The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1903-03-27
4 Chapter ,.of:''Accidsnts. .
Two Persons ! Shot, One - Injured n'
in Corn Shelter One Cuts L
His Arm. ~ j. ~. d


Of the house where he was standing
watching some wild ducks he was
going to shoot. In receiving the
gun he grasped hold Of the muzzle
and almost immeditely the gun in
some unacoountable manner was
discharged tearing way the outside
part Of. tbs hand between the little
finger and the wrist: The physician
was Obliged to amputate thhes little
finger and cut down through the
center Of the hand towards and to
the wrist to remove the ragged edge
of the, flesh. Mr., Eikenherry is
getting along pretty we'll now.
Sunday afternoon =, Ora Oberman,
Frank and Oscar Peterson and Lee
McManuss went out hunting. While
about two miles west of Mr.. Ober-
mans, Ora slipped and his gun
which was cooked was discharged,
sending thirty two bullet throug h
the calve and two bones of the left
leg. The wound was dressed by a
physician and he is now getting
along nicely.
Ora is unfortunate with this leg,
this being the fourth accident that
has occurred to it. Last fall he fell
off hay rack injuring the skin so
that blood poison vet in. After re-
covering from that he stepped on a
rusty nail which laid him up. Dur
ing the winter he was kicked on the
knee by a horse and had just re-
90 vered from that accident when
the shooting occurred.
Monday afternoon, Roy, a ~ year
old son of II. Ptiel's in compan y
with J. 81. Shuck's son, began
playing with a corn shelter Of Mr..
Ptiel's on their return from school,
and while doing so Roy got his
thumb caught in the gearing and in
attempting to pull it out pulled the
thumb off. A physician amputated
the ragged portion including part
of the hand. He is now quite
comfortable.
Monday while Louis Harris,
harnessmaker for F. G. Stitser, was
SHARPENING :. a circular knife com
monty used in the business he cut
his arm badly. He did not have
hold of the knife firmly and it
slipped from his right hand, flew
and struck his left arm just above
the wrist cutting the flesh and
touched the bone. A number of
stitches we're taken by the physician
in dressing the arm.
ORIGIN OF THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
There have been many claimants
for the honor of having founded
and named the Republican party.
The fact probably is that spon-
taneous movement for the organi-
aztion of party opposing slavery
and the domination of the South
was in progress contemporaneously
in Wisconsin and several other Of
the Northern states, and the name
"Republican" occurred simultan-
eously to many as the best that
the new party could assume. It
was name which had been in Gre
ditable use in this country at the
time OF Jefferson. Many writer's
of repute have asserted that the
modern Republican party first took
form and name in convention held
in Michigan in July, 1854. Others
claim that the natal state Of the
party was Pennsylvania. Maj.
A. E. Bovay, whose death at the
age of IS occurred at Santa Monica
CAL, yesterday, used to-. stoutly con-
ted that the earliest Republican or
ganization ever formed was held in
Ripon, in this state, March co. 1854,
the call having been issued by him.
self, and that he at that meeting
proposed the name "RepubIican " for