The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-02-05
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
10 AVOID CREDITORS. &c.

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He nsason for : 1Elnnesota BanksE's
suieids Dieelo ed.
The mystery Of the suicide on De-
cember Of Henry Z. Branham, presi-
dent Of the bank Of Stevens & Co.,
at Litchfleld, is solved. The bank was
-insolvent, and its president, who was.
also mayor Of Litchfield, took his own
life rather than meet his creditors
What was done with the money,
whether spent in gambling in grain and
railway. stocks or invested badly in
real estate, was unknown, but 1t was
not in the bank. The liabilities OF the
institution were about $4,000 and
there was not 5000 to pay the deposit
tors. Conservative business men said
the depositors would get no moro than
10 per cent. - s# &
Driven Insano. @ .
Joseph King, young lawyer who
came toSt. Paul four years ago to accept
the position of assistant solicitor Of the
Manitoba Railway Company, lay at st.
Joseph's Hospital . hopeless lunatic. DR..
Talbot Jones examined King and pro-
nounced him non compos mentis, urg-
ing his. friends to take care of him or
he would commit suicide. In the last
three months king had lost several
thousand dollars. Running ont of
money he gave large number of checks
on the German-American Bank, at
which institution he had no funds.
Hearing that Sheriff Hear was after him
he became violently insane.
"A Foolish Lover.
In Ben Wade township Miss Annie
Simonson, q girl of Is years, met
Christ Abrahamson at the gate of her
fathers yard and told him she could not
marry him because she was too young.
Abrahamson, who himself is but IL,
pleaded with her a few minutes and
then drew a revolver and shot her
through the heart. Walking away few
yards he placed the weapon to his tenn
pie and fired, dying almost instantly.
Church and Lottery Divorced.
~ Archbishop Ireland has issued a letter
to the clergy of the archdiocese of St.
Paul in which he peremptorily forbids
every practice that in any way re-
sembles lottery at Catholic fairs, pro-
hibiting all selling of chances, raf1les,
fsh-ponds, post-otfces and other de-
vices generally in practice at such en-
people largely rely for their receipts.
The letter created general interest.
Robbed of Purse and Life.
Mrs. Mary Mccormick, of Minneap-
oils, was found dead in her bed. Some
days before the lady had met with a
heavy loss by being robbed on crowd
ed street-car of a pocketbook contain
ing $50 in cash and a note for $105, and,
as she had been sufferer from heart
disease, it was supposed that the worry
consequent upon this loss was the cause
of her death. She leaves family of
three boys and two girls.
Assaulted . School-Teacher.
james Cruzen, his wife and daughter
Matilda E. Lent, a school-teacher at
Winnebago City, with intent to kill.
The wife was the one directly accused.
She made the assault upon Miss Lent
with heavy school-ben on account of
!! a whipping the school-teacher had in
flicted upon her child. 1t was feared
Miss Lent could not live.
His Returns Not False.
The jury in the case of j. o. Vervais,
the st. Paul census enumerator who
was charged with making false returns,
brought in verdict of not guilty
This was said to be the first complete
trial of its kind in the history of the
country. The trials of the Minneapo-
lis enunierators, charged with conspir.
acy, would be held later at Mime.
apolis.
New Post-Onices.
New post-ofhces have been established
in Minnesota as follows: C. E. Cham.
berlain, Belle PLANE, Scott County; n
c. Mann, Cologne, Carver County; T.
K. Boyle, Ia loway, Swift County
Archie A. True, North Sioux Falls, Pipe
Stone County.
The Newt lsr, IL ::hronicioi.
The DrODOSe1 annexation If suh,,rh.