The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-06-12
The News Briefly ChrOnicled.

There are seven-one State banks do
ing business with total resources of $27,-
159, 1922.
While two sons of Joseph Duval, who
lives near French lake, were playing in
a slough recently the oldest, aged 6
years, fell into the we'll and was
drowned.
Albian Peterson and Gust Carlson,
two young men living six miles north
of Center City, went down we'll the
other evening and were suffocated by
foul air.
Charles Warren, the Oldest conductor
on the Madison division of the North
western, running between Winona and
Harvard, died at his home in Winona
recently.
The opening of the Winona, the new
handsomely equipped hotel at Winona,
took place the other evening.
The bonded Indebtedness of Mime
sofa ten years ago was $4,253,0o0. Now
it is 1885, 900.
The loss on the recent st. Paul music
festival was so large that the guarantors
refuse to make good the amount be-
cause the management did not fulfill its
promise.
At the State University in Minneapo-
lis 100 graduates received diplomas re-
Gently.
During rain storm at St. Paul the
other night an unknown intoxicated
man walked into the river at the foot of
.Sibley street and was drowned.
August Pretzel, while standing near
his barn at Watertown during recent
storm, was struck by lightning and pros
burned to the ground and a horse killed.
A lantern exploded recently in the
cupola of the Minnesota and Dakota
elevator, the largest at Litchfield, and
the building and contents were de.
stroyed. Fifteen hundred bushels of
wheat burned. Loss. S., 900.
Mrs. Mary McGindley;; wife of Judge
McGindley, of Duluth, was admitted to
the bar the other day. She is the frs
woman lawyer admitted to practice in
Minnesota.
A man named Moore was run in by
the police of Detro the other night for
trying to pass as a twenty-dollar gold
piece come composition stuff closely re-
sembling lawful coin. -
A little baby which was being taken
to st. Paul for medical treatment died
on the cars in its mothers arms recent
ly as the st. Paul & Duluth train was
nearing that city. The mothers name
was McCabe and she lived at Moose
Lake.
A jury at Duluth in the case of Peter
Bohan vs.. the St. Paul & Duluth rail-
road, brought in verdict recently in
favor of the plaintiff for SO, 900 for the
loss of foot. ...
State Auditor Braden the other day
held the sale of State lands for Morri-
son County in Little Falls. Seventeen
hundred acres were sold, varying from
IS to $1,000 per acre.
AS Mrs. Mary Casserly was walking
on Fourth street in St Paul the other
morning James Dongan, young man,
snatched her handbag containing $6O5
and darted into ali alley. He was capt.
ured. w.: -
1t was reported in Minneapolis the
other day that big cracker trust had
been formed, with $4,000, 600 capital,
the combine including nearly every
prominent cracker-maker in the country.
During the progress of the Minnea-
polis.Sioux City game at Minneapolis q
few days ago, a member of the latter
club struck the umpire on the head,
slightly injuring him, and was fined 500.
The body of Thomas Lewis was sent
from Marshall to friends in Rockland.
Wis. the other day. In being lowered
down we'll he struck are-damp, became
unconscious and fell 100 feet killing
him instantly.