The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-07-28
The News Briefly Stated.

Fire destroyed the house of Mrs.
Giese and part of its contents at Fari-
bault; loss, 81 900.
Daniel Anderson, aged about 50 years
and former resident of the soldiers
home, was drowned at St Paul.
Arthur Gibson has bought 800 acres
in Morrison county and will establish
a great dairy farm there.
Hailstorms in various parts of Mil.
nesota caused considerable damage E)
crops and some loss of life.
The 7-year-old son of Charles Aron,
residing a: Galesvillc, was drowned
while fishing in the dam.
The Minnesota State Pharmaceutical
association in session in Duluth voted
to attend the worlds fair in body.
The Winona Manufacturing Com
pany's plant was damaged S., 600 by fl. e.
A very heavy rain and thunderstorm,
with high wind, visited Echo, doing a
great deal of damage to grain.
The plum crop in Minnesota has be en-
somewhat injured by excessive rains
A. N. Wasmuth general merchant at
Clitheral, has assigned to C.. Oleson.
Liabilities, $1,000; assets. $500.
Jacob Marsland, of Winona, on. of
the largest wholesale and retail crock
cry dealers in the west, has failed
The complaint about wild mustard
comes from all over the state. Farm
ers are putting in their spare time
pulling the pest out of their fields.
The Bank of Jasper succeeds the
State bank of Jasper with $25, 900 cali-
tai, and will begin business August l.
A Bohemian cigar manufacturer by
the name of FILTER committed suicide
at Olivia by taking strychnine. He
leaves wife and family.
George Landon, young business
man at Plainview, was terribly burned
by the explosion of gasoline stove.
City Assessor Plummer has completed
the compilation of the personal prop
erty valuation in Minneapolis and finds
a total of $29, 400, $50, against $19.613, 313
for his first assessment last year.
Work has been commenced on the
new music hall of Pillsbury academy at
Owatonna.
L. NJ. Swan, q school-teacher at Cam
bridge. was drowned in Rum river
while bathing.
The nineteenth annual southern Min
nesota fair, to be held in Rochester
from September 10 to II inclusive,
promises to be the largest and most sue
cessful ever held.
The last will and testament of the
late j. L. Fo1epaugh, who committed
suicide in St. Paul, was admitted to
probate. The estate foots Up about
s250,00 and Mrs. Forepaugh is made
sole executrix by the will.
. In some counties of the stats the peo-
pie are learning the features of the
Austria liam ballot system by holding
mock elections for practice schotA
A heavy rain struck Worthin gton, &C.
companied by hard north wind, and
several trees were blown down and a
few small buildings.
Prof. w. w. Pendergast, principal of
the state school of agriculture, saws
the attendance at the school will be
nearly doubled at the next term.
Thomas F. Andrews, one of the old.
est and best known merchants in Min.
neapolis, died at his home after an ill.
ness of about six months, aged 81 years.
The second portion of the insane hos
Pital at Fergus Falls has been COM
pleted, and 102 patients were trans
1erred from St. Peter, which has been
greatly overcrowded. ..-
Many Rock county farmers who paid
from 500 to $3.50 for buggies offered by
Iowa parties are mourning over their
discovery that they can get better
article at home for half the money.
Judge Edgcrton, of the United States
district court at st. Paul. sentenct0
Eugene A. Bassett to states prison for
three years for putting obscene .circu..
lars into the United States mails 70 afl.
vertise medicine made bv him