The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-11-05
Tho News Briefly Cnronlouel.


The establishment of q post office is
asked for at Lawndale, Wilkin county,
with R. S. Morton postmaster.
A barn on the Cowell place at Castle
Rock was burned with eighty tons of
hay, a mare and colt, eight head of cat
tie, carriages, etc.
William Kelly, unmarried, aged 2.
years, was drowned at Trout lake, near
Duluth, while duck hunting: He lived
at jackson, Mich.
Miss Carrie Felker, of Cottage Grove.
died suddenly of heart disease, aged 20
years. She was a daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ernest Felker, and was to have
been married in a week.
Charles J. Lundgrcn, of Mankato, a
brakeman on the Northwestern road,
fell off his train in the Tracy yards and
was run over and killed.
Louis T. Wilde, a teller in the en-
ploy of the St. Paul Trust Company at
st. Paul. has embezzled about S., 900
ard disappeared.
Henry Busse, farmer living near
East Grand Rapids, drank horse medi-
cine by mistake for whisky and died.
Peter Lucier, a brick mason, was
drowned in the st. Louis river at New
Duluth by the capsizing of boat He
was IS years old and leaves q wife and
child in St. Paul
George Bleifuss. living near Stewart
vile, was killed by his team running
away and throwing him under the
wheels of the wagon.
The Kewanee, Green Bay & Western
railway will give Winona connection
with Lake Michigan. Track laying is
now in progress on that route.
Thomas Rogers, a fireman, was killed
and Frederick Mase, an engineer, was
injured in a collision at Chaska hill on
the Minneapolis & St. Louis railway.
Both men lived in Minneapolis.
o. r. Mather, the asylum contractor,
died at Fergus Falls
Ray Abrahamson, a coachman in
Minneapolis, dropped dead on Park
avenue.
At Litchfield boy named De Forest,
aged years, fell under a wagon and
one wheel passed over his head, killing
him instantly.
w. M. West, superintendent of the
Faribault schools for eight years, has
resigned and has accepted q professor
ship in the North Dakota university.
Minneapolis is interested. in a surfeit
of bogus two dollar bills. United States
officers are investigating.
A. c. Carey, one of threshing crew
going north on the Great Northern, fell
from the top of a box car at Moorhead
and was killed.
James Murphy, unmarried, aged %
years, was run over by q switch engine
in the st. Paul & Duluth yards ut Du-
luth, and had both legs cut off below
the knees
The team of F. Rausch ran away in
Young America and horses and wagon
gan over Laura Tuck, the daughter of
Gustave Tuck, broke her jawbone and
bruised ur her head badly.
D. s. White, of Mortified, who has
lately obtained q patent on an ex-
cavator which is now being manufac-
tured in Minneapolis, has interested 4
number of gentlemen in the enterprise,
and it is expected that a factory will
soon he started.
Antoine Dunsheik, a laborinq man
arrested in Minneapolis while drunk
recently. made two desperate efforts to
end his life while locked in a cell at the
police station.
Near Glenwood, o. e. Holmes, Fred
Rem. Conrad Prince, Brazil Lyle and
John Coffin were killed IN q collision ON
the $500 road and seven other per-
sons were injured.
John B. Stutphin, C. B. King, NJ. r.
Baldwin, J. J. Costello and F. Il.
Daugherty have organized q local COM
pany at Duluth for the manufacture of
dynamite, .blasting powder and other
high explosives.
E. s. Dodge, q large trunk merchant
at Duluth, assigned to Giles H. Holden.
The assets were ample.
The car repair shops of the CHICAGO.
St Paul & Kansas City road at South
st. Paul were burned. Loss, $2o, ZOO. =
H. E. Redinger has resigned AZ post
master at Redinger, Cook county, and
Albert Larson has also resigned the
postmastership ut Yucatan, Houston
county. ~,
The Duluth Powder Company Va.
organized with Ex-Mayor John B.
sutpin as president, Mr.. Baldwin a
vice president and c. B. King Us secre.
tary and general manager.