The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-05-30

Vu0 01u0 u HIS uC6A u0 uI6U, Al1lAk Hill.
self instantly All the chambers in the re-
volver but one were empty: He was seven.
teen years old
The News Briefly Chroniclo.l.
Another mineral find was recently report
ed in the vicinity of Burlington bay on the
north shore of Lake Superior. The ledge
was extensive and bore silver and copper in
great quantity.
Frank Day, of Bethel, recently tried to
run bullet in an improvised mold of green
wood, and would lose the sight of one and
possibly both eyes. The heat generated
steam from the sap, which exploded, blow
ing the lead into his eyes
There are several cases of hydrophobia in
hogs and cattle near Plain View.
John Wilkin Lowry, poor auctioneer of
St Paul, recently received word that he
had fallen heir to an estate in England
which would, in case he could prove his
claim, bring him an income of $4,000 per
annum. Lowry would leave at once for
England.
The semi-annual encampment of the De-
partment of Minnesota of the G. A. r. will
be held at Litchfeld June IL to 19, together
with the annual encampment of the North
ern district
At Fergus Falls recently stranger passed
forged check for $32 on Desky Bros.
| signed by the Edwards l. McCullock Lum-
Der Company. He got ~ suit and 40 in
| cash for it.
The Government appropriation to the
| luilitia of the State is 1864
Two of the big engines for the Duluth 4
Iron Range road have arrived at Two Har.
bors They are able to haul twice the load
of an ordinary engine. Their weight is be-
| tween seventy-n1ne and eighty TONS and
they cost SO, 600 each
The Comptroller of the Currency has au-
thorized the First National Bank of Little
Falls to begin business with capital OF
$4,000.
A cooperative association for farmers al
Rochester has leased the Broadway mill
building and machinery for centrifugal
milk separator.
j. A. Appleby, of Minneapolis has sued
Judge S. F. W. White, of Duluth, for dam.
ages by reason of alleged SANDER, laying
his damages at $4,000.
Peter Stein, of St Paul, while pick
ing flowers recently at Vermillion, near
Hastings, fell down an embankment s
| distance of sixty feet, striking on rock
and then rolling into the water receiving
| serious injuries.
Mrs. c. F. Nygeen, of Star Lake, yawned
the other day and dislocated her lower law.
| necessitating ride of twenty three miles
| to town to set it
G. 8. Holdridge, the millionaire farmer OF
Quincy, Olmstead County, got a wheat
beard into his eye last fall, and the irrita
| ton has finally caused blindness.
A new post-offics has been established
at Camp Ground, six miles southeast of St.
Paul
Andrew and Ole Erickson (brOthers)
aged eight and ten years, respectively,
| were drowned TN the river at Crookston the
other afternoon. They fell off some logt
on which they were playing, and their
| father nearly lost his life in an attempt tc
rescue them.
The thirty first commencement exercises
Of the State Normal School were held re.
Gently at Winona The graduating class
numbered sixty two members, the largest
ever graduated from the school.
! Armour 4 Co. will test the validity of the
new meat inspection act, passed at tho last
session of the State Legislature, and will
ship meat into Duluth for that purpose.
Thomas Coleman, . bridge builder en-.
ployed on the reconstruction of the Waba-
cha street bridge at St Paul, fell from the
top OF that structure, distance of one hun.
dred feet, into the river below the othe,
| morning. Save severe nervous shock he
was uninjured.
The annual State convention of the Pro-
hibiti0n party will be held in Minneapolis
July q and "a.
Proprietor Fiskey Barnett, of the peo-
pies Theater at Duluth, is said to be
missing along with his wife and baggage
He is indebted, to a considerable amount,
to tradespeople and sporting men.
Jacob Ganst, an employe at the Howe
Lumber Company's mill at Tower fell or
the slasher saws recently and was terribl,
cut up. He died about an hour afterward
Three ''wangans," or cook boats, and III
log drivers of the Mississippi l. Rum Rtv,
or Boom Company arrived in Little Falls ,
few days ago. The logs were run through
the slu1ce Of the dam. The drive was e.
tamated at from 80, 000, 00O to 81, O0O, OOO feet
| The Merchants National and the Unior
National banks of Duluth have agreed t.
consolidate under the name of the First
National Bank
Rev. Franklin Carter, pioneer of Min
nesota, and for many years Methods,
clergyman, died of apoplexy at Fairbault .
few days ago.
Inc Gaetefn Minnesota road has concluded
! the purchase of q block at Duluth and viii
erect merchandise and -four docks and .
series of disconnected warehouses to cos,
about $2O0, 600
& J. Truax, Of Hastings, has been award.
ed the Government contract, amounting t.
$4,000, for work to be done ut the head o.
Lake Pepfn in strengthening and cleaning
the river channel -
The Canadian Pacific railway line betwee1
Minneapolis and New England points. vi,
Montreal will be opened for passenger traf.
dc in . short time.
i Apackago of $500 was stolen from the
express company at New Ulm recently.
Tho money was sent by one of the banks
to Nicollet g. -. III,
Frank J. Aarshall, Of St Paul, was recent
| II sentenced to twelve months In the work.
house for ombezsloment
| A mad dog wearing collar marked .114.
81, Wtnona," was killed In Plainview town.
ship recently, and In the territory several
head Of stock had boon taken with genuine
hydrophobia and had to be killed Il wa
not known how much stock had been bit
toy.
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