The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-08-03
Lost His Sunday Clothes.

While at work in the harvest field near
st. Cloud, James Fielder, an honest old
farmer. was robbed Of his "Sunday-go-
to-meeting" clothes and shoes. The house
was left alone and the thief had a good
opportunity to help himself. The sheriff
Is investigating the case. It Is believed
that the robbery was the work of the
young man who escaped from the re-
formatory earlier in the day, and who
has not yet been recaptured. but this is
by no means certain.
Battle With Tramps.
While Marshall ]. o. Svennes was try
ing to arrest three tramps at Heron Lake
who had been offering clothing for sale,
the men pulled revolvers and warned him
to leave them alone. He called for as
sistance. and the tramps started out Of
town closely pursued by the marshal and
posse. A mile out of town the tramps
made stand. and a number of shots
were exchanged, after which the tramps
surrendered and were lodged in Jail.
News In Brief.
Eugene Moran fell from a Great North
crushed by the car wheels. He is lad
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neapolis and has been working about
Fargo and Moorhead.
In fight in Moorhead one man bit of
another's thumb.
Lightning struck the creamery at Alma
City and burned it to the ground.
Redwood Falls will have an increased
water supply for the city.
The new Minneapolis directory will con-
tain 101, $50 names. an increase of 7,763
Only one Of the nine flour mills at the
head of the lake was operated last week,
and it made 1880 barrels. There were
receipts of 126.5OO barrels, shipments of
IN, 900 barrels. and there are now in store
here 244.5OO barrels.
Carl Nelson. deaf mute living in Of
tertail county, had the grit to chop him
self out from under fallen tree that had
pinned him down. and with a broken leg
to hamper him he improvised crutch
from limb and one Of his shoes, and
walked home, mile.
Some boys found a bittern's nest with
half fledged birds in it down near Fergus
Falls. and began feeding frogs to them.
Allan ,Hollen, IA years, had stopped over
the nest when one of the birds darted
out its beak and picked out the lads eye.
Minneapolis saw mill owners are not as
jubilant as they were week or two ago.
in that the water in the river Is reported
to be- still falling and to be now lower
than at any time for the past fifteen
years.
The new city directory Of st. Paul has
been issued. 1t contains 94,226 names
showing an increase over last year Of 4,021
names. The ratio of interest applied to
the government census of 1890, will make
the present population of st. Paul 160, 13a
Several hundred immigrants from Rus.
sian Poland, driven out by the cars
edict, have arrived in Duluth the past
few days. They will settle on farms near
there or go into the mines.
A Minneapolis boy was arrested and
placed in the lookup for stealing three
crab apples.
Rural free delivery service Is ordered es.
tablished Aug. l at Madelia, Watonwa1
county, and Vernon Center, Blue EARTH
county. Ira E. Chase is appointed car.
rier at the former place and E. H. Chad.
sey and A. L. Wrighton at the latter.
Two churches in Minneapolis were sold
1t recent tax sale for unpaid sidewall
taxes. 49,