The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1891-10-29

INNESOTA STATE NEWS
BIG FIRE At MINNEAPOLIS
cash. Doors and Blinds for the Worlds
Fair Destroyed.
The warehouse of Bardwell, Rob-
inson & Co., sash, door and blind man.
ufacturers At Minneapolis, was
burned, involving loss of about
500, 900, with insurance for about halt
The warehouse was stored with
valuable material. The company
recently secured an immense con-
tract for furnishing sash, doors and
blinds for the Columbian exposition in
Chicago. and the most of this material.
which had been finished ready for ship
ment, was stored On the upper floors of
the warehouse and is total loss
Beware Of Them.
There are a set of swindlers of the
worst kind working in the vicinity of
Faribault among the farmers They
notions They begin, with a small pile
which they say can be bought for 81,
but to this they add more of their
goods until it becomes a large pile,
which they would sell for ss5. when in
fact it is not worth So. The swindlers
claim that they represent large arm
in some city and that they will also
| buy butter at 25 cents the whole year.
which is to be shipped to the firm
| All of the persons who have purchased
of their goods have been taken in badly.
Ten Years for Manslau Rhter.
Vincent P. Kukowski. police officer,
was indicted by the grand jury at
Winona for murder in the first degree.
June 9 Kukows<i was seen with .
woman in an alley, and becoming en-.
ragged at the discovery, he followed
August Dommer, who found him in the
alley, and shot him through the spine.
Death followed in q couple of days
The jury brought in q verdict of man.
slaughter in the second degree, and
Judge Stark sentenced Kukowski to ten
years at hard labor in prison.
Suicide Of . Famous Surgeon.
Dr. Charles A. Stein, veterinary sur.
geon of Clusters famous regiment, the
Seventh cavalry, was found dead in his
house at St. Paul. A partly empty
vial of prussic acid showed that he had
taken his life with the deadly poison.
DR.. Stein was . man of rare intelli.
gence and professional acumen, and
members of his family say he killed
himself because Of the crowding cares
of his profession. He was So years OF
age.
Flew into Fragments
The main driving wheel pulley, 10
feet in diameter, in the l.. C. Porter
Touring mill at Winoua suddenly and
without any warning collapsed, flying
into many fragments One piece
weighing 1856 pounds was hurled
through the roof. Had the engineer
been in the room at the time he would
uudou IDLY have been severely in
jured or killed.
Anne Olson's Case.
Assistant Secretary Chandler has
affirmed the decision of the general
land commissioner of April II. 1890, in
the case of the United States VS.. Anne
Olson, involving the northwest quar-
ter, southwest quarter and northwest
quarter southeast quarter of section
81, township 147 north, range 81 west,
of the Crookston land district.
Killed by = Prem ,turo Discharge.
The salute fred in honor of Bishop
Scannell. of Omaha, at Posen church,
St Paul, resulted in the death of John
Conoway. Conoway was helping to
load small cannon, which was dis
charged prematurely, tearing both
hands off and badly MASKING his head
and body.
The News ssrseiy ChrontcIed.
c. J. Lundgren, a brakeman, wac
killed by the cars at Tracy.
Charles Dahlgren, aged % years, COM
mitted suicide in annapolis by hang
ing. No cause was known.
Samuel Bean, one of tbs early set
tiers of Minnesota, and a resident Of
Faribault for twenty-four years, died
at the town of Forest Of cancer:
NJ. Frankoviz' hardware store at
Fergus Falls was entered by burglars
and 1925 worth of revolvers and cutlery
taken.
The organization OF the st. Paul
chapter of Daughters of the American
Revolution has been completed.
The Presbyterian synod of Mime
sofa adopted resolutions protesting
against the opening of the worlds fair
on Sunday.
The suit brought by Joseph Naddo
to esta blish his claim to eighty acres of
VAv Nd np~V>~k D.
plaintiff.
The officers of the state fair of 1891
in their report, show profits of SO, 76o.
Every previous fair lost money.
Rev. W. H. Know!toa. for MANY
years pastor of St Paul's Episcopal
church at Winona, has gone to San
Mateo, Cal.
Nolan and Weley, Duluth letter car
riers, charged with appropristing funds
collected on postage due. were found
not guilty and released from bail
Ramah Cole was indicted at Duluth
for selling cigarettes to minors.
Burglars secured $1,000 in stamps,
money orders and cash from the pos,
Office at Crookston.
At Castle Rock E. T. Archibald a
Co. s elevator was burned. Loss, $780,
600; partly insured.
1t was announced that the Standard
Oil Company would erect a tank near
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul
depot in Mortified.
young man named Rosen was
thrown from horse at Perley, his foot
caught in the stirrup and he wa
dragged to death.
1t now appears that Gus Anderson, OF
Duluth, who was reported to have been
murdered at Soudan by an enraged
Austrian, was not killed, but was on
the road to recovery.
A sad case of neglect came to light in
Winona.> Marley Thompson, years