The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-12
Tho News Briefly Chron,cied.

Colonel William Liggett filed his
bond as State Railroad Commissioner in
the sum of $4,000.
John w. Griggs, an old resident of st.
Paul, is dead. His age was Is years,
and he had lived in that city for twen-
ty-five years.
Fire at Pipe Stone destroyed the
Methodist church and few outbuild-
ings. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The oatmeal-miu and elevator at Ma
zeppa, belonging to E. NJ. johnson, of
Minneapolis, was burned. The loss on
the building was $4,000, and $4,000
bushels of grain were lost.
The residence of Gus Anderson at
Aitkin was burned to the ground, and
$75 in cash was also burned.
The First National Bank of Lake
Benton has received its charter and is
fully organized with Charles ]. Weiser
as president.
Carl Carlson, Swede working in a
lumber camp on Rice river, was killed
by falling tree. He was a single man
rs years of age.
A post-otfice has been established at
Breeze, Marshall County.
John Fenska, of Duluth, German 81
years of age, committed suicide while
insane.
Charles Church had an arm and leg
smashed at the Milwaukee depot in
Mortified.
The Christian Church of Minnesota
will establish college at Duluth.
Postmaster Rapp, of St. Hilaire, says
the Red Lake Indians are suffering for
lack of sufficient food.
The State Treasurers report for jan
uary showed the actual amount in the
treasury to be 1862, 15O.46.
William Schulke, of Alexandria, so
years of age, has been committed to the
Fergus Falls asylum.
William w. Bishop was awarded $15,-
600 at st. Paul for injuries sustained in
the Selby avenue hill cable disaster
OF January -. 1888.
DIR. N. NJ. Bemis, one of the old set
tiers in Minnesota, and a very promi-
nent business man of Faribault, died at
the age of 20 years. He was the first
physician of Faribault. H..
The Duluth Dry-Goods Company
opened its new wholesale establish
ment the other evening, when an i'm.
mense crowd visited the building. This
is the first wholesale dry-goods house
established in the city. -
Owing to the prevalence of typhoid
fever at Duluth the death-rate last
month reached 10 per cent of 1000 on
basis of a year, the largest in the
history of the city. The deaths by ty-
phoid fever were eighteen for January.
An order went out at st. Paul that
all saloons must close at midnight, and
the police arrested all those who failed
to comply. go
Many of the paintings in the Western
Art Association Building at Omaha
which collapsed were the property of
the Minneapolis exposition.
Fire damaged the Merchants Hotel
at Wabasha to the extent of $4,000 or
$1,000. 49, =-
The St. Louis River Water Power
Company of Duluth fled with the reg
lister of deeds mortgage trust deed for
81. 900, running to the Manhattan
Trust Company of New York.
Bonney, the man arrested at Wadena
charged with adultery, has been held l.:
$500 bonds to the grand jury. He could
not furnish bonds and would spend q
few months in the Fergus Falls jail.
At q special school meeting at Prince
ton bonds in the sum of $15, 900 were
voted for the purpose of building new
school-house.
Rev. Neville d. Tanning Of the Oak
Park Congregational Church at Mime
apolis was taken suddenly i'll at the
conclusion of his morning sermon and
died soon after Apoplexy was the
cause. The subject Of his text va:
lis Lilo Worth Living2"