The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-07-03
Tho News Isr,e lv Inronic,ed.

District Attorney Hay, of st. Paul,
refused to prosecute the enumerators
charged with padding the MINNEAPOLIS
returns.
Edward Farley, son of Dr. Farley,
of Crookston, was drowned while bath
ing the other day. The remains were
recovered.
Superintendent R. o. Sweeney, of
the fish hatchery at Duluth, was
pounced upon by tramps and nearly
killed recently. He was at work about
the hatchery and ordered some fellows
of the place when he received the
drubbing. One rib was broken and his
back was badly injured.
A fire at Win6na recently did 81, 900
damage to the Unitarian Church.
Mrs. J. A. Clifford was recently elect
ed president of the Seventh district w.
c. I. u, at Hastings.
Duluth yachtmen have elected w. G.
Sargent as commodore.
Miles Beadry, of Dayton, was drowned
the other morning on the west branch
Princeton.
The Free Masons CT Minnesota opened
their new $780, 900 temple the other
evening with grand ball and supper,
which was attended by large numbers
of visitors.
John WEIGH, farmer, 80 years old,
was drowned in Rush creek, near his
home in Enterprise, the other night by
being washed off a bridge.
The three children of John Kujawa,
living at Medford, were drowned in
Stevight river the other day.
The recent heavy rains drowned out
Wallace & Co. s circus at Rochester and
stopped the performance.
The contract for grading twenty-five
miles of the Winona & Southwestern,
extending from Dover, in Olmsted
County, to the border of Mower County,
near Stew artville, has been let.
Charles Leyh, a st. Paul carpenter,
was sentenced by Judge Twohy recent
~ to thirty days in the work-house for
wife-beating. Leyh was fined not long
since for the same offense.
Mrs. Henry Nipple, one of the first
settlers near Bird Island, died the other
day.
Rev. J. B. Drew, a Congregational
minister in St. Paul, was drinking soda
water the other day, when the glass
slipped from his hand and fell. on the
marble counter. In trying to catch it
he cut his wrist on the broken glass, sew
ering the main artery. His life was
only saved by the prompt arrival Of a
physician.
A landslide occurred the other dav
on the Great Northern road near Mar.
shall. 1t was $50 feet long and forty
feet deep and would take 100 men a
week to repair the damage.
The lower half of mans leg was
found in a box in the rear of the Minne-
sofa Milk Company's building in St.
Paul the other day. 1t was wrapped In
cloths and surrounded by lime.
Seymour Brown, Winona attorney.
Of the firm of Gale & brown, was badly
clicked by stallion on his farm the
other day. The animal kicked him
twice, breaking his jaw and cheek
bones and badly cutting his face.
Albert Casey, aged 10 years, was
drowned in Mud river at Aitkin the
other afternoon among the logs He
was the son of wealthy business man.
DR.. J. E. Metcalfs carriage was re-
gently overturned at Fergus Falls, kill
ing his 2-year-old son and breaking the
arm of little boy named Washburn
from Wisconsin.
/ The north-bound freight train over
the Utah & Northwestern met with an
accident recently by which Brakeman
w. c. Curtis lost his life, and two other
train men were seriously injured. The
.ratn was ten miles north Of Dillon.
About sce sheep were killed.