The Worthington advance., 1893-08-10
News In RriAf.

The elevator of Wells, Pearce & Co.,
at Morris. was burned to the ground.
1t is supposed to have been set on fire
by tramps.
The police of St. Paul recently made
q raid on the sporting element and cap
tured a mum Der who were enjoying a.
cock fight in the city limits on the Hud.
son road.
NJ. J. Hogan, merchant at Spring
Hill, Stearns county, has assigned.
Liabilities, $?,500; assets nearly $4,000.
Mrs. Elizabeth Desmond, we'll known
in Southeast Minneapolis, was found
dead in her bed.
August Springborn, a farmer living
near Saltwater, committed suicide bv
hanging. He had been i'll for a number
of years and had become very despond-
ent.
Mrs: Ninzia Solimeno, of Duluth, was
shot through the groin by Angelic Di-
fahbio. a former boarder at Mrs. Soli-
meno's house. He was arrested. Mrs.
Solimeno will recover.
N. P. Grass, who has been preaching
in the Presbyterian church at Candy
for some time, has left for parts un-
known. Several creditors mourn his
departure.
Thomas Fenrey, a money loaner of
Rochester, was waylaid by Ole Nopson
of Rockdale and had his skull crushed
in by an iron bar. Nopson was arrested.
Frank Clarity, an inmate of the St.
Cloud reformatpry, was sent to the in
sane asylum. The trouble came on
quite suddenly and the cause is un-
known.
Seventy-five chronic patients have
been transferred from the Rochester
hospital to Fergus Falls. Both hos
pitals are now full.
The trouble threatened on the Mesabi
range by strikers has been avoided by
the workmen receiving part of their
pay.
Charles Allen fruitlessly burglarized
the Plymouth clothing store in Minne-
apolis. He opened the skylight and
dropped in noiselessly, as he supposed,
but set off the burglar alarm in his en-
trance. In five minutes the store was
surrounded by police. Allen retained
his nerve and hid under pile of over
coats, lying at full length on a table.
He was so well concealed that the po-
lice failed to discover him. About day-
light he went out the same way he
came, but the burglar alarm again gave
him away and the officers caught him.
c. Bridgeman MS saw mill at St. Cloud
was burned. Loss, $4,000, with no in
surance.
Official notice was received at WI
mona from Collector of Internal Reye,
nue. johnson by Deputy Collector w. G.
Dye, that the division over which the
latter presides had been abolished by
order OF the department at Washington,
After a recent rain at Beaver Falls
frogs swarmed in the road everywhere,
1t is estimated that to every mile Of
road aye feet wide there were 6, 500
frogs. -
The barn of Jas. A. Ballard, of the
st: Paul Express and Dray line, was
destroyed by fire.. together. with a1
horses and COW. Loss, $50, 600: insur-
suQe, $4,000.
John Brady, one Of three tramps who
tried to board train at Little Falls,
was thrown under the wheels and both
legs mangled SO they had to be ampu-
tated.
e. Guse, of Plainview, lost his barn,
granary and q large amount of grain
by fire. Loss, $1,000; insurance, 81, 500.
A. G. Clauson has been appointed
chief grain inspector of the state.
Stanley Miller, the 9-year-old son of
John Miller. was drotsned at Excelsior
He was standing on the st. Louis draw
bridge. and starting to walk made 4
misstep and fell into the watex 10 feet
below. s..