The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-04-10
The News Brie Nv Chronloled.


L. w. Mears, travelling man, died at
Faribault recently.
The house of Harvard Durham, in the
town of Clear Creek, was totally de.
stroyed by fire the other night.
The Duluth & Winnipeg road is max.
ing arrangements for the erection of ex.
tensive ore docks at Duluth.
A fire the other morning in Mrs. F. F..
McGowan's store at Duluth caused loss
of SIS, 500. Fully insured.
The American Building and Loan AS.
ISOLATION of Minneapolis has squared
itself with the Wisconsin Auditors
Office by depositing additional $25, 900 Of
securities.
An attempt was made at Minneapolis
recently to kill Actor Joseph Haworth
by woman who fred two shots at him.
The contract for a system of water
works with a 100-foot stand pipe and
drive we'll supply two and one.halt
miles OF mains for Litchfield was recent
~ awarded to Fairbanks, Morse & Co.,
of St. Paul, for $19, 900. The contract for
an electric-light plant complete was
awarded the Fort Wayne Electric Com
pany.
The Faribault Home for Aged Women
at the recent annual meeting elected
Mrs. A. E. Beech, President; Mrs. 1. A.
Nutting, Treasurer, and Mrs. K. D.
Cole, Secretary.
There were forty-nine fires in st.
Paul during the month of March. The
largest was OLeary's packing house.
In the District court at St. Paul re.
gently Judge Kelly rendered Judgment
for $31, 444 in favor of John v. Farwell
4 Co., OF Chicago, and against the st.
Paul Trust Company.
State Treasurer Bobleter has issued
his monthly report for March which
shows the receipts of his department
during that month to have been $491,-
3d. 04.
March, 1890, was the coolest March in
the State since 1875, except March, 1883
and 1883, the mean temperature being
%. Is degrees. The total water deposit
was 1.685 inches.
The State Oil Inspector proposes to
discharge all of his deputies and do the
work himself. This is in retaliation
Tor suit resulting in a court decision
compelling him to inspect any quantity
81 oil in one vessel for forty cents, in
stead of charging forty cents barrel.
At Montevideo recently John Lynce
was found guilty of robbery last sum-
mer against the person of Hector Nc
Lean, farmer living near there.
A law and order league was recently
formed for the purpose of having the
liquor law in Rochester enforced. D..
d. Williams was elected president, and
IN executive committee of fifty was ap.
pointed.
The State Superintendent of Public
instruction reports that the plan of
granting certificates for perfect attend.
snce at the teachers institutes, and at
tention to tho duties assigned to them,
aas so far worked excellently.
Rev. DR.. D. J. Burren, of Minneapo.
lis, has declined the call extended him
By the Collegiate Reform church of New
York City.
The new Metropolitan Opera House at
st. Paul. which will seat 1900 people.
will be absolutely fire-proof, and it is
intended to rank in elegance of appoint
nents with any in the country. The
cost is estimated At $500, 600.
Miles Wagner and Henry ZumberR,
1nder arrest IT Howard Lake CHARGED
With attempting to blow up c. M. Buck
md I. f. Latham by charging sticks Of
wood In their wood pile with giant
""wder. confessed the crime recentiv.