The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-08-22
NEWS TN MINNESOTA

Hector has new lodge Of Sons Of
Herman.
Minneapolis has laid IL miles Of
water mains this year. <
The Northern supply company Of
Minneapolis has assigned. Z
A new postoffice has been established
at Malung, Roseau county.
Governor Clough has issued q procla-
nation fixing Sept. , as labor day.
The schoolhouse and House Bros.
elevator at Wood Lake were burned.
Anton DOLLAR of Winona is wanted
for passing plated pennies for dimes.
A fakir is working Southern Mime
sofa towns selling worthless ''eleotric"
bells. s -. g., 's
Mr.. Blaisdell, husband Of the Min
nesota Blizzard, has been declared in
sane.
Ladies of St. John Episcopal church,
Moorhead, will issue the Daily News
Oct. 49,, 81. 81. ..>. a. -
Eighty new creameries have been
established in Minnesota during the
past year. .- - d. -
An amicable settlement has been
reached in the Hayward will contest
case at st. Cloud. ~"
The lumber shipments from Duluth
down the lakes last week amounted to
nearly 1900, 900 feet.
Jacob Freund, charged with the
murder of Clara Ober, was held to the
grand jury at Blue Earth City.
The bottom of muskeg at Columbia
junction, on the Duluth, ,Missabi and
Northern, dropped out, delaying trains
several days.
A. w. Rankin has fled an accept
ance of the Office Of state inspector of
graded schools offered him by the high
school board at its last meeting.
Labor Commissioner L. G. Powers
will deliver an address on 1.-The Rela-
lations of Capital to Labor" at the an
nual convention of Iowa Universalists,
Sept. %. -.
The largest pine land deal ever made
in Northern Minnesota has been closed
at Duluth. Rupp & Kerr Of Saginaw,
Mich, have sold $4,000, 900 feet of pine
near Ely to the Knox Lumber company
for $lS0,00
AT large gathering of citizens of
Hinckley it was decided to have fitting
memorial services commemorative of
those who persisted in the forest fires
of Sept /, 1894. General invitation
was extended the public to meet and
participate in the memorial exercises. !
Two state records were broken at
Minnehaha park at the closing of L. A.
w. cycle meet, and this in spite of high
wind. which for while made good
racing impossible. The competition
track record for 10 miles was lowered
a full minute in the team race, and
Percy Patterson, Owosso, Mich, cut
the half.mile record from 1:O5 to
1902 2-5.
The St. Paul Theological seminary
will be dedicated Sept. 4 by Mgr. Sa.
TOLL, the apostolic delegate. Many
prominent Catholic priests and laymen
will be present, and the event will be
one of great Importance to the mem.
hers of that creed in the Northwest.
This seminary is the gift Of J. J. Hill,
and it will be the center of Catholicism
in the great Northwest.
+ Many of the banks throughout the
Northwest are receiving circulars from
w. w. Butler, cashier of the Rainy
Lake City bank asking them to send
that bank check for 81. The reason
oiven for the request is that if enough
respond to the request the bank will be
able to reopen On the evening Of June
10 robbers entered it and took nearly
all the money in the bank, $4,000.
The validity of the new dairy law is
70 be tested soon in the Hennep;n dis
trict court,ta suit having been COM
menced by Hansen & Anderson, the
dairvmen, against 81. N. Avery ct III.
The amount of damages claimed l.
5000. the actual value of 20 COWS which
were killed last spring under orders
of the state board Of health, on the
ground that they were suffering from
tuberculosis.
Il Official population of Minnesota Cit
les: Winona 20.649, increase 2,441;
Redwing 1876, increase 1881; Roch-
ester 6,429, increase l, 1OS; Mankato
q. 208. increase $780,. Saltwater 12,O12,
increase 752; Duluth 59,396, increase
26,2S1, partly from new territory;
st. Cloud 1850, increase 1864; Little
Falls 5,116, increase 2.762; Litchfield
2.O44, increase 145; Hastings 3,84S, in
crease 143; Owatonna ISL, increase
/, S02; Fergus Falls A, 497, increase 7O5;
New Ulm 4, 79O, increase 1,409; Branerd
7,os1, increase 1928; Faribault 1908,
increase LOSS; Mortified 3,456, in
crease 1877; Wabasha 1855, increase
4S; Lake City 2,62s, increase 448; st.
Peter 1880. increase $50; Anoka 3,s12,