The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-08-18
Withdrew Its Ticket.

IS, 900 had been done.
Withdrew Its Ticket
The state executive committee of the
farmers alliance met in St. Paul and
decided to withdraw its state electoral
ticket from the political contest. They
will therefore have no ticket in the
field at the fall election. The commit
tee decided to retain the organization
of its state central committee,
Tho News Briefly Stated.
The estimated loss by the recent hail
storm west and north of Echo is 700
acres.
Fire at Faribault partly destroyed
the fine residence of L. Lockwood.
Loss about $4,000.
The Swift Manufacturing Company's
plant at Robinsondale was struck by
lightning and burned at loss of S23,-
900; insurance, 1900.
Charles Smith, of Winona, aud lydia
r. Dickinson were married, their ages
together footing up 100 years.
The Swedish Lutherans of Little
Falls have begun the preliminary work
on church building.
The Northern Pacific Elevator Com.
pany places the yield of wheat in
Minnesota this season at 50,OOo.0 900
bushels.
H. Daburh, the Winona baker, who
mysteriously disappeared on July 25,
leaving many debts, has been arrested
at Bellaire, o.
The expenses at the soldiers home in
july were s3,ss2.4s. The $50, 500 allot-
ted to the building fund has been ex-
pended, and of the repair fund but
1857 was left at the close of the fiscal
year.
The receipts Of the Faribault ;nsti-
tute for detectives for the quarter
ended July 81 were 81, 5000.
A young man at Wadena was given a
baby to hold by a woman who got off
the train to ''see the agent" He is
holding it yet.
William Ferris, a young man from
Minneapolis connected with the free
Methodist camp meeting in progress
at Owatonna, was drowned while at
tempting to swim in the Straight river.
Hundreds of acres of grain were en-
tirely ruined by hail and windstorm
near Litchfield. 1t was the worst
storm for years. The loss will be
thousands of dollars.
benjamin Richardson, while engaged
In repairing a telephone wire at
Winona, received shock that nav
prove fatal.
The large Norwegian Lutheran stone
church, about 2 miles from Houston
was struck by lightning, completely
demolishing the large steeple, the stone
falling through the roof. The sides are
also badly cracked.
The coroner's jury at St. Paul found
that Frederick KreiRer, one of the food
victims, came to his death through the
negligence of the city engineer and his
assistants in not properly attending to
the drainage of the accumulation of
water.
Mrs. Williams, wife of Judge Will
liams, state railroad commissioner,
died at Fergus Falls of cancer of the
stomach after long illness
Capt. S. r. Van SAINT. of Winona, q
wealthy and well-known man in the
steamboat business, at the risk of his
own life jumped into the river and
saved a boy, Edwin Ro'her, from
drowning.
During storm in St. Paul and Min
neapolis a number of houses were
struck by lightning aud were more or
less damaged by the fire that followed
it, while the damage by the wind and
rain was great.
The wife of DR.. A. A. Ames. three
times mayor Of Minneapolis, died chief
~, it was said, of q broken heart on &C.
count of her husbands desertion.
Chief Justice James O'Brien, of the
New Mexico supreme court, has ten
dered his resignation to the president,
to take effect September II, and will
return to his home in Minnesota.
prs. Susan Bell, of Duluth, received
notification from her attorney in Eng
land that she had succeeded in getting
a decision in the courts by virtue of
which she secures q alice of her de-
ceased unole's estate to the amount Of
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