The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-06-23
MINNESOTA STATE NEWS
WHERE THE MONEY GOES.
Expenses of the Several State Institution
for the Month NJ Nav

Inc current and special expenses of
the several state institutions for the
month of May have been paid by the
state auditor. They are as follows:
Reform school, current expenses, 1929 ~:
building expense, 81, 100
School for the deaf, current ss,794.63; build
ing, f65.
School for the feeble minded, current A,3sl-
o.: repairs, x2l2 49,
School for the blind, current expense, 81 1872.
o.; reformatory, current, $344s o.: garden seed
business, &61.96; library, S29. 4S; Improvements,
e8O2.95.
State prison, current expense. q, 3oe %; Irvine
shop, s7,7s4.47: tub and pail factory, sl64 81:
improvements, s40s.32
Fergus Falls hospital for the insane, current
expense, sS,99O1l building expense s1,453.
st. Peter hospital for the insane, current ex-
rense, I'll $50 As; electric lights 1881 TO- build
ing, $l96.
A State Park.
Congressman Castles bill granting
certain public lands to the state of
Minnesota for public park has passed
the house in Washington. The bill as
amended grants sections situated in the
districts of lands subject to sale at St.
Cloud and Crookston to be perpetually
used by said state as and for a public
state park, provided that the land
granted shall revert to the United
States, together with all the improve
ments thereon, if at any time it shall
cease to be exclus vely used for pub
lie state park or if the state shall not
pass laws to protect the timber thereon
Cyclone Oh Minnetonka.
T~1-
crossed by cyclone which formed on
the surface of the lake and swept across
the peninsula with irresistible force
The residence of George A. Bracket
was wrecked and all the fine trees sur.
rounding the house, most of them fifty
years growth, were uprooted and lay
in tangled masses in the center of the
wrecked cottage. Hardly tree was
left standing along the route of the
storm.
A Lost Child Found.
The little girl of John Sebaska, OF
Randall, who was lost in the woods,
was found three days after her disap-
pearance by the sheriff and his deputies
about 60 rods from the house in hole
in the ground. The child was still
alive, and will probably live, but is ter.
ribly emaciated about the face, caused
by hunger and being almost eaten up
by mosquitoes.
"A New Prison Warden.
The board of prison managers met in
st. Paul and elected a successor to AL
bert Garvin. Manager Hall was the
only member absent. Warden Garvin's
resignation was accepted and Henry
Wolfer, of the Detroit (Mich) house OF
correction, was unanimously chosen in
his stead and an order to that effect
was issued to the employees of the
prison.
The News Briefly Stated.
Pope county paid s3l1 in May fo1
wolves killed.
Rest Island has been badly flooded
by the high water in Lake Pepin.
Sneak thieves broke into the resi-.
dence of F. c. Purdy at Lake City at an
early hour and secured $50.
Theodore MauldcS. of Pipestone
county, has a pig with six feet, which
do not embarrass it in the least.
The Swedish Methodists of Little
Falls dedicated their new church.
Charles 5. Drake, one of the oldest
and best-known printers in st. Paul.
died very suddenly of apoplexy.
The foundation for new Methodist
church at Battle Lake has been laid.
The Southwestern Minnesota division
of the q. A. r. held its annual reunion
at Springfield. A large number were
in attendance.
]. NJ. Underwood has planted, free OF
charge, at Rest Island, three acres OF
small fruit bushes.
The silver jubilee of Rt. Rev. Bishop
McGolrick, of the diocese of Duluth.
was celebrated
Some Little Falls fishermen caught
sixtecn-pound muscalonge in the Little
Elk river recently.
A good sigh is the large sale of roac
scrapers throughout the state. RoaC
reform talk is heard everywhere
Muscalonges weighing from twelve
to twenty four pounds have been
caught recently at the Little Falls dam
The seventy-two-hour go-as-you.
please ladies' walking match in Mime
apolis resulted: Aggie Harvey. 241
miles 8 laps: Emily Stevens, PA miles
5 laps; Mollie Henry, 225 miles:
Maud Evans, 2l5 miles; Bessie McBeth,
20S miles.
s. o. Lindgren, postmaster, died Al
his home in Dassel.
The state Sunday school convention
was held at the Hennepin Avenue NJ. E.
church in Minneapolis.
Crookston will have drum corps
under the guidance of Peter Hoffman
who has the drum he saved from the
first battle of Bull Run.
E. A. Trip has been appointed post.
master at Round Lake, Mobiles county,
A three days encampment of the &
A. r. veterans Of Minnesota, Iowa and
Wisconsin was held at Winona.
Minnesota's Farmers Alliance has
seeded from the peoples party and
called a convention of it's own to meet
in st. Paul July 7.
The village of Rollingstone, Winona
county, has declined to incorporate.
John Kohner. Mic. Schnell, Jr., and j.
b. Rivers have been appointed board
of inspectors as required by law.
Fred Myers, aged IA, was drowned
while bathing in the Cottonwood river
at Springfield. The body was recov'
cred.
A fire in DIR. ltigbee's house in Mime.
apolis caused a loss of $500 and Carl
Palmlof, hired man, was smothered
to death.
A hail storm did thousands of dollars
worth of damage to crops IN Mecker
county. Hundreds of acres of wheat
south of Litchfield were entirely
ruined. The wheat was inches high
and was pounded into the ground sc
that the fields are as black as when
fresh narrowed The strip is about .
miles wide.
J. Counta, a farmer living Is miles
northeast of Red Lake Falls, was
drowned in the Clearwater river. He
was crossing on the logs and fell in.
Ed Alison, a Norwegian hardware