The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-09-19
MINNESOTA NEWS NOTES

annual convention at st. Paul
The Swedish Methodist conference
will be held at Duluth next year.
Ninety empty pccketbooks were found
at the state fair grounds during the fair.
Labor commissioners Of the various
states are holding a convention at Min
neapolis. 10y. S
Five men were arrested on the charge
of selling liquor near the state fair
grounds. 81
At Princeton, stroke of lightning re-
vealed the skeleton of a woman in q
hollow tree. 8
Duluth is already preparing for the
bonspiel Of the Northwestern curriers'
! next winter. T., 5%
survivors Of the Ninth Minnesota
volunteers held reunion at Minneap-
oils Thursday. #
Mayor Youmans has vetoed the cur
few ordinance passed by the city coun-
Gil of Winona
The National Credit Insurance COM
pany, Minneapolis, has assigned, owing
$45, 900 with 100000 securities as as
sets.
Grain rates from St. Paul and Mime
apolis to Duluth will, on Sept. 25, bead
vanced from cents to ~ cents per 100
pounds.
A meeting Of the creditors of the N.
P. Clarke Lumber company was held at
Minneapolis, but no final action was
taken. tSs
Insurance Commissioner Smith of
Minnesota, who has been in very i'll
health for some time. is reported to be
improving. 3%%
A Richmond (Ind.) man has at
tached 100000 worth Of property Of the
E. F. Drake estate, St. Paul, to collect a
$1,000 claim. 5S
A golf club has been organized at Wi
mona. Its members will wear the Scot
fish plaid and kilt. Congressman ]. a.
Tawney is one of the members.
The Iron Exchange bank of Duluth,
which has not been doing a profitable
business lately, has decided to go into
liquidation and wind up its affairs.
Acting Secretary Reynolds has ap-
proved as basis for patent Minnesota
swamp land list No. 48, containing
1926 acres in the St. Cloud district.
Governor D. M. Clough will 70 to
Atlanta with the Minnesota Editorial
association to visit the exposition Of the
cotton states. The party leaves Sept. IS.
Business circles at Duluth are agi-
tated over the unexplained absence
of A. Bieloch, one of the wealthiest
and best known business men Of the
city. He has been gone a week.
A meeting of members of the capitol
commission was held Thursday but
nothing Of Importance in connection
with the plans for the new building was
passed upon. Adjournment was taken
to Sept. 26.
According to census bulletin No. Is
Clay county has 1854 population, a
gain of 1886; Cottonwood 1O,187, gain
arts; Cook 427, gain 3S9; Dakota 21 ,345,
gain 1,1o5; Dodge 12,754, gain 1890;
Douglass 16,942, gain 2, 1856. r.
The State Bar association held it's an
nual meeting in the supreme court
room of the capitol with about 40 prom
inent members of the. profession from
different parts Of the state in attend
ance. A banquet at the Windsor was
feature.
The Minnesota Iron company has de-
cided to advance, the wages Of all en-
ployes in it's mines en- the Mesaba range
from 20 to 25 per cent. Contract min
ers will hereafter receive 1925 day.
The section hands On the Duluth and
Iron Range road have been granted an
advance from $1.15 to $3.50 per day.
Frank Chermah of Chatfeld and his
horse and a swarm of bees got badly
mixed up at Bear Creek Hill. Cher
mah's face and hands were bristing
with bee stings, $50 of which were taken
out of his face. The horse was pune
tured all over and was evidently sick
from the attack of the savage little in
sects.
Governor ClOugh has appointed George
III. Hazard as commissioner to supervise
the state park Of the Dalles of the ST.
Croix. Mr.. Hazards duties will prac-
tically be that Of superintendent Of the.
park in so far as Minnesota's interests
are concerned. The park will be form
ally opened late in the fall, when excur
sions will be run from the principal
cities in Wisconsin and Minnesota, and
the prominent men of the two states will
deliver addresses. 2
The Temperance Reform League has.
under contemplation a plan to establish
land bank or rent bank, similar to
those Of Germany, which have been SO
successful in populating former waste
tracts, and causing an increase of nat
ural wealth. The plan is to utilize the
unemployed capital Of the East in de-
veloping the West, or that part Of it
tributary to Minneapolis and St. Paul.
The league is represented here by George
F. Ormsby of Boston, the vice president
It's aim is to decrease crime and promote
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