The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-01-31
NEWS IN MINNESOTA

Ars. z. +. Drake. . resident Of s.
Paul since 1866, is dead.
Il The Order Of the Eastern Star has
been revived at Mankato. &a
Gus Robe. q St. Paul printer, was
robbed Of $l7O on the street..
A new Populist paper, The Journal
has been started at Window.
An application for = receiver for the
Minneapolis Penny Press has been made
An attempt is being made to establish
Q school of mines at Virginia, on the
Mesaba-
August Johns, indicted in Benton
county for shooting Robert Stanley, was
acquitted.
Citizens Of Wells aud vicinity have
contributed a carload Of flour to Ne
braska sufferers.
Clontarf farmers have shipped 1000
tons of hay this season, and have 1,O0C
tons still on hand.
Tracy has exceeded the debt limit and
there is talk that some Of the bonds is
sued are worthless.
The Libbey sash and door factory and
planning mill ut Hastings, burned Loss.
$4,000; no insurance.
The opening of the Hill seminary at
Groveland Park, St. Paul, occurred on
Friday, St. Paul's day.
A West St. Paul gardener asks the
city for damages for the loss Of 10000
cabbage plants by flood.
A new telephone exchange is talked
Of for the Twin Cities. 1t is said to be
backed by Bonanza Mackey.
Mark Costello, who came to St. Paul
in 1856, died ut New Orleans, whether
he had gone to benefit his health.
The domestic troubles Of Mr.. and
Mrs. c.. K. Side, well known Minneap-
oils people, eliminated in divorce.
Preparations are being made to utilize
Kettle river as power for stone cutting
and dressing at the Sandstone quarries.
Judge Willis of St. Paul has been ap-
pointed delegate by the United States
to the prison congress, which meets in
Paris in June next.
The annual meeting of the Minnesota
Editors and Publishers association will
be held at the Commercial club, St.
Paul, Feb. 20 and 81.
Archbishop Ireland delivered his SER
mon on the Bible, in reply to Ingersoll,
at the Church of the immaculate Con-
oeption, Minneapolis.
The Central Methodist church of
Winona burned Sunday. The Sunday
school was in session at the time. All
escaped. Loss, $4,000.
The 6-year-old daughter of John Mil
Ter was fatally burned at a public school
building near Long Prairie by her dress
catching in one of the open fire places.
The jury in the case of Cashier Hawks
Of the Seven Corners bank of St. Paul,
who was charged with embezzlement,
has disagreed. This was the second
trial of the case.
Deputy Marshal Funk has gone to
Ball Club lake, near Grand Rapids, to
get Drumbeater, the Indian who killed
another Indian named Fisherman He
will be taken to Duluth.
A tramp made his appearance at a res
idence near Mabel. After securing some
thing to eat he complained of feeling
tired. He laid down and died in a short
time. His name is unknown.
A Pan-American congress of religion
and education, Of which Rev. DR.. S. G.
Smith of St. Paul is president, will be
held the coming summer. The place
has not yet been decided upon.
DR.. Charles N. Hewitt of the state
board of health has been confirmed by
the bureau of animal industry at Wash
ington in his diagnosis of new hog
disease. 1t is erysipelas, and has here
tofore been unknown in the country. 1t
exists in several localities in Minnesota.
Mitchell 2. Mcclure and Duncan,
Bremen & Co., Duluth lumbermen, have
fled complaints in Wisconsin courts for
81 ,125 and $780, 66, respectively, for
pine destroyed. It is alleged that the
railway company was negligent in allow
ing combustible materials to accumulate
alongits line.
st. Paul and minneapolis will act to-
gether from now on to securing better
rates. This week the jobbers of both
cities will meet and discuss the situa-
ton, after which tho Great Northern
and Northern Pacific will be invited to
meet them and be urged to do some-
thing radical and Immediate, especially
in reference to rates from lake ports
during the coming season Of navigation.
t4lNCkLEY RELIEF.