The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1902-01-03
BRIEF MINNESOTA NOTES

Jim Younger 10 laid zip fro m an old
gun shot wound near the spine.
Redwood Falls ID to heve q new post
| Office building.
The Vanstrum Clothing Company's
store at Brainerd was damaged by fire
| 5000 worth.
Mrs. Martin O'IIern. died from burns
caused by the ignition Of her clothes from
| dropped match.
E. r. Bowes, a bartender who came to
Minneapolis from Chicago q month ago,
died suddenly at the Beaufort hotel.
| BY the terms Of q decree in foreclosure
the property of the Duluth Transfer
| at the federal building on Jan. 2.
Col. Gus Widell has presented the
Swedish Lutheran church of Mankato.
| with a handsome pipe organ to cost
| $1,000. 1t will be placed in the church
within a few weeks.
The Moorhead Philosophical Club. COM
| posed Of college graduates, who have q
taste for philosophical research. has just
been organized.
At meeting of Endowment Rank No.
34n, Knights Of Pythias Of St. Cloud, o.
H. Wood was elected president. F. E.
Kreatz. vice-presldent. and O. H. Havil.
| secretary
Mayor Hugo of Duluth, received the
resignation Of Chief of Police Crandall
and accepted 1t, to take effect Jan. !.
Crandall pleads business reasons as in
| spring his resignation, but it is doubt
less due to political pressure.
Tie Patterson & Stevenson Company,
of Minneapolis, capitalized at 100000, yes
| terday filed articles of Incorporation. The
firm will conduct a general jobbing busi-
| ness in hats and furs. The incorporators
are r. II. Patterson. Lavenia D. Patter-
son. F. w. Stevenson and Cora J. Stew
| ens0n.
The Minnesota Fiber Company has been
incorporated, with a capital of $650Oo and
will manufacture tow and products Of
flax straw at Heron Lake. 1t controls
the --latest patents Of ]. T. Smith.
Fire in the basement of James Muir
phys saloon at Pipestone did slight
| damage. 1t Is supposed to have original
ed by a lamp being upset by Joseph
Keller, an employe. who was sunocated
In the smoke before help could reach
him.
Wing Lung pleaded guilty before Judge
Elliott in Minneapolis to the charge OF
operating an opium. joint. H. B. Cham
berlain, his attorney, said Wing Lung
| would return to China. Judge Elliott SEN
| fenced him to pay fine of 500, which
| was paid.
A reduction of freight rates on the
Great Northern and Northern Pacific has
been promised for some months owing
Is now stated that new rates will be put
in effect soon after the first of the new
year.
In the contest between st. Louis and
Carleton counties as to which of them
Is entitled to collect taxes from the Nit
chell and Mcclure Lumber Company of
| Duluth upon a logging railroad which Is
operated in Carleton county, State Au-
ditor Dunn, to whom the question was
| referred, has decided In favor Of Garlic
| ton county.
John Muicahy, an electrician in Mnne-
| apClis, was caught by revolving shaft
and every stitch of his clothing except his
shoes was torn from his body. He es-
| capped with slight injury.
In a saloon row in Minneapolis, Claus
| w. Carlson, was stabbed in the left side
of the abdomen, and is lingering at the
! city hospital in great pain. The wound
was nearly two inches long, and laid
bare the viscera, which were replaced
only after enlarging the cut. 1t is not
yet own>yhether the victim a.o WIN nhs sur
vive. John johnson was arrested chare-
ed with the assault.
| Workmen will begin Immediately bur-
rowing The fdknel which is to connect the
| new state cafat0T with the power house.
4 800 feet away. It, Is to be an immense
hole, large enough for team and wagon
and will be bricked all through.
st. Paul Maso2s have purchased an
SIS, 600 site for a new temple and will erect
q 100000 building. The two lots pur-
chased have a 1OO.foot frontage on Mar
ket by 12O feet on West Fourth
Patrolman Charles c. Bahneman OF the
s.. Paul police department, discharged
his revolver at Special Police Office Peter
Raverty. at z. Seventh and Locust
streets and missed him.
Charles Berrier, 9 years, Is lying IN a
| dangerous condition at his home In Min
neapolis. as q result of coasting &C.
cident. The physician who Is attending
| him states that he has sustained q frac-
ture Of the skull Berrier fell on his
sled anu rolled over the sidewalk onto
a nile of rock. His head struck with
great violence and he was rendered un'
| conscious.
| A meeting Of some of the Northwestern
governors is % be held at Helena, Mon
| tana on Dec 30th. to consider what
| action to take concerning the so-called
railroad merger case. The governors OF
South Dakota, Idaho and Washington
have sent word that they cannot be pres
ent. but Minnesota, North Dakota ana
Montana will be represented. Gov. her
ried. of South Dakota, says nothing has
occurred as yet to disturb the railroad
| rates and facilities In that state and he
does not think there can be anything Tor
some time at least.
Walter WilmOt says That ne mas Sc
cured possession of tho Minneapolis fran
chise In the American association and IT
SO he is now full-fedged baseball mag
nate 1t will be pheasant news to the
Minneapolis fans to learn that the tan
gle has been unsnarled and that W1lmot
| Is the whole thing"
| The gas we'll near Pelican Rapids IL at
| tracing a good deal Of attention. The
gas was struck at a depth Of lib feet
| A match was applied to the gas and 1t
burned until the pipe was closed.
Advance sheets of the seventeenth an
nual report of the Minnesota railway
commission show an increase OF 1885,
miles of track, but decrease OF both
gross and net earnings.
Nels Olson, by liver Chelson. his guar
dian, has brought suit for $4,000 against
| the Itasca Lumber Company for injuries
alleged to have been sustained last Feo-
ruary near Deer River, MINI.
Dan Doone, said to be q moulder re-
siding in st. Paul. Is languishing IN
cell at the Minneapolis lookup, charged
with attempted highway robbery:
Alex McCully Of st. Paul, has brought
suit against Frank ]. Poppier to recover
$500 damages for wounds inflicted on his
boy by Poppier's dog.
st. Cloud, Mimi. Dec. A.-Speclal
Agent Thorpe Of the United States gener-