insane Patient.

Murder OF IN Insane Patient.
A murder committed in the insane
asylum at Rochester about April leaked
out few days ago. The victim was a
patient named Taylor Coombs, a colored
man. who had been sent there for rape on
a five~year-old girl at Saltwater: The
murder was committed by two attendants
who attacked Coombs with a cane and a
mop handle, knocking him down and
jumping on his chest.
The News Briefly Chrontcled.
Chinch- bugs are at work around Roches.
ter.
Minnesota towns very generally cele-
brated Decoration Day.
Peter Decker, an old soldier and we'll
known character in the vicinity of Winona,
was buried at the bottom of forty foot
well near Trempeleau the other day, the
walls of the well caving in.
State experimental station will be es-
tabltshed at Morristown.
In the district court at St. Paul the other
day papers were filed by the Massachusetts
on promissory note given by ex-senator
Sabtn and Charles B. Nelson to the First Ma
tional Bank of New York
&USOAA0o Va taAAs NA OAA 3O11ucuV VI OW8COu.
ma, committed suicide recently for some
unknown cause.
The Renville County seat will remain at
Beaver Falls There were "a votes for re-
moval and 164 against
The body of Jake Bernhart,. a roaming
blacksmith, was found suspended to a tree
near Winona recently He had committed
suicide.
One hundred and eighteen buildings, in
Guiding several brick structures, have been
erected In Little Falls since May1.
State Auditor Braden recently sold land
in Morrison County for from five dollars to
twelve dollars an acre.
Jacob Gaust, employed in the Howe Lum-
Der Company's mill at Tower, fell on a
slasher saw the other day and died in an
hour. He was terribly cut up
One of the most enthusiastic recruits of
the Salvation Army at Minneapolis Is a
young Immigrant from the Celestial en-
pire. All Sin was once his name but now
that he has been Melicanized and Christian
lied he goes by the name of Larry Jenkins.
He is endeavoring to convert the whole
Chinese colony in Minneapolis
At Tower tie other afternoon John Sim
mons shot and killed David Cook for max
ing derogatory remarks about Simmons
sister-in-law:
A letter has been received at Duluth from
the State Historical Society Offering q re-
ward for the whole or any part of the
meteor which was reported to have fallen
at Tower recently.
Northfeld figures that her college brings
to the town fully 100000 annually In the
way of expenditures for board, repairs and
general expensea
Rev: Father J. P. Turner, of New York.
has been elected prior over the Dominican
Fathers In Minneapolis as the successor of
Father D1uahan, who was recently trans
ferred to Washington.
IRE In Saltwater the other day de-
stroyed the Northwestern brewery, owned
BY Frank Apple. Loss, ~ 600; insurance,
$500!
Logs cut from the State lands in the Fifth
district for the year ended June numbered
50,144, or 8, Ill, $50 feet
The other day fire destroyed the build
Ing occupied by the Paris urton Confcc-
tionery Company Ut Minneapolis, causing Q
loss OF $4,000. on which there was >37, COO
insurance p sess.
Nils Nlssenya boy eleven years old, whils
gathering flowers recently ct Winona with
his scho0lmates fell from blum below the
city, distance Of over fifty feet fractur.
ing his skull and injurtn6 his leg. He may
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