The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-16
The News Briefly CnrunicIei.

Minneapolis millers talked of curtail-
ing the production of flour because of a
dull market
John Thompson, travelling sales
man, leaped from the high bridge at St.
Paul, a distance of $50 feet, and was
dashed to pieces on the rocks below
j. c. Turner, of Faribault, has been
appointed by Col C. g. Edwards, of St..
Paul, as collector of customs for Fari-
bault
One of the largest deeds ever filed in
Pipestone county was put on file at
Pipestone. 1t was given by the Red
Pipestone Quarry Company to the Sioux
Valley Stone Company, and conveyed
certain quarry lands in that county.
The consideration was 100000.
The Atwater Press has been pur-
chased by c. +. Spencer, of Montevideo
The Minneapolis journeymen coopers
have formed a union with member
ship of over fifty.
The Commercial bank of Duluth has
filed a certificate of incorporation. 1t
has capital stock of $4,000.
DR.. Won Cappellen has arrived in
Duluth with DR.. Koch's lymph for con-
sumption cure.
Mrs. Shelly Mettinger, of Mortified,
dropped dead of heart disease She was
35 years old and leaves a husband.
The report of the chief of police of
Minneapolis for March shows the whole
number of arrests to have been 427
The nude body of an infant was
found on a hillside in Princeton. The
body had the appearance of hav-
ing been several weeks where it was
found.
Mrs. Rachael Z. johnson, wife of
Gen. r. w. Johnson, died of pneumonia
at her home in st. Paul, aged 81 years.
Fire destroyed the Diamond elevator
at " :nneapolis, causing loss of $40, 600:
fully insured.
The Minnesota; and Dakota Building
and Loan association of Minneapolis
of the National Savings Loan associa-
ton.
Insurance Commissioner Smith has
paid into the state treasury since Jan
nary the sum of sos, 946.O7 for taxes.
and $12, 04l in fees, making a total of
$780, s7.O7.
The large barn belonging to Mrs G.
burned to the ground the other morn.
ing with all it contained, including
three horses. Loss, $1,000; no insur-
ance.
The county commissioners have
leased additional rooms in the Com
merce block at Pipestone for the use of
the county officers, and were fitting up
the new rooms in fine style, and were
also putting in a large freproof vault.
Several prominent wholesale dealers
of Duluth held a meeting in the
chamber of commerce and formed a
wholesale jobbers' association.
The report of the Duluth post office
for the fiscal year ended March 81
showed the receipts from sales of
stamps and stamped envelopes to be
$50, 900, an increase of SIS, 1000 over the
previous year.
Judge f. NJ. Crosby has granted an
absolute divorce to Mrs. Lennie Teeple,
of Minneapolis, from her husband,
Jared A. Teeple, upon the grounds Of
cruelty and adultery. They were mar.
ried in August, 1885,
A cornice-makers strike against ten
hours work was inaugurated in st.
Paul and Minneapolis. Every work.
man went out
Deputy United States Marshal E. L
Warren has lodged h-bah-mah-jek
ish-kung. the Indian who. murdered
one of his tribe in the Pelican lake coun-
try last October, in the st. Louis coun-
ty Jail.
st. Paul representatives of eastern
insurance companies are organizing to
put stop to the manufacturing COM
bines doing business with the insur-
ance companies direct, thus depriving
the agents Of their commissions.