The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1898-03-10

Deer River, Itasca county. The speci-
fcations provide for frame building,
with cells made of pine scantiiugs.
Secretary Hart will notify the village
authorities that a fre-proof lookup
will haYe to be built or none at all, in
accordance with the provisions of the
law.
News In Brett
The drainage of the Red river valley.
the plan of which had its origin in
Crookston, is to receive its first full ex-
emplifcation in Polk county. The
Polk county commissioners have au-
thorized the construction of FIVE canals
and the aggregate cost will be $3.50, 600.
The press room of the Duluth Even
ing Herald was damaged by FIRE to the
extent of $4,000.
The contract has been let for the
scaffold on which John Moshik is to be
executed at Minneapolis. The contract
was let to contractor named Smith
for $50, and calls for the preparation
of the Of the timbers and lum Der out
side of the prison, everything to be
made ready and set up at the proper
time.
February was four degrees warmer
than the average February for thirty
three years. The mean temperature
was about the same as that of last
year, being 10 degrees above zero.
Owners of slot machines. in Moor
head saloons have removed them as a
precautionary measure-since the sher-
if seized machines in one esta blish-
ment.
Dogs of Charles Dabelstein, of Pleas
ant Valley, killed a wildcat that was
one of the largest ever seen in that
section. The fight between the cat
and the dogs lasted for nearly an hour
1t is believed that the killing of the
cat explains the sheep depredations in
Pleasant Valley for several weeks past.
Among the other freaks" in the
Dime Museum at Minneapolis was q
a couple who were joined in the holv
bonds of matrimony IN den of lions.
j. Est. vrain has offered to fit out
a base ball team at Winona with uni
forms and the necessary playing para
phernalia, and some of the local ball
enthusiasts are thinking of forming q
club.
Anglers cigar factory at Preston,
with $4,000 cigars, was burned. Loss,
81. 900.
There are now $50 men employed at
St. Cloud. including IS cutters, in get
ting out the granite which will be used
in the building of the new state CAPT.
toll.
Ole Paulson, laborer employed by
Dale & Raumgartner in grading a tract
of land in the vicinity of the South St.
Paul stock yards, was caught by a
mass of falling earth. and his body
crushed to an almost unrecogniza BILE
shape.
During the present fiscal year. which
will end July 81, the state treasurer
has paid out $4,000 for wolf bounties
on the certificates of county auditors.
The amount covers over 1000 wolves
The annual appropriation is $4,000.
F. B. Fleetham sues F. j. Duffy, of
the East Grand Forks Courier, for al
legged libel.
The st. Cloud Iron works were the
lowest bidders at 81, 100 for the addi-
tlonal cells to be put into the Stearns
county Jail The county board has
also let sthe contract for a new bridge
across the Sank river at Rockville upon
condition that the citizens of that
town vote 81, 500 bonds.
A son OF Gus Albrecht Of the town Of
New Hartford. was instantly killed by
being caught under a tree on which he
was chopping.
The state auditor computes the area
OF Leech lake as 1e4. 600. 600 acres; Mile
Laos, Ito, 000, 600. while Red lake ex.
eeeds bath in area. 81.