The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-04-28
The News Briefly Stated.

DIR. A. F. Pringle and John S. Trip
left Mortified for bicycle tour over
the greater part of Europe.
Charles II. Mills, one of the oldest
conductors on the Chicago & North
western road, died at Winona
Mrs. Hewitt, mother of the present
county treasurer of Yellow Medicine
county, died at Granite Falls after a
lingering sickness, aged 50 years.
The expenses of the Minnesota state
reformatory at St. Cloud for the month
of March amounted to s., 529.S6.
The Minnesota crop bulletin shows
that seeding is late and that in manv
places the ground is too wet. Winter
wheat is in poor condition.
Burglars bowed open the safe of
Halverson's hardware store at Hen
ming and got $50 and two revolvers.
The Crescent Creamery Company of
st. Paul has increased its capital stock
to 100000.
Sheriff Bean and two of his deputies
rounded up Copeland J. Snapp, one of
the worst criminals of St. Paul, and he
confessed his latest crime, that of rob-
bling the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany of s4,7ss.
A new post Office has been established
at Pomeroy, Hennepin county.
At Rochester Alderman Joslvn was
fined 500 and Alderman Ingleby SIS
for contempt of court.
John Major, aged 81 years. died at his
home in Dundas. He had been a resi-
dent of Minnesota for thirty years.
new opera house is to be built at
Winona at cost of about S5U, 900 by
Messrs. A. B. Youmans and H. Choate.
Articles of incorporation of the Steel
Wagon Manufacturing Company, with
capital stock of $40 1000, have been ex-
ecuted at Cambridge.
The city council of Fergus Falls has
granted eleven liquor licenses this year.
the most for the last five years.
William Henry Dixon, assistant gen
eral passenger agent of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad, died at
st. Paul, aged 4s years.
William Weber, well-known book
keeper, was wanted by the police in
Minneapolis for betraying the 15-year-
old daughter of a local clergyman.
Mrs. Lizzie Bahr, young woman
living in the town of Rich Prairie, died
from the effects of having several teeth
pulled.
Capt. McDougall, of Duluth. will en-
ter infringement suits against whale
back-patterned vessels being built at
the Doty ship yard in Toronto, and
against the straight back building at De-
troit.
unknown man was found squeezed
in between telegraph poles loaded on
flat car on a Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul freight train when it arrived in
Winona. The man, who was about q,
Years of age, had been dead about fif-
teen hours. He was badly mangled.
Andrew Olson, who was struck re:
Gently by'a falling ore bucket in one
of the mines on the Mesaba, died at Du-
luth. This was the first fatal accident
on the new range.
The case Of Joseph Wolf against the
city of Duluth for a, 500 for extra work
ON city contracts in addition to that
called for in the original agreement
was decided in favor of the city.
There is now in store in Duluth ele-
vators more wheat, with one exception,
than has, ever been collected in one
market ut one time in the history of the
American grain trade. The total is
abo,.tel5, 265, 600 bushels.
/ I'll .otlore Rion, part owner of Bion's
brewery, WIS standing in Jahreiss'
saloon in owetonna when, without any
warning, he fell dead
Eric Johrson, q farmer of Yellow
Medicine county, recently returned
lrom&A visit to Norway and brought
twenty%ix of hiscountrymen with him,
ell intending to make homes in Yellow
Medicfne |. S
!. The ST. Paul German Insurance Com
r>ny made AZ assignment to Jacob
Pranzen, of st. Paul. The unprecedent-
ed LOSSES occurring during 1891 and up
t. the present time in 1922 caused tho
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