The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-09-01
The News Briefly Stated.


blaze was incendiary.
Tho News Briefly Stated.
Harris A. George, brakeman on the
500 line, was killed at Heafford juno
ton, Wis. He fell from the engine
pilot, both legs being amputated. lie
leaves wife and child in Minneapolis.
Two shanties of squatters in "Swedc
Hollow" St. Paul, were demolished by
a cave-in. Patrick Whalen, aged 2
years, was killed and two little girls
were badly injured.
The Lutheran synod will establish a
college at Fosston if the village will
raise $4,000 toward the enterprise.
The college will have $50 pupils.
Orrin Farrar, sexton ofathe Methodist
church at Lewiston, was set upon on
coming out of church and so severely
beaten by Purdie and Archie Albert
that he was unable to leave his bed.
The H. j. O'Neil Grain Company, of
Winona, has purchased the twelve elc-
vators along the line of the Winona &
Southwestern road owned by Strong s.
Miller, the grain dealers of Minneapolis.
Andrew Anderson, employed at the
Minnesota house in Alexandria as
hostler, met with a terrible death. He
was found in the barn under the feet of
a span of horses.
L. kout will open a new bricLyard at
Faribault.
The Crookston Water Works, Power
& Light Company have begun the cree
ton of new plant short distance
from their old one.
Elias Stevenson lost six head of
horses, twenty tons of hay and all of
his farm machinery by fire at his farm,
near Vineland.
At Manannah, near Litchfield, Mr..
Lamb has flowing we'll of splendid
water 100 feet deep, the pipe being 4
feet above the ground.
Two serious runaways occurred at
Faribault. One was horse belonging
to j. w. Richardson, which threw the
occupants out of the buggy and injured
Richardson's wife seriously. The other
was that of w. E. Jones, who was also
severely hurt.
The Mesala Central Land and Ex-
ploration Company of Duluth has de-
clared dividend of 36 per cent.
The Bessemer Iron Development and
Mining Company has been Incorporated
at Duluth, with a capital of 500, 900.
Peter Nachtsheim, Of St. Paul, who
was lost in Chicago in May, 1891, was
found in the Cook county insane asylum.
Harry Hines, baggage-wagon driver
at Duluth, was thrown from his seat by
the wagon striking an obstruction and
fatally injured.
John Theodore, an old resident and
a retired merchant of Wabasha, com
mitted suicide by hanging himself from
a rafter in the hay loft.
Prof. Thomas Casey has been chosen
principal of the Red Lake Falls public
schools.
Waiter Mann, one of St. Paul's best
known citizens, died at his residence.
He had been prominently identified
with banking interests in ST. Paul, but
was connected with the New York Life
Insurance Company.
Princeton is in considerable excite
ment over wife-beating. William
SAUCE, German, got into an alterca-
ton with his wife, which resulted in
his nearly beating her to de ath. She
is confined to bed, but the attending
physician says she may possibly re-
cover.
The handsome residence of John f.
Eisenmenger at st. Paul was entirely
destroyed by fire. The loss was over
1000; insurance on house and furni-
ture, 49,, 800.
The state has decided to furnish its
national guard with 1900 overcoats
and the contract for their manufacture
has been awarded to the Kuhl-Cun-
ming Company of st. Paul.
Patrick Mulligan, who stabbed Will
liam O'Donnell in fight at Mortified
the other day, was arrested and after
IN examination was bound over in the
sum of $1,000. 1t is thought O'Donncll
will recover.
Miss Amanda Saltwater, of Winona.
has begun suit for damages for S., 900
for injuries sustained by falling through
a defective sidewalk.
An unknown man pushed omen tho
ticket office door, fired revolver at c.
). Fisher, Great Northern agent at
Breckenridge, snatched roll of bills
amounting to $50, and ran.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Sedenberg
alighted from an interurban electric
car in st. Paul and stepped upon an adj
.'oining track: A car going in an OPP
fosite direction rushed upon them.
The woman was instantly killed and
tire man badly bruised and mangled.