The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-22
Tho News Briefly Cnroutole I.

Gus Schelke, of Harrington, was
crushed to death while sinking a big
bowlder in a plowed field.
Fred Engfer, = laborer in the st.
Paul Barrel Company's shop, was killed
while attempting to get out of the way
of cattle train on another track
A wild black bear weighing 200
pounds was killed in the streets of Du-
luth. Hunger attracted the animal
from the north woods.
Fred Matthias. August Templeman,
John Sto Up and Peter Raul each paid
fine of so for selling milk in Roch-
ester adulterated with water.
Charles Church, of Northfield, will
sue the Milwaukee road for s15,0O for
injuries sustained in an accident nearly
year ago.
1t was said that hundreds of millions
of feet of timber were leveled by the
recent hurricane in Itasca and Beltrami
counties.
A Minneapolis man received decree
of divorce the other morning and took
dinner with new wife the same dav.
Ten dining-room girls in the Berke-
ley hotel at Minneapolis struck be-
cause they didn't like the head waiter
Several cars of wheat and -four were
destroyed in q wreck between Dover
and St Charles, but no one was in
jured.
The State Eight Hour league held a
meeting in Minneapolis and decided
that a movement should be started for
an eight hour day at once.
At White Bear lake Robert Hender-
son, 10 years old, had his left foot
crushed off while coupling cars.
While at work in Rochester quarry
George Annis was accidentally struck
on the head by a heavy crowbar and
perhaps fatally injured.
The current expense of the Fergns
Falls hospital for the insane for Sep
tenn Der was 81, 768. 20; extra expense,
S163. 90; improvements, 50. 100.
Theodore Stoltenberg, ex-county reg
lister CT deeds of Yellow Medicine
county, died very suddenly in Granite
Falls of heart failure.
Charles Zeene, an employee on q
threshing machine at Browns Valley,
had his right arm taken off by the cog
wheel on the engine.
Robert Martin, Tom Burke and one
Evans made brutal attack on John
Halter, proprietor of the Halter house
at Duluth, because he attempted to put
them out of his saloon.
Minneapolis mills made 1914, SIS bar
rels of -four during the week ended on
the 10th, breaking all previous records.
Eleven machinists were injured,
John Clancy. James Dickson and John
May probably fatally, by the explosion
of a locomotive boiler in machine
shop at South Park. near st. Paul.
Isaac v. D. Heard, an attorney of St.
Paul, assigned, with liabilities Of $780,
600 and assets less than half that
am cunt
W. E. Wilson. a travelling man from
Chicago, died at the Howard house in
Litchfield. he had been sick about
week. ~,
Robe.t Burke, car seal inspector
at Little Falls, was killed by switch
collision. He was about 10 wears of
age.
Mrs. L. A. Cults died at Mortified.
aged Is. She was one of Northfield's
oldest inhabitants, and had resided in
Minnesota nearly forty years. She
leaves a husband aud daughter.
Miss Bertha g. Harris, second assist
ant principal of the Faribault high
school, has been offered position in q
school in Spain which she would prob
ably accept
Prof. Harris, prominent citizen and
musical professor in Rochester fer
many years, died in Augusta, Ga.
where ne went about a year ego, of
typhoid fever. He was ri years OF age.
Edward Nilsson, farmer living in
the eastern part of Norman county who
was by the county doctor pronounced
to have leprosy, was found to be only
suffering from rheumatism, of which
disease he died. n.s..- a.
Ida Baker, :stepdauRhter of E. q.
Blodgett, of Luvern, committed suicide.
She had been betrayed, and rather than
bear the disgrace took poison. She re-
fused to name her betrayer. ~ ~.
The Long View house Ut Excelsior.
Lake Minnetonlka, was burned to tho
ground. It was valued 1t S, 900 and
was owned by Elmer Waters, who said
the fire was the work Of an incendiary.
A census bulletin on mines and min
ing iron shows that Minnesota, with
only four mines ii operation, produced
664. long tons In 1889, valued ct a.
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