The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-01-15

OoO, ana labllltles OF S12, 900. Poor COL
lections were given as the cause of the
failure. The Northwestern Book Com
pany also assigned. Its liabilities were
$4,000 and nominal assets about the
same.
Tho News briefly ChronIcIed.
West Duluth has become a Presi-
dental post-ofiice.
Isaac Jacobson, farm laborer about
rs years old, was run over by freight
train and instantly killed at Atwater.
The new Metropolitan Opera-House
at St. Paul was opened by the Boston
ians. The theater cost $5oo,0oo
Henry Voygt, aged 10; Walter Paul.
sen, aged Is; Tommy Ryan, aged 10,
and Johnny Ryan, aged II, were bound
over to the district court at Mortified
on the charge of burglary.
The Southern Minnesota poultry
show at Winona had 600 entries.
Richard Peet, proprietor of the Min
neapolis brass works, was probably IA
tally injured in a runaway accident.
The Duluth steel-works are to be inn
mediately enlarged at cost of $500, 900.
In Winona 1873 new business houses
started in 1890. A million dollars of i'm
provements were made.
The baby of Mrs. Henry Baumgarten,
at Fergus Falls, was suffocated while
going to church.
The saloon of j. j. Cullen at Duluth
was Quilted and the Norris House ad-
joining damaged by fire; loss $1,000;
partially insured.
Canvassing agents are selling tickets
in the State for crayon portraits for
twenty-five cents each ito advertise
their business" They are pronounced
rank frauds.
A herd of cattle near Minnehaha
was rescued from starvation by the s.
P. G. A.
Pat Costello, a petit juror, was sent
to the county Jail at Duluth for five
days by Judge Stearns for being late.
One of the mills at Mortified belong
ing to E. M. Dicke and leased by G.. A.
Gatzke was burned. The mill was val
ued at $4,000. Two hundred barrels of
-four were also burned.
During the past year the police made
6,277 arrests in St. Paul, 1900 less than
the previous year. The total revenue
from fines and license amounted to
1851, 547.3O.
Ceremonies in honor of Judge Wilkin,
who recently retired from the Ramsey
County bench after twenty-five years of
continuous service, were held in St.
Paul with banquet in the evening at
the Windsor Hotel.
During the past year over 1000 per-
sons were admitted to the Ramsey
County hospitals. During the year 645
families were given aid and 3, 40 per
sons were, in one way or another,
helped by the board. -
Cora L. Page, of Minneapolis, carried
off the honors in the State declamatorv
contest.
n. p. Larson, a well-known St. Paul
man, died from the effects of being
thrown from his carriage, his horse be-
ing frightened at the dead BODY of a
horse in the street.
Mrs. Mickles, who was nearly killed
at st. Paul by her suicide husband, was
on the road to convalescence.
The Duluth Terminal & Transfer
Company hopes to lay it's tracks be-
tween Duluth and Fond du Lac, Wis.
til. season, build about twenty miles of
road and spend $500, 1000.
The fourth annual exhibit of the South
ern Minnesota Poultry Association was
held at Winona.
William futile died in house Of i'll.
fame at Duluth. Heart disease was the
cause.
DR.. Talbot Jones, of St. Paul, has
cabled q friend that he has secured
some of DR.. Koch's lymph, and he viii
put it into use as soon as he arrives
home.
Albert Garvin, for many years war
den Of the Illinois State Prison at Jol-
let, has been appointed warden Of the
Minnesota prison to succeed John s.
Randall, Of WinpnA