The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-04-02
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
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WANT TO MARRY.
rhs Mayor Of Now York Appealed to by
Six Minnesota Bachelors.
Mayor Grant, of New York, recent
signed by Joshua II. Wright, who said
he represented six young bachelors
who were DESTROYS of marrying. In
closed in the letter was a newspaper
clipping to the effect that there are
thousands of women in New York who
are in such position that they either
must accept charity or starve. The
writer says that the Ida bachelors
held mass meeting and concluded that
they were in aposition to furnish homes
and good husbands to six of those
poor unfortunates, providing they are
good looking: Mr.. Wright asked the
m ayor to send him an answer as quick
ly as possible.
A New County.
The ltasca county commissioners held
their first meeting at Grand Rapids
under the new law organizing that
county and named Grand Rapids as the
county seat. The board then made the
following appointments as county Off
GERS: County attorney, Henry w. Can
field; clerk of court, Wade Baker;
surveyor, E. R. Lewis; assessor, NJ. A.
Woods; auditor, H. r. King; treasurer,
John Beckfelt; register of deeds,
Charles Kearney. This leaves probate
judge, court commissioner, coroner
and superintendent of schools vet to
appoint. The appointees are nearly all
Grand Rapids men.
How Clerk Davis Stole S24,SO0.
State Public Examiner Kenyon has
filed his report on the steal of Jay p.
Davis, deputy clerk of the st. Paul dis
trict court, who ran up bank account
on forged jury certificates. Kenyon's
method of examination was to check
the jury certificates against the daily
record in the district court, and he thus
discovered that Davis had converted to
his own use $4,000. Davis populations
began in November, 1887, and were
kept up steadily for more than three
years.
In st. Paul a hundred people saw
a huge icicle fall from the caves on
the north side of the chamber of COM
MERGE building just as Mrs. Eva
Jourdant was passing. Men shouted to
her to look out, but they were too late.
The mass of ice struck her squarely on
the top of the head, fracturing the
skull in five places, and she died at st.
Joseph's hospital. A man was chop
ping ice from the roof.
Rough Treatment.
A man named Kinsella ran for presi-
dent of the village of Two Harbors and
was defeated. He blamed Supt. Great
singer, of the Duluth & Iron Range
railroad, for using unfair means to Sc
cure his defeat, and published card in
the Two Harbors Iron Post abusing
Greatsinger. Much feeling was created,
and it resulted in Kinsella being taken
out and tarred and feathered and three
holes shot in his hand.
Piping Times in Pipestone.
The immigration to Pipestone county
this spring is the largest ever seen.
Nearly 100 families who purchased
farms there last fall have already ar.
rived, and every day brings more.
Nearly fifty new fa1mhouses are now
in course of erection in the county, and
business is quite brisk.
The News Briefly Chron'cled.
George Bultrowitz, a Minneapolis
grocer, died suddenly at his home.
Clinton D. Brumfeld, of Minneapolis,
has been assigned to a government va,
cancy in the South st. Paul distillery
Samuel S. Rich, well-known citizen
of Minneapolis, died suddenly at his
residence, presumably from heart dis.
ease, aged IS years.
Daniel Vrecland died suddenly at
Witoka while sitting in his chair play.
ing fiddle. He leaves a large family.
DIR. John H. Irvine, a prominent ply.
sician at Minneapolis, died suddenly at
his home, aged 81 years.
Il. c. Myers saw and planning mill at
Verndale was burned. Loss. $4,000.
The fire caught from a smokestack.
Mrs. Seeley Post died of hemorrhage
very suddenly at Lake City. She was
only sick about an hour
Fred POSTER, prominent stock ship.
per and farmer of Olmsted county, has
made an assignment for the benefit OF
his creditors.
Mrs. DR.. Spaulding, of Minneapolis,
died suddenly in Paris.
Mary Tollefson, aged so, died al
Mortified. She had been resident OF
Rice county over thirty years.
The National bank of commerce al
Duluth will increase It's. capital from
500, 900 to 100000.
Governor Merriam has applied to the
treasury department in Washington for
the refund of the states share of the
direct tax amounting to $93,245.
Faribault paid out S32, 600. y for ex.
penses during the past year and there
was balance in the treasury of Sc, 63a. Is.
Work has begun on the new Metho-
dist church in Pipestone to take the
place of the one recently destroyed by
fire.
J. j. Randall, whose resignation as
warden of the Minnesota penitentiary
created quite sensation short time
ago, died of pneumonia at St. Paul,
aged 81 years.
At Fergus Falls two Indians were in.
dicted for selling whisky, and James
Smith, of Princeton, was sentenced tx
one year in states prison for forging
pension check.
John Strauss, of St. Paul, has com.
menced a personal injury suit against
the Milwaukee road to recover $4,000
damages for injuries received June %,
1890.
Savina Rodino, of St. Paul, the Ital
ian murderer of his countryman, Pale
Binda, who was found guilty of murde,
in the second degree, was sentenced tc
states prison for life.
Six persons have been drowned from
time to time this winter in a PREACHER.
GUS airhole in the ice between Winons
and Fort Yates. The latest victim is
Russian WAGNER. The other unfortu.
mates were David Atkins, mail carrier