The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-03-14
The News Briefly ChrOniclet1.

Miss Lizzie Mcmillan, one of the most
gifted and popular young teachers of Itch
field, died quite suddenly of intestinal in
hamnation the other evening. The remains
We're taken to the home of deceased at
Madison, Wis
Work on the grading of the Duluth L VIM
nipeg railway resumed recently.
Albert Muller's wife died recently ut St,
Charles from the effects of strychnine adj
ministered by her own hand 1t was not
known why she took the poison She had
been married about four years and had two
children.
The death of Casper Zimmerman &C.
CURED at Elizabeth the other day from old
age. He had lived there since the sixties.
He leaves large family.
The rendering and glue factory belonging
to the Minnesota Transfer Packing Com
pany was burned at Minneapolis the other
morning. Loss, S65, 600; insurance, $4,000.
The company would rebuild.
Grand Master Reuter-, A. F. e. A. NJ. of
Minnesota, has reappointed ]. G.. Beaumont,
of Faribault, District Deputy Grand Master
of the Ninth district, including Owatonna.
Faribault, Northfield, Pennington and Nor
rstown.
Mrs. Abigail Smith, of Mazeppa, died the
other evening at the age of ninety three
years. Mrs. Smith was the widow of Asel
Smith, who was a soldier in the war of 1912
and who died about four years ago.
J. H. Baker, a man employed to make
public exhibitions with self-acting fire.
escape, fell from the Ryan Hotel at st. Paul
a few days ago and was fatally injured
Captain Charles Russell, who had lived in
Minneapolis for twenty -one years, commit
ted suicide the other afternoon while labor
ing under fit of temporary insanity, pro-
duced by dropsy of the heart.
Over 100000 has been raised at Duluth
for the construction of the needed buildings
for the cathedral and residence of the
Roman Catholic Bishop, who will reside
there as soon as the ''see'' is created,
The body of David Cassiday, a Govern
ment employee at Pokegama Dam, was
found the other day on the banks of Poke
CANA lake frozen stiff. Cassiday got Oft a
train there, and it was supposed he met his
death in blizzard.
At Keewatin On Indian boy fifteen years
of age was fed with whisky recently until
he refused to drink any more. He was then
laid on his back and the liquor poured into
him. He was found dead the following
morning.
Bobby Adams, the Minneapolis post office
robber, was pardoned by President Cleve-
land before his retirement from Office
Policeman Mclaughlin, of Minneapolis,
was beaten unconscious with slungshots the
other day and perhaps fatally hurt by man
whom he was trying to arrest. His assail-
ant had been arrested
The st. Paul Driving Club announces that
1t will hold first-class hotting meeting on
July 8, 10, II aud ~.
NJ. w. Yerxa, u grain commission man at
minneapolis, made an assignment the other
morning in favor of his creditors to GEORGE
W. Shepard, of the firm of Watson 4 Shep-
ard. The amount of his liabilities was not
definitely known, but they were estimated
ut from 81, 900 to $25,0OO
AT Iowner few nights ago Curley Bed
ford was fatally shot in the stomach bv
Billy Wilcott The parties got into fight
\ telegram from Judge Wilson that the
sill increasing the appropriation for the tho
Wlnona public building to $15O,OOO had
passed both houses of Congress was re-
'eived with great satisfaction.
The other afternoon a dispatch was re-
'eived from Hot Springs telling of the
death OF Thomas Brennan, the oldest and
most widely known Irish citizen of st. Paul
A child of Peter Cummings, of Rochester
met with singular death few days ago
1t was playing on the floor and a member of
the family accidentally stepped on one of it's
toes The child lost it's breath while crying
and died
W. G. Harley, recently arrested at Minne-
apolis on charge of being involved in grain
stealing, has sued Henry W. Holmes and the
Union Elevator Company for $4,000 dam
ages.
The public schools at Wabasha, which had
been closed several weeks on: account Of
diphtheria, re-opened the other day.
William NJ. Dwight l. Co., of Duluth.
lumber dealers, filed mortgage recently
for the benefit of creditors to the amount Of
0,oU. and at the same time suspended
business
A man calling himself NJ. II. johnson WA
arrested at Fergus Falls few days ago on
charge of trying to borrow money ON .
forged note, purporting to be signed by two
farmers Of tho town Of Norwegian Crews: