The Worthington advance., 1895-07-18
in MINNESOTA

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Winona ministers are agtating for I
curfew law. s% ...., r+..
aSg Fort Smelling has been made prison
4 for military prisoners.
Twenty.three teachers institute!
opened in Minnesota Monday.
The Cincinnati mine at Biwabik has
been sold to the Minnesota Ore COM
pany. ..~ 49,
Judge Lochren, pension commission
er, is spending his summer vacation al
his old home in Minneapolis.
T.. The recent weighing of mails shows
an increase of about 40 per cent owe,
1891 in the volume of mail handled in
st. Paul.
Hector Meyer of Minneapolis cele'
brated with a small cannon. 1t pre-
maturely exploded, tearing large hole
in his side.
Nellie Parker of Minneapolis has
brought snit for $50. 900 because she
was arrested in Chicago for wearing
mannish attire.
Henry Redpath, an engineer on the
Omaha, was killed near Hamline. He
leaned out of the cab, striking his head
on a narrow bridge railing.
The big warehouse of the Union Dock
company at Duluth, filed with mer.
chandise, was destroyed by fire, caus'
ing loss of about $3.50, 900.
The total receipts in the Office of the
collector Of internal revenue at st.
Paul were $13, 712.O9 for June, and g..
38l, 1850 for the year ending June 80,
1895.
The storm Saturday night did con-
siderable damage in the district be-
tween st. Paul and Minneapolis.
Wires were blown down, and three
horses that got tangled up in them
were killed
Frank Woodward, the Twin City
newspaper correspondent, who was re-
ported dead and again in q Cuban dun.
geon, has sailed for home on British
ship. He will undoubtedly have some
huge stories to tell.
A summer training school for teach
ers commenced at Morris on July =, to
continue one month. The instructors
are c. D. Decker of LIE Sueur and F. A.
Spaulding of Hillsboro, N. D., assisted
by County Superintendent Macintosh.
The contract for drilling the artesian
we'll for tho Kasson waterworks has
been let. The contract for the con.
struction of the waterworks system
will be let July IL, and the IS, 600 bonds
voted for that purpose will be sold
July 70.
A disastrous fire occurred at Mime.
sofa Lake, supposed to have originated
from a firecracker in carload Of twine
in G. w. Apley's hardware store. The
fire burned beyond control and nearly
score of buildings were destroyed,
causing loss of $4,000.
R. W. Bishop, janitor in the
United States army headquarters at St.
Paul, blew out his brains while seated
in chair in the janitor's room of the
building. He served in the War of the
Rebellion and Is years in the regular
army. He has been janitor of the
building for nine years.
= According to the present outlook for
sIavy crops and an early harvest, there
. every prospect that there will be
binding twine famine before the sea.
son il over. Many implement houses
are now far behind in their orders, and
cay they cannot see enough Of the pro-
duct in sight to supply the deficiency.
':Bigfoot' Sherman and his partner,
Stacy, who were arrested in Minneap-
oils several days ago as suspicious
characters, have been taken to Mel
rose to answer to charge Of burglary
which stands against them there. It
is also alleged that they are wanted in
St. Cloud and Sleepy Eye for similar
ofenses.
During the month of June iron ore
shipments from Duluth amounted to
22O, 500 tons and those from Two Har-
bors to 265, 800, the record for the same
month in other years being broken in
both cases. Lumber shipments from
Duluth were only little over 17,O0O,.
600 feet The coal receipts were very
light, amounting to only 1925 tons.
The game and fish commission will
meet at the state capitol on July 25, at
which time it is expected the matter Of
investigating the accounts of w. P.
Andrus, ex-commissioner, will be un.
dertaken. 1t is said that w. s. Tim
berlake, one of the commission, has
Andrus' books, but for some reason he
has not deposited them in the Office of
the commission.
Inspector George w. Libbey of the
state bureau OF labor has reported to
Commissioner Powers on the condition
of tn b4kerles in the Twin Cities. The
legislature last winter passed law re-
qulrin; bceadma1ers to use certain
amount o. clealliness in their calling.
The inspector finds but very few of the
bakeries complying With the law and
recommends. changes in nearly all.
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