The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-14
The News Briefly Stated.

ANU 4Sllub dllONcu III minnesota until
May I.
Seeding has begun in some localities
near Faribault. The winter wheat is
supposed to be all right and not frozen
as at first thought.
Benjamin Mccain has been notified
of his appointment as examiner of
Chippewa Indian lands in Minnesota at
salary of IS per day.
A flour packer in H. J. O'Neills mill
at st. Charles exploded, setting the mill
on fire and causing $4,000 damage.
The Park Region Luther college is
the name of new educational instltu-
ton which has been founded in Fergus
Falls by the Synodical Lutheran church
The residence and contents at Wheat
on of John Swankee, a prominent
farmer of Traverse county, were de-
stroyed by fire.
Detective Tom Koran accidentally
shot Charlie H. Burris, son of James S.
Eurris, a leading contractor, in saloon
in st. Paul.
Horace Anthony, assistant cashier of
the First national bank at Kasson, COM
mitted suicide. No cause known.
While A. L. Reyes was trying to free
horse at Far. bault wbicl, had become
entangled with his halter and was very
ferocious he was turned upon by the
horse and seriously bitten and kicked.
Insurance Commissioner Smiths re-
port for March shows the receipts Of
his Office to have been S29, .OS, of
which $27,Sss.Os were taxes and 81, AL
fees received.
A divorce has been granted at Fergus
Falls to Mrs. Oscar Hanson on the
ground of adultery. Hanson was county
auditor several years and was promi-
:aent in Norwegian circles.
William Hulet was arrested at Shake
pee by a United States marshal and
taken to Fergus Falls to answer to the
charge of using the United States mail
for conveying obscene literature.
A legislative committee reported at
st. Paul that since 1886 the Lake Su-
perior Elevator Company and the Union
Elevator Company of Duluth had
shipped illegally 25o.ooo bushels of
wheat.
SEVERN Halvorson, aged 43, dropped
dead from his chair at his home in Park
Point. He leaves wife and five chill
dren. Apoplexy was the cause of
death.
Flowing is in progress in most of the
counties in the state, and the water
supply is good. Little seeding has been
done, but some spring wheat has been
SOwn.
Charles Whalen, the young man
charged with the brutal murder of Ger
aid Spaulding at Portage, Wis, was
captured in box car on the Chicago,
Milwa ukee & St. Paul railroad in West
st. Paul, and taken at once to the coun-
ty Jail.
The barn and five horses belonging to
F. Shanderf were burned at Dundas
It was supposed to have been incen-
diary.
The Duluth Imperial Mill Company,
which has adopted a system of profit
sharing with employees, has distributed
S., 900 among it's $50 men.
Mrs. Kate Davis, of St. Paul, charged
with the murder of Samuel Blackstone,
has been declared not guilty.
'jOhn NJ. MaCtSOn killed himself at
Ada by cutting his throat with a razor
There was no apparent reason for the
act: he was well-to-do farmer and his
family relations were present.
R. B. Hedges accidentally shot him.
self in both legs below the knees. He
had started hunting, the gun slipped
down, the hammer striking the wagon
hoe with tho ohoxvo ,.oo,>1k
A gang of drunken Indians at Miles
Laos lake chopped down the frame of
house being raised on H. s. Heads
claiI:a and destroyed $500 worth of lum-
Der.
TIE business of the Minneapolis post
Office for the quarter ended March 81
was The largest in it's history, reaching
tho tHu of $40, 106.2o. As compared
with the corresponding quarter of 1891
THE ahsws an increase of 1915 per cent.